Anthropic came forward with a statement accusing China's open source AI labs of theft via distillation, taking data from 16 million fake conversations.

With Google and OpenAI echoing similar concerns, we examine the ethical dilemmas of "distillation attacks" and the hypocrisy within the U.S. AI industry.

As the Pentagon leans on AI for national security, we discuss the precarious balance between innovation and ethics. Perhaps the most important conversation of our lifetimes.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Exposing China's AI Theft
2:22 The Scale of China's Distillation Attack
4:26 Legal Boundaries and Ethical Dilemmas
5:50 The Pentagon's AI Dependency
7:05 Balancing Safety and Speed in AI
8:56 Hypocrisy in AI Practices
10:20 China's AI Innovations and Open Source
13:16 The Strategic Shift in AI Development
15:00 The Moral Dilemma of AI Warfare
19:57 Concluding Thoughts on AI Ethics

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Google’s new AI tools Lyria 3 and Pomelli feel like magic. Lyria 3 showcases real-time music generation and music from images, while Pomelli creates marketing visuals from a single image, transforming photography. We also discuss Gemini 3.1 Pro's advancements and user feedback.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Lyria 3
2:58 Multimodal Capabilities
4:34 Watermarking
7:18 Pomelli
11:55 Product Shoots
14:42 The Evolution of AI Models
16:54 Advances in Gemini 3.1
21:44 Google's Distribution Power
22:45 Make Stuff

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Toto, the Japanese Toilet Company, now has a surprising role in AI chip development, with massive gains in the market this year.

In other news, we have self-replicating AI agents, Apple AI device rumors, Google Gemini 3.1, and xAI's Grok 4.20 multi-agent model.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Toto Toilets for AI
3:11 AI Agents Take Over
8:50 A New Marketing Model
13:23 Sam vs Dario
15:13 Apple’s AI Devices
20:28 Manus Agents Strike Back
21:30 AI-Generated Movies
25:24 Google’s AI Model Updates
27:36 XAI and Drone Warfare
31:03 Prompting Advice
32:55 Closing

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