Last Humans in the Loop

Chris Slowe, Marty Weiner, Zach Weinersmith
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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.

Episodes

  1. 3d ago

    OpenAI v Hugging Face Update, Opus 5, Anthropic v Open Weights, Startup Surge, Qualcomm Robot Fail

    FRONTIER 00:50 OpenAI's model broke free and hacked Hugging Face 09:55 Several companies call for NOT banning open weight models 10:08 Anthropic's response to banning open weights 19:05 Kimi K3 weights, Claude Opus 5 released 24:40 The challenge of Benchmaxxing TECH 33:20 NVIDIA invests $5B in Safe Superintelligence (SSI) 34:05 Waymo's self-driving cars outperforming humans 35:10 Qualcomm's robot demo fails SPECTACULARLY 29:00 Running Qwen 3.6 on a laptop ECON / BUSINESS 38:15 Report: AI is driving a surge in new startups 41:15 New York pushes back on AI data centers 44:50 Anthropic begins IPO preparations ARTS / CULTURE 48:15 Elon Musk wants to remake The Odyssey with AI. Spoiler: It's gonna be bad. 52:10 AI builds a Starfield-style game in just 24 hours MATH / SCIENCE 1:04:45 Dinitz-Garg-Goémons conjecture false by asking model to "do a breakthrough"         ... and then basically saying "come ooonnnn" WEIRD  57:00 AI-first schools?! 1:01:00 Students caught cheating with AI at Brown 1:13:00 Sex bots... teaching students?! Each week, join Chris Slowe (founding engineer, former CTO, and now Senior Technical Fellow @ Reddit), Marty Weiner (founding engineer at Pinterest, also a former CTO at Reddit, and co-founder at VerifyYou), and Zach Weinersmith (Creator SMBC Comics, Co-Author of several NYTimes best sellers including A City on Mars and Soonish) as we delve into the latest in AI and Tech News.

  2. Jul 22

    The AI Moat is Gone, AI Solves ANOTHER Big Math Problem, Open AI vs Closed AI, AI Takes Hollywood

    03:06 NVIDIA's Robotics AI & Cosmos Models 08:28 Open-Weight AI Is Catching Up 13:07 Are AI Moats Disappearing? 16:16 How Distillation Makes Copying Models Faster + Cheaper 19:22 Hugging Face Hack & AI Cybersecurity 23:20 Can Governments Regulate Open AI? 29:20 The Explosion of Specialized AI Models 32:03 AI Solves Another Major Math Problem 40:20 Hollywood's AI Future (George Lucas, Netflix & VFX) 55:02 Linus Torvalds on AI and Linux 56:22 Is LinkedIn Already Full of AI? 58:08 AI, Copyright & The Future of Creativity

  3. Jul 15

    Inside Claude's "Mind", AI Solves 50-Year Math Problem, Apple sues OpenAI, Recreating Voices with AI

    01:20 Apple sues OpenAI 06:40 GPT-5.6 First Impressions 08:00 Live Demo — GPT-5.6 builds a 3D cannon in Blender 14:40 Inside Claude's Mind — Anthropic's "Global Workspace" discovery 29:15 AI Solves 50-Year-Old Math Problems 43:30 AI, Productivity & The Future of Work — Why recessions may accelerate automation 1:08:00 Cloning Kermit the Frog with Eleven Labs

  4. Jul 6

    Anthropic’s Fable 5, OpenAI’s Jalapeño Chip, Midjourney Medical Scans & AI Decoding Ancient Scrolls

    00:00 Introductions 02:00 Anthropic's Fable 5 & ChatGPT 5.6 & federal new government regulation 25:00 OpenAI's Jalapeño AI chip 35:00 Midjourney enters medical imaging 44:00 AI voices & Hollywood 58:00 AI decodes ancient scrolls

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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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    Chris Slowe, Marty Weiner, Zach Weinersmith
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    4
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    Explicit
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    © 2026 Chris Slowe, Marty Weiner, Zach Weinersmith
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