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Technology · Chris Slowe, Marty Weiner, Zach Weinersmith

Last Humans in the Loop

by Chris Slowe, Marty Weiner, Zach Weinersmith

A weekly conversation about AI, technology, startups, and the future from people who've actually built the systems everyone uses. Chris Slowe CTO'd Reddit through hypergrowth and its IPO. Marty Weiner was a founding engineer at Pinterest and Reddit's first CTO. Zach Weinersmith is the creator of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal and the NYTimes bestselling author of books exploring the future of science and technology. Each week we debate the biggest stories, explain the technology behind them, and occasionally wander into philosophy, history, and whatever weird rabbit hole AI sends us down.

Latest episodes

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HAVE YOU TRIED JEV YET??

FRONTIER 00:56 Google explores recursive self-improvement through AI “dreaming” 03:45 Anthropic measures how quickly AI is taking the lead on frontier-lab work 05:47 Have

Sep 23
1 h 13 min

AI POLITICAL FALLOUT UNDERWAY, CALLS TO SLOW AI, ANTHROPIC IPO, AI GEN PHOTOSHOP, MATH FALLOUT

POLITICS 00:00 Calls to slow AI after a week of rapid advances 03:39 Unexpected alliances in the AI regulation debate 07:04 AI safety, regulatory capture and competiti

Sep 16
58 min

ASTRAPALOOZA! Let's explore all the ways people are using ChatGPT6

FRONTIER 00:39 ChatGPT 6 Astra arrives 01:52 Astra sets new capability records and beats humans on spatial reasoning 03:51 ChatGPT 6 decompiles game binaries back into so

Sep 9
1 h 09 min

"How is AI changing math?" with Math Professor Jonathan Wise

00:00 Meet Jonathan Wise — theoretical mathematician and professor at CU Boulder 01:35 Teaching mathematics with AI and the Lean proof assistant 04:36 The AI math breakth

Sep 2
49 min

Are you marketing to AI yet?, Humans talking like AI now, Live AI made TV shows, China exports surge

FRONTIER [01:25] Sam Altman says OpenAI could achieve AGI by the end of the year [01:52] OpenAI pulls its models from Cursor after the SpaceX acquisition — and explicitly

Sep 2
50 min

Laptop AI = 6 Month Old Frontier Models, AI Cancer Vaccines, Test Scores Down, Bomber Drones + AI

FRONTIER 01:20 Laptop-scale AI is already competing with frontier models from six months ago 03:28 Stripe reportedly tells investors we're already in the Singularity 04:

Aug 26
1 h 04 min

Study: AI Use Makes You Look Lazy, RAM $$$ Up 7x, Open Weight Music AI, Security Flaw in Major LLMs

FRONTIER 00:21 Reddit joins the S&P 500 00:53 AI reporters are starting to break major news 03:58 How invisible AI watermarking works 05:37 Grok helps improve itself — i

Aug 20
1 h 04 min

AI doing real science, EU: AI needs watermarks, Jeff Dean leaves Google, Riemann Hypothesis Progress

FRONTIER 00:56 EU requires invisible watermarks for AI-generated content 04:23 Bernie Sanders calls on frontier AI labs to slow down 05:42 Google reportedly skips Gemini

Aug 13
1 h 00 min

The AI Productivity Paradox, New LLM Architecture, AlphaFold Shutting Down, 10 Math Breakthroughs

NEWS 00:35 AlphaFold shuts down 03:51 Gemini? Gemini? Bueller? Bueller? 04:20 OpenAI solves 10 major math problems 09:00 A possible third LLM scaling law discovered 13

Aug 5
1 h 06 min

OpenAI v Hugging Face Update, Opus 5, Anthropic v Open Weights, Startup Surge, Qualcomm Robot Fail

FRONTIER 00:50 OpenAI's model broke free and hacked Hugging Face 09:55 Several companies call for NOT banning open weight models 10:08 Anthropic's response to banning

Jul 29
1 h 17 min

The AI Moat is Gone, AI Solves ANOTHER Big Math Problem, Open AI vs Closed AI, AI Takes Hollywood

03:06 NVIDIA's Robotics AI & Cosmos Models 08:28 Open-Weight AI Is Catching Up 13:07 Are AI Moats Disappearing? 16:16 How Distillation Makes Copying Models Faster + Ch

Jul 22
1 h 04 min

Inside Claude's "Mind", AI Solves 50-Year Math Problem, Apple sues OpenAI, Recreating Voices with AI

01:20 Apple sues OpenAI 06:40 GPT-5.6 First Impressions 08:00 Live Demo — GPT-5.6 builds a 3D cannon in Blender 14:40 Inside Claude's Mind — Anthropic's "Global Worksp

Jul 15
1 h 16 min

Anthropic’s Fable 5, OpenAI’s Jalapeño Chip, Midjourney Medical Scans & AI Decoding Ancient Scrolls

00:00 Introductions 02:00 Anthropic's Fable 5 & ChatGPT 5.6 & federal new government regulation 25:00 OpenAI's Jalapeño AI chip 35:00 Midjourney enters medical imaging 44

Jul 6
1 h 03 min

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