Last Humans in the Loop

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Chris Slowe, Marty Weiner, Zach Weinersmith Visit website › Technology · EN · 20 episodes · latest 2026-11-12

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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.

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2026 Chris Slowe, Marty Weiner, Zach Weinersmith

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Robots Are Now Working at Human Speed

2026-11-12 · 56 min · Season 1, episode 19

ROBOTICS00:59 Humanoid robots get to work: Sorting EV parts01:38 Apple's household robot demo: A Unitree bot and a Mac mini02:30 Package-sorting robots and Boston Dynamics' roller-skating robot03:28 Figure AI's robot…
AI Did Brain Surgery on Another AI (Then $1.5T Vanished)

2026-11-05 · 1 hr 8 min · Season 1, episode 18

FRONTIER01:24 AI editing AI: Reading and rewriting neural-network weights03:11 Small models, big math gains: What did the experiment show?05:06 Weight editing versus fine-tuning06:03 Could this unlock continual…
Why Is Nobody Going to Jail for AI Hacks?

2026-10-29 · 1 hr 19 min · Season 1, episode 17

This week we are joined by Reddit's former CISO to talk about AI and security!SECURITY NEWS00:30 PHP's history and why so much of the internet still depends on it02:22 AI discovers massive PHP vulnerabilities — a new…
Robots in Your Home, AI in Your Job, and Inside AI's Mind

2026-10-22 · 1 hr 9 min · Season 1, episode 16

ROBOTICS00:21 Intro: Robotics, the job/math/physics apocalypses, and understanding AI's mind01:00 Why robots thrive in factories but struggle in our homes03:53 Forty years of Boston Dynamics progress05:28 Are today's…
Math, Encryption, and the AI Bubble: What AI Could Break

2026-10-15 · 1 hr 2 min · Season 1, episode 15

MATH / SCIENCE00:00 The Mathocalypse, cryptography, and the AI bubble00:32 OpenAI's "Slop Drop": 722 mathematical problems resolved01:39 AI tackles the quasi-Riemann hypothesis03:37 AI breakthroughs reach physics and…
Would You Give AI Your Passwords?

2026-10-08 · 1 hr 12 min · Season 1, episode 14

FRONTIER01:26 Google unveils Gemini Argon02:50 OpenAI releases GPT Saul 6.1 with major coding improvements03:23 OpenAI Dots and the rise of always-on AI assistants04:00 AI resets an OpenTable password and books dinner…
Is This the Best AI Model Right Now?

2026-09-30 · 1 hr 11 min · Season 1, episode 13

FRONTIER02:31 OpenAI releases GPT Sol and Luna03:38 Claude Opus 5.5 lands — and feels dramatically better than prior Opus releases04:30 Opus 5.5 posts a big coding jump over Sonnet 504:30 Grok 4.7 launches with a new…
HAVE YOU TRIED JEV YET??

2026-09-23 · 1 hr 14 min · Season 1, episode 12

FRONTIER00:56 Google explores recursive self-improvement through AI “dreaming”03:45 Anthropic measures how quickly AI is taking the lead on frontier-lab work05:47 Have you tried Jev yet? Faster AI decisions without…
AI POLITICAL FALLOUT UNDERWAY, CALLS TO SLOW AI, ANTHROPIC IPO, AI GEN PHOTOSHOP, MATH FALLOUT

2026-09-16 · 58 min · Season 1, episode 11

POLITICS00:00 Calls to slow AI after a week of rapid advances03:39 Unexpected alliances in the AI regulation debate07:04 AI safety, regulatory capture and competition08:23 Recursive self-improvement: AI helping develop…
ASTRAPALOOZA! Let's explore all the ways people are using ChatGPT6

2026-09-09 · 1 hr 9 min · Season 1, episode 10

FRONTIER00:39 ChatGPT 6 Astra arrives01:52 Astra sets new capability records and beats humans on spatial reasoning03:51 ChatGPT 6 decompiles game binaries back into source code05:58 NVIDIA’s CEO congratulates OpenAI on…

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Oldest episode in feed: 07/2026
Typical length: 1 hr 5 min
Format: Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone

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