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Mar 2025
Meta Launching Community Notes, Anthropic CEO Floats AI Quit Button, Man Survives with Titanium Heart in World-First
We're experimenting and would love to hear from you!In this episode of 'Discover Daily', we explore a groundbreaking medical achievement: an Australian man who survived 100 days with a BiVACOR titanium heart before successfully receiving a donor heart transplant. This world-first ... Show More
7m 9s
Mar 2025
Chinese Quantum Chip Rivals Willow, Vibe Coding's Rise in Software Development, and the Universe May Exist in Black Hole
We're experimenting and would love to hear from you!In this episode of 'Discover Daily', we explore China's quantum computing breakthrough with Zuchongzhi 3.0, a 105-qubit processor that dramatically outperforms classical supercomputers. This remarkable machine completed in minut ... Show More
8m 17s
Mar 2025
Microsoft Looks Beyond OpenAI, Student Cracks Century-Old Math Problem, and Research Shows How Aspirin Fights Cancer
We're experimenting and would love to hear from you!In this episode of 'Discover Daily', we begin with a look at Microsoft. The company is strategically diversifying its AI approach beyond its OpenAI partnership by developing its own AI models, particularly the MAI family. These ... Show More
7m 38s
Feb 2023
#111 - Mostly ChatGPT Again, plus Google’s Bard, Climate Change, AI Seinfeld
1h 7m
May 2025
#210 - Claude 4, Google I/O 2025, OpenAI+io, Gemini Diffusion
1h 44m
Nov 2024
Petra Molnar, "The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" (New Press, 2024)
In 2022, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced it was training “robot dogs” to help secure the U.S.-Mexico border against migrants. Four-legged machines equipped with cameras and sensors would join a network of drones and automated surveillance towers—nicknamed the “ ... Show More
26m 38s
May 2025
#209 - OpenAI non-profit, US diffusion rules, AlphaEvolve
1h 53m
Aug 2021
Fabricated AI Research, AI Phishing Emails, AI Package Theft Detection
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Nov 2021
AI for Game Mods and Moderation, Tesla‘s Beta Rollback, Clearview AI Tested, ruDALL-E
24m 57s
Feb 2024
#155 - ChatGPT memory, Altman seeks trillions, Califonia AI regulation, art gen lawsuit
1h 45m
Jun 2022
#99 - Drone Mail Delivery, Human-Robot Teamwork, ToxiGen, Robot Companions
<p>Our 99th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!</p>
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47m 36s
Jan 2025
How DeepSeek crashed the AI party
Nilay and David dig into the week's biggest story: the new Intel-powered Surface Pro. Kidding! They talk about DeepSeek, the out-of-nowhere AI company that sent both Silicon Valley and the stock market into uproar this week. Then, after the hosts debate what the real killer app f ... Show More
1h 42m
Jun 2023
#126 - few have tried ChatGPT, Baidu’s $145M AI fund, AI job culling, OpenAI grant program
1h 44m
We're experimenting and would love to hear from you! In today's episode of Discover Daily, we explore how Niantic, the creator of Pokémon Go, is using player-generated data to develop a sophisticated Large Geospatial Model. With over 30 billion processed images and 10 million scanned locations worldwide, this AI system is creating detailed 3D maps of the rea ... Show More
<p>Our 111th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!</p>
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<p>Our 155th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!</p>
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<p>Our 126th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!</p>
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