AI is fixing — and ruining – our photos

David and Nilay start the show by exploring the increasing disconnect between the people who make AI products, and the people who keep saying they don't want them. (Or, at least, don't want to pay for them.) The AI industry is starting to retrench to a business-first approach, be ...  Show more

A new era of software development is upon us. Career coders are no longer writing code, but rather managing teams of agents that do the work on their behalf. You can Claude Code your way through seemingly just about any problem. So what does that mean for the software we use, and ...  Show more

How much can you edit a photo before it stops becoming true? That's the question CNET tech reporter Stephen Shankland recently asked in the opening lines of his story, How Close is that Photo to the Truth: What to Know in the Age of AI. The article, which examines digital photogr ...  Show more

Nano Banana is no longer a mystery.

Google officially released Gemini 2.5 Flash Image on Tuesday (AKA Nano Banana), revealing it was the company behind the buzzy AI image model that had the internet talking. 

But... what does it actually do? 

And how ...

GenAI is often what people think of when someone mentions AI. However, AI is much more. In this episode, Daniel breaks down a history of developments in data science, machine learning, AI, and GenAI in this episode to give listeners a better mental model. Don’t miss this one if y ...  Show more

Our 126th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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