The Monkey Patching Podcast: Going Bananas on AI, Data, LLMs & Tech

(01:29) - Jeff Bezos reportedly launches new AI startup with himself as CEO (05:45) - WTFPL – Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License (11:31) - Gemini 3: Introducing the latest Gemini AI model from Google (26:31) - New EU Chat Control Proposal Moves Forward – Privacy Experts See a Dangerous Backdoor (32:09) - Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws (38:12) - Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 (44:45) - Build with Google Antigravity, our new agentic development platform (50:55) - Introducing Claude Opus 4.5 (01:01:44) - SHA1 Hulud 2.0 npm malware warning (01:03:36) - 1000-subscriber milestone & upcoming interviews
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(00:43) - An AI-Generated Country Song Is Topping A Billboard Chart, And That Should Infuriate Us All (07:51) - Using Generative AI in Content Production (13:37) - LLMs Can Get “Brain Rot”! (21:30) - GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT (28:42) - GitHub - toon-format/toon: Token-Oriented Object Notation (TOON) – Compact, human-readable, schema-aware JSON for LLM prompts. Spec, benchmarks, TypeScript SDK. (36:33) - Introducing Scribe v2 Realtime (41:06) - ByteDance unveils China’s most affordable AI coding agent at just US$1.30 a month (47:23) - TypeScript, Python, and the AI feedback loop changing software development (01:06:09) - Introducing iPhone Pocket: a beautiful way to wear and carry iPhone ...

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(00:35) - Continuity camera on Chrome flakiness (01:56) - XPENG Shares Achievements in Physical AI Emergence: Unveils XPENG VLA 2.0, Robotaxi, Next-Gen IRON, and Flying Car (05:44) - Vision vs sensors (Tesla painted-tunnel demo) (07:59) - Humanoid vs task-specific robots debate (09:21) - GitHub - topoteretes/cognee: Memory for AI Agents in 6 lines of code (18:11) - PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports (25:01...

(01:50) - Create on-brand marketing content for your business with Pomelli (09:18) - OpenAI’s Less-Flashy Rival Might Have a Better Business Model (17:47) - Microsoft, OpenAI reach deal removing fundraising constraints for ChatGPT maker (25:56) - AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for roughly $1.5B (36:40) - Accountable Acceleration: Gen AI Fast-Tracks Into the Enterprise (44:53) - I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is actually replacing today

Create on-brand marketing content for your business with Pomelli | 2025-10-28
Google Labs and DeepMind launched Pomelli, an AI tool that builds a “Business DNA” from a company’s website...

(01:59) - dbt Labs + Fivetran: Open data infrastructure for analytics and AI (10:35) - Introducing ChatGPT Atlas (10:40) - Microsoft Edge’s new Copilot Mode turns on more AI features (21:47) - Anthropic to use Google’s AI chips worth tens of billions to train Claude chatbot (32:34) - Living dangerously with Claude (51:09) - Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol (59:44) - Announcing Cloudflare Email Service’s private beta (01:04:44) - Meet the real screen addicts: the elderly
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dbt Labs + Fivetran: Open data infrastructure for analytics and AI | 2025-10-13
dbt Labs is m...

(00:47) - Musicians miss out as Belgian retailers turn to AI-generated music in stores (08:41) - [R] Plain English outperforms JSON for LLM tool calling: +18pp accuracy, -70% variance (17:23) - Japan wants OpenAI to stop ripping off manga and anime (23:43) - Opera’s Neon shows just how confusing AI browsers still are (29:58) - Introducing Claude Haiku 4.5 (34:36) - Amazon outage breaks much of the internet
Musicians miss out as Belgian retailers turn to AI-generated music in stores | 2025-10-19
 https://www.brusselstimes.com/1798519/musicians-miss-out-as-belgian-retailers-turn-to-ai-generated-music-in-stores

Japan wants OpenAI to stop ripping off manga and anime | 2025-10-15
 https://www...

(00:57) - Less is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks (09:15) - Python 3.14 will change the way you parallelise code (18:21) - How I made $300K from an open-source side project (dual licensing) (26:10) - Dutch government takes control of China-owned chipmaker Nexperia (31:50) - simonw/claude-skills (36:59) - LSEG and Microsoft transform access to AI-ready financial data (40:10) - Inside The Controversy Around Strava’s Runna app (52:31) - Avoid these AI coding mistakes (PostHog)
Articles discussedLess is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks - https://alexiajm.github.io/2025/09/29/tiny_recursive_models.htmlPython 3.14 will change the way you parallelise code - https://valatka.dev/2025/10/11/on...

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(00:40) - Agent Workflows | ElevenLabs Documentation (06:12) - Introducing AgentKit | OpenAI (Oct 06 2025) (13:26) - Pay yourself first | HEY World (Oct 04 2025) (22:47) - Tiny lab-grown brains could help build the next generation of computers | TechSpot (Oct 06 2025) (26:25) - Deloitte admits AI hallucinated quotes in government report, offers partial refund | TechSpot (Oct 07 2025) (36:31) - The AI bubble is “17 times” the size of dot-com, analyst warns | MarketWatch via Morningstar (Oct 03 2025) (44:15) - Which Table Format Do LLMs Understand Best? (Results for 11 Formats) | Improving Agents (Sep 30 2025) (49:57) - Managed MCP servers for secure data agents | Snowflake Blog...

Report: Fivetran in talks with dbt Labs over multibillion-dollar big-data merger
 https://siliconangle.com/2025/09/28/report-fivetran-talks-dbt-labs-multibillion-dollar-big-data-merger/

Apple’s ‘Veritas’ chatbot is reportedly an employee-only test of Siri’s AI upgrades
 https://www.theverge.com/news/787046/apples-veritas-siri-ai-chatbot

OpenAI takes on Google, Amazon with new agentic shopping system
 https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/29/openai-takes-on-google-amazon-with-new-agentic-shopping-system/

OpenAI announces Sora 2 and AI video and audio app that allows for user ‘cameos’
 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/openai-announces-sora-2-ai-video-audio-app-rcna234753

Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5
 https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-5

Chrome DevTools (MCP) voor uw AI-agent<...

Bigger and Better Worlds — World Labs
 https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/bigger-better-worlds

AI as teleportation — Geoffrey Litt
 https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/09/10/ai-as-teleportation.html

Introducing Shuttle Cobra — Shuttle
 https://www.shuttle.dev/blog/2025/09/18/introducing-shuttle-cobra

Secrets of DeepSeek AI model revealed in landmark paper — Nature
 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03015-6

Alibaba's new AI chip: Key specifications comparable to H20 (Hacker News discussion)
 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45273747

Vibe Shift? Senior Developers Ship nearly 2.5x more AI Code than Junior Counterparts — Fastly
 https://www...

Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Company for $610 million https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/04/atlassian-the-browser-company-deal.html

Mistral AI raises €1.7B to accelerate technological activity https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mistralai_mistral-ai-raises-17b-to-accelerate-technological-activity-7371045632284971008-KOtm?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAUumq8B49UW7m9VV5ijr01USsCOWMSQaGw

The Three Faces Of Generative AI https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/the-three-faces-of-generative-ai

Will AI Replace Human Thinking? The Case for Writing and Coding Manually https://www.ssp.sh/brain/will-ai-replace-humans/

Anthropic reaches $1.5 billion settlement with authors in landmark copyright case https://fortune.com/2025/09/05/anthropic-reaches-1-5...

Nano Banana — https://blog.google/products/gemini/updated-image-editing-model/

China Has a Different Vision for AI. It Might Be Smarter. — https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/china-has-a-different-vision-for-ai-it-might-be-smarter-581f1e44

Bear is now source-available — https://herman.bearblog.dev/license/

A deeper look at AI crawlers: breaking down traffic by purpose and industry — https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-crawler-traffic-by-purpose-and-industry/

Creators use AI to spark their music careers — https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-ai-music-suno-udio-551308748c84c774c3c5ecd89aa93904

The rise of the AI influencer — https://www.ft.com/c...

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(01:55) - MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing (08:14) - AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' (14:22) - DeepSeek-V3.1 Release (18:55) - Build vs Buy in the Age of AI (27:02) - Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year (34:38) - Mirage: AI UGC game engine (39:58) - Beyond Sensor Data: Foundation Models of Behavioral Data from Wearables Improve Health Predictions (45:17) - AI Mode in Search gets new agentic features and expands globally (50:08) - imagestyles.ai (51:36) - Sick...

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GitHub just got less independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation — The Verge (Aug 11, 2025)
Thomas Dohmke steps down; GitHub leadership folds more tightly into Microsoft’s CoreAI org.
https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transitionFFmpeg 8.0 merges OpenAI Whisper filter for automatic speech recognition — Phoronix (Aug 13, 2025)
Native Whisper (via whisper.cpp) arrives in FFmpeg with optional GPU accel and SRT/JSON outputs.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-Lands-WhisperWikimedia Foundation challenges UK Online Safety Act regulations — Wikimedi...

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The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble | Where’s Your Ed At

Technology writer Ed Zitron tears apart what he calls the overhyped generative-AI gold rush, warning it’s propped up by wishful thinking and unsustainable spending. As he bluntly puts it, “We’re in a god damn bubble,” prompting a no-holds-barred discussion on whether the boom will burst.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/

Trump administration to supercharge AI sales to allies, loosen environmental rules | Reuters

Washington’s latest AI blueprint...

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Announcing molab (marimo)
Marimo debuts molab, a free, cloud‑hosted workspace for running and sharing reactive Python + SQL notebooks straight from the browser.
https://marimo.io/blog/announcing-molabOpenAI LLM Claims IMO Gold
Researcher Alexander Wei says an experimental OpenAI model solved 5 of 6 problems from the 2025 International Math Olympiad—good for a human‑level gold medal—and hints at new post‑RL training tricks.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1946477742855532918.htmlExposing the Unseen: Mapping MCP Servers Across the Internet (Knostic)
Knostic scanned the web and found 1,862 publicly exposed Model Contex...

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MCP-B – Browser Model Context Protocol | mcp-b.ai
MCP-B proposes a “USB-C for AI,” letting agents call site functions instead of clumsy click-automation. “MCP-B gives AI direct access to your website's functions instead,” promising smoother bot-to-web handshakes for everyone.
 https://mcp-b.ai/

OpenAI’s next big launch could be an AI web browser | The Verge
OpenAI is reportedly cooking up a Chromium‑based browser with a built‑in Operator agent that can book tables or fill forms for you. As Reuters learned, “OpenAI is planning to laun...

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Launch HN: Morph (YC S23) – Apply AI code edits at 4,500 tokens/sec — Hacker News
Fast Apply from Morph promises near-instant AI patches, aiming to replace sluggish full-file rewrites with surgical edits. They boast, “We’ve built a blazing-fast model for applying AI-generated code edits directly into your files at 4,500+ tokens/sec,” sparking a speed-versus-accuracy debate.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44490863OpenAI Launches $10 M Custom AI Consulting, Challenging Industry Giants — AI Tech Suite (Jul 01 2025)
OpenAI is stepping into high-end consulting, demanding at least $10 mi...

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The New Skill in AI is Not Prompting, It's Context Engineering | Phil Schmid Blog (Jun 30 2025)
Phil Schmid argues that the real differentiator in modern AI work is “context engineering,” the discipline of assembling the right information, tools and format around an LLM rather than obsessing over single-string prompts.
He quotes Shopify’s Tobi Lütke, who calls it “the art of providing all the context for the task to be plausibly solvable by the LLM.”
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OpenAI open-source model hype | X (Tweet) (Jun 30 2025)
Researcher Yuchen Jin teas...

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Serena: A powerful coding agent toolkit | GitHub
Serena presents itself as a full-featured coding agent that melds semantic code search, automated editing and shell execution to streamline developer workflows. “Serena combines tools for semantic code retrieval with editing capabilities and shell execution.”
🔗 https://github.com/oraios/serena

Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser | nxtscape.ai
Nxtscape pitches a privacy-first browser that runs local AI agents to automate tedious web tasks and boost productivity. “We’re putting powerful AI agents (using browser-use & computer-use models) directly into Nxtscape.”

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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
New arXiv research shows relying on ChatGPT dulls neural engagement and weakens writing skills compared to search or free writing. EEG readings revealed the lowest brain activity among LLM users.
Source: arXiv · June 10, 2025Amazon CEO sa...

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DuckLake: SQL as a Lakehouse Format | DuckDB Blog (May 27 2025)
DuckDB’s new DuckLake format proposes shifting all lakehouse metadata into a regular SQL database so open-format data lakes can gain true transactional speed and simplicity. “DuckLake re-imagines what a ‘Lakehouse’ format should look like,” the authors write, arguing it eliminates the maze of JSON files and external catalog services. If adopted, DuckLake could let organizations treat Parquet-backed blob storage like a fast, ACID-compliant warehouse without vendor lock-in. (duckdb.org)

Magistral | Mistral AI (Jun 10 2025)
Mistral AI h...

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