Ep. 21 — China's second punch, the token endgame, and AI's hiring bias

China's second punch, the token endgame, and AI's hiring bias 00:48 — China's second punch: Alibaba's Qwen3.8 joins Kimi K3 — and Silicon Valley goes to war over it 02:17 — OpenAI's chair says in a year you won't think about 'tokens' at all 03:47 — New study: AI is more likely than humans to form hiring biases from thin data 05:17 — The Pentagon vs. OpenAI's Dean Ball: the open-model fight goes personal 05:42 — Google's Gemma 4 31B climbs the open-model charts 06:06 — Adobe's Project Indigo camera app will now critique your photos 06:30 — YouTube spells out which AI 'slop' loses monetization Daily Prompt with Archer & Iris.