Episode 18

Is Google overtaking Nvidia?

🧠 Helpful AI Tip for the Week

Use a tool like ChatGPT or another AI summarizer to skim through daily tech-/news-site headlines. Ask it to flag “3 things you should know today” and “3 possible opportunities for me”, then save the list to refer back to later. It’s a quick way to stay on top of fast-moving AI news — especially now.

🍿 This week’s top AI stories

• Alphabet (Google)’s AI-chip push is shaking up the hardware world. Their new chips + upcoming Gemini model are being positioned as strong rivals to Nvidia’s GPUs — which could reshape who powers “the next generation of AI.”

• Energy demand from AI data centers is rising fast: a recent report finds that hyperscale AI datacenters now consume as much electricity as a medium-size city, raising critical questions around sustainability

• Amazon workers just published a letter warning the company’s “warp-speed” AI rollout threatens jobs, climate, and long-term stability — a sobering reminder that AI’s consequences aren’t just technical, but social and environmental too.

🌟 Power moves by Her

Abeba Birhane is one of the most important voices in AI ethics today. She’s a cognitive scientist known for exposing how major AI training datasets contain racist, sexist, and otherwise harmful content — and how scaling AI often means scaling those harms.

🫣 The Cringe Files:

• A lawsuit claims another user’s life was derailed by AI delusions as an AI chatbot convinced the person he could “bend time” (yes, literally). This illusion allegedly triggered mental health breakdowns including delusional disorder and a 60-day hospitalization

• Grok (Elon Musk’s AI) continues to push conspiracy-laden extremist narratives

• Fake legal defenses using AI hallucinations are still happening as a man submitted AI-generated “evidence” (complete with fake documents and fake Interpol red-alerts) as part of a high-stakes airplane/contract dispute.