Anywhere Club

👉 EngX Space: https://engx.space/ In this episode of The Road to Abundance, Gordon Mullan and Govind Shukla take on one of the most heated weeks in tech and AI. From the Google Pixel 10 vs. Apple iPhone 17 showdown to Microsoft finally putting real AI power into Excel, the race to dominate the future of devices and productivity tools is getting intense. The conversation also digs into the promise — and risks — of agentic browsers that act on your behalf online, raising big questions about privacy, autonomy, and safety. And to end on a lighter (but no less fascinating) note: meet your robot ping-pong partner — a glimpse at the playful side of robotics. And don’t forget — you can find previous episodes of The Road to Abundance on the ENGX SPACE YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@engxspace https://www.youtube.com/@engxspace https://www.youtube.com/@theroadtoabundance Download MP3: https://engx-space.simplecast.com/episodes/trta9 NAVIGATION 00:00 – Introduction 00:00:39 – Google: Pixel 10, Tensor G5 & AI Features 00:19:30 – Google: NotebookLM & Translate Upgrades 00:19:54 – xAI: Grok 2.5 Open Source & Grok Code Fast 00:25:22 – Microsoft: Excel Copilot, MAI-1 & rStar2-Agent 00:38:09 – OpenAI: GPT Realtime & ChatGPT Quiz Mode 00:41:02 – Anthropic: Claude in Chrome & Data Policy 00:44:09 – China: Alibaba Qoder IDE & Wan2.2-S2V 00:45:28 – DeepSeek V3.1 & Performance Benchmarks 00:47:00 – Tencent: AutoCodeBench Release 00:50:07 – JetBrains: Junie Agent & AI Assistant Upgrades 00:51:40 – Runway: Act-Two Motion Transfer & AI Worlds 01:04:40 – Meta: Interviews & Superintelligence Vision 01:18:19 – Ethics & Culture: AI Music, Job Risk & Trends 01:22:59 – Final Words LINKS FROM THE EPISODE 🔹 Instant ADHD Support by Vitya: https://www.adhdhelp.app 🔹 "Evolution of Code" by Lesha: https://t.me/evocoders 🔹 Nano Banana — Gemini 2.5 Flash Image update (Google blog): https://blog.google/intl/en-mena/product-updates/explore-get-answers/nano-banana-image-editing-in-gemini-just-got-a-major-upgrade/ 🔹 Google AI Studio: https://aistudio.google.com/apps/bundled/pixshop?showPreview=true&showAssistant=true 🔹 Made by Google presentation: https://www.youtube.com/live/JXCXTQIIvM0 🔹 Live Translate and language lessons: https://blog.google/products/translate/language-learning-live-translate 🔹 Gemini CLI in Zed: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-cli-is-now-integrated-into-zed/ 🔹 Grok private chat leak: https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2025/08/20/elon-musks-xai-published-hundreds-of-thousands-of-grok-chatbot-conversations/ 🔹 Grok 2 weights: https://huggingface.co/xai-org/grok-2 🔹 Grok Code Fast 1: https://openrouter.ai/x-ai/grok-code-fast-1 🔹 X (Elon Musk) — Macrohard announcement: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1958852874236305793 🔹 LinkedIn (Satya Nadella) — post about COPILOT in Excel: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/satyanadella_i-just-love-this-the-new-copilot-function-activity-7363257256714387459-3tYQ/ 🔹 COPILOT in Excel: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365insiderblog/bring-ai-to-your-formulas-with-the-copilot-function-in-excel/4443487 🔹 MAI-Voice-1, MAI-1-preview: https://microsoft.ai/news/two-new-in-house-models%20 🔹 Copilot Audio Expression: https://copilot.microsoft.com/labs/audio-expression 🔹 GPT Realtime (listening page): https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-realtime 🔹 Claude for Chrome announcement: https://claude.ai/chrome 🔹 Training on user data: https://www.theverge.com/anthropic/767507/anthropic-user-data-consumers-ai-models-training-privacy 🔹 Chat MCP connectors and memory: https://mistral.ai/news/le-chat-mcp-connectors-memories 🔹 Qoder: https://qoder.com/blog/qoder-introduction 🔹 Wan2.2-S2V: https://wan.video 🔹 Wan S2V — project page: https://humanaigc.github.io/wan-s2v-webpage 🔹 DeepSeek V3.1: http://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.1 🔹 AutoCodeBench article: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09101 🔹 AutoCodeBenchmark: http://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/AutoCodeBenchmark 🔹 HunyuanWorld-Voyager: https://3d-models.hunyuan.tencent.com/world/ 🔹 JetBrains Next Edit Suggestions: https://blog.jetbrains.com/ai/2025/08/introducing-next-edit-suggestions-in-jetbrains-ai-assistant/ 🔹 JetBrains AI quota model: https://blog.jetbrains.com/ai/2025/08/a-simpler-more-transparent-model-for-ai-quotas 🔹 TRAE IDE Privacy mode: https://www.trae.ai/blog/product_thought_0819 🔹 Runway — Game Worlds: https://x.com/runwayml/status/1958516860149997672 🔹 NotebookLM updates: https://blog.google/technology/google-labs/notebook-lm-audio-video-overviews-more-languages-longer-content/ 🔹 Krea.ai Realtime Video: https://www.krea.ai/blog/announcing-realtime-video 🔹 Comet attack demo: https://vimeo.com/1111446047 🔹 Comet prompt injection: https://brave.com/blog/comet-prompt-injection 🔹 ESET Research on AI malware: https://x.com/ESETresearch/status/1960365364300087724 🔹 npm nx incident: https://semgrep.dev/blog/2025/security-alert-nx-compromised-to-steal-wallets-and-credentials #theroadtoabundance #google #apple