Our 146th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps + links:

• (00:00:00) Intro/Sponsor Read
• Tools & Apps
  • (00:03:00) Google Just Launched Gemini, Its Long-Awaited Answer to ChatGPT
  • (00:14:15) Google’s best Gemini demo was faked 
  • (00:19:33) Early impressions of Google’s Gemini aren’t great
  • (00:22:30) Google unveils AlphaCode 2, powered by Gemini
  • (00:24:50) Pixel 8 Pro — the first smartphone with AI built in — is now running Gemini Nano
  • (00:25:55) Meta unveils Audiobox, an AI that clones voices and generates ambient sounds
  • (00:29:55) Oops! Elon Musk's Grok AI Caught Plagiarizing OpenAI's ChatGPT
  • (00:33:21) Elon Musk Fans Horrified When His Grok AI Immediately "Goes Woke"
  • (00:34:51) Gmail’s AI-powered spam detection is its biggest security upgrade in years
  • (00:35:55) Augmenting Local AI with Browser Data: Introducing MemoryCache
• Applications & Business
  • (00:37:23) Meta and Microsoft say they will buy AMD’s new AI chip as an alternative to Nvidia’s
  • (00:42:02) China poised to break 5nm barrier — Huawei lists 5nm processor presumably built with SMIC tech, defying U.S. sanctions
  • (00:46:44) OpenAI’s Altman Ouster Was Result of Drawn-Out Tensions
  • (00:50:20) The OpenAI Board Member Who Clashed With Sam Altman Shares Her Side
  • (00:51:46)