Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Company for $610 million https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/04/atlassian-the-browser-company-deal.html

Mistral AI raises €1.7B to accelerate technological activity https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mistralai_mistral-ai-raises-17b-to-accelerate-technological-activity-7371045632284971008-KOtm?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAUumq8B49UW7m9VV5ijr01USsCOWMSQaGw

The Three Faces Of Generative AI https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/the-three-faces-of-generative-ai

Will AI Replace Human Thinking? The Case for Writing and Coding Manually https://www.ssp.sh/brain/will-ai-replace-humans/

Anthropic reaches $1.5 billion settlement with authors in landmark copyright case https://fortune.com/2025/09/05/anthropic-reaches-1-5-billion-settlement-with-authors-in-landmark-copyright-case/?utm_source=perplexity

Apple sued by authors over use of books in AI training https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/apple-sued-by-authors-over-use-books-ai-training-2025-09-05/?utm_source=perplexity

Microsoft Says Azure Service Affected by Damaged Red Sea Cables https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-06/microsoft-says-azure-service-affected-by-damaged-red-sea-cables

Why language models hallucinate https://openai.com/index/why-language-models-hallucinate/

Tidbits:

AMD claims Arm ISA doesn't offer efficiency advantage over x86 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45168854

WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/09/pulse-fi-wifi-heart-rate/

The MIT-Pay Me Or Get The Fork Out License https://barts.space/the-mit-pay-me-or-get-the-fork-out-license/

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Nano Banana — https://blog.google/products/gemini/updated-image-editing-model/

China Has a Different Vision for AI. It Might Be Smarter. — https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/china-has-a-different-vision-for-ai-it-might-be-smarter-581f1e44

Bear is now source-available — https://herman.bearblog.dev/license/

A deeper look at AI crawlers: breaking down traffic by purpose and industry — https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-crawler-traffic-by-purpose-and-industry/

Creators use AI to spark their music careers — https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-ai-music-suno-udio-551308748c84c774c3c5ecd89aa93904

The rise of the AI influencer — https://www.ft.com/content/cb859409-dd3d-400d-9225-4a14d351bd20

Python: The Documentary | An origin story — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4QL4VqJ0&ab_channel=CultRepo%28formerlyHoneypot%29

Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence — https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/publications/canaries-in-the-coal-mine/

Sorry, a bit of a late release due to some technical issues over at Riverside.
Ow yes, and Bart finally ordered a new mic after this episode.

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Chapters

• (01:55) - MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
• (08:14) - AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'
• (14:22) - DeepSeek-V3.1 Release
• (18:55) - Build vs Buy in the Age of AI
• (27:02) - Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year
• (34:38) - Mirage: AI UGC game engine
• (39:58) - Beyond Sensor Data: Foundation Models of Behavioral Data from Wearables Improve Health Predictions
• (45:17) - AI Mode in Search gets new agentic features and expands globally
• (50:08) - imagestyles.ai
• (51:36) - Sick of Fancy (South Park S27E3)
• (53:56) - ElevenLabs V3 (most expressive TTS)

• MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing — https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/

• AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' — https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/aws_ceo_entry_level_jobs_opinion/

• DeepSeek-V3.1 Release — https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news250821

• Build vs Buy in the Age of AI — https://www.svpg.com/article-build-vs-buy-in-the-age-of-ai

• Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year — https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/google-says-it-dropped-the-energy-cost-of-ai-queries-by-33x-in-one-year/

• Mirage: AI UGC game engine — https://dynamicslab.ai/

• Beyond Sensor Data: Foundation Models of Behavioral Data from Wearables Improve Health Predictions — https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00191

• AI Mode in Search gets new agentic features and expands globally — https://blog.google/products/search/ai-mode-agentic-personalized/