Episode 142 Open AI and Defence

What did Ryan talk about?

• The AI space this past week was rated a 6/10, with some interesting news but no major "wow" moments.
• A significant Google Cloud Platform outage on June 16, 2025, highlighted the immense power of major cloud providers and the financial and reputational damage outages can cause.
• The Google outage was traced to a software bug from May 29, 2025, in a new quota policy check that went untested due to a missed policy change during staging.
• A neat game idea involves prompting virtual worlds and populating them with LLM and voice model-powered characters for interaction.
• A Stanford survey suggests that workers prefer AI "equal partnership" over replacement, and current AI investment often misaligns with tasks workers want automated.
• The survey also indicates a shift in job value, with "interpersonal communication" skills becoming more important than "analyzing information" roles.
• A Chinese livestreamer used an AI clone powered by Baidu’s ERNIE AI to host a 6-hour stream, generating over $7.5 million in sales.
• Sam Altman revealed Meta is offering $100 million signing bonuses to poach talent from OpenAI, sparking discussion on competitive strategies.
• OpenAI secured a $200 million U.S. defense contract and is collaborating with Anduril on advanced AI systems for counter-unmanned aircraft systems (CUAS).
• The use of AI in defense raises questions about its application, such as in systems like the Iron Dome, and the level of human intervention.

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