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THIS WEEK IN AI: Google's Big Change, AI Keeps Breaking Out, OpenAI vs Apple

aired Aug 07, 2026
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Summary

Josh: Welcome back to the Weekly Roundup, our favorite episode of the week where we Josh: can catch you up on all things AI, frontier technology, all the crazy things Josh: that happened. We had the biggest shakeup in Josh: about 30 years at a company, a little company named Google.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of ejaaz, josh, like, including: And this week is no exception.

Key takeaways
  1. 01Ejaaz: So Demis Hacillus, just for context, is like one of the godfathers of AI
  2. 02Ejaaz: And then since then, they never really released a model that was noteworthy
  3. 03Ejaaz: Anthropic, OpenAI, and in some cases, even XAI and Meta have now caught up and Ejaaz: surpassed Gemini 3.6 Flash, which I believe is their latest model
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