A Technology Bonanza!
(0:00) Pre-Show
(0:41) Open
(0:54) Universal Health Coverage Day
(1:45) cj's week: A Technology Bonanza!
(7:11) Jeff's Week: Colon Cancer Surgery
(9:12) Headline: Google launched Gemini 2.0, its new AI model for practically everything
(11:36) Recommendation: ARC Skyscraper 486/C
(12:37) Segment: Missed Headlines
(13:31) Missed Headline: AWS details Project Rainier AI compute cluster
(18:22) Missed Headline: Cruise’s robotaxi service will likely shut down as GM pulls its funding
(25:25) Missed Headline: Amazon’s online car ‘dealership’ with Hyundai is now live
(28:24) Missed Headline: USDA mandates federal bird flu testing in milk
(33:59) Missed Headline: They taught rats to drive a car, and it may help us lead happier lives
(38:00) cj’s recommendation: Yann LeCun’s Convolutional Network Demo from 1989
(41:32) Jeff’s Recommendation: Conclave
Throughout our time producing Nonsense, we have learned and been reminded of many things. Most notable is that both hosts of this show talk, a lot! Usually over each other, but we’ll save that for another day.
As a result of said talking, we don’t get to cover nearly as many headlines as we would like to every episode. So this time we are covering only news to try and catch you up on what we’ve all been missing of late.
Headlines
Google launched Gemini 2.0, its new AI model for practically everything
Vintage Advert
Get The Goods - ARC Skyscraper486/C Monster!
Segment
AWS details Project Rainier AI compute cluster with hundreds of thousands of chips - SiliconANGLE
Amazon announces new ‘Rainier’ AI compute cluster with Anthropic | Semafor
Project Ceiba – Largest AI Super Computer Co-Built with NVIDIA - AWS
Cruise’s robotaxi service will likely shut down as GM pulls its funding - The Verge
Zoox Robotaxis Are Hitting Public Roads
Amazon’s online car ‘dealership’ with Hyundai is now live - The Verge
USDA mandates federal bird flu testing in milk
I taught rats to drive a car, and it may help us lead happier lives
Close
Nonsense with cj little & Jeff Parker
Nonsense desperately tries to make sense of today’s business, technology, and (sometimes) entertainment headlines. Not too serious and occasionally funny, join technologist cj little and leggy blonde Jeff Parker for their unique take on the past week. While we can’t promise you’ll laugh every week, we can promise you’ll learn something new (and maybe even interesting)
New episodes drop every Thursday morning (UTC). Produced by an orangutan; art thanks to artificial intelligence.
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