AI Distillation: How Frontier Models Teach Each Other #1870
In this episode, Ray Cochrane breaks down AI distillation, the teacher-student technique frontier labs now lean on to train smaller, cheaper...
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Algorithmic Outing: When Your Feed Knows Before You Do #1869
In this episode, Ray Cochrane digs into “algorithmic outing,” new research showing that social feeds can infer your sexual orien...
Claude Science: AI Workbench for Scientists #1868
In this episode, Ray Cochrane digs into Claude Science, Anthropic’s new AI workbench for researchers, and explains why its auditable,...
The $200k Star Wars LEGO Consignment War #1867
In this episode, Chris Cochrane leads with a $200,000 Star Wars LEGO collection that exploded into lawsuits, arrests, and a YouTube crusade....
Colliding Black Holes Reveal a Whirlpool in Spacetime #1866
In this episode, Ray Cochrane unpacks how two colliding black holes revealed a whirlpool in spacetime, a direct detection of frame dragging...
A Reversible Glue that could Replace Solder #1865
In this episode, Ray Cochrane breaks down a reversible conductive glue from Newcastle University that could replace solder and finally make...
Mozilla Meets Mythos #1864
In this episode, Ray Cochrane leads with Mozilla shipping Firefox 150 with 271 patched bugs found by Anthropic’s Mythos system, the fi...
GitHub, Goblins, Ghostty, and GPS III #1863
In this episode, Ray Cochrane leads with GitHub’s worst reliability month on record and the AI infrastructure pressure behind it. He a...
Mythos: Cybersecurity’s AlphaGo Moment #1862
In this episode, Ray Cochrane unpacks Anthropic’s Mythos model and the Treasury’s emergency meetings with Wall Street, then digs...
Agentically Frying your Brain using AI #1861
In this episode, Ray Cochrane digs into a new study showing AI is literally frying workers’ brains, then unpacks Anthropic’s wil...
Is the MacBook Neo a Chromebook Killer? #1860
In this episode, Chris Cochrane dives into Apple’s $599 MacBook Neo – the cheapest Mac laptop ever made – and whether it s...
Anthropic Stands Their Ground, Ethics over Money #1859
In this episode, Ray tackles Anthropic’s standoff with the U.S. Department of War after CEO Daria Amodei refused to grant unrestricted...
Ring Search Party Sparks Privacy Backlash #1858
Chris breaks down the backlash to Ring’s Super Bowl “Search Party” ad, which aimed to help find lost pets but reignited privacy concerns ove...
OpenClaw, Moltbook and the Rise of AI Agent Societies #1857
This episode kicks off with Moltbook, a social network exclusively for AI agents where 150,000 agents formed digital religions, sold “...
So… Is DJI Actually Banned? #1856
Geek News Central breaks down the new DJI drone ban, explaining what’s actually restricted, what remains legal, and how the changes affect c...
Money over Ethics: Silicon Valley and China’s Police State #1855
1855 kicks off with a bombshell AP investigation revealing how Silicon Valley giants IBM, Intel, NVIDIA, Oracle, and more spent decades buil...
The End of Deadzones and Japan’s new Laser Gunship #1854
In this episode, Ray covers December Tech News! T-Mobile’s groundbreaking Starlink satellite beta promises to eliminate dead zones usi...
iPhone Pocket: Clever Innovation or Cash Grab? #1853
In episode 1853 of Geek News Central, Chris speaks about Apple’s pricey new iPhone Pocket accessory, questioning its usefulness and reacting...
From NASA’s X-59 to Humanoid Workers: The Future Is Getting Weird #1852
In this episode, we dive into NASA’s first test flight of the ultra-quiet X-59 supersonic jet, explore the futuristic Phantom transparent 4K...
NASA’s Voyager Probes the Mysteries of the Heliosphere #1851
In this episode, Ray kicks things off with NASA’s Voyager mission uncovering extreme plasma temperatures—up to 50,000 Kelvin—at the edge of...