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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
Aug 2021
Fabricated AI Research, AI Phishing Emails, AI Package Theft Detection
31m 46s
Mar 2025
Can the world rely on its undersea cable network?
Undersea cables form the backbone of global communication, with over 95% of global internet traffic relying on hundreds of fibre-optic cables criss-crossing the globe. But recent incidents such as disruption to cables in the Baltic Sea have highlighted concerns over their securit ... Show More
22m 58s
Sep 2025
Keeping connected
This week we're talking about connectivity. How to keep the internet running when international data cables are damaged by earthquakes or war. And are light beams a solution ?Also this week: Satellites and AI are being used to count migrating wildebeest in Africa. We hear how tec ... Show More
26m 29s
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
Mar 2025
#201 - GPT 4.5, Sonnet 3.7, Grok 3, Phi 4
58m 37s
Apr 2025
Meta on Trial + Is A.I. a ‘Normal’ Technology? + HatGPT
<p>This week Meta is on trial, in a landmark case over whether it illegally snuffed out competition when it acquired Instagram and WhatsApp. We discuss some of the most surprising revelations from old email messages made public as evidence in the case, and explain why we think th ... Show More
1h 20m
Dec 30
Quantum computing: Game on
Quantum computing has long been technology’s white whale. But in recent months, new developments suggest practical applications for this elusive technology could finally be within reach. “Quantum has been five to ten years away from fruition for many, many decades,” says McKinsey ... Show More
24m 34s
Feb 2023
#111 - Mostly ChatGPT Again, plus Google’s Bard, Climate Change, AI Seinfeld
1h 7m
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 begin with news that Meta is embarking on an ambitious $10 billion project to construct a 40,000-kilometer subsea cable network. Nicknamed "W," this marks Meta's first exclusively owned undersea infrastructure. This massive project will connect multiple continents i ... Show More
<p>Our 67th 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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