AI Creativity Explodes and ChatGPT Gets Misty-Eyed about 2025
The DAS crew opened with holiday week energy, reminders that the show would continue live through the end of the year, and light reflection on the Waymo incident from earlier in the week. The episode ...
23 Dec 20251h
The Reality of Human AI Collaboration
The show leaned less on rapid breaking news and more on synthesis, reviewing Andrej Karpathy’s 2025 LLM year in review, practical experiences with Claude Code and Gemini, and what real human AI collab...
22 Dec 202552min
The Aesthetic Inflation Conundrum
In economics, if you print too much money, the value of the currency collapses. In sociology, there is a similar concept for beauty. Currently, physical beauty is "scarce" and valuable. A person who l...
20 Dec 202517min
AI Memory Is Still in Its GPT 2 Era
The show turned into a long, thoughtful conversation rather than a rapid news rundown. It centered on Sam Altman’s recent interview on The Big Technology Podcast and The Neuron’s breakdown of it, spec...
19 Dec 202558min
Google Undercuts the Field, OpenAI Builds an App OS, and China Accelerates
The conversation centered on Google’s surprise rollout of Gemini 3 Flash, its implications for model economics, and what it signals about the next phase of AI competition. From there, the discussion e...
18 Dec 202556min
Image 1.5 is out, but how does it stack up?
The crew opened with a round robin of daily AI news, focusing on productivity assistants, memory as a moat for AI platforms, and the growing wearables arms race. The first half centered on Google’s ne...
17 Dec 20251h 8min
Inside Nvidia’s Nemotron Play, Real Agent Usage Data, and US Tech Force
The DAS crew focused on Nvidia’s decision to open source its Nemotron model family, what that signals in the hardware and software arms race, and new research from Perplexity and Harvard analyzing how...
16 Dec 202556min
White Collar Layoffs, World Models, and the AI Powered Future of Content
Brian and Andy opened with holiday timing, the show’s continued weekday streak through the end of the year, and a quick laugh about a Roomba bankruptcy headline colliding with the newsletter comic. Th...
15 Dec 20251h 7min
