Popular AI podcast

ChatGPT 5.5 is a real upgrade, but not for everyone

GPT-5.5 looks like a serious upgrade for professional AI work. Here is what changed, what it costs and who should test it now.

Apr 28 • Popular AI

Claude Mythos shows Anthropic’s best AI is behind closed doors

Claude Mythos may be a leap in agentic coding and offensive cyber work. Anthropic’s gated rollout reveals how frontier AI power is really distributed.

Apr 13 • Popular AI

The rise of culture-on-demand: reclaiming media from the intellectual property hogs

Open source generative AI is turning culture into something users can generate on demand, putting Hollywood, copyright, and IP business models under new…

Apr 1 • Popular AI and Ben Geudens

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What Iran’s warning to AI companies means for cloud and model resilience

Iran’s threat against major US tech firms is a warning about AI infrastructure risk, cloud concentration, and what power users should do now.

Apr 1 • Popular AI

These Turnitin false positives in 2025 and 2026 show why AI detectors can’t be proof

False AI flags, opaque reports, and weak due process have turned Turnitin false positives into a serious academic integrity problem.

Mar 28 • Popular AI

Why Gemini thinks your face belongs to a public figure

Gemini’s public figure error reveals a deeper problem in AI photo editing, where safety systems can block ordinary users from editing their own faces.

Mar 26 • Popular AI

Washington’s AI age check push could end anonymous access

The White House wants age verification for AI platforms used by minors while pushing Congress to override many state AI laws.

Mar 24 • Popular AI

Has thought-to-text AI arrived?

Think your prompts instead of writing them. A look at ZUNA: an open EEG foundation model that makes brain-computer interfaces more practical.

Mar 6 • Popular AI

The end of AI hallucinations? Researchers found the “lie switch” inside LLMs

A new way to detect AI lies: inside the LLM “hallucination circuit” or your chatbot’s “people-pleaser circuit”

Mar 5 • Popular AI

ChatGPT’s ‘piss filter’: why AI images skew yellow (and how to fix it)

Is the warm hue of ChatGPT’s images proof of model collapse? A clear look at ChatGPT’s image pipeline, prompt rewriting, defaults, and quick fixes.

Mar 2 • Popular AI

Why war-game AIs want to nuke everything

In AI nuclear crisis war games, AI models can’t keep their fingers off the nuclear button. A closer look at how AI interprets war games and why.

Mar 1 • Popular AI

When your chatbot flags you: who decides if the cops get a call?

A Canada tragedy reignites a hard question: when a chatbot sees violent intent, does the company stay silent, call police, or automate reporting?

Feb 28 • Popular AI

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