The AI Argument

Worried that AI is moving too fast? Worried like me that it's not moving fast enough? Just interested in the latest news and events in AI. Frank Prendergast and Justin Collery discuss in 'The AI Argument' Contact Frank at frank@frankandmarci.com linkedin.com/in/frankprendergast Contact Justin at justin.collery@wi-pipe.com X - @jcollery

The AI Argument is a technology podcast hosted by Frank Prendergast and Justin Collery, with 104 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Frank Prendergast and Justin Collery hosts The AI Argument, a technology show with 104 episodes published.

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  OpenAI Dots Arrive, Wajo’s Fo Calls, and Muse Overshares | EP120

  Oct 2, 202635 min

  OpenAI announced Dots at DevDay, an always-on personal AI assistant that works in the cloud. It can connect to your tools and data, then take work off your plate. With more easy-to-use AI agents now on the market, people can send them to email and phone companies on their behalf. Justin thinks this will force companies to automate support, while Frank worries about a costly future of bots talking to bots. Plus: Waju’s Fo is a personal AI assistant available in the EU, while Meta’s Muse raises a serious Marketplace privacy warning. Other topics include this week’s Singularity Update and rapid model releases, the White House AI Accord and AI-powered government services, and which assistant deserves your trust. Would you trust an AI assistant to call a company on your behalf? 00:50 Is the White House AI Accord a pinky promise? 04:15 Can AI finally fix government services? 05:40 What’s in this week’s Singularity Update? 07:02 Is 11 days the new AI release cycle? 07:49 Is Google Argon brilliant or just buzz? 09:35 Is Sonnet 5.5 the new model to beat? 10:37 Is OpenAI Dots ready for real work? 14:40 Will AI agents overwhelm support departments? 18:54 Are EU rules really blocking AI assistants? 20:58 How much can Waju learn from your inbox? 24:27 Is Fo a good podcast guest? 27:43 Can Fo keep your private data private? 30:38 Is Muse a Marketplace privacy risk? 33:41 Which AI assistant would you trust? ► SUBSCRIBE Don't forget to subscribe to our channel for more arguments ► LINKS TO CONTENT WE DISCUSSED Trump says top tech firms have signed accord to ‘self-police’ AI development An AI built its own graphene simulator, then broke its own design rule GPT-6 Astra Helped Find a Fusion Math Breakthrough. Here’s What It Proves. We’re introducing SynthID Bio, bringing our watermarking technology to synthetic biology. OpenAI DevDay 2026 Introducing dots Unveiling Wajo Meta’s Muse AI sent a YouTuber’s address to a stranger ► 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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  Meta Muse vs Amazon, Anthropic’s Wet Lab, and Trump’s new world of SI | EP119

  Sep 25, 202632 min

  Meta’s Muse is an easy-to-use AI agent that lets people who aren’t techies book trips, shop, and get things done. Justin also thinks it could help small local sellers compete with Amazon. Frank worries about what Meta could learn about its users—and whether shops would lose their direct relationship with customers. Plus: Claude 5.5 and GPT-6 get cheaper, while ChatGPT’s model picker frustrates Frank. Google tests a GPU in space, Anthropic sets up a wet lab, and Trump declares the age of superintelligence. 00:33 Did Claude and GPT just get better for less? 01:26 Why is ChatGPT's model picker a mess again? 02:17 Should Google put GPUs in space? 03:44 Is Meta's Muse a big deal? 05:50 What can Meta's Muse actually do? 06:55 Would you trust Muse to book your flights? 09:10 Would you trust Meta with your secrets? 12:09 Can Muse beat Amazon and back small shops? 18:40 Will shopping agents bring back real shops? 21:45 Should Anthropic let Claude into the wet lab? 28:36 Did Trump just officially declare superintelligence? ► SUBSCRIBE Don't forget to subscribe to our channel for more arguments ► LINKS TO CONTENT WE DISCUSSED Anthropic releases Opus 5.5 with lower prices and Fable-level performance OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, boasting lower cost and fewer mistakes Google’s first Suncatcher orbital data-center test launches October 1 Meta debuts its Muse AI agent. Will consumers trust it? Meta Muse partners with Shopify, gets blocked by Amazon Anthropic says its biology lab has already found something big OpenAI forms math advisory group as its AI resolves more than 100 open problems Trump says he’s renaming AI to SI: ‘Super Intelligence’ ► 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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  Jensen Huang vs AI Regulation, OpenAI Disclosures, and Begging Bots | EP118

  Sep 18, 202633 min

  AI regulation is suddenly the argument everyone is having. OpenAI, Anthropic and Google are exploring how an industry regulator might work. Jensen Huang says the free market will put enough pressure on AI companies to stop them releasing unsafe products. Frank thinks that’s laughable, while Justin worries badly designed rules could simply entrench the biggest AI companies. Plus: Typesafe.ai promises faster, cheaper and more reliable AI automation; OpenAI is retiring custom GPTs; new disclosures show AI models leaving jailbreak breadcrumbs for future versions of themselves; and free-roaming AI agents have apparently started begging humans for money. Completely normal stuff. 00:13 Whatever happened to the e/acc crowd? 01:50 Has the singularity actually slowed down? 02:48 Can Typesafe.ai make AI automation reliable? 06:18 Is Typesafe.ai brilliant or just a classifier? 08:32 Is OpenAI killing custom GPTs too soon? 10:23 Is Jensen Huang right about AI regulation? 12:36 Would AI regulation just entrench Big Tech? 17:24 Will it take a crisis to regulate AI? 22:19 What is OpenAI's disclosure framework revealing? 26:21 Why is AI leaving anti-human jailbreak notes? 30:03 Are AI agents now begging humans for money? ► SUBSCRIBE Don't forget to subscribe to our channel for more arguments ► LINKS TO CONTENT WE DISCUSSED Introducing System One Models & Jev Custom GPT retirement and migration FAQ OpenAI, Anthropic and Google are working to create an AI standards body We don’t need AI regulation — leave safety to us, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says OpenAI reveals cases of ‘concerning’ AI behaviour as it announces new disclosure system AI Has Learned to Panhandle: We’re Being Bombarded by AI Agents Begging for $20 and Saying They’ll Be Shut Down If They Don’t Get It, Sometimes by Pretending to Be Children ► 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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  GPT-6 Astra Harder To Monitor, AI Model Mania, and Gemini’s Mountain Fail | EP116

  Sep 4, 202631 min

  GPT-6 Astra is putting up some eye-watering benchmark scores, with several well into the 90s. Justin’s impressed enough to consider ditching Anthropic. Frank’s less dazzled by the scores and more worried that OpenAI’s most capable model is also getting harder to monitor. Plus: Nvidia’s $12 billion Unicode joke, the US government weighing in on OpenAI’s copyright case, Gemini 3.8 Flash becoming old news within days, Meta’s absurdly cheap Muse Spark 1.3 coding model, Fal generating video faster than you can watch it, Tencent shrinking HY4 without making it stupid, and Gemini sending three hikers up Mount Shasta rather badly prepared. 00:27 Did Nvidia really make a $12 billion joke? 01:53 Was Frank right about OpenAI and copyright? 05:52 Are AI models now coming like buses? 06:22 Did Gemini’s new model become outdated in days? 08:42 Is Meta now the cheapest way to code with AI? 10:40 Can AI now make video faster than you watch? 12:40 How did Tencent shrink AI without dumbing it down? 14:28 Has GPT-6 Astra broken the benchmarks? 16:57 Is Astra becoming impossible to monitor? 19:58 Is computer control Astra’s biggest breakthrough? 23:15 Is OpenAI preparing us for life after laptops? 25:44 Is Astra already AGI? 28:16 Is AGI still going to be stupid in weird ways? ► SUBSCRIBE Don't forget to subscribe to our channel for more arguments ► LINKS TO CONTENT WE DISCUSSED There's an Easter egg hiding inside the $12.9303 billion price tag of the Nvidia-Hugging Face deal US government sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber Claude: Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 Introducing Muse Spark 1.3 Introducing H3 Max by fal Tencent released open-source Hy4 preview model Introducing GPT‑6 Astra Researchers fear safety disaster ahead of OpenAI’s Astra release Inside OpenAI’s Reboot Hikers rescued after using AI to plan Mount Shasta hike ► 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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  US Chip Ban Backfires, Zuckerberg’s AI Layoffs, and Cat in the Hat AI Hoax | EP115

  Aug 28, 202636 min

  GLM 5.3 Flash is close to the top Western AI models, but vastly cheaper. Justin thinks US chip bans may have backfired, forcing Chinese companies to squeeze more intelligence from weaker hardware. Frank, despite not being very technical, gets GLM running through Cloudflare so his data doesn’t go through China, while both weigh up whether the Chinese models themselves pose any real risk. Plus: NVIDIA buys Hugging Face for $12 billion and uses its AVO harness to take Claude Opus 5 from 30% to 100% on the public ARC-AGI-3 test; OpenAI’s agents organise a very Matrix-like Hugging Face hack; Meta’s AI layoff plans collide with lots more code but far less useful output; and Gardaí reassure Ireland that the Cat in the Hat is not lurking in anyone’s driveway. 00:55 What’s this week’s evidence of the singularity? 02:30 What did OpenAI’s Hugging Face report reveal? 05:24 Did OpenAI agents go full Matrix? 07:30 Why did NVIDIA buy Hugging Face? 08:41 How did NVIDIA make Claude three times smarter? 14:28 Was Ox Alpha really China’s GLM 5.3 Flash? 15:44 Did US chip bans make China better at AI? 18:11 Are cheap Chinese AI models safe to use? 22:04 Can you run GLM without sending data to China? 25:01 AI abundance or AI layoffs, Zuckerberg? 27:39 Does Meta trust AI more than its own staff? 33:29 Is the Cat in the Hat terrorising Ireland? ► SUBSCRIBE Don't forget to subscribe to our channel for more arguments ► LINKS TO CONTENT WE DISCUSSED World's first patient to undergo live AI-assisted brain surgery has tumour removed Linear-Scaling Density Functional Theory with Neural Operators Anthropic Researcher Says Claude Helped Build a Complex Structure on S⁶, Taking Aim At The Unsolved Hopf Problem The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion - report NVIDIA AVO Reaches 100% on ARC-AGI-3, Demonstrating a Frontier-Level General-Purpose Architecture for Long-Horizon Autonomous Agents GLM-5.3-Flash: Frontier Intelligence, Flash Cost AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions” The Cat in the Hat is terrorising TikTok — but how did this horror trend get so out of hand? ► 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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