Dive into the AI revolution! From language-teaching bots to beauty pageants, smart glasses to search engines. We unpack the latest tech, explore ethical dilemmas, and question big claims. Is AI living up to the hype? Listen now to find out!

OpenAI shares a new GPT-4o advanced voice demo — it can teach you a language - Tom's Guide / https://tinyurl.com/mrx4nz7f

Google launches Gemma 2, its next generation of open models - The Keyword | Google Product and Technology News / https://tinyurl.com/mptfx6cn

Look out, Meta Ray-Bans: These are the world's first smart glasses with GPT-4o - ZDNet / https://tinyurl.com/3n9csjjv

Claude Artifacts is the greatest innovation in AI this year — 5 prompts to try it now - Tom's Guide / https://tinyurl.com/bddepke4

MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating generative AI - TechCrunch / https://tinyurl.com/yws4xzpu

Off to Norway, With Three A.I. Travel Assistants - The New York Times / https://tinyurl.com/4xdn4584

The rise of the AI beauty pageant and its complicated quest for the ‘perfect’ woman - CNN / https://tinyurl.com/497u8c9p

Why are AI search engines so bad? Will they get better? - Vox.com / https://tinyurl.com/yc8kyphn

Mark Zuckerberg warns AI companies are ‘trying to create God’ in stark warning – but he has the key to save... - The US Sun / https://tinyurl.com/mvwtw8w7

It's time to get real about what AI can and can't do - Yahoo Life / https://tinyurl.com/yc5ehxrn

Panicked AI users revolt against Silicon Valley as tech giants like Apple and Amazon back down over policy... - The US Sun / https://tinyurl.com/tcpjwz3m

Microsoft's AI boss thinks it's perfectly OK to steal content if it's on the open web - The Verge / https://tinyurl.com/2hf469w5

Exclusive: Gemini's data-analyzing abilities aren't as good as Google claims - TechCrunch / https://tinyurl.com/28dn3r6u

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Episode#29: AI's Double-Edged Sword: Promises, Perils, and Privacy Predicaments