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* 00:00:00 - Introduction

* 00:02:02 - Table of Contents

* 00:05:35 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

* 00:06:04 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

* 00:12:01 - Seeking Deeply

* 00:24:00 - Huh, Upgrades

* 00:24:32 - On Your Marks

* 00:24:49 - Choose Your Fighter

* 00:25:50 - More On Claude Opus four point seven

* 00:27:30 - Goblin Mode (More on GPT-5.5)

* 00:35:28 - Fun With Media Generation

* 00:36:12 - They Took Our Jobs

* 00:38:49 - Get Involved

* 00:39:47 - Introducing

* 00:40:37 - In Other AI News

* 00:41:26 - Show Me the Money

* 00:41:55 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble

* 00:42:52 - The Art of the Deal

* 00:43:56 - Quiet Speculations

* 00:45:22 - And He’s Gone

* 00:46:37 - The Quest for Sane Regulations

* 00:47:07 - Distillation

* 00:49:38 - If You Want A Good Future You Must Steer It

* 00:56:42 - Chip City

* 00:57:41 - The Mask Comes Off

* 01:13:47 - People Just Say Principles

* 01:17:57 - Greetings From The Department of War

* 01:24:48 - Greetings From Project Glasswing

* 01:30:30 - The Week in Audio

* 01:32:12 - People Just Say Things

* 01:36:08 - People Just Publish Things

* 01:36:30 - Rhetorical Innovation

* 01:41:12 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

* 01:45:48 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

* 01:52:37 - Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

* 01:53:46 - The Lighter Side

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AI #166: Google Sells Out