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#246 - Gemini 3.5 + Omni, Musk Loses, OpenAI vs Erdős

May 25, 2026

Summary

Hosts Andrei Kerenkov and Jeremy Harris review Google I/O announcements, including Gemini 3.5, the agentic Gemini Spark, and multimodal Gemini Omni. They discuss Cursor’s Composer 2.5 and potential acquisition by xAI, alongside xAI’s new GrokBuild coding agent. The episode also covers OpenAI’s math breakthroughs and the conclusion of the Musk vs. OpenAI trial, which Musk lost due to statute of limitations.

Topics discussed

Intro, show structure, and sponsors (Cisco, Box) Google Gemini 3.5, Spark agent, and user growth Gemini Flash pricing, video editing, and multimodal models Google Cloud Code vs. Anthropic Cursor and agentic coding Google Science AI, Isomorphic Labs, and Genie 3 world models Cursor Composer 2.5, XAI acquisition rumors, and Anthropic deal XAI's Grok coding agent, team exodus, and OpenAI lawsuit Anthropic valuation, IPO prospects, and Andrej Karpathy's return OpenAI-Apple Siri partnership and Cerebras IPO analysis AI in math research, negation failures, and circuit analysis AI optimizing AI, pruning, and coding agent benchmarks Take It Down Act, AI hacking capabilities, and cyber risks Positive alignment, AI detection, synthetic media, and outro
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