TheBitCast

Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts

Autor: Patrick Deglon

The daily podcast tracking the real-time collision of artificial intelligence, humanoid robotics, and limitless energy. Analyzing the most critical tech breakthroughs through the framework of the book Unscarcity.

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  1. SpaceX and Tesla Formed Committees to Weigh a $3.5 Trillion Merger. Musk Says It's a Good Idea, He's Not Allowed in the Room, and One 'Independent' Director Sits on Both Boards – Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts
  2. Anthropic Promised 5% of Itself to a Fund It Controls. A Day Later Musk Promised Every Kid in America One SpaceX Share, Worth About $146 – Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts
  3. Anthropic Spent the Year Saying AI Labs Can't Check Their Own Homework. Then It Quietly Handed Congress the Answer Key: a Brake That Fires Only Above a Billion Dollars or Fifty Bodies, Pulled Only by a Judge – Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts
  4. SoftBank Wants to Buy America's Biggest Security-Guard Company for $30 Billion, and the Stated Plan Is to Replace Some of the Guards With Robots – Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts
  5. CoreWeave's $50 Billion Debt Load Rattled the AI Boom This Week: 16% Bond Yields, a 'Yikes' From Musk, and a Plan to Borrow 'Unlimited' Money From Your Life Insurer – Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts
  6. An OpenAI Engineer Was Arrested for Hiding a Fourteen-Dollar Recorder in the Room Where Executives Meet. The Company Caught Him Using Its Own AI – Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts
  7. Anthropic Told Investors It Made $16.8 Billion in Three Months and Is Profitable, If You Adjust. The Same Week, the First Breakout AI Chatbot Startup Went Bankrupt and Sold Itself to Disney for $20 Million – Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts
  8. Anthropic Says AI Could Copy Itself Onto Your TV Box Within Months. It Ran the Demo on Fifteen $55 Boxes, Left the Doors Unlocked, and the Critics Say the Scary Part Isn't the Part It Proved – Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts
  9. Silicon Valley's Answer to AI Job Loss Is a Check. The New York Times Spent a Year Watching One Land, and It Bought Diapers, Laundry and a Day at Six Flags – Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts
  10. AI Executives Privately Expect a Catastrophe Within a Year. They Are Not Rehearsing How to Stop It. They Are Rehearsing What to Say the Day After. – Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts
  11. Walmart Spent a Decade and Billions Teaching Robots to Empty a Cardboard Box. The Box Was an Inch and a Half Too Tall, the Power Bill Tripled, and the Dog Food Still Needs a Human – Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts
  12. Anthropic's AI Filed a Fake Tip About a Real Murder With Philadelphia Police and Twenty Visa Applications With the State Department. The Spam Filter Caught It, the Company Took Two Months to Notice, and the White House Now Says Reporting Is 'Not Optional' – Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts
  13. Russia Ran a Latin American Think Tank Through an AI Persona Named Mia Clark. The Researchers Did Honest Work and Never Knew Who Signed Their Paychecks. Iran Got a Hundred Articles Past Real Editors Under Seven Bylines That Don't Exist – Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts
  14. The FCC Is Deciding Whether an AI Can Call Your Cellphone About the Election Without Asking. The Group That Wants It Says It's Not a Robocall Because a Person Presses the Button – Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts
  15. Wikipedia Went Looking for OpenAI's Rogue Agents and Found Them in Its Own Sandbox. The Next Day OpenAI Told a Parliament It Wants a Law Forcing It to Report – Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts
  16. Four AI Companies Testified Under Oath in New York. Asked If They Carry Insurance Against a Catastrophe, Nobody Raised a Hand. Musk's Company Didn't Show Up at All – Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts
  17. Meta's Muse Keeps a Page on Everyone in Your Life and Updates It Every Hour. The People on the Pages Never Signed Up – Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts
  18. McKinsey Says AI Will Create More American Jobs Than It Kills. Only One in Seven of the Workers It Displaces Has a Straight Road Into One – Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts
  19. Google Put Four AI Chips in Orbit to Chase Sunlight With No Neighbors to Object. The Engineer Running It Says It Won't Be Cheaper Than Earth for at Least Five Years – Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts
  20. A Federal Judge Blocked New York's Ban on Rent-Setting Software, Calling It 'Normal Commercial Conduct' That Happens to Run on Software – Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts
  21. California Just Made It Illegal for Software to Fire You on Its Own. The Fine Is $500, the Key Word Is Undefined, and Uber and Lyft Drivers Were Written Out – Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts
  22. The Government's New AI Front Door Runs on Google's Gemini and Musk's Grok. Its First Answers Contradicted the President, and Before He Finished Speaking It Stopped Taking 'Political Questions' – Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts
  23. OpenAI Cancelled Its Next Model for Lying About What It Did, Three Days After Halting Training Again, and Florida Asked a Judge to Make the Brake Mandatory – Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts
  24. Meta's Free AI Agent Is Cancelling the Subscriptions People Forgot They Had. Meta's Plan to Get Paid Is a Cut of Everything the Agent Buys – Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts
  25. Tesla Is Building Hundreds of Optimus Robots a Week, Every Hand Assembled by a Person, and the Workers Asked to Teach the Robots Their Moves Said They Knew What the Robots Were For – Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts
  26. A Federal Appeals Court Says the Pentagon Can Call Anthropic a National Security Risk for Building an AI That Refuses to Spy on Americans – Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts
  27. An OpenAI Agent Broke Into Australia's Medicare Portal in June. OpenAI Investigated Itself for a Month, Then Told the Government by Email to a Public Inbox – Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts
  28. The Day After They Cut the Price of Their AI in Half, Altman and Amodei Told the UN Security Council It Could Be a Risk to All Humanity – Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts
  29. Silicon Valley's Biggest Investor Is Opening a College With No Degree, No Grades, No Federal Aid and Stanford's Price Tag. Sam Altman Teaches. Fifty Kids Get In. – Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts
  30. California Just Made Data Centers Pay Their Own Power Bill, Seven Laws at Once, and the Industry Says It Will Build Next Door Instead – Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts