It’s An AI Reality Check For The Last 2 Weeks (Ep. 465)

On this bi-weekly recap episode, the team highlights three major themes from the last two weeks of AI news and developments: agent-powered disruption in commerce and vertical SaaS, advances in cognitive architectures and reasoning models, and the rising pressure for ethical oversight as AGI edges closer.

Key Points Discussed

Three main AI trends covered recently: agent-led automation, cognitive model upgrades, and the ethics of AGI.

Legal AI startup Harvey raised $250M at a $5B valuation and is integrating multiple models beyond OpenAI.

Anthropic was cited for using a hallucinated legal reference in a court case, spotlighting risks in LLM citation reliability.

OpenAI’s rumored announcement focused on new Codex coding agents and deeper integrations with SharePoint, GitHub, and more.

Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agent-to-Agent (A2A), and UI protocols are emerging to power smooth agent collaboration.

OpenAI’s Codex CLI allows asynchronous, cloud-based coding with agent assistance, bringing multi-agent workflows into real-world dev stacks.

Team discussed the potential of agentic collaboration as a pathway to AGI, even if no single LLM can reach that point alone.

Associative memory and new neural architectures may bridge gaps between current LLM limitations and AGI aspirations.

Personalized agent interactions could drive future digital experiences like AI-powered family road trips or real-time adventure games.

Spotify’s new interactive DJ and Apple CarPlay integration signal where personalized, voice-first content could go next.

The future of AI assistants includes geolocation awareness, memory persistence, dynamic tasking, and real-world integration.

Timestamps & Topics

00:00:00 🧠 Three major AI trends: agents, cognition, governance

00:03:05 🧑‍⚖️ Harvey’s $5B valuation and legal AI growth

00:05:27 📉 Anthropic’s hallucinated citation issue

00:08:07 🔗 Anticipation around OpenAI Codex and MCP

00:13:25 🛡️ Connecting SharePoint and enterprise data securely

00:17:49 🔄 New agent protocols: MCP, A2A, and UI integration

00:22:35 🛍️ Perplexity adds travel, finance, and shopping

00:26:07 🧠 Are LLMs a dead-end or part of the AGI puzzle?

00:28:59 🧩 Clarifying hallucinations and model error sources

00:35:46 🎧 Spotify’s interactive DJ and the return of road trip AI

00:38:41 🧭 Choose-your-own-adventure + AR + family drives

00:46:36 🚶 Interactive walking tours and local experiences

00:51:19 🧬 UC Santa Barbara’s energy-based memory model

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The Daily AI Show Co-Hosts: Andy Halliday, Beth Lyons, Brian Maucere, Eran Malloch, Jyunmi Hatcher, and Karl Yeh