Barely Possible - 2026-05-21

[Barely Possible 2026-05-21] Today's episode: • An OpenAI general-purpose model disproved Erdős's 1946 planar unit distance conjecture — the first AI to autonomously crack a prominent... • Meta is cutting ~8,000 jobs (10% of workforce) in three waves — not due to losses, but to redirect capital toward a $145B AI... • Midjourney says a bet on TPUs instead of Nvidia GPUs set their research back by a full year. Hear the full breakdown in today's episode of Barely Possible. Want a podcast for your own topics? Join early access: https://www.barelypossible.to/waitlist/?source_path=public_episode_80&feed_source=rss&episode_id=80 Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-05-21/podcast-episode-2026-05-21.txt