Welcome back to the week in AI. I'm Kevin Cook, your field guide and storyteller for the fascinating arena of artificial intelligence. We did another space on Friday, my myself and my colleague Ethan Feller on um the 28th, Friday the 28th. I had to remember now that we're in July here. Um here were here was the the post basically the invitation for people to to come with my big topics. What's more doomer AI AGI imminent meaning tomorrow or AGI never? That's an important question. And then welcome to the sca ...

Corporate woke wars have found their latest battleground in a freezer. Semaphore reporting that Unilver cutting off funding to Bett and Jerry's foundation. This after a clash over transparency and ideological control. Joining us right now to get into it all, Liz Hoffman, Salfor's business and finance editor. This is a fascinating story. Um, tell us what's really going on here. So, you know, Unilver bought Ben & Jerry's 25 years ago and kind of first they really like their kind of quirky progressive politics ...

For now drones can sometimes provide a decisive advantage in conflict in Africa. But they may ultimately make the continent’s wars easier to start and harder to end https://t.co/Ydg0Z9pZw0 ...

[Applause] This is what a successful side launch of a ship looks like. And this is Kim Jong-un's brand new 5,000 ton destroyer. It capsized after North Korea tried the same launch method.But what seems like a major setback for North Korea's efforts to modernize its Soviet era Navy offers a rare glimpse into the shadowy relationships between Pyongyang and Moscow. The botch launch at Chong Jin was very embarrassing, but these ships reveal deep technological ties between Russia and North Korea. Here's how Mosc ...

An updated edition of the May 2, 2025 article.Over the last two decades, the entertainment landscape has undergone a transformative shift, moving away from traditional cable television toward digital, on-demand streaming. Although early experiments with streaming surfaced in the 1990s, the real acceleration began with the launch of YouTube in 2005 and Netflix’s video-on-demand service in 2007. The rapid adoption of smartphones, widespread broadband access and evolving consumer viewing habits have made strea ...

President Trump saying he's going to decide whether the US will strike Iran within the next two weeks. Joining us right now to discuss the conflict in the Middle East, the AI tech wars, so much more. Joe Lansel is here, co-founder of Palunteer, founding partner at HBC.His investments across the defense industry include Andrew, which is ranked now as CNBC's the top, I should say, of CNBC's disruptor list. So there you go. Welld deserved.Um, what do you think is going to happen. I I I not what you want to hap ...

Both US intelligence per the testimony of the director of intelligence to Congress back in March and also the IEA have said that there is no unequivocal evidence to suggest that Iran were on the path to build a nuclear bomb. Where does that leave the legality of this war. And so it begs a bigger question, Joanna, of what is the future of international human rights law, international law, even laws in the conduct of warfare when countries can now have their borders violated without the kind of declaration of ...

Amazon's AWS unveiling a new chip to take on Nvidia in the cloud wars and Christina Partzene is live uh in Austin, Texas. Good morning. Good morning.This is where Amazon Web Services chips are born. This is Anna Pernal Labs. It used to be once very top secret, but now they're letting you know media journalists like me inside.And today they're announcing that their latest Graviton 4 chip, that would be their CPU, is now offering 600 gigabytes per second of networking bandwidth, which would be potentially the ...

Elon Musk on wars"Lots of people dying for basically almost no changes in land, young boys who don't know each other, killing each other on behalf of Old Men who do know each other, there's lot of sons not coming back to their parents, most of them don't hate the other side" https://t.co/v5OXeDJsPs ...

RT ib (@Indian_Bronson)You should cherish today's world.It won't remain for long.- humanoid robots aren't *everywhere*- flying drones aren't *everywhere*- can do work making you valuable to others without specialized/hard-won/secret knowledge (pre-40s)- still legal to manually drive to go where you like- distinct global cultures and languages still exist- most people still share the same pre-/non-digital formative experiences- there are no large scale wars or trade breakdowns between nuclear states or globa ...