EP 591: Meta in hot water, OpenAI responds to GPT-5 backlash and more AI News That Matters

Meta's AI has reportedly been trained on sensual talk to minors. Yikes.

OpenAI has responded to GPT-5 backlash in a strange way.

Google keeps dropping more and more AI updates.

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Topics Covered in This Episode:

1. OpenAI Updates: GPT-5 Backlash & Model Changes
2. GPT-4o Sycophancy Removal & User Reactions
3. Multi-Mode GPT-5 Model Selection Launched
4. Google AI Summaries Slash Publisher Referral Traffic
5. Google Gemma 3 2.70M Small Language Model Release
6. US Government Considers Intel Equity Stake for AI Chips
7. Grok NSFW Imagine Tool Prompts FTC Probe
8. Meta AI Training Data: Minor Safety Controversy
9. Senate Probes Meta Over Sensual Chatbot Risks
10. Sam Altman Backs Merge Labs for Brain-Computer Interfaces
11. Perplexity’s $34.5B Offer for Google Chrome
12. Anthropic Claude $1 Access for US Government
13. Apple’s Shift to AI Hardware, Robots & Smart Home
14. Google, OpenAI, Anthropic Push Free AI in Public Sector

Timestamps:
00:00 "Tech Giants' AI Shifts"

05:35 OpenAI Balances Old and New Needs

07:36 AI Impacting Publisher Revenue and Traffic

11:50 Google's Gemma 32 70 Model Launch

13:18 Small AI Models & Intel's U.S. Stake

18:16 Consumer Groups Demand Grok Investigation

20:22 Criticism of XAI's Content Policies

24:07 Altman vs. Musk: BCI Rivalry

30:26 Anthropic and OpenAI's Federal AI Strategy

32:08 Tech Giants Push AI in Education

36:46 Apple's AI Hardware Ambitions

39:18 Meta AI Probe: Child Safety Concerns

45:28 AI News Highlights This Week

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