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May 2025
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AI Rollup: AI Robots and The $10T Arms R...

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Welcome to the AI Rollup, from the Limitless Podcast. David, Ejaaz, and Josh break down the week’s most important AI headlines, from OpenAI’s $3B Windsurf acquisition and Google’s full-stack AI play, to Visa and Mastercard preparing for agentic commerce. We explore the state of robotics, major interpretability challenges, and why the race to AGI may outpace our ability to understand it. Plus: AI ASMR, glow-up GPT, and why autonomous agents still kinda suck. Stay curious, this one’s stacked.

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TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES

00:00:00 Intro To Limitless!

https://x.com/LimitlessFT


00:04:23 OpenAI Makes Huge Acquisition

https://www.outlookbusiness.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-to-acquire-ai-coding-platform-windsurf-for-3bn?utm_source=www.theaivalley.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=openai-reverses-for-profit-plan-ai-breakthroughs-in-robotics&_bhlid=7f1b29a5128efe71af21ff4cb81c530bdcac095e

https://x.com/ns123abc/status/1912876350911754676

https://www.testingcatalog.com/google-tests-computer-use-tools-and-cloud-run-hosting-in-ai-studio/?utm_source=www.theaivalley.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=openai-reverses-for-profit-plan-ai-breakthroughs-in-robotics&_bhlid=bd7931dcfd449aa11b0bf7197fdfa983289758c2


00:08:01 Why Spend $3 Billion??


00:16:09 OpenAI Memory Update Is... Interesting

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/18/chatgpt-will-now-use-its-memory-to-personalize-web-searches/?utm_source=www.theaivalley.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=openai-launches-o3-and-o4-mini&_bhlid=d08c6dc54c407d4f53df9d11a68857dba951a21c


00:23:56 OpenAI Re-Structuring

https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-remain-under-non-profit-control-change-restructuring-plans-2025-05-05/?utm_source=www.theaivalley.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=openai-reverses-for-profit-plan-ai-breakthroughs-in-robotics&_bhlid=c4222c046fc76f42b7f72ca72537e4e8620a2af1


00:37:24 Visa Credit Cards For AI Agents

https://apnews.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-5dfa1da145689e7951a181e2253ab349


00:43:21 The Crypto Bull Case


00:45:43 The Deca Trillion Robot Opportunity

https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1913986971501748390?s=46

https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/1919510163112779777

https://developer.nvidia.com/isaac/gr00t

https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1916523708153217525?s=46

https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1919060515998822898?s=46


00:52:44 Dogs With Machine Guns


00:58:11 Using AI To Do Your Job


01:02:12 The Interpretability Talk

https://www.darioamodei.com/post/the-urgency-of-interpretability


01:09:18 AI Neurons?


01:15:27 The Dopamine Section
https://x.com/venturetwins/status/1917640408349434106

https://x.com/ns123abc/status/1918703088598184321?s=46

https://x.com/venturetwins/status/1919057071145672949

https://x.com/aisafetymemes/status/1914003415191212112?s=46

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