AI News: OpenAI releases Agents, Tesla promises 600 Optimus a week and more language model releases.

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0:05 – Introduction

• Podcast kicks off in person for the first time.

• Overview of the main topics to come.

1:07 – Section One: OpenAI’s “Operator” Model

• Explanation of what “Operator” is, how it acts as an AI agent.

• Discussion of features (browser in the cloud, GPT-4 vision, limitations, safety checks).

• Ends with conversation about whether it’s truly useful yet and how the future might look.

20:41 – Section Two: $500 Billion “Stargate” Project

• Transition into the Trump Administration’s huge AI investment plan.

• Comparison to the UK’s more modest or vague announcements.

• Discussion of how that money will be spent, safety concerns, etc.

44:24 – Section Three: Deep Seek’s “R1” Model

• Who Deep Seek is, why the R1 open-source model is impressive (coding benchmarks, cost).

• How open-source AI may rival or outpace Western models in certain tasks.

57:29 – Section Four: Google DeepMind “Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking”

• Focus on “visible reasoning” steps, large context window, and how it competes with OpenAI.

• Discussion of Google’s decision to offer it in beta/for free, possible impact on the LLM “race.”

1:09:00 – Section Five: UK’s New AI Supercomputer (University of Bristol)

• Surprising to see a $260 million AI supercomputer in Bristol aimed at healthcare research.

• Potential breakthroughs for Alzheimer’s, heart disease, and other medical applications.

1:11:43 – Section Six: Tesla’s “Optimus” Humanoid Robots

• Details on producing ~600 Optimus robots per week by year’s end.

• Discussion of near-future factory use, eventual consumer implications.

1:15:08 – Section Seven: Rapid-Fire Updates & Wrap-Up

• Pope Francis on AI – Ethical concerns and “real truth.”

• LinkedIn Lawsuit – Premium user messages allegedly used for AI training without consent.

• Belfast Police & AI – Using AI to re-check CCTV footage in unsolved cases.