TWiT 1065: AI Action Park - DeepSeek's mHC Model Training Breakthrough!
This Week in Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2026
⏱️ 168 minutes
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Summary
Happy New Year! NVIDIA just spent $20 billion to hollow out an AI company for its brains, while Meta and Google scramble to scoop up fresh talent before AI gets "too weird to manage." Who's winning, who's left behind, and what do these backroom deals mean for the future of artificial intelligence?
- Andrej Karpathy admits programmers cannot keep pace with AI advances
- Economic uncertainty in AI despite massive stock market influence
- Google, Anthropic, and Microsoft drive AI productization for business and consumers
- OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini battle for consumer AI dominance
- Journalism struggles to keep up with AI realities and misinformation tools
- Concerns mount over AI energy, water, and environmental impact narratives
- Meta buys Manus, expands AI agent ambitions with Llama model
- OpenAI posts high-stress "Head of Preparedness" job worth $555K+
- Training breakthroughs: DeepSeek's mHC and comparisons to Action Park
- U.S. lawmakers push broad, controversial internet censorship bills
- Age verification and bans spark state laws, VPN workaround explosion
- U.S. drone ban labeled protectionist as industry faces tech shortages
- FCC security initiatives falter; Cyber Trust Mark program scrapped
- Waymo robotaxis stall in blackouts, raising AV urban planning issues
- School cellphone bans expose kids' struggle with analog clocks
- MetroCard era ends in NYC as tap-to-pay takes over subway access
- RAM, VRAM, and GPU prices soar as AI and gaming squeeze supply
- CES preview: Samsung QD-OLED TV, Sony AFEELA car, gadget show hype
- Remembering Stewart Cheifet and Computer Chronicles' legacy
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Dan Patterson and Joey de Villa
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Twit this week of tech. |
| 0:01.4 | Coming up, Dan Patterson from blackbird.a.i and Joey DeVilla, AI developer advocate, a couple of AI experts. |
| 0:09.2 | We're going to talk about Andrea Carpathie saying he can't keep up anymore. |
| 0:13.4 | This is the guy who invented vibe coding. |
| 0:15.5 | We'll also talk about the FCC killing that plan to improve home security and those nude images on grok. |
| 0:24.9 | Plus, why kids can't read clocks anymore. |
| 0:28.0 | Twit is next. |
| 0:31.6 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:33.6 | From people you trust. |
| 0:36.1 | This is Twit. |
| 0:43.2 | This is Twit. |
| 0:44.8 | This Week in Tech, episode 1065, recorded Sunday, January 4th, 2026, AI Action Park. |
| 0:54.4 | It's time for Twit this week in Tech. Yes, we're back. Happy New Year, everyone, the first show of 2026. |
| 1:01.4 | It's so great to see you. I'm thrilled that you're here. I also want to welcome our panel this week. |
| 1:09.3 | This is going to be fun. A brand new member of the Twit community. |
| 1:13.6 | We interviewed him on Intelligent Machines. He is a developer advocate for AI, Joey DeVilla, |
| 1:19.6 | his blog global nerdy.com. Joey, it's great to see a YouTuber, blogger, AI guru. |
| 1:25.6 | Well, thank you very much and great to be here. |
| 1:28.0 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:29.3 | I loved it so much when you were on IAM. |
| 1:31.4 | I said, get this guy on Twitter. |
| 1:34.1 | So we're thrilled to have you. |
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