Everyday AI Podcast – An AI and ChatGPT Podcast - EP 537: Perplexity goes agentic, Google Gemini updates, NYT/Amazon team up & more AI News That Matters

Episode Date: June 2, 2025

Perplexity is pivoting hard... and we like it.The New York Times (even amidst its fight with Big AI) just partnered with a big AI company.And Google Gemini just got a lot better for workspace users, and you won't have to lift a finger.AI got a lot more useful this week. Join us to find out how it's changing how we work.Newsletter: Sign up for our free daily newsletterMore on this Episode: Episode PageJoin the discussion: Have a question? Join the convo here.Upcoming Episodes: Check out the upcoming Everyday AI Livestream lineupWebsite: YourEverydayAI.comEmail The Show: [e-mail] with Jordan on LinkedInTopics Covered in This Episode:Perplexity's Agentic Mode Launch OverviewNew Google Gemini Updates for WorkspacePerplexity Labs' Reporting Tools ExplainedRobot Launch: Hugging Face Ricci MiniAI Missteps in Government Healthcare ReportAmazon & New York Times AI PartnershipEleven Labs' Conversational AI UpdateAnthropic CEO on AI Job DisplacementTimestamps:00:00 "Perplexity Labs: AI-Powered Analytics Revolution"06:35 "AI Slide Creation Breakthrough"10:56 "Affordable Open-Source Robot for Developers"14:24 Admin Control on Workplace Summaries15:11 "Google Drive's New AI Summarization"20:56 "AI Strategy and Growth Solutions"24:00 NYT Sues OpenAI and Microsoft26:12 "Survival Strategies for Media Outlets"30:41 Black Forest Labs Challenges AI Giants35:07 AI Revolution in Call Centers36:01 Advanced Multilingual Conversational AI System39:33 Apple Shifts Focus Away from AI43:07 Apple's AI Projects and Challenges48:02 Tech Innovations: Robotics, AI, Workspace Updates49:17 AI Job Threats HighlightedKeywords:Perplexity Labs, Perplexity agentic mode, conversational search engine, AI-driven research, Perplexity Labs Pro, Mac and Windows apps, customizable dashboards, deep research mode, Claude artifacts, Google Gemini, email summary cards, AI-powered email summaries, Gmail AI update, Google Drive video summarization, Google Workspace, US Department of Health and Human Services, generative AI citations, The New York Times, Amazon AI deal, Alexa update, AI foundation models, Eleven Labs, conversational AI 2.0, enterprise voice agent, AI turn-taking model, multilingual conversations, Anthropic CEO, AI job displacement, white collar jobs, Apple WWDC conference, Apple AI gap yeSend Everyday AI and Jordan a text message. (We can't reply back unless you leave contact info) Start Here ▶️Not sure where to start when it comes to AI? Start with our Start Here Series. You can listen to the first drop -- Episode 691 -- or get free access to our Inner Cricle community and all episodes: StartHereSeries.com Also, here's a link to the entire series on a Spotify playlist. 

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The New York Times, even though it's fighting with big AI, just entered into a partnership with big AI. And Google Gemini is getting a lot better for workspace users and you don't even have to lift a finger. There's a lot still going on in the world. of AI news after last week experiencing our biggest week of AI news ever a lot of smaller yet meaningful updates happening this week so if you spend hours every single week trying to keep up with what's happening in the world of AI and how it'll impact you your company in your career stop doing that just join us on Mondays for our AI

News That Matters segment. What's going on, y'all? My name's Jordan Wilson and welcome to Everyday AI. This is your daily live stream podcast and free daily newsletter, helping everyday business leaders like you and me, not just learn AI, but how we can leverage it to grow our companies and our careers. So if that's what you're trying to do, it starts here with this unscripted, unedited live stream and podcast, but where you're actually going to leverage what we learn is

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too much time trying to read and decipher and understand the AI news and you're like, is this meaningful or is this marketing spin? Join us Mondays. I kick it to you straight. Live stream audience. It's great to see you. Jose joining us from Santiago, Chile. Love to see it. Fred joining us from Chicago, live stream crew on the YouTube machine like. Keith, thanks for tuning in. Christopher from Kentucky, Brian, holding it down for Minnesota, Joe in Fort Lauderdale. It's a good day to be agentic, he says. Yeah, a lot of agentic news. All right, let's get straight into it. First, perplexity is going agentic. So perplexity has introduced a new tool or a new mode called Perplexity Labs that enables users to create complex reports, spread.

spreadsheetsage dashboards and even web apps, all supported by extensive AI-driven research from perplexity. So this new agenic mode works by spending about 10 minutes or more on self-supervised tasks, leveraging third-party capabilities such as deep web browsing, code execution, and generating visuals like charts and images or even slideshows and spreadsheets. So Perplexity Labs builds on the company's existing AI search products, including their flagship conversational search engine and their deep research mode, which produces in-depth, well-sourced documents after extensive data gathering. So the AI agents behind labs can organize data, apply formulas, generate charts, create text

documents, spreadsheets, dashboards, and even small websites without requiring users to have coding skills or development tools. So users can access examples and templates through a project gallery showcasing use cases like interactive war maps, stock portfolio dashboards, comparing traditional and AI managed investments and futuristic social media platform designs. So the new tool or mode features an app tab for building simple dashboards, slideshows, and interactive websites with all generated assets, images, charts, CSV files, and code accessible for download in the assets tab.

So right now, Labs is currently available to subscribers of Perplexities ProPlan on web, iOS, and Android, with plans to extend availability to Mac and Windows apps soon. Live streamed audience, have any of you guys used Labs yet? So there's parts of it that I'm actually pretty impressed by. And then there's parts of it that I'm like, all right, this is a. that great. One thing that I really like is what I just read there at the end is how it's all sorted.

Right. So a lot of times when you're using maybe other similar tools, I would say the most similar thing I can compare this to right now is Claude Artifacts or similarly, Google Gemini's Canvas or OpenAI chat Chb-T's canvas. Very similar in that it combines kind of this. research and answer gathering from the web, but then it can create something new of value that's more than just straight text. So at least in my initial testing, the web app capability was okay.

I love being able to have that assets tab because that's something that kind of the quote unquote competitive tools or modes don't necessarily have. So if it is something that is very multimedia, that assets tab is really nice. But what I really think it does a pretty good job on is generating slides, right? Kind of a small thing that we don't talk about a lot, but yet we all spend so much time on. They're not going to be fantastic looking slides, right? Think if you open PowerPoint and you're looking at 10 templates and there's two that are bad, there's two that are great, and then there's like six that are like, okay, these are okay.

I'd say in your best case scenario, perplexity labs will hit that like, oh, the okay kind of template. So this isn't something it's going to be, you know, overly designed, but it actually does a way better job than I thought, specifically on slide creation, which is something that the other, you know, those platforms, like I mentioned, aren't great at. And, you know, aside from dedicated slide tools like, you know, gamma or, you know, know, beautiful.a.I. Right. There's not a lot of AI research tools that also create slides. Yet, like I said, that's what so many business, you know, knowledge workers, that's what we do.

We create slides. Even right now, I have slides on my screen, right? For our podcast audience, I always have kind of a screenshot of a news article. And then I link to it in the newsletter. So you can, you know, well, first to give credit to the company that I kind of read the article, but then you can go back and look to it. But I create slides almost every single day. So I try to get something to the level of what I would use. It's not quite there yet. But it actually did a way better job than I thought when I said, hey, here's my, you know, 10 news stories that I'm going over today. Go research them. Go bullet point them and create a kind of slideshow. So it's not at the point where I'd want to use it yet necessarily,

but it's definitely passable, right? My youth case is different. I'd like to put up my slides for, you know, a lot of people to watch on the live stream, but pretty good. It's pretty good and I was pretty impressed. Mahan here says perplexity is innovative, will grow big.

I actually have thoughts on that. Because I said, back in January, I said, perplexity is going to have to pivot or they will get swashed. And what we've seen here is, well, this is a pretty impressive pivot, I'd say, right? And yes, like Dr. Harvey Castro said, great call out here, said, Manus AI just added slides. That's big as well. So kind of a very popular version, if you aren't following the space very closely. Manus is an AI agent, like similar to Open AI's operator, a computer using.

internet using Asia that now they just roll out slides mode about a week ago. And the good thing about the Manus AI slides is they're editable as well, whereas something like in perplexity, they're not necessarily editable how you would want to edit them without regenerating the whole thing. And if you regenerate the whole thing, it might change 10 things that you didn't want and only change the two things that you want. But I think so far pretty good. Douglas saying, I have made dashboards side-by-side comparisons with Gemini Canvas. For me, I like the perplexity lab output better. Yeah, for sure. It depends on what you're trying to build, right? A lot of times what I'm trying to build inside these, you know, artifacts or canvas, et cetera, is something a little more

interactive and visual and not necessarily asset-based or research-based even. It's more of, you know, building little mini websites or something like that or generating certain types of code. So at least for my use cases, I would probably use Perplexity Labs a little bit more for information gathering. So kind of combining kind of deep research with slide formation. That's what I would use it for. And then when you need to be able to download those assets, that's what I would personally do. But I think a lot of good use cases. Also, great call out here.

I had at my notes for later. But also, yeah, Perplexity does have their comment browser that they've been slowly rolling out. they did the first rollouts about a week ago. So pretty impressive so far. All right. Our next piece of AI news. Hugging Face has released an open source robot called Ritchie Mini, offering affordable AI hardware for developers.

So the new open source robot is designed to help developers test and build AI applications. And it is priced between $250. Yeah, $250. Not $250,000. It's a little robot guy. All right. For a podcast audience, it's this, you know, cute little, you know, desktop size robot, but it is making it significantly more accessible and affordable than other robotics hardware on the market. So, Reachee Mini resembles a small Wall East style bust that can turn its head and interact with users through speech.

So the product is positioned as a kind of raspberry pie for Ritchiemeet, for RETT, and it's head and interact with users through speech. pie for robotics, targeting AI developers by providing affordable, customizable hardware for experimentation. Also, the open source nature of Ritchie Mini means developers can modify both its software and hardware, which I think means this is going to be the thing that ultimately pushes humanoids and like robotics into the mainstream, into the home. Right. I think what's going to happen is this new Riji mini is probably going to be extremely popular just because it's only 250, 250 to $300. It is open source.

So you have to know the basics. You don't got to be a geek, but you have to be dork-esque to be able to set this up and run it. But then after that, I do see a lot of households probably using this piece of hardware to do it. And I need to double check on the price actually. All right. Yeah, sometimes, sometimes I'm a little tired when I put all of my notes together. And I wanted to double check on this price because my screenshot here from the article says 3,000.

And my notes said something else. So yeah, I made, sorry, I'm in a mistake. It's not $250. All right. Bad human. I just hallucinated because I get tired sometimes. I got my coffee here, though. Sorry, $3,000, not $300, $3,000.

Still, when you look at it. at for comparison like the Tesla Optimus Gen 2 that's expected to cost probably like $25,000. And it hasn't even been released, right? Even though we're like, oh, we're going to get these robots very soon. Right. And then you have other more advanced humanoid robots that are costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. So for an open source robot or humanoid to only cost $3,000, not bad.

Not bad. And I do see that cost going down. maybe not to $250, like I accidentally said, missing a zero there. But maybe to a less than $1,000, I could see that happening within a couple of years. So I do see this as a huge boon for not just robotics, but in home humanoids as well. You know, Marie said, oh, Jordan, I never thought you would hallucinate. Yeah, it's a feature, not above. All right, our next piece of AI news.

Well, Google Gemini is getting a little more user friendly. So Google has launched automatic AI powered email summary cards in Gmail, which now appear at the top of emails without requiring users to tap for a summary. So this update means that Gemini will proactively summarize long email threads and keep the summaries updated as new replies arrive. That's the part that I'm looking forward to. So right now, workplace admins can control whether users have access to these summaries via the admin council giving organizations some oversight.

So if you're wondering like, hey, why haven't I seen this? That's probably because your workspace admin maybe hasn't enabled it yet. So it is turned on by default, which a lot of people are saying from a privacy perspective is problematic, but I'll say this. It's not, right? Because you're going to go in and use this. feature anyways, whether it's turned on by default or not. So in certain countries such as the EU, UK, Switzerland, and Japan, it will be opt in or

turn off by default. In the US, when this is fully rolled out, it will be opted in by default, but you can opt out. So again, once it's enabled by your workspace admin. So this manual option to generate a summary still does remain available as a what Google calls a clickable chip. at the top of emails and in the Gemini side panel. All right, another kind of small, but still pretty big quality of life improvement for Google Drive workspace users is a new feature that Google has rolled out in Gemini that lets workspace users get quick summaries and insights from videos saved in Google Drive.

So the same thing, saving a Google or sorry, saving a Google in a video drive, saving a video inside Google drive. Gemini will now automatically use its AI prowess and summarize that thing instantly without you having to go in and ask it to summarize, which is really nice having this available inside Google Drive. This is something I spent a lot of time using in AI Studio for this exact reason. So the Gemini inside Google Drive now supports not only video files, but also by extending its previous document and PDF summarization. capabilities so users can interact with a chatbot interface inside of Google Drive to request summaries or specific details such as listing action items from recorded meetings or highlighting major updates in announcement videos. This feature, though, does require captions to be enabled on videos and can be accessed through

Google Drive's overview previewer or a new browser tap. It's currently available in English only right now. for Google workspace in Google One AI premium users, plus anyone with Gemini business or enterprise add-ons with a full rollout expected in the coming weeks. So you might not see this yet, but if you are on a paid Google plan, you will be seeing this feature pretty soon.

So I don't know, are these Gemini features worth writing home about? Are you going to use them? I know for me personally, I'm going to be using them because these are features that if I'm being honest, Gemini hasn't been that great at inside of its default workspace apps. What's been great is Google AI Studio. So I'm constantly bringing long email threads over to Gemini AI's like super long email threads because of the context window and being able to use Gemini 2.5 pro is is nutty as well as video.

So I've been using Google's AI Studio for a lot of these things now. But it's really good to have these rolling out directly to workspace apps. Hopefully the integration. the rollout goes well, sometimes it's super slow, especially when any time this, this type of utility comes to workspace users. So unfortunately, sometimes more of the kind of great AI features don't roll out initially to workspace users. So as an example, I'm on the new, you know, $250 a month Google Gemini AI Ultra

Plan, but I can't access it via workspace, which absolutely. It absolutely stinks, right? So I can't really use it with my business data. I have to use it with my personal Gmail account. So if I want to take advantage of a lot of the more powerful AI features, I would have to set up an automation that sends all of my work emails and files over to my personal Gmail account. So at least it's good that Google is rolling these out into workspace. So love to see it.

Next, this is not a good look for the federal government, but a government health care, government health report led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And released by the Department of Health and Human Services, it's causing a lot of controversy because this paper was found to contain a ton of fake and botched scientific citations, raising concerns over the use of generative AI in official policy documents. So this is according to reporting from the Associated. press in the Washington Post. So the White House responded to criticism by updating the report and correcting citation errors,

but downplayed this issue as, ah, this is just a minor formatting thing, rather than huge, a huge mistake. So at least one of these studies, so it was the overprescribing of oral cortosteroids for children with asthma. It does not exist outside of the reviews. All right. So in 37 of the 522 footnotes were repeated multiple times according to reports. Also, several URLs in the report included the tag OA site, which is a tag linked to open AI. So they did not even bother to go and try to say like, ah, this is an AI generated.

They included those like citations that clearly show that this was generated by a large language model. So not a great look. Also, some of the studies that the report talked about were cited correctly or they misrepresented or inaccurately summarized. So as an example, there was a claim in this study about a 40-fold increase in childhood bipolar in ADHD diagnosis tied to psych. I can't even talk. a psychriatic manual that wasn't published until years after the cited period.

So yeah, just a government report having to do with health that was released with just a ton of made up information. So not a good look when this is happening, not just at the federal government level, but for something extremely important like health. Adobe just introduced an entirely new way to create, bringing the power and precision of its creative suite into one conversational experience. Meet Firefly AI Assistant, now live in the Adobe Firefly app, the all-in-one creative AI studio. Powered by Adobe's creative agent, Firefly AI Assistant lets you start with your vision, just describe what you want, and shape the outcome

as it takes form with the Assistant. The Assistant orchestrates multi-step workflows, drawing on 60-plus pro-grade tools across Adobe Creative Cloud apps, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom Express, and more to help bring your ideas to life. You can also get started with creative skills, a growing library of pre-built workflows for common creative tasks, like batch editing photos, creating mood boards, portrait retouching, and creating social variations. Every step the assistant takes is visible so you can refine, redirect, or take over at any time. You stay in the driver's seat as the creative director. Adobe Firefly AI assistant now in public beta. See it today at firefly.adobie. Marie says, seems like the administration is hurrying and rushing

and not checking data first. That is what it looks like. All right. Speaking of checking data, you got to check this story. I was not expecting this because Amazon and the New York Times have struck an AI deal. And I'll tell you. you why that's important here after the detail. So here's the details. The New York Times has reached a multi-year agreement with Amazon to allow the tech giant to use its editorial content across Amazon's AI platforms. So the deal enables Amazon to incorporate real-time summaries and short excerpts from the New York Times and its other properties like New York Times cooking and the athletic, the sports publication, into Amazon products such as Alexa.

Will Alexa finally get a little smarter, hopefully? So Amazon will use the Times content to train its proprietary foundational AI models, helping improve the quality and relevance of its AI-driven services. So terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but the partnership reflects a growing trend of news outlets It's opting for licensing deals with tech firms rather than pursuing litigation over AI content use. Here's why this is pretty noteworthy. Well, it's the first big licensing partnership the New York Times has struck. That's because they have one of the most noteworthy and technically famous or infamous,

depending on how it lands lawsuits against Microsoft in OpenAI. So the New York Times filed this lawsuit in December of 2023. it is still in the courts where the New York Times is suing Microsoft and Open AI for allegedly copying millions of the New York Times articles. So one of the things that the New York Times asked for in its lawsuit was for the GPT technology to be destroyed, which again, I think has like a next to zero chance of actually happening because the whole world now runs off of like the GPT tech. technology. And even if it were theoretically possible to destroy it, it's kind of too late,

but it would essentially bring the world's economy to a screeching halt. Yet, this is extremely noeworthy because this is the first time that New York Times is entering into an agreement with a big tech company being like, yeah, go ahead, train your model on our data. So I'm not saying they're the last media giant to fall in line. But I've been saying this all along. You know, I was a journalist for seven years. Right. So I, you could say I have bias either way, right?

But there's no other option for news organizations. Either there's three routes. Route like when it comes to AI, right? Because like a lot of news organizations are like, oh, well, we'll block all these, you know, web crawlers so they can't. and scrape our information. That won't work because, number one, the crawlers don't always listen to your instructions and your robot stock text files.

Number one, if you want to show up on Google, you don't have a choice. You can't opt out of Google AI training, but opt into Google search. So if you want to be discoverable, you have to opt in. So you either slowly die because people aren't going to find you anymore. If you want to opt out, you're like, ah, I don't want large language models to scrape my content. I'm going to opt out. Well, number one, good luck. Number two, you're going to die because you're not going to get new users.

So you either slowly die. You sue all these companies, which is what a lot of media outlets and news organizations are doing. Or you enter partnerships. There's no other way, right? There's literally no other way. And even if you are trying to, you know, block all these, you know, AI scraper from getting the information from your website and, you know, putting it into their training set,

even if you do that, there's other scraper's. out there that scrape the entire internet. They make these third party data sets. And then the large language model and AI companies train off those data sets anyways. So there's no way around it. So pretty interesting and newsworthy announcement there from the New York Times. But can we please finally, when are we going to get this Alexa that's powered by Claude? It has all this information.

It was supposed to be rolling out as a paid service. I still don't have it. I will pay for that. I will pay, right? It's obviously great to be able to talk to, you know, chat GPT or Gemini live, right, when I have my phone near me. But I still am calling out to Alexa or Siri a lot of the times and I could get better answers from talking to a brick. It is mind-numbingly stupid, right? Alexa, Siri.

So please can we get this smarter version already? I'm not counting on it from Apple, but at least from Amazon and Alexa. Can we please just roll it out? All right. Douglas saying, Jordan's saying Alexa right now and setting off thousands of Amazon devices during the tech podcast. Yeah, I've heard that happens quite a bit. Sorry. I need a code word.

How can I talk about these things without saying that? I can spell them out, right? But that's a lot of work. All right. next and I don't usually talk about a lot of a lot of announcements on the creative side. Right. So, you know, photo in video tools or audio tools, but I have two this week that I think are pretty big or from a quality perspective are worth talking about. But, you know, live stream audience, if you want to see more updates on these visual tools, let me know in the

AI News roundups. Generally, I'm focusing on large language models. So generally, I'm focusing on large language models. So generally I'm focusing on Open AI, Google, Anthropic, Microsoft, meta, right, some of the big tech trillionaire companies, because I think those are the ones that impact most of us business leaders. So if you want more news on kind of the multimedia or creative side, let me know. But I think this one from Black Forest Labs is big enough to talk about because the quality is very impressive. All right. It is already on par, if you want to say state of the art, AI image generating, it's there.

So Black Forest Labs has launched Flux 1 Context. So podcast audience, that's context with a K. All right. A new family of image generating and image editing AI models. So the most advanced model is called

Flux 1 context, and it can generate images from text prompts in optional reference images, delivering results up to eight times faster than leading competitors. That's according to Black Forest Labs. So the suite includes two main models, Flux 1 Context, which allows for multi-step image refinements while preserving style and character in flux 1 context max, which emphasizes speed and prompt accuracy. So unlike previous models, these new versions are not available for

offline download. All right. So yeah, a lot of people are like, oh, wait, I can, you know, this is an open source. This one's not. All right. So you can't, you know, download this and use it right now in that way. It's only available right now in a private beta for safety and testing purposes according to Black Forest Labs. So they're also launching a model playground, giving users 200 free credits to try the models online on their website. So this release comes as competition heats up in the AI image generation sector with Google and OpenAI recently releasing their own advanced models. So the company Black Forest Labs reportedly sought $100 million in funding in at least a $1 billion

valuation last year and they are based in Germany and founded by former members from the Stability AI team. So why the heck am I talking about this? Well, we've talked about not at great length, but many times. How good specifically Google Gemini is with editing images with simple text prompts. And then obviously we covered OpenAI their GPT40 ImageGen, right, which went viral, kind of online many times. But I would say at least today, flux one context from Black Forest Labs is on par or even better

than those. And here's why I think it's important enough to talk about on a, you know, on a news show. Don't trust anything anymore. You can't, right? Anything you see online rather than thinking, is this AI generated? Or is this real? Right. You should probably assume from now on, right, and think this is going to add,

which is why they weren't making this available. kind of as an open source model. This is going to add to the deep fake problem, right, to the misinformation, disinformation epidemic that's sweeping the nation, at least here in the U.S. As these models get better and better, and you can get character consistency, and you can go in and edit photos,

and you can't even tell. And then those can be the base for videos and a very powerful tool like Google V-O-3, right? It's scary. You should assume everything you see online now, right there's been a lot of recent stories maybe i'll do an entire episode on this but people are launching uh fraudulent go fund meets right people are are obviously using this for a blackmail in a lot bad ways um this is going to be a problem but for our audience you should always assume from here

on out everything is AI generated everything you see unless you know otherwise right even probably me i would tell you right right But you should always assume because that's how good these models are now. And I think it took the general public maybe 20 years or at least 10 to 15 years to come up with this concept of, oh, things could be Photoshopped, right? Things you see online or, you know, something in a magazine, something, you know, you're seeing on TV. Oh, something could be Photoshopped, right? something could be digitally altered. Now, I think you have to start with that as default.

With anything you see, right, whether it's an ad, right, these UGC ads, whether it's something you're seeing on TV, you know, a pre-roll message on YouTube, something you see from a celebrity that you're like, oh, this is interesting. I wouldn't have thought this person would have this take or even your favorite news anchor. Assume everything is AI generated until you, are able to confirm it's not. So when in doubt, assume it's AI generated. And adding to that, our next AI news story, 11 labs has launched their conversational AI 2.0.

So this is a pretty significant updates to its enterprise voice agent platform. And this is just four months after the original launch of their conversational AI platform. So if you don't know, 11 labs, I would say they've traditionally been the least. leader or a leader, probably 1A or 1B in text to speech, although now you are seeing a lot of competitors, both open source and from the big tech conglomerates in OpenAI and Google. But the new 11 Labs text to speech conversational platform, these new updates in their 2.0 version, feature state of the art term taking model. And that's great. So, and you might be wondering, okay, why does this matter? Well, just like how I said,

assume everything that you interact with is AI generated. I would assume probably within a year. Anytime you call a call center, you are going to be calling or talking to at first an AI voice, right? Or an AI voice tree, okay? Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, right? Versus talking to somebody in a call center in a different country where you can't really hear anything or talking to one of those, you know,

computer generated ones and you're just like, you know, human, human, operator, operator, right? And you're just screaming things to get past the robotic prompts. So I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing, but I think it is things like 11 labs conversational AI 2.0. This is going to be the future of how we interface with the rest of the world, especially on the phone and on websites. So this turn taking advancement, I think is what makes it kind of noteworthy. So it does, this new model does a little bit better job of identifying when the human on the other end is done talking or not, right? So they have some demos where someone is talking and it seems like, oh, maybe they're just thinking or taking a pause or retrieving

some information where normally a voice AI might instantly interrupt or there might be a huge latency when you are done. So that's what is kind of pretty impressive here, at least from the demos that I looked at at 11 labs. Also, now it has integrated language detection that allows for seamless multilingual conversations. And the update also introduces a built-in retrieval on metive generation or rag system for companies to use enabling voice agents to instantly access external knowledge bases while maintaining low latency and privacy, which is especially useful for industries like

healthcare and customer support. Multimodal communication is now also supported so Asians can interact via voice, text or both. So yes, companies can go build these conversational AI agents and embed them pretty simply on their website or you can use this as a traditional kind of phone operator or phone operating system. So right now, enterprises can automate large-scale outreach with batch outbound, outbound calling, allowing multiple calls to be made at once for surveys, alerts, or personalized

messages. So right now, subscription prices range from a very limited free tier with limited minutes to a tier that is more than $1,300 a month for a business plan. So it just depends on how often or how much you're going to be using it. Those are the base plan. So if you're a true enterprise and you want to scale this out right across like call center type, it's going to be, more than $1,300 a month. Those are just the base business plans. All right. Our next piece of AI news, a job apocalypse is coming.

Well, in least according to Anthropic CEO, Darya Omodi, who warned that AI could eliminate up to 50% of all entry-level white-collar jobs within five years. So the Anthropic CEO kind of made a short media. tour last week shortly after their Claude 4 product was announced and, you know, kind of sounded the alarm on, hey, this powerful AI that we're all building, it's going to take a lot of jobs. So Emote predicted that US unemployment could spike up to 10 to 20 percent due to AI-driven

automation, a dramatic jump from the current 4.2 unemployment rate. So he says the threat to white collar jobs is not being ignored. by society or lawmakers and that the impacts will hit faster than most expect. So a lot more on this story. Actually, I'll go ahead and tease it tomorrow. So I won't spend any more time talking about this because we're going to do our hot take Tuesday on this exactly because I think this one needs a little bit more exploring. And I have some takes on this, particularly the timing of all of this little media.

tour. All right. So make sure to tune in tomorrow as we go over that. And last but not least, on our AI news that matters. So according to reports from Bloomberg reporter Mark German, Apple's AI conference or sorry, Apple's WWDC conference is going to be not really about AI this year. And that's probably for the best. So at WWDC 2025, Apple is expected to review You'll only minimal advancements in artificial intelligence a full year after going all in on AI and falling flat on their face. So this is, according to reports, a signal that Apple realizes they are very far behind in AI. And also, they've been facing a lot of class action lawsuits, right, because all of these AI features. And they even went as bold, my gosh, to try to rebrand AI, call it Apple intelligence.

last year at their worldwide developer conference. They, you know, hyped up all this, you know, AI that was going to come out to iPhones. They even had a bunch of marketing commercials. And now they're facing a lot of class action lawsuits because most of what they announced and marketed never came to fruition. So according to this report, the biggest AI news expected. And this is next week, June 9th. So one week from today is the kickoff of Apple's WWWDC conference. So the biggest AI news will be Apple opening.

It's on device foundation models, which have around 3 billion parameters to third-party developers. So it doesn't look like there's going to be a lot of AI announcements, which is probably for the best. Because Apple is, I can't wait for someone to make the movie about how this is probably one of the biggest failures in modern business history. right? Apple's inability to successfully roll out any really usable piece of artificial intelligence when they are multiple years behind their biggest competitors like Google, Samsung on the device side, Microsoft, right? They are so far behind. It is laughable. So a couple more things from this report. So Apple plans to introduce several smaller AI-related features in their new operating system, which they're also renaming the operating system. It'll be called iOS 26 now.

So they're aligning the operating system numbers to the years. Apparently, they spent like millions of dollars to work with a consultancy and that's what they got, right? Instead of, I don't know, we're on like iOS like 17 or 18 right now. Similarly on the Mac OS. So instead they're just going to change it to the year that it's released. Anyways, Apple does plan to introduce several AI-related features in the next operating system, including a new battery-powered management mode, a revamped Translate app integrated with AirPods and series, and labeling some app features in Safari and photos as AI-powered. So, German, the famed Bloomberg reporter who gets this right almost every single time it is the one

breaking all the Apple news. described this as a gap year for Apple, which is hilarious, right? Like, yeah, we're going to take, we're to go ahead and sit this one out, right? Anything that Apple tried to announce between what was announced two weeks ago, between Microsoft and Google, what they announced at their respective build and I.O. conferences, if Apple tried to do what they did last year with AI, they would get laughed at. and their stock would go in the tank. I would expect, right?

I'm not your financial analyst, but I would expect Apple's stock is not going to be looking great for the next month or two because of this kind of gap year. So I love that, you know, this is how it's being described. But Apple is, according to reports, actively developing more advanced AI projects, including a large language model version of Siri, a redesigned shortcut shortcuts app project Mulberry, focus, on health and a chat gbt like competitor with web search.

But for the most part, what we're going to see is they're essentially, you know, Apple has their own edge AI models and they have larger variations of their own in-house large language model that they built. And they're essentially going to be opening this up to third-party developers. So developers using their apps can take advantage of the on-device AI, which in the end might actually just be better than Apple trying to do it because they've fan. And they failed miserably. So that is a wrap.

Almondson just saying seriously, Apple? Yeah, seriously. Big bogey here on YouTube, just throwing about Apple intelligence with a bunch of face palm emojis. That's saying it nicely. All right. That is our recap of what's happened, but got a new little segment. Hey, if you're still here in the live stream, just drop a yes or no. if you want this little segment to be tagged on at the end of our future AI news that matters.

So I'm just calling this rumors and what's next. All right. So live stream audience takes two seconds. You can even just say a Y or an N. Do you want to hear this? So these are some rumors and what's next? What you should be expecting in large language model developments. So a lot of these things could happen as soon as this week.

than are expected to happen this week, or they might happen later in June. But here we go. Open AIs 03 Pro could be announced very soon. Perplexity's Comet Browser that we already talked about, which kind of doubles as a computer use agent, maybe getting a wider release, but it's already been starting to roll out last week to people who are very early on the wait list. So that should be rolling out to everyone else soon. OpenAI's GPTs, which have been pretty much widely ignored for the last year and a half,

could finally be updated and get new features as well as being able to use the O3 model, which I can't emphasize enough. That could be some of the biggest large language model news in like six months if OpenAI actually updates their GPs. Could be huge. GROC, sorry, GROC 3.5 could be coming out. any day now, but this is also after Elon Musk saying it's almost here for multiple weeks, but we're seeing some reports that it could be rolled out within the next week or two.

Claude may be getting an artifacts studio, which is an easier way to save your different Claude artifacts generations, as well as kind of an inspiration gallery that you can see and learn from other people that are using the Claude Artifacts feature. we are and this has been confirmed by Logan Kilpatrick from Google. We will be seeing a new version of Google Gemini 2.5 Pro within two weeks. And I would assume that any benchmarks that Claude was able to achieve with Claude 4 Opus or Claude 4 sonnet, I'm assuming many of those are going to be absolutely erased with this new version of Gemini 2.5 Pro.

Sorry, imprompic, you're not going to able to keep up with Google. Not this new Google. Sorry. And then like we said, next week, we will have WWDC happening on June 9th. And this is going to be a nothing burger for AI. So we won't be able to cover that next week on the show because it's actually going to happen about three to four hours after the live stream happens. But we will be covering it later in the week, even though it's going to be about nothing. All right. So that is a quick recap of what's going on in the world of AI news. So again, we had perplexity AI launching their labs in agentic mode or tool, hugging face, launching their open source robot, which cost $3,000, not $300, but I think it is

still going to be extremely big news regardless for robotics and humanoids. Google has rolled out two pretty new, pretty useful features inside Google workspace, both auto-summarizing long emails in Gmail, as well as being a able to summarize videos inside Google Drive, but Google Workspace admins do have to enable those for paid users. We had a pretty bad look for the federal government as reports saw that they kind of hallucinated or fabricated a bunch of things in a major U.S. Health Report. It was not a good look. Amazon and the New York Times struck a partnership to bring AI content to Amazon's AI platforms, including Alexa. Please get that going sooner rather than later.

We saw some new creative labs and features come out, both from Black Forest Labs and their new Image Generator Suite, which I think is on par or better than the Gemini image editing and the Open AI image editing. We saw a pretty big update from 11 labs launching their conversational AI 2.0 with some major upgrades for Enterprise Voice agents. The Anthropic CEO warned that AI could eliminate half of entry level. white collar jobs within five years, the AI Jobs Apocalypse. We're going to be talking about that one tomorrow on Hot Take Tuesday. So make sure to join us. And then last but not least, according to reports, Apple is going to release essentially nothing and AI at their WWDC conference next week.

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