What if everything you click, swipe, buy, drive, label, or record has been secretly training the machines—and what if those machines are now beginning to train you? In this razor-sharp episode, Mike and Ronald dive into Amazon’s robot workforce, synthetic data, teleoperated humanoids, trillion-dollar AI empires, and the creeping moment where roles reverse. This is the episode that makes you ask: who’s really learning from whom?

You Trained It: What We’ve Taught AI

We’ve hit the Content Singularity. In this episode, Mike and Ronald dive into the tipping point where humans and AI now create equal amounts of content, and ask: what happens next? From Amazon’s AI-powered delivery glasses and robotic warehouses to Figure 3’s humanoids and Microsoft’s new Copilot features, this talk flows from fascination to philosophical reflection. Are we automating away our creativity, or just evolving how we express it? Tune in for the perfect blend of tech insight, dystopian humor, and genuine wonder.

Content Singularity: When AI Creates More Than We Do

The OpenAI tsunami just hit and it’s shaking the entire tech landscape. From Sora 2 and AgentKit to billion-dollar chip alliances with AMD and Nvidia, Mike and Ronald dive deep into what’s really behind the flood of announcements. Is this still innovation or are we witnessing a financial feedback loop disguised as progress? Join them as they unravel the economics, geopolitics, and human impact of AI’s unstoppable acceleration.

The OpenAI Tsunami: AgentKit, Sora 2 & Big Deals

The new season is here! Mike and Ronald return after a long summer break to kick off Season 5: Harvest of Digital Dialogues — a fresh mix of tech reflections and personal stories. From Mike’s EV road trip to Lisbon and Ronald's wild vibe-coding” experiments with AI tools like Gemini and deep dive into Martijn Aslander’s Digital Fitness and the future of Personal Knowledge Management. This episode brims with insight. Plus: the latest from Meta, Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia, and a sneak peek at the 100th-episode celebration in the Home Computer Museum!

Harvest Begins: Coding with Vibes and Digital Fitness

In this special summer edition of Digital Dialogues, Mike and Ronald look back on a year packed with AI experiments, surprise guests, voice cloning, and philosophical tangents. From the birth of Echo to quantum chips and digital sovereignty, this is your ultimate summer binge. Time capsule mode: activated.

The Time Capsule Special: Summer Break 2025: 

Satya Nadella spoke live in Amsterdam at the Microsoft AI Tour, Apple stumbles with Liquid Glass and AI integration, Meta drops $14.3B on Scale AI, and Mistral fires back at Apple’s claim that language models can’t reason. This episode is a full-blown AI clash.

Special shout out to Freek "Freaky Freq" Teunen who produced Freakin' Good Vibes #3 as heard in our intro and outro.

Glass Sovereignty

What if the price of remembering is forgetting who owns your memories? Mike and Ronald explore journa(i)ling, life-logging, and the eerie rise of AI as your second brain. From Jony Ive’s screenless visions to the forgotten legacy of Microsoft’s SenseCam, they question what happens when your memory lives in the cloud—but your ownership doesn’t.

Remember by Design in a World Designed to Forget

Is AI a tool, a co-worker, or a silent takeover? Mike and Ronald unpack how tech giants are shifting from software licenses to tokens—and whether AI complements or replaces us.

Complement or Substitute?

What if your AI assistant suddenly goes silen and your whole workflow collapses? We explore AI and cloud dependency, and Black Mirror's eerie predictions. From Microsoft Copilot Wave 2 to tiny-but-mighty models like BitNet, this one’s a mind-bender you won’t want to miss.

00:00 Introduction

00:38 Highlights

02:34 Power Outages in EU

05:45 Dependence on AI

13:07 Cloud and AI

14:59 China's Trade Tariffs Thought Experiment

20:50 Copilot Wave 2 Spring Release

36:22 Model Collapse and Bias

48:40 Black Mirror Season 7

54:56 Philip K. Dick

The Blackout Mirror

Just when the world thought Google was falling behind, it fired back. Hard. From TPU-powered breakthroughs and A2A agents to real-time code simulations and AI-generated otters, Mike and Ronald dissect the comeback that shook the AI landscape. Is Google really back or has it redefined the game altogether?

Google is BaiCK

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