AI Bubble Fears, AWS CEO Slams Layoffs, DeepSeek V3.1 & Google’s 33x Efficiency Jump

Thanks for listening! ❤️Chapters(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 of Fancy (South Park S27E3) (53:56) - ElevenLabs V3 (most expressive TTS) Discussed articlesMIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing — https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' — https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/aws_ceo_entry_level_jobs_opinion/DeepSeek-V3.1 Release — https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news250821Build vs Buy in the Age of AI — https://www.svpg.com/article-build-vs-buy-in-the-age-of-aiGoogle says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year — https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/google-says-it-dropped-the-energy-cost-of-ai-queries-by-33x-in-one-year/Mirage: AI UGC game engine — https://dynamicslab.ai/Beyond Sensor Data: Foundation Models of Behavioral Data from Wearables Improve Health Predictions — https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00191AI Mode in Search gets new agentic features and expands globally — https://blog.google/products/search/ai-mode-agentic-personalized/