Best Gavin Purcell Podcasts (2025)

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OpenAI Surprise Drops GPT-5.1 But Google Is Coming… 45:13

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OpenAI released GPT-5.1 with updates to vision, ChatGPT personalities and, most importantly, vibes while Google's Nanobanana 2 and Gemini 3 Pro gently start leaking incredible results. Plus, Disney is ok with AI content on Disney+, Grok Imagine gets a big update, a very cool new 3D world simulator from World Labs, the number one song country song r…

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Being citizens in an AI-powered world 19:54

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AI can sound human, but it isn’t — and that difference changes how we teach, parent, and prepare kids for a future shaped by AI. On this episode, we dive into AI readiness: the blend of skills, ethics, and technical insight that young people need to question, adapt, and lead in an AI-powered world. We sit down with Philip Colligan of the Raspberry …

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AI Job Losses Are Real. Don't Panic (Yet). 55:23

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AI is starting to take more human jobs while OpenAI and Sam Altman are thinking about GPT-6 and new science. Meanwhile, the rest of OpenAI is thinking about how they'll pay for GPT-6. Plus, Google is sending AI chips into space, Gemini will power Apple Intelligence, Kimi K2 Thinking is a great open-source AI model and the backlash to Coke's new AI …

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Answering parents' questions about AI 22:39

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Are you worried your kids might let AI do their thinking for them? On this episode, Alex and Dr. Aliza dig into the questions parents ask most and share a practical roadmap for raising curious, confident, and discerning kids who can use AI without losing their edge. Whether it's developing everyday habits to build critical thinking or setting clear…

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Ep12 - Yarn about goats, movember and more 33:07

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Episode takes off with a wild yarn about a goat, growing a stash and plenty more - Never LiftBy Gavin Purcell

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Ep11 - piss boiling, women in the industry, rain showers & fatigue yarns 25:25

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Welcome back legends touching on the episode we have a piss boiler about piss and cow shit, respecting women in the industry, a yarn from the old fulla and one from my fatigued brain and more so have a listen and remember - Never LiftBy Gavin Purcell

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OpenAI's New 2028 Plan is Bonkers. Plus, Big Sora 2 Update & 1x Robot Controversy 1:02:27

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Sora 2's new Character Cameo update brings your pets to AI video while OpenAI settles the whole non-profit mess. Oh, and Sam Altman says in 2028 AI will make itself. WHAT? Plus, 1x Robotics's new Neo robot is causing a big AI controversy. For now, it's all remote operated but WILL be autonomous. Are you ok with people watching you? Also: new AI vid…

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Preparing kids for careers in an AI world 22:47

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Are you worried about preparing your kids for jobs that don’t exist yet? In this episode, we dig into the changes that AI is bringing to work and school. First up, materials scientist Ashley Kaiser reveals how AI is powering “self-driving labs” to offload repetitive tasks, which gives her more time for creative planning and scientific analysis. Nex…

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Ep10 - Partners in the industry ft. Kate 40:07

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Gday guys welcome back to our first guest appearance of the poddy - Partners in the industry with our special guest and my amazing partner Kate, where we will hear it first hand about being a partner of a driver in the industry - Never LiftBy Gavin Purcell

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Ep9 - roadway stupidity, quick yarn, unnecessary judgement and a piss boiler comp 47:04

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Ep9 welcomes you all back with stupidity I’ve seen on the road a high stepping yarn, your chance to have a win with your best piss boiler and unnecessary visual judgment - Never LiftBy Gavin Purcell

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Can OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas AI Browser Beat Google in 2025? 52:48

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In a big week of AI news, OpenAI debuts Atlas, its new agentic AI internet browser and we talk about what they did right and… what might've gone wrong. Sam Altman was excited! Plus, Google has an updated AI Studio that makes vibe coding much easier, Sora 2's Cameo feature is going to get an update for characters and pets soon & a whole lot of scary…

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This professor makes using AI an expectation 23:08

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Let's be honest: Trying to make assignments “AI-proof” is like trying to write a “calculator-proof” math problem. With that in mind, we explore how to design AI-ready assessments that reward genuine understanding and insight when answers are cheap and instant. Alex and Dr. Aliza unpack a college course that embraces AI rather than hides from it. Tu…

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Ep8 - speed reduction, blindsided jokes, poetry, piss boilers & reviews 31:22

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Welcome back you legends we start episode 8 of with a joke from the government, an out of the blue old fella joke, some light hearted poetry and a a tribute to a country music legend, also touch on a couple of reviews, an event not to be missed in the trucking industry for the kids and a yarn from my memory bank so get around it have a listen and -…

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Ep7 - Time spent in the FIFO industry 59:21

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Welcome back in this episode we talk about the good, the bad and the reality of the fifo industry and the struggles it plays with mental health - Never LiftBy Gavin Purcell

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OpenAI's Curvy Road to AGI Includes… Erotica?? 48:09

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OpenAI's ChatGPT will soon allow *adult* AI conversations. What happens next? For now, we get Sora 2 updates and Google ussing AI for actual science, making progress towards cancer cures. Google *also* has Gemini 3 on deck for what seems like a pretty big jump in AI capabilities. Oh and they happen to be working on fusion as well. But for us, they'…

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Ep6 - Driver poetry, mental health coping mechanisms, piss boilers & more 26:13

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Welcome back as we dive straight into some driver poetry, chat about our mental health coping mechanisms, lay it down with some absolute piss boilers also explore some new chat and get motivated. - Never liftBy Gavin Purcell

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How AI can fuel a brainstorm and spark new ideas 23:10

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Pressing an AI button won’t write a novel that anyone wants to read. On this episode, we look at using AI for writing – not as a shortcut, but as a thinking partner that helps you move from fuzzy concepts to sharp ideas without losing your voice. Alongside author Amit Gupta and Google’s VP of Learning, Maureen Heymans, we map the line between helpf…

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Ep5 - merch incoming, weekend vibes, piss boilers and logbooks 33:39

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Back for ep5 from a weekend with my boys, diving into reality of the importance of family time, blowing of some steam with a piss boiler. Also a bit of logbook talk and a Halloween ghost convention as a child - never liftBy Gavin Purcell

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Ep4 - weekend resets, world mental health month & poetry 26:19

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Diving into the weekend, touching on world mental health awareness month, poetry and the usual segmentsBy Gavin Purcell

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Ep3 - new segment, realities of life on the road, old school yarn 31:27

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Introducing new piss boilers segment, also touching on the usual mental health issues and realities of life on the road. Also Lights on the hill over the weekend, reviews, old school yarn from dad and a joke to top it off so get around it and never liftBy Gavin Purcell

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OpenAI Restricts Sora 2 As Hollywood Fights Back Against AI Video 53:01

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OpenAI's Sora 2 went into a state of lock-down this week as Sam Altman pulls back what can and can't be generated on the platform. Hollywood & Influencers are still furious. Are you? We dive into the debate around what it means when everyone can generate everything at the touch of a button & talk about how Mark Cuban & Jake Paul are using the Cameo…

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Peek inside an AI-enhanced classroom 24:02

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What if technology made classrooms feel more human, not less? On this episode of Raising Kids in the Age of AI, we dive into real stories from the front lines of education to show how AI can help teachers fulfill diverse learning needs, increase engagement, and bring back joy to school so it doesn't turn into a screen-filled dystopia. Alex and Dr. …

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Ep2 - Reviews, Piss boiling parking bay antics & poetry 28:35

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Episode 2 diving straight into a parking bay antic that boils my piss, honest reviews, and a hidden talent for poetryBy Gavin Purcell

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Ep1 - stepping out and getting amongst it 29:30

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Stepping out of my comfort zone and into podcasting, introduction into what I would like to achieve in regards to mental health awareness in the transport industryBy Gavin Purcell

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OpenAI's Sora 2: Future of Media or AI SLOPOCALYPSE?? 57:36

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Sora 2 is a remarkable piece of AI technology! Sora 2 is filling the world with AI slop! Both of these things might be true as Sam Altman & OpenAI have taken over yet again. We talk about what makes Sora 2 truly state-of-the-art, the new Cameo feature that lets you generate videos of your friends & some of the IP-infringing works you might see on t…

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AI 101: Everything parents need to know 19:18

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Let’s strip away the hype and make AI understandable, useful, and human. Google Research VP Maya Kulycky explains why the human brain remains unmatched (And why that’s good news!) and offers practical guidance for using AI as a collaborator, not a crutch. Google DeepMind COO Lila Ibrahim takes us inside different projects that expand what’s possibl…

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AI Creates New Drugs As OpenAI & NVIDIA Shuffle Billions 38:23

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AI science advances are FINALLY happening while OpenAI's Sam Altman & NVIDIA's Jensen Huang send billions back and forth. If $100 billion is a drop in the well, how much do they need? Plus, ChatGPT is causing divorces, new AI video models Kling 2.5 Turbo & Wan 2.5, Suno drops v5 & Gavin drops the fact that he's not *loving* Kevin's mustache. Oh & w…

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Your teen wants to start a business. Can AI help? 20:52

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aiEDU Studios has launched a separate podcast entitled Raising Kids in the Age of AI, created in collaboration with Google! Co-hosts Alex Kotran and Dr. Aliza Pressman will explore how AI is shaping the future of parenting and learning in conversations with parents, students, and leaders in education and technology. Meet Isabell, a 13-year-old entr…

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Meta's New $800 AI Glasses Show Us The Future… Sometimes Breaks 49:56

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Meta's new AI Ray-Ban Display & Mark Zuckerberg give us a glimpse of what an augmented-reality future might look like & they're here VERY soon. Zuck's new $800 AR glasses will be here in two weeks for $800 but he also showed off Hyperscape, a new gaussian-splat style virtual environment. They also struggled to demo some of the new tech but, hey, li…

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A framework for K-12 education in the AI era 39:18

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What does it mean for students to be 'AI ready?' In this "in-house" episode, aiEDU CEO Alex Kotran sits down with Chief Program Officer Emma Doggett Neergaard and Director of Learning Khushali Narechania to explore the organization's new AI Readiness Framework. The aiEDU Learning Team unpacks how their framework provides a roadmap for K-12 educator…

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OpenAI Is Spending A Fortune To Get To AGI. Will They Make It? 50:33

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OpenAI just did a $300B deal with Oracle to insure that they have the compute to get to the next stage of AI. The future of AI is EXPENSIVE. Sam Altman is making deals all over the place, trying to set OpenAI up for the future. But there's a LOT of competition now, including from companies like Replit & their new Agent 3 which can work for hours at…

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Kaleidoscope see podcasts as an 'engine for empathy' 52:03

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What happens when you combine Hollywood-level storytelling with the intimacy of audio? Oz Woloshyn and Mangesh Hattikudur, co-founders of Kaleidoscope, have created some of the most compelling podcasts in the medium by focusing on one simple truth: people love feeling smart, especially when learning feels like an adventure. Kaleidoscope's award-win…

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AI Helps Salesforce Cut 4000 Jobs. Will It Make New Ones? 44:47

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AI NEWS: Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff says AI helped cut 4000 jobs from their workforce. Is this the start of a bigger trend? FYI, Optimus 3 isn't *really* ready to take those jobs yet. Google's NanoBanana continues to amaze us and we show off some really fun new ways to use it. Google *also* has a new vibecoding platform, a cool AI video real-time …

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Michelle Shomo Pierce: How a STEM educator uses AI 1:19:22

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Michelle Shomo Pierce invites us into her Charlotte, North Carolina classroom where computer science education transcends coding to become a vehicle for teaching essential life skills. What makes Michelle's approach unique is her unlikely journey to becoming a computer science teacher. With a background in biology and elementary education, she step…

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Google's Nano Banana Brings Next Gen AI To The Mainstream 53:33

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Google's Nano Banana is the best AI image editor we've ever seen & it bodes well for the future of Gemini going forward. But even better, it's actually useful in everyday life. In other AI News, OpenAI's new Realtime API improves its voice AI systems. It's also taking people back from Meta who is also doing a deal with Midjourney. YES, it's the CIR…

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Dan'l Lewin: Reinventing education in the AI era 1:14:12

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Have you ever talked to an architect of the digital revolution that shaped our world? We spoke with early-stage Apple alum Dan'l Lewin, who took us on a remarkable journey from the dawn of personal computing to our AI-powered present while offering rare insights as someone who helped bring the first computers into America's classrooms. Growing up i…

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Move Over OpenAI… Google Looks Ready To Take The AI Lead 53:56

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AI NEWS: Google's been moving insanely fast & shipping as OpenAI & Sam Altman have been working out what went wrong with the GPT-5 launch. Will we have a new AI leader? Google's Made By Google event introduced a new natural language photo editing software (that could be powered by Nano Banana - their secret unreleased model) and a live AI translato…

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Lindsay Jones: Breaking educational barriers with universal design 50:18

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What if we stopped trying to 'fix' students and instead fixed our educational system? As CEO of CAST, (the Center for Applied Special Technology) Lindsay Jones helps schools utilize Universal Design for Learning to create inclusive education systems for all students. Starting with the premise that "people aren't broken," Lindsay guides us through C…

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OpenAI's GPT-5 Stumbles On The Rocky Road To AGI 44:52

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SECRET PROJECT IN DISCORD: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Is this the AI slow down? OpenAI's GPT-5's first week was kind of rough but Sam Atlman is working on it. GPT-4o is back for those who missed it but AI might not get to the Singularity as fast as people think. GPT-5 *did* crush Pokemon & a new version got a gold medal in the International Prog…

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Dr. Kiesha King: The education revolution needs Internet access 37:13

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What good is 'innovation in edtech' if millions of students can't access it? Dr. Keisha King takes us on her journey from classroom teacher to education technology leader at T-Mobile, showing how authentic educator perspectives can transform tech initiatives in schools. With a background in virtual schooling and curriculum development, Dr. King bri…

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OpenAI's GPT-5 Is Here. It's Very Good AI But Not AGI 53:25

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OpenAI's GPT-5 is out & it's the best AI model! For now. Overall, the benchmarks are good-not-great but the vibes are off-the-charts. We dive into the DEEP end. Sam Altman brought the whole team out for a long demo of GPT-5. It's great at coding! It's better at writing! It has new AI personalities! It will not hallucinate nearly as much! Which is m…

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Zach Kennelly: My civics students used AI to create a voting app 1:03:27

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When civics teacher Zach Kennelly first encountered ChatGPT and DALL-E, he immediately recognized their transformative potential for education. As one of the first AI Trailblazers in aiEDU's fellowship program, Zach has reimagined what's possible in the classroom by positioning AI not as a replacement for human thinking, but as a collaborative tool…

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OpenAI's GPT-5 Leaks Show Us The Future (Of Next Week??) 40:15

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OpenAI's GPT-5 is coming soon and it is…good?. Mystery models have been testing on various platforms that may show us the future of OpenAI's newest AI & the future of the space. Sam Altman's company has been ramping up the hype machine entering next week when most expect GPT-5's release (as well as a new possible Google model). Meanwhile, Mark Zuck…

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John Marble: Embracing neurodivergence in the workplace 1:29:10

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What if the very traits that society labels as a "disability" are actually your greatest strengths? In this week's episode of aiEDU Studios, John Marble (author of Neurodiversity for Dummies and Autism for Dummies) takes us on a remarkable journey from his early days making White House beer runs to becoming a respected neurodiversity advocate and t…

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OpenAI Teases GPT-5 as America Goes Full 'AI Action' Mode 1:04:05

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OpenAI's Sam Altman dribbles out GPT-5 teases as the White House's AI Action plan lays out exactly how all-in America is on the future of AI. Plus, SO MUCH AI NEWS. GPT-5 is (we hope?) around the corner and we're getting small snippets like the mysterious new model that's incredible at coding & the AI model that won gold at the International Math O…

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Peter Gault: Writing as a superpower 1:21:39

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"When you can write out your own ideas, explain your thinking, build an argument and use evidence to support it – that's an incredibly valuable skill for kids." In this week's episode, we spoke with Peter Gault of Quill.org about the evolving relationship between AI and education. Peter shares how Quill transitioned from basic natural language proc…

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OpenAI's New ChatGPT Agent Might've Just Stolen Your Job 51:06

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ChatGPT Agent is OpenAI's new combo of Deep Research and its Operator web-browser agents into one near-human level worker. Is your job on the chopping block? Big week in AI News: Sam Altman and the OpenAI team have been cooking agents for a bit but this new one feels like the next big wave of AI in 2025. Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg grabs a few more …

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Isabelle Hau: Relational intelligence in an AI-driven world 45:17

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What makes us uniquely human in the age of AI? According to Isabelle Hau, (Executive Director of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning) it's our ability to form meaningful relationships — a feat she calls "relational intelligence." Our conversation with Isabelle explores how education systems need to evolve past measuring success through grades and…

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Grok 4 is Nearing AGI But... Can Elon Get Out Of The Way? 1:00:58

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Grok 4 from xAI just aced "Humanity's Last Exam" benchmarks while Grok 3 had a catastrophic public meltdown. What does this mean for the future of AI and Elon Musk's credibility? And, in other AI news, OpenAI's GPT-5 is rumored to land next week along with a new open-source reasoning model, Google's DeepMind launches AI-designed drugs into human tr…

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Roy Bahat: 'Learning' and 'doing' should no longer be separate 43:55

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What if everything you've been told about AI and the future of work is wrong? In this episode with Bloomberg Beta head Roy Bahat, we dive deep into why employment predictions fail, how AI is reshaping career paths, and why becoming "the CIO of your own life" might be the most valuable skill for navigating our technological future. Roy has been inve…