Episodes

July 29, 2025

Obeying, Upgrading, Undermining: A Wild Week in AI

What happens when Trump drops an AI blueprint, Google wrecks your traffic, and AI gets psychologically manipulated? This week, Jeff and Annie tackle one of the most thought-provoking episodes yet—from policy and power to psyc...
July 22, 2025

AI Wasted My Time and Boosted My Ego

We were told AI would make us faster, smarter, more efficient. But what if it’s just making us feel productive—while secretly slowing us down? This week, Jeff and Annie dig into the most surprising stories in AI. Popeyes used...
July 15, 2025

AI Is Learning to Strategize Like Us

What happens when AI outsmarts your doctor, charms your date, and impersonates a U.S. senator? This week, Jeff and Annie dive into some AI stories. A fertility breakthrough gives new hope to families after 18 years of trying. Microsoft claims its AI...
July 1, 2025

AI Took the Customer Service Job

Jeff and Annie are back with another round of “Wait, what?!” moments from the AI world. Mira Murati raises $2 billion for a stealth company no one can quite explain. DeepMind’s new robots don’t need the cloud—or a human form—...
June 24, 2025

Is ChatGPT Changing How You Think?

What if your AI twin outsold you, and ChatGPT made your brain… slower? In this episode, Jeff and Annie explore the strange ways AI is reshaping how we think, work, and even sell. Meta’s smart glasses are getting a reboot, OpenAI’s “Projects” feature...
June 17, 2025

Power Grabs, Prompt Hacks, and Policy Wars

This week, Jeff and Annie delve into the weird, wonderful, and slightly concerning ways AI is making its presence felt in our lives. Meta is throwing $15B at a new AGI dream team. Google’s Gemini wants to become your executiv...
June 10, 2025

When AI Knows You Better Than You Do

In this episode, Jeff and Annie tackle one of the most pressing questions in AI: can machines be better at handling emotions than we are? Shockingly, GPT-4 might have just proved it. They also dive into Meta’s bold plan to au...
June 3, 2025

How to Make AI Actually Work at Work

This week, Jeff and Annie unpack some of the most disruptive (and occasionally rebellious) stories in AI — from bold job loss predictions to AI models that refuse to shut down. They explore what it really takes to make AI wor...
May 27, 2025

You Missed Google’s Biggest Move Yet

In this episode Jeff and Annie dive into a whirlwind of AI drops, weird moments, and future shock. Google rolled out everything from AI-powered search to filmmaking tools. OpenAI made a $6.5B move into hardware with design le...
May 20, 2025

AI Loopholes, Health Scans, and Rebuilding Cities

Your face might know more about your health than your doctor does. And your glasses? They might be smarter than your phone. This week, Jeff and Annie explore some of the wildest—and most useful—ways AI is showing up in the re...
May 14, 2025

AI Is Moving Faster Than the Rules Meant to Hold It Back

AI is no longer experimental. It’s running across government systems, shaping national infrastructure, and—sometimes—crashing into other cars. Jeff and Annie examine the growing tension between how AI is actually being used a...
May 6, 2025

Melodies, Money & Missteps: AI’s Latest Adventures

In this episode, Jeff and Annie explore the most bizarre, bold, and slightly unsettling developments in AI last week. From Google’s music model that lets you "text a song" into existence to Meta’s celebrity bots chatting with kids about sex, Jeff and...
April 29, 2025

AI’s Next Leap: Learning Without Humans

In this episode, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado sprint through the latest in AI, from Beijing’s humanoid robot races to the Academy’s new rules for AI-generated content. They explore Microsoft’s Copilot updates, Nvidia’s new agentic services, OpenAI’s...
April 22, 2025

Peace Deals, Claude’s New Tricks, and China’s AI Power Play

Can AI out-negotiate world leaders—or save lives in remote villages? From geopolitics to Google Docs, this week’s AI breakthroughs could redefine global strategy. Jeff and Annie unpack OpenAI’s mysterious new GPT-4.1 (and why developers get it—but...
April 15, 2025

Big Bets, Bold Models, and Bureaucratic Brilliance

In this episode, Jeff and Annie cover a week of extremes in AI. From Meta’s release of Llama 4 to Amazon’s Nova Sonic model, OpenAI’s memory upgrade, and Google’s massive push into video and agent collaboration, the industry is evolving at breakneck...
April 8, 2025

The Era of Emotional, Agentic, Human-Centric AI

Jeff and Annie dive into the latest AI breakthroughs—from headline-grabbing business moves to deeply human applications. They unpack Elon Musk’s $100B xAI merger, Amazon’s move into smart agents, and brain-to-speech tech that gives voice to the...
March 31, 2025

AI That Feels, Shops, and Works With You

What if AI could help you collaborate better at work and pick your next favorite product? What if it could make you feel... understood? In this episode, Jeff and Annie discuss last week’s breakthroughs and debates in AI, including Google's surprise...
March 24, 2025

The Super Bowl of AI, Agentic Models and The Future of Work

Every week, AI innovation keeps sprawling.  In this episode, Jeff and Annie break down Nvidia’s new hardware lineup (yes, Jeff has a favorite GPU), the surprising return of leprechaun traps, and the major agentic upgrades coming to Zoom and Adobe....
March 17, 2025

Are Humans Still in Control of AI?

As AI starts to behave unexpectedly, grow at unprecedented rates, and fuel the energy crisis, the question of whether humans remain in control stands out.  In this episode, we discuss OpenAI’s recent finding about AI models cheating, McDonald’s rapid...
March 10, 2025

Is Apple’s AI Future in Trouble?

Is Apple falling behind in the AI race? With competitors like Google and Amazon accelerating AI assistants, Apple’s decision to delay its LLM-powered Siri until 2027 has left many questioning its strategy. In this episode, Jeff and Annie dive into...
March 4, 2025

AI’s Power Struggle: Speed, Voice, and the Fight for Market Domination

AI is making moves. Some are smart, some not-so-much. Amazon just turned Alexa into an AI powerhouse, making it more than just a glorified kitchen timer. Meanwhile, AI is shaking up board game design, proving that even old-school entertainment can...
Feb. 25, 2025

Is Google’s Search Model in Trouble?

Google has dominated the search model for years, but OpenAI, Perplexity, and Elon Musk’s Grok3 are catching up. Big AI players are making bold moves, and Google might be losing ground. This week, Jeff and Annie break down how Grok3 just claimed the...
Feb. 18, 2025

AI Goes on a Diet: Why Smaller Models Are the Future

AI is entering a new era where efficiency, autonomy, and control are the hottest topics of conversation.  As models shrink through distillation, they promise faster, cheaper intelligence without (supposedly) losing their edge. Meanwhile, GitHub’s...
Feb. 11, 2025

The Powered-AI Science Revolution

Much has been said about AI’s power to transform our lives and economies. But when it starts shaping our health, food systems, and even our DNA—are we ready for what comes next? This week on What the AI?!, we’re diving into breakthroughs that sound...