Vegetative Electron Microscopy Doesn't Exist

Jeff Jarvis and Jason Howell dive into this week’s AI headlines: OpenAI prototypes a ChatGPT social feed, GPT-4.5 retires as GPT-4.1 arrives, OpenAI boosts memory and chat history features, Nvidia expands US chip production amid export control shakeups, Bill Gates predicts AI’s impact on teaching and medicine, ChatGPT Barbie Box memes challenge creative boundaries, Notion launches AI-powered email, Google’s DolphinGemma tackles dolphin communication, and “vegetative electron microscopy” becomes science’s latest digital artifact.

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CHAPTERS:

0:03:52 - OpenAI is building a social network

0:08:38 - ChatGPT now has a section for your AI-generated images

0:10:34 - OpenAI’s new GPT-4.1 AI models focus on coding

0:13:16 - OpenAI's "agentic software engineer"

0:17:51 - ChatGPT can now remember and reference all your previous chats

0:24:02 - Nvidia says it plans to manufacture some AI chips in the US

0:29:09 - Bill Gates says AI is coming for 2 kinds of jobs that once seemed tech-proof

0:34:31 - ‘She helps cheer me up’: the people forming relationships with AI chatbots

0:41:13 - A.I. Action Figures Flood Social Media (Accessories Included)

0:47:28 - Notion Mail is a minimalist but powerful take on email

0:52:04 - DolphinGemma: How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication

0:54:53 - Thought experiment in the National Library of Thailand

0:59:19 - A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data

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