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This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle News and Updates Live Stream’

First aired: 19 December 2025

Summary: Right, so today's big story is absolutely massive if the reporting checks out. Reuters is saying China has reverse-engineered ASML's extreme ultraviolet lithography machines - the only tech on earth that can make cutting edge AI chips. I spent a chunk of the show explaining why this matters: there's literally one Dutch company (ASML) that makes these machines, they cost about 200 million quid each, and up until now China's been locked out because of Western export controls. If they've cracked it, the entire semiconductor bottleneck just collapsed. We're talking about China potentially producing their own advanced chips by 2028 instead of a decade from now.

The other curveball is Trump's just lifted the ban on selling H100 chips to China, which feels like odd timing given everything else. I also covered Google's NotebookLM teaming up with Manus to let you actually edit AI-generated presentations, which is genuinely useful - took me five minutes to make something that would've taken all day. But honestly, the chip story is the one to watch. If China achieves semiconductor independence, the entire AI arms race changes overnight.

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00:00 China's AI Chip Manhattan Project Revealed

03:08 What is EUV Lithography and Why It Matters

04:06 China Reverse Engineers ASML Machines

05:42 DeepSeek and Huawei Chip Struggles

07:13 Inside the Secret Project - Fake IDs and Aliases

08:43 Why China Could Overtake the West in AI

09:48 Biggest AI Story of the Year

10:57 Book Recommendation: Chip Wars

11:52 Survey: What Americans Think About AI Companies

14:17 45% Think ChatGPT Uses a Database

15:26 How LLMs Actually Work Explained

16:45 Best Resources to Learn About LLMs

18:29 Is Gemini Better Than ChatGPT?

19:52 Andrej Karpathy's Deep Dive Series

20:17 Why Microsoft Copilot Is Struggling

21:47 NotebookLM Slide Decks + Manus Integration

24:52 Enterprise AI Security and Shadow IT

25:46 Holiday Break Announcement

26:21 AI Workshop Kit Launch January 2026

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This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle News and Updates Live Stream’

First aired: 18 December 2025

Summary: Google just dropped Gemini Flash 3, and honestly, it's a bit of a game-changer for anyone building with AI. It's basically a frontier-level model that costs four times less than Gemini 3 Pro, we're talking 50 cents per million input tokens instead of $2. The wild thing is it's not just cheap, it's actually better than their premium model in certain benchmarks. If you're a developer trying to build apps without haemorrhaging money on API calls, this is the kind of release that makes you sit up and pay attention. Google's absolutely dominated the end of this year, and this cements it.

We also got ChatGPT's new Atlas image model and Bernie Sanders calling for a complete moratorium on data centres, but the story that really stuck with me was this piece from The Spectator. A senior British barrister gets drunk with a journalist mate and basically admits the legal profession is finished. He ran an experiment where AI replicated his day-and-a-half of work in 30 seconds AND it was better. His advice to his niece who wants to study law? "Please do not destroy your life." It's anecdotal, sure, but it's the kind of honest conversation people are having behind closed doors. The bottom's falling out of industries faster than most people realise, and we need to be ready for it.

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00:00 Gemini 3 Flash - Google's Game-Changing Budget AI

04:42 Why Cheaper AI Models Matter for Developers

06:37 The AI Competition Heats Up

07:21 Is the UK AI Ready? DeepMind & 11 Labs

09:44 OpenAI's Code Red and GPT Image 1.5

12:53 Does Anyone But Google Have a Real Moat?

16:40 Google's Data Empire and Search's Existential Crisis

18:52 Google's "Don't Be Evil" Problem

19:13 China arXiv - $25K to Translate All Chinese Science

21:36 OpenAI App Store Launches Inside ChatGPT

25:08 How to Access Sora Outside the US

26:18 Bernie Sanders Calls for AI Moratorium

30:24 AI Will Kill All the Lawyers - A Barrister's Warning

35:27 Newsletter & Community

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This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle News and Updates Live Stream’

First aired: 16 December 2025

Summary: China's absolutely dominated the open-source AI rankings this year, and it's not even close. A new tier list from Interconnects puts DeepSeek at the top, followed by Qwen and Kimi - all Chinese labs. Meta's Llama models? They've been relegated to an "honourable mention" at the bottom, which is pretty embarrassing considering Zuckerberg spent hundreds of millions poaching engineers and then hasn't released anything in months. The whole top tier is Chinese models, and they're not just good, they're genuinely brilliant, and they're giving them away completely open-source. You can fine-tune them, deploy them on your own servers, do whatever you want with them.

The irony? While American labs like OpenAI and Anthropic are locking everything down behind paywalls and API subscriptions, China's playing the long game. Their models are being used in Y Combinator startups, they're spreading across the developing world, and they're getting better precisely because they're open. It's a completely different business model and development paradigm, and right now, it's winning. Whether it's strategic genius or just a different approach to software development, China's figured out that giving away world-class AI models might be more valuable than charging for them.

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00:00 China Dominates Open Source AI: 2025 Tier List Revealed

03:06 AI Predictions for 2026: Scaling, Safety & Meta's Exit

04:29 Open Source AI Safety Debate: Should Models Be Free?

06:05 Closed vs Open Source: Which AI Models Are Actually Best?

08:42 How to Run AI Locally on Your Phone or Computer

09:48 Q&A: ChatGPT App Experience vs API Models

12:21 Google AI Summaries Are Killing Recipe Writers

16:52 How AI Overviews Destroy Publisher Revenue

19:10 Surviving the AI Age: Why Being Human Matters Most

21:44 Q&A Break

21:54 TIME Person of the Year: AI Architects Controversy

23:55 AI Killed My Job: Real Copywriters Share Their Stories

26:08 The Entry-Level Job Crisis: AI Eliminating Career Ladders

27:46 How AI Really Takes Jobs: Task Erosion Explained

30:01 AI Augmentation vs Replacement: What's Actually Happening

32:48 EU AI Act: Why Regulation Can't Keep Up

34:45 Do Politicians Actually Understand AI?

36:38 Albania's AI Cabinet Minister: Genius or Gimmick?

38:48 AGI Timeline: The Three Body Problem Analogy

40:04 Pentagon Forms AI Steering Committee on AGI

40:58 Chinese T-800 Robot: Military AI Gets Real

42:24 iRobot Bankruptcy: Chinese Robotics Takeover

43:44 Show Wrap-Up

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This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle News and Updates Live Stream’

First aired: 11 December 2025

Summary: GPT 5.2 is dropping today, apparently. OpenAI's been doing their usual Thursday release schedule, and Sam Altman's been cryptically tweeting about garlic - which is the code name for whatever they're launching. This is their response to Gemini 3, and there's been some internal drama with people saying the model should be delayed, but executives pushed it through anyway. Classic OpenAI move. The pressure's on because they wouldn't release it unless it beats Gemini 3 in the benchmarks, so we'll see if they've actually pulled it off or if this is just another rushed launch to save face.

Meanwhile, I spent most of the show talking about something I've been noticing more and more - the growing dread in the scientific community about AI coming for their jobs. You've got researchers making posts about how AI can never create novel knowledge or assist in real science, which is just bonkers when you look at what's actually happening with tools like AlphaFold. There's also a Pentagon committee forming to discuss AGI implications for national security, which suggests the government's finally taking this seriously. Not sure if that's reassuring or worrying that they're only just getting around to it now, but here we are.

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00:00 Is AGI Overhyped? The Answer May Surprise You 00:13 AI News Update: GPT 5.2 Release Day 00:48 AI Is Coming for Scientists' Jobs - The Growing Fear 01:41 Q&A: When Is GPT 5.2 Releasing and What's "Garlic"? 02:25 GPT 5.2 vs Gemini 3: OpenAI's "Code Red" Response 03:14 Pentagon Forms AGI Committee - Why This Matters 04:33 Meet the Pentagon's Chief AI Officer - His Background 06:34 Q&A: How ChatGPT Memory Works Across Conversations 08:33 First AI Model Trained in Space - NanoGPT on StarCloud 10:01 Data Centers in Space: Solving AI's Energy Crisis? 13:12 China's Electricity Dominance and Why Tech Giants Are Worried 15:18 Q&A: Wind Farms, Solar and Nuclear Energy for AI 16:23 Scientist Says Don't Cure Cancer Faster If It Means AI Takes Jobs 20:22 AlphaFold: How AI Solved Protein Folding in 4 Years 24:06 The Ultimate Selfishness: Blocking AI to Save Your Job 26:05 Real vs Fake AI Risks: What Pause AI Gets Right 32:20 Water Usage, Fast Fashion and AI: Debunking the Myths 35:06 Why You Need to Prepare for AI Job Disruption Now 36:40 Q&A: When Will We Reach Superintelligence? 38:40 Is AGI Overhyped? The Technology vs The Market 39:13 Free AI Readiness Resources and Outro

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This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle News and Updates Live Stream’

First aired: 9 December 2025

Summary: Trump's done something rather unexpected — he's given Nvidia the green light to sell their H200 chips directly to China, which is a massive reversal from the previous export restrictions. This is genuinely surprising because national security concerns were supposedly the entire reason for blocking these sales in the first place. Jensen Huang's been lobbying hard for this, and it looks like it's worked, though Nvidia still has to cough up 15% of Chinese revenues to the US government, which is frankly just a corporate bribe dressed up in policy language. Meanwhile, Singapore's been buying about 30% of all Nvidia's chips for a country that size, which is... suspicious, shall we say.

On the OpenAI front, we're expecting ChatGPT 5.2 (or possibly 5.5) to drop this week — probably Thursday if they stick to form. Sam Altman put the company into code red mode last week after Gemini 3 rattled them, so they've paused everything else to focus entirely on this release. I also spent a good chunk of the show discussing the inevitable reality that ChatGPT will have to introduce advertising at some point because their current financial model is completely unsustainable. They're burning through billions, and whilst nobody wants ads in their AI chat, it's coming. Google's probably thrilled about this because they can sit back and watch OpenAI take all the heat for going first.

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00:00 ChatGPT Ads Controversy Teaser 00:11 Welcome to AI with Kyle 00:43 ChatGPT 5 Coming This Week 02:44 Trump Allows Nvidia Chip Sales to China 08:13 Netflix Buying Warner Bros for AI Training 10:56 Why I Don't Cover Microsoft Copilot 15:26 My Background & How I Stay Informed 17:26 Vibe Marketing for Developers 18:26 Build in Public: Jack Friks Case Study 22:17 Yoni's 500-Day Content Strategy 24:42 Do AI Personas Actually Work? (Ethan Mollick Research) 29:46 Will Advertising Kill ChatGPT? 32:28 The Yahoo Warning: AI Ads Backlash 33:47 Why Google Can Afford to Wait 37:04 EU Antitrust Inquiry: Google AI Search 39:02 Subscribe & Join the Community

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