S1E49 - Weekly AI News - Aug. 15, 2025

This week on our show, the hosts start with the US government launching USAi, a new secure platform for federal employees to use AI tools. They discuss the growing pains of the AI boom, as massive, energy-hungry data centers strain the national grid. The conversation then shifts to US policy, with the hosts discussing the motivation behind the former Biden administration's AI chip restrictions against China. They then discuss a new development, with the US now secretly embedding trackers in chip shipments to enforce those controls, and highlight a potential contradiction, as the current Trump administration's science funding cuts...