The episode surveys fourteen posts across tech, science, and markets. Google’s Willow chip claims the first verifiable quantum advantage, running Quantum Echoes 13,000x faster than top supercomputers and aligning with lab data, pointing to advances in molecular and materials modeling.
An AI buildout analysis maps CapEx and power realities, from Nvidia’s projected 2025 revenue rivaling years of fab spend to datacenter timelines that favor gas turbines over nuclear.
Hiring commentary notes referrals and pedigree gaining weight as AI-written resumes flood pipelines, while a math paper on Erdős 707 credits ChatGPT for 6,000 lines of Lean verification, challenging authorship norms.
SpaceX keeps Starlink launches brisk, and Matt Shumer shares a staged Codex workflow as developers debate verbose LLM code.
Tesla reports 1 crash per 6.36 million miles on Autopilot, better than US averages, though independent audits are limited.
Also featured: a free AI curriculum from Google DeepMind and UCL, a Sora celebrity-likeness loophole now closed, Figure’s new B200 cluster for humanoid training, reports of Meta trimming FAIR roles, and Marc Andreessen positioning automation against demographic decline.
