November 10, 2025, AI-Now - Hardware, Creativity, Surveillance - Deep Dive with Alex and Jessica

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AI Hardware Economics, Agentic AI for Creativity, Global Spyware Crisis, Workflow Automation, Embodied AI and Robotics. Description: This deep dive explores the current dizzying pace of AI progress, focusing on the core tension between acceleration and accountability.

• Hardware Disruption: Tesla's potential partnership with Intel to produce the AI5 chip could slash manufacturing costs by 90% (10% of Nvidia’s current cost), and use only about one-third the power of Nvidia’s flagship Blackwell chip. This shift could fundamentally change the economics of deploying AI for enterprise leaders.

• Scaling AI Value: Scribe, now valued at $1.3 billion, introduced Scribe Optimize to tackle the crucial "discovery problem". The platform automatically mines human workflows across a company to identify the prime, high-value targets for automation. Customers are reporting substantial benefits, including saving 35 to 42 hours per person per month.

• Creative Acceleration: Adobe MAX unveiled a strategy that integrates agentic AI assistants directly into apps like Photoshop to automate repetitive tasks and guide complex workflows. Adobe is prioritizing the interface by offering a single plan with access to leading models from Google, OpenAI, Runway, and Luma AI. Google Maps also integrated Gemini, introducing a builder agent that allows developers to describe map prototypes in plain text to generate functional code.

• Accountability Gap: The global market for government spyware is thriving, with documented abuse against journalists, activists, and minor political opponents. The bulk subscription licensing model creates a "huge abuse temptation". Simultaneously, the Wikimedia Foundation urged AI companies to stop scraping content due to an 8% decline in human page views and strained servers from undetected bots, demanding use of its paid API and clear attribution to support its volunteer contributors.

• Embodied AI: The conversation concludes with AI stepping into the physical world, from Morgan Stanley predicting Apple could pull in $133 billion annually from humanoid robots by 2040, to the life-saving Firebot scout robot designed to survive 1,200°F to provide real-time thermal intelligence for firefighters, and Oxford's innovative 'brain-free' soft robots that operate purely on air pressure.

The urgency of closing the governance gap is underscored by McKinsey research showing only 33% of companies scale AI effectively, and OpenAI predicting AI will be making significant scientific discoveries by 2028.

Timestamps:
• 0:00 – Introduction: Acceleration vs. Accountability
• 2:58 – Hardware: Tesla-Intel AI5 Chip & 90% Cost Drop
• 5:50 – Enterprise Value: Scribe Optimize for Workflow Automation
• 7:30 – Creative Tech: Google Maps Builder Agent & Conversational Coding
• 9:20 – Creative Tech: Adobe Agentic AI & Unified Model Access
• 11:15 – Governance Risk: Global Spyware Proliferation & Abuse Temptation
• 13:10 – Data Integrity: Wikipedia’s Plea to Stop Scraping & Ensure Attribution
• 14:30 – Physical AI: Apple’s $133B Humanoid Moonshot & Life-Saving Robotics
• 17:00 – Conclusion: The Urgency of the Governance Gap (McKinsey & OpenAI 2028)

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