A €300 million AI investment vanished overnight—and Justin says it’s a warning Europe is sleepwalking into irrelevance. Because while the US plans nuclear power and light-touch rules, the EU is doubling down on regulation and failing to build the energy infrastructure AI needs.

Frank argues regulation isn’t a handicap, it’s Europe’s best shot at leadership, setting the stage for global guardrails while others race blindly ahead.

Either way, Anthropic predicts training a frontier model could soon require up to five gigawatts of power, the same energy it takes to run millions of homes. Europe isn’t building that capacity. The US is.

And that’s just the start.

From Zuckerberg offering billion-dollar contracts to the cultural showdown between OpenAI and Google, this one packs a lot in.

We also dive into how synthetic data can secretly pass on biases, why academic peer review might be gamed by prompt injections, and even LinkedIn’s bot problem.

→ 00:57 Why isn’t Amazon building its AI facility in Ireland?
→ 02:54 Will EU rules choke AI or make us leaders?
→ 14:39 Can Zuckerberg buy his way to AI dominance?
→ 20:37 Google vs OpenAI: who aced the math olympiad?
→ 29:44 Can AI bias spread through random numbers?
→ 35:01 Is AI gaming peer review AND your LinkedIn feed?

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► LINKS TO CONTENT WE DISCUSSED

• Amazon drops €300m Irish investment on energy supply concerns
• Anthropic: Build AI in America
• Meta won’t sign EU’s AI Code, but who will?
• The Epic Battle for AI Talent—With Exploding Offers, Secret Deals and Tears
• Google Takes the Gold. OpenAI under fire.
• A new study just upended AI safety
• ICML’s Statement about subversive hidden LLM prompts

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For more in-depth discussions, connect Justin and Frank on LinkedIn.
Justin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justincollery/
Frank: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankprendergast/

OpenAI just dropped a model that can plan a wedding trip, pick the perfect gift, and shop for shoes for you. The Agent update lets ChatGPT take a single instruction, break it into subtasks, and go off to handle all the details.

They called it their most powerful model yet. So why did the launch feel so muted?

Justin has theories.

And there were plenty of other big topics to cover - Justin asks whether small AI systems hooked up to real-world labs create bigger risks than giant language models but slip past EU regulations?

We also look at Perplexity’s move into AI-powered browsing, ask why coding agents sometimes make developers slower instead of faster, and then, of course, there’s Elon Musk.

What has Elon been up to? Turned Tesla’s latest expansion into a drawing of a you-know-what, turned Grok into an anime burlesque dancer (to put it politely) and still managed to land a massive DoD contract.

Here’s the full set of questions we tackled:

03:24 OpenAI's Agent model drop... why so quiet?
11:19 Can small AI slip past EU regulators?
16:14 Which secret model did OpenAI test here?
19:01 Should you trust AI with your credit card?
21:46 Perplexity's AI browser, game-changer or gimmick?
24:02 Do coding agents actually make you slower?
27:12 What fresh madness has Elon cooked up now?

► LINKS TO CONTENT WE DISCUSSED

• Introducing ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action
• This AI-powered lab runs itself—and discovers new materials 10x faster
• AI finds hundreds of potential antibiotics in snake and spider venom
• OpenAI's Secret INTERNAL Model Almost Wins World Coding Competition…
• Perplexity’s Comet is here, and after using it for 48 hours I’m convinced AI web browsers are the future of the internet
• What Actually Happens When Programmers Use AI Is Hilarious, According to a New Study
• New Grok AI model surprises experts by checking Elon Musk’s views before answering
• Grok Rolls Out Pornographic Anime Companion, Lands Department of Defense Contract
• Tesla's expanded Robotaxi geofence in Austin has a very distinct shape. OK, it's a giant penis.

► CONNECT WITH US
For more in-depth discussions, connect Justin and Frank on LinkedIn.
Justin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justincollery/
Frank: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankprendergast/

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Would you trust an AI agent with your credit card?

Elon Musk’s AI, Grok, crashed into controversy, then crushed the competition all within hours.

First, Grok 3 started praising Hitler. Then Grok 4 showed up and aced nearly every AI test.

Justin serves up a juicy conspiracy theory: was Grok’s hateful public meltdown actually a cunning Musk masterplan, a dramatic stunt to expose AI's darker side?

Frank’s having none of it, comparing Musk to Marvel’s Tony Stark in the Age Of Ultron. Well-meaning but recklessly creating an AI menace he can't actually control.

But Grok 4 is legitimately groundbreaking. Justin gets excited about Grok’s unique 50/50 balance between pre-training and post-training. But despite its brainy brilliance, both Justin and Frank agree they'd rather eat their keyboards than trust Grok with anything important.

If you run a business or you're simply watching AI from a safe distance with popcorn, this episode is essential. Especially if you like a dose of humour with your tech debates.

Grok drama aside, Justin and Frank get stuck into more eyebrow-raising AI headlines from the week, including:

• Why did Musk’s Grok spew hate speech?
• Is Grok 4 now the smartest AI out there?
• Will AI crash like subprime mortgages?
• Did Marco Rubio’s AI clone scam top politicians?
• Did AI safety fears just spark a murder cult?

#GrokAI #ElonMuskAI #AISafety #Grok4 #AIBenchmark #XAI #VoiceCloning #AIEthics

► LINKS TO CONTENT WE DISCUSSED

• Musk says Grok chatbot was 'manipulated' into praising Hitler
• Grok 4 is really smart... Like REALLY SMART
• OpenAI May Be in Major Trouble Financially
• AI scammer posing as Marco Rubio targets officials in growing threat
• She Wanted to Save the World From A.I. Then the Killings Started.

► CONNECT WITH US
For more in-depth discussions, connect Justin and Frank on LinkedIn.
Justin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justincollery/
Frank: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankprendergast/