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The Neuron: AI Explained

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The Neuron is a daily newsletter with 700,000+ readers that covers the latest AI developments, trends and research; this is our podcast, hosted by Grant Harvey and Corey Noles. We aim to create digestible, informative and authoritative takes on AI that get you up to speed and help you become an authority in your own circles. Available Wednesdays and Sundays on all podcasting platforms and YouTube. Subscribe to our newsletter: https://www.theneurondaily.com/subscribe

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How Hume AI Is Teaching Voice Systems to Understand More Than WordsHume AI argues voice AI must be evaluated and improved using speech signals and real-world outcomes, not just transcript text.30 Sep 2026 · 59 min

BONUS: OpenClaw 2.0 with Chief Architect Vincent KocVincent Koc, chief architect of the OpenClaw Foundation, explains how OpenClaw 2.0 (“2.0” after ~20k PRs merged) reshaped the agent experience around cohesive onboarding, model selection, and…25 Sep 2026 · 1 h 20 min

Inside CoreWeave’s AI Infrastructure With Chen GoldbergCoreWeave’s AI infrastructure and how AI changes computing beyond “more GPUs,” focusing on cluster operations, Kubernetes, security/guardrails, agentic workloads, and physical AI.23 Sep 2026 · 40 min

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BONUS: A Beginner’s Guide to GitHub, LIVE with Cassidy WilliamsA live beginner’s guide to GitHub, focused on why non-coders should use it, how GitHub works (accounts, profiles, repositories, README), and the core workflow (commit/push) plus safety basics (public…18 Sep 2026 · 1 h 58 min · 48 chapters

GPT-6 Astra One-Shot DemosThe hosts test “GPT-6 Astra” by running the same one-shot prompts in high-reasoning mode to generate interactive WebGL/ChatGPT-hosted demos, plus Blender scenes and browser games.16 Sep 2026 · 1 h 5 min · 17 chapters

BONUS: Apple’s AI Era Starts Now? Meta’s Free AI Agent + OpenAI’s $1M Math FightThe episode is a wide-ranging tech roundup focused on Apple’s “AI era” claims, then a dramatic OpenAI vs. Anthropic story about a $1M math breakthrough.11 Sep 2026 · 1 h 35 min · 38 chapters

OpenAI Astra, Local AI, and the Hardware RaceGPT-6 Astra’s rollout and capabilities (voice + computer/browser control), benchmark results and “AGI-adjacent” claims; concerns about a new “recurrent depth/looped transformers” technique and…9 Sep 2026 · 1 h 35 min · 30 chapters

BONUS: Claude Fable 5.1 LIVE: Testing Anthropic’s New AI AgentA live, public test of Anthropic’s newly released Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, focused on coding/knowledge work, safety/safeguards, pricing/data-retention changes, and “computer use” agentic…4 Sep 2026 · 1 h · 33 chapters

Where Does AI Agent Security Actually Live?AI agent security and the gap between lab model evaluations and real deployed systems with tools, memory, and permissions.28 Aug 2026 · 55 min · 24 chapters

BONUS: AI Tool Roundup: What’s Actually Worth Trying?A “bonus” roundup of newly released AI tools and models, focusing on what’s actually worth trying.21 Aug 2026 · 1 h 52 min · 39 chapters

This AI model will run the economy in 2030 w/ Alexandre PasquiouNeuron podcast episode with Alexandre Pasquiou (Neuronk) arguing that “tabular foundation models” (for spreadsheets/databases) will replace many custom predictive ML models across industries.19 Aug 2026 · 46 min · 23 chapters

BONUS: Learn Video Prompting for TOTAL Beginners w/ NEW LTX-2.5 + LTX TeamLTX’s open video “world model” LTX 2.5 for total beginners—how to prompt, use multimodal inputs (text, keyframes, audio, video/image references), and integrate into creative workflows via LTX…14 Aug 2026 · 59 min · 22 chapters

AI Can Now Write DNA. What Does This Promise, And What Could Go Wrong? With Eric Nguyen, co-founder and CEO of Radical NumericsAI models that “read and write” DNA as language to design gene-editing tools, generate whole viral genomes, rank disease-causing genes (e.g., Alzheimer’s), and support biodefense by detecting…12 Aug 2026 · 51 min · 22 chapters

BONUS: How to Use AI Agents for Total Beginners: A Crash Course w/ Agent Builder James McAulayA live crash course on using AI agents for beginners to save time in business/life, focused on building a proactive “chief of staff” agent in Claude (Claude Cowork/Claude Code).7 Aug 2026 · 2 h · 50 chapters

AI Agents Are About to Move Off the Cloud. Here’s What ChangesThe episode argues that generative/agentic AI is outgrowing “cloud-first” and moving toward hybrid AI, where an on-device router decides which tasks run locally vs in the cloud to cut cost, improve…5 Aug 2026 · 55 min · 27 chapters

BONUS: How to Publish Your AI-Built App to the App StoreA walkthrough of how to publish an AI-built iOS app (and briefly a Chrome extension) to Apple’s App Store using App Store Connect, plus the practical workflow for building, testing, and submitting…31 Jul 2026 · 1 h 9 min · 32 chapters

AI Can Build It, But Can AI Ship It?AWS Startup Advisor for founders using AI coding tools; how to “ship it” by not overlooking security, resilience, reliability, and availability while iteration cycles are compressed by coding agents.29 Jul 2026 · 24 min · 11 chapters

BONUS: We Built 15+ Apps With AI. Here’s What Actually WorkedThe hosts share how they built 15+ AI-powered apps/web apps from scratch using Codex/ChatGPT-style coding agents, focusing on what actually worked: planning, iterative design, model selection…24 Jul 2026 · 2 h 21 min · 57 chapters

Will AI Robots Perform Surgery Better Than Humans?Whether autonomous AI robots can perform surgery better than humans, and what “autonomy” means today versus long-term.22 Jul 2026 · 1 h 10 min · 22 chapters

BONUS: AI Agents Are Here. Now What?AI agents in Microsoft Copilot/Copilot Studio—how to build them, how they work together (tools, triggers, sub-agents), and how organizations manage and secure them using Agent 365.17 Jul 2026 · 2 h 58 min · 73 chapters

Inside the Hidden Geometry of AIGoodfire’s AI interpretability research, arguing that neural networks “think in shapes” via curved, high-dimensional manifolds (“neural geometry”) rather than only linear directions/words.15 Jul 2026 · 58 min · 18 chapters

AI That Rides Along With Truck DriversSamsara’s AI for physical operations—how AI agents, dashcams/telematics, and “Agent Studio” help fleets and field-service teams be safer and more productive by turning sensor data into risk scoring,…13 Jul 2026 · 42 min · 26 chapters

BONUS: GPT-5.6 Sol Goes Live: Must-Try Use Cases We’re Testing LiveOpenAI’s live launch bonus episode covering GPT-5.6 “Sol” going live, plus product updates: ChatGPT Work, a new ChatGPT desktop app with local-file/app/browser access, and “hosted sites” for paid…10 Jul 2026 · 2 h 14 min · 57 chapters

ComfyUI Proves AI Art Is Not Zero EffortComfyUI, an open-source node-based workflow engine for diffusion-based image/video AI, and why it makes AI art “not zero effort” by letting users control the model pipeline (inference steps,…8 Jul 2026 · 58 min · 23 chapters