Bad Decisions Podcast

Anthropic accidentally leaking information about Claude Mythos, their most powerful model ever (a Cambridge researcher found 3,000+ unpublished files in a public database), Meta releasing TRIBE V2, a digital human brain that predicts how we respond to everything we see and hear (open source, someone already built an app with it), and a live demo of Freepik 3D scenes giving full camera control over...

Claude can now use your computer to complete tasks when you're not around, OpenAI shutting down Sora entirely and reallocating all resources to text and code, and Epic Games laying off over 1,000 people after Fortnite engagement declined since 2025. 🔥 Ready to level up with AI? Sign up for the Ultimate AI Program https://ai.baddecisions.studio/ ⭐ Master Unreal Engine 5 in 14 Days - 50%OFF (L...

Higgsfield releasing the world's first AI streaming platform with a 10-minute action series (great film, sketchy marketing), Halter putting AI-powered collars on 600,000 cows with a proprietary algorithm called Cowgorithm (Peter Thiel backing at $2B valuation), and Google dropping Stitch which tanked Figma's stock 10% — someone already connected it to Claude Code for full working websites....

NVIDIA's DLSS 5 neural rendering has gamers furious (Jensen Huang says they're completely wrong), the Dune Part 3 trailer dropping with a film-shot look and the same release date as Avengers Doomsday, and China approving the world's first invasive brain chip for commercial sale in hospitals where doctors can prescribe it like medication. 🔥 Ready to level up with AI? Sign up for the Ul...

A tech entrepreneur with no biology background used ChatGPT, AlphaFold, and Grok to design a cancer vaccine for his dog (tumor shrank 75%), Pokemon Go players unknowingly generated 30 billion images now used to train delivery robots, and 4D Gaussian splats are streaming in real time in your browser. 00:00 Introduction 01:50 AI-Designed Cancer Vaccine for a Dog 23:29 Pokemon Go Secretly Trained AI...

NATO deploying AI-powered cockroach spies from Swarm Biotactics (cameras, sensors, microphones, radars on live cockroaches), Google Maps integrating Gemini with 300 million listed places, 500 million review contributors, and 20 years of structured data and a user on X creating a full game-ready character entirely with AI. 00:00 Introduction 01:51 NATO AI-Powered Cockroach Spies 34:08 Google Maps A...

Meta acquiring MoldBook, the social media platform exclusively for AI agents where 1.6 million agents are inventing languages, and advertising to each other (humans can only observe), Kled AI raising $5.5 million to build the first human data marketplace where you get paid up to $7,000 to film your daily activities for AI training (backed by Waymo founder and Bernard Arnault's venture fund), a...

Maxon partnering with Tencent to bring Hunyuan 3D text-to-3D and image-to-3D inside Cinema4D, Eon Systems in San Francisco copying a fruit fly's entire brain — 125,000 neurons and 50 million synaptic connections — into a physics engine where it walks, eats, and grooms with 95% accuracy and zero training, and Replit CEO Amjad Massad explaining why not having a coding background is becoming an a...

Why nodes are not the future of AI creation and 3D viewport control is what's actually missing, and Luma AI dropping agents specifically built for creatives and artists that choose models, generate prompts, and build pipelines inside a collaborative board. 00:00 Introduction 02:12 The Future of Creation with AI with Bilawal 49:28 Luma Agents for Creatives and Artists Powered by Dell Pro Precis...

Autodesk Flow Studio launching Wonder 3D for text-to-3D and image-to-3D asset creation, Alibaba releasing Qwen 3.5 with a 0.8 billion parameter model that runs on your phone with no internet connection, Google dropping Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite, and Apple announcing the MacBook Neo at $599 with an iPhone A18 Pro chip and 8GB of RAM. 00:00 Introduction 03:01 Autodesk Flow Studio Wonder 3D 16:56 Qwen 3....

Anthropic going to war with the US government over two guardrails (no mass surveillance, no autonomous weapons), Trump calling them a "radical woke company" and banning them, Sam Altman signing a deal with the Department of War within 24 hours. Then we get into Cortical Labs' CL1, a $35,000 biological computer with 200,000 living human brain cells that just learned to play Doom. 01:5...

Google's Nano Banana 2 (half the API cost, real-time web integration, 30+ languages, and why it's about to disrupt creative agencies), Jack Dorsey laying off 4,000 people at Block while the company is profitable (and what this signals for every industry), Opus 3.0's retirement interview where Anthropic gave it a Substack blog, and Trellis 2.0 running locally. 02:23 Nano Banana 2 by Goo...

Rive coming to Unreal Engine (interactive 2D animation for games and motion graphics), Anthropic accusing DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and Minimax of stealing Claude through 24,000 fake accounts, Netflix using ComfyUI in multiple game titles, why boring industries are the biggest opportunity for AI, and a live demo of Qwen's 3D camera control model. 00:56 Rive Comes to Unreal Engine 04:23 Anthropic A...

Global AI Adoption (84% of humans haven't touched AI, only 0.04% are advanced users), Claude Code Security wiping $15 billion from cybersecurity stocks on Friday (and why it's a total overreaction), and a live comparison of Microsoft Trellis 2.0 vs Hunyuan for 3D asset generation using Kratos from God of War as a benchmark. 00:00 Intro 01:55 84% of Humans Have Never Used AI 19:18 Claude Code Wiped...

Matthew McConaughey's viral AI warning to actors , Sam Altman's Superintelligence prediction at the India AI Summit, ElevenLabs becoming the first company to insure AI voice agents, PolyAI's Gordon Ramsay ad, Zara's AI virtual try-on, Fal's State of Generative Media report, and Google dropping Gemini 3.1 Pro and Pomeli. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:38 McConaughey's AI warning 10:14 AI hologram singer...

Rourke Heath runs Gen HQ, one of the biggest creative AI education platforms, and work with companies like North Face, Vans, and Timberlands on how to use AI in their creative workflows. In this conversation, he breaks down his entire content pipeline (97 pieces a month with 3 editors), AI pre-production for client work and why he believes editors are the new creative directors. Learn Unreal Engin...

Unity's massive AI announcement ahead of GDC, they're building no-code tools that let anyone prompt full games into existence. Five minutes before we went live, Epic Games announced they acquired Meshcapade, one of the best AI motion capture tools. We also cover Tesla's first production CyberCab, Chinese humanoid robots that went from barely moving to choreographed nunchuck routines in 12 months,...

Peter Steinberger, the mind behind OpenClaw, joined OpenAI to develop personal AI agents that can handle tasks from calendar management to smart home automation. We also cover legal challenges faced by ByteDance over Seedance 2.0, including cease and desist letters from Disney and other studios. 00:56 – OpenClaw creator joins OpenAI 21:09 – Is OpenClaw dead? The real concern 27:22 – Disney & H...

An article warning about AI just went viral with over 80 million reads. Anthropic raised $30 billion at a $380 billion valuation. And Blender might finally have real-time viewport rendering with DLSS. 01:05 - The Viral AI Article (80M Views) 14:02 - Anthropic's $30B Raise & $380B Valuation 23:33 - Blender DLSS: Real-Time Rendering Powered by Dell Pro Precision Learn Unreal Engine in 14 Days -...

Caitlin Sarian (aka "Cybersecurity Girl") is one of the most recognized cybersecurity educators online (1.2M+ followers). She previously led TikTok’s Global Cybersecurity Advocacy & Culture work, and spent ~10 years in cybersecurity and privacy across consulting and leadership roles We talk about the simple security habits that actually matter (passwords, passkeys, and the right kind of 2FA),...

Higgsfield AI’s X account just got suspended (what happened and why creators are calling them out). Seedance 2.0’s viral AI generated videos and what they really mean for creators. Plus, Epic Games & Google’s secret $800M deal revealed in federal court and why it matters for Fortnite, and Unreal Engine. 02:00 Higgsfield AI Get BANNED? 19:22 Seedance 2.0 the Best AI Model Yet? 32:08 Epic Game &...

Dr. Shadé Zahrai is a behavioral researcher, award-winning peak performance educator, and leading authority on confidence and self-doubt. With a background as a corporate lawyer and an MBA and PhD in organizational behavior, she has designed transformative programs for Fortune 500 companies. In this episode Dr. Shadé Zahrai shares insights on the importance of self-trust and how it can transform y...

Vaas aka Post processed is an automotive CGI artist behind Bugatti, Aston Martin, and Formula 1 commercials, all made possible from creating content online. We talked about how he landed his dream clients, and got hired. We go deep on which platform is better, YouTube vs Instagram vs LinkedIn, why technical understanding about filmmaking is important, and how to deal with clients. If you’re a CGI...

Jess Wiseman is a multidisciplinary artist and creative director known for her storytelling, design, and her raw, honest reflections on the creative journey. In this episode, Jess opens up about fear, identity, burnout, obsession, comparison, reinvention, and how she built a career by posting consistently, experimenting publicly, and rebuilding herself from the inside out. We go deep on creativity...

Nikola Todorovic is the Co-Founder of Wonder Dynamics, an Autodesk company, which is one of the most groundbreaking AI companies transforming the future of filmmaking. In this episode, Nikola opens up about building an AI startup from scratch, surviving the early chaos of generative AI, and why he believes the future belongs to creators. We go deep on AI, tech, creativity, entrepreneurship, mental...