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The Monkey Patching Podcast: Going Bananas on AI, Data, LLMs & TechAI News Weekly đ Copilot Edge, Open-Source Model Wars, Tencent 3D, & Trump-China Regulation ClashThanks for listening. If you enjoyed the episode please subscribe!The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble | Whereâs Your Ed AtTechnology writer Ed Zitron tears apart what he calls the overhyped generative-AI gold rush, warning itâs propped up by wishful thinking and unsustainable spending. As he bluntly puts it, âWeâre in a god damn bubble,â 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 | ReutersWashingtonâs latest AI blueprint...2025-07-3028 min
The Monkey Patching Podcast: Going Bananas on AI, Data, LLMs & TechOpenAI IMO Gold, AWS S3 Vectors, MCP Server ExposĂŠs, Sovereign Clouds & the Capex SurgeThanks for listeningâsubscribe and leave a review!Announcing molab (marimo) Marimo debuts molab, a free, cloudâhosted 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 Olympiadâgood for a humanâlevel gold medalâand hints at new postâRL 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...2025-07-231h 14
The Monkey Patching Podcast: Going Bananas on AI, Data, LLMs & TechAgents, Paywalls, and Browser Battles: The Race to Control AI's Digital HighwayThanks for listening. If you enjoyed the episode please subscribe!MCP-B â Browser Model Context Protocol | mcp-b.aiMCP-B proposes a âUSB-C for AI,â letting agents call site functions instead of clumsy click-automation. âMCP-B gives AI direct access to your website's functions instead,â promising smoother bot-to-web handshakes for everyone. https://mcp-b.ai/OpenAIâs next big launch could be an AI web browser | The VergeOpenAI is reportedly cooking up a Chromiumâbased browser with a builtâin Operator agent that can book tables or fill forms for you. As Reuters learned, âOpenAI is planning to laun...2025-07-171h 00
The Monkey Patching Podcast: Going Bananas on AI, Data, LLMs & Tech$10 M AI Consulting, 4,500-Token-Per-Second Code Edits, and the Rise of Terminal AgentsThanks for listening! Subscribe and follow wherever you get your podcasts.Launch HN: Morph (YC S23) â Apply AI code edits at 4,500 tokens/sec â Hacker News Fast Apply from Morph promises near-instant AI patches, aiming to replace sluggish full-file rewrites with surgical edits. They boast, âWeâve built a blazing-fast model for applying AI-generated code edits directly into your files at 4,500+ tokens/sec,â sparking a speed-versus-accuracy debate. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44490863OpenAI Launches $10 M Custom AI Consulting, Challenging Industry Giants â AI Tech Suite (Jul 01 2025) OpenAI is stepping into high-end consulting, demanding at least $10 mi...2025-07-091h 01
The Monkey Patching Podcast: Going Bananas on AI, Data, LLMs & TechContext Hacking, Open-Source Hype & Synthetic BandsThanks for listening, leave a review! â¤ď¸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 âcontext engineering,â the discipline of assembling the right information, tools and format around an LLM rather than obsessing over single-string prompts. He quotes Shopifyâs Tobi LĂźtke, who calls it âthe art of providing all the context for the task to be plausibly solvable by the LLM.â philschmid.deOpenAI open-source model hype | X (Tweet) (Jun 30 2025) Researcher Yuchen Jin teas...2025-07-0254 min
The Monkey Patching Podcast: Going Bananas on AI, Data, LLMs & TechTiny Teams, Loud Unlocks, and Rogue AIThanks for listening! Make sure to leave a review â¤ď¸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. âSerena combines tools for semantic code retrieval with editing capabilities and shell execution.â đ https://github.com/oraios/serenaNxtscape â 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. âWeâre putting powerful AI agents (using browser-use & computer-use models) directly into Nxtscape.â2025-06-2750 min
The Monkey Patching Podcast: Going Bananas on AI, Data, LLMs & TechAI Agents, Brain Fog & Caveman CodingWelcome to The Monkey Patching Podcast: Going Bananas on AI, Data, LLMs & Tech â where we keep it real, techy, and far from buzzword bingo. Tune in wherever you get your podcasts, or visit us at monkeypatching.iođ§ Episode Topics & LinksYour 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...2025-06-231h 03
The Monkey Patching Podcast: Going Bananas on AI, Data, LLMs & TechApple âIllusion of Thinkingâ Debate, DuckLake Lakehouse & Magistral AIWelcome to Episode 2!We'd love to hear your feedback â¤ď¸Â DuckLake: SQL as a Lakehouse Format | DuckDB Blog (May 27 2025)DuckDBâs 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. âDuckLake re-imagines what a âLakehouseâ format should look like,â 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...2025-06-131h 08
The Monkey Patching Podcast: Going Bananas on AI, Data, LLMs & TechOur First Episode!Hey there! Welcome to the very first Monkey Patching Podcast. We're just kicking things off today, chatting about what we've got planned for this show â nothing too mind-blowing yet, but we're excited to get rolling. If you're into data and AI talk without all the buzzword fluff, hit subscribe and join us for the ride. Trust us, it gets better from here.Ow yeah... while we said that we would start numbering at 0, our podcast hosting platform doesn't support it đThanks for listening!Much love,Murilo & BartCreators & Guests
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