Every week, I organize 400 to 700 links into roughly 60 categories as part of my ongoing effort to learn about AI. This is my personal notebook, which I enjoy sharing with friends… a hobby and a labor of love, rather than a commercial publication or product.
If you arrived here through a search or shared link, this page collects the links I found for Podcasts/YouTube for the week ending August 28, 2026.
As part of my learning process, I like to automate the category covers. It gives me a chance to learn Python and APIs.
This week’s cover prompt was written using Claude Opus 4.7, and the image was generated using Nano Banana 2.1.
Category Cover Image Prompt: A 16:9 mid-1980s murder-mystery comedy movie poster of a broad three-story Victorian mansion in high-contrast black-and-white pen-and-ink engraving with dense crosshatching, floating on pure black with fat rounded extra-heavy white sans-serif title 'Podcasts/YouTube' above the roofline, windows glowing warm amber as color cutouts showing campy costumed suspects posed with a vintage ribbon microphone and a ring-light candelabra, other windows crowded with headphones, pop filters, cameras on tripods, tangled cables, and clapperboards, one window with a tipped microphone casting a long shadow on the glass. In the open center double door stands an identical slim upright silver-haired butler in his sixties with a pencil mustache, raised eyebrow, black tailcoat, gray waistcoat, white gloves, holding a small silver tray with a sealed envelope bearing a tiny play-button triangle wax seal, symmetrical frontal composition, playful spooky camp.
This Week in Podcasts/YouTube News
Summary by Claude Sonnet 5.5 based on this week’s links:
- Compute concentration: Dwarkesh Patel's conversation with Dylan Patel argues Anthropic and OpenAI could control most of the world's usable compute by 2028. Dwarkesh also noted China still makes under 10% of new world compute, with its domestic production ramping up from 2028.
- Robotics and real-world intelligence: Several episodes dealt with machines acting in the physical world. Sergey Levine of Physical Intelligence discussed where humanoid robotics stands today and his timeline predictions, and DeepMind's Zoubin Ghahramani talked about teaching systems to handle uncertainty so decisions are safer.
- Open-source builders and tooling: The OpenClaw maintainers talked about building and securing a tool that went viral, and Mario Zechner spoke on building pi amid a flood of low-quality AI output. Separately, the ThursdAI hosts traced how open-weight releases moved from torrent links to API gates, using the GLM 5.3 release as the hook.
This summary was generated by Claude Sonnet 5.5 to help you explore the links below. Rest assured, I select, organize, and check the links by hand in Google Sheets, and write the introduction and personal commentary in The Main Newsletters myself each week as a labor of love.
This week's links related to Podcasts/YouTube
Had a lot of fun chatting again with my twin brother @dylan522p We went through lab economics over the next few years – the shift from inference to training as RSI draws near; and how Anthropic and OpenAI are on track to control most of the world’s usable FLOPs within the next”
https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2092280377255551320
Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/dylan-patel-3
The choices we make about AI now are critical | Bill Gates
https://www.gatesnotes.com/work/make-ai-work-for-everyone/reader/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make
The Economist has launched a personalised newsletter called The Economist for You, which compiles a reading list using the publisher’s in-house AI tool. The “experiment” is “different from any other editorial newsletter” in its portfolio”
https://x.com/pressgazette/status/2092174366482047424
(62) The most expensive software bug in history… – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuqSy1jPSUw
I interviewed Sundar Pichai, and he made an interesting prediction for where we’ll be in 3 years: “Any content can go from any modality to any modality. It doesn’t matter how the content was originally created — people can consume it in many different forms.” “I’m very”
https://x.com/rowancheung/status/2092276652944593257
OpenClaw Went Viral. Meet the Maintainers Building and Securing It. – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VSwaUXtPIE&t=1s
Joining the MTS stream today at 10am PST to yap about world models and spatial intelligence!”
https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2090836155906289667
Two days in and we’re at 5.5K GitHub stars, 1.4K forks, and 2.3M views on the launch videos. YouTube long form alone is past 200K views. I knew y’all wanted the code, but this is pretty damn wild. Thank you!”
https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2092780364502597674
What makes human intelligence fundamentally irreplaceable by AI? Stanford HAI Founding Director @drfeifei joins the @hubermanlab podcast to discuss how AI can extend human capabilities … and why your intuition and unique experiences are something no machine can replicate:”
https://x.com/StanfordHAI/status/2090909450991481031
Outgoing presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme Amol Rajan has warned on a politics podcast that the BBC is destined to “get smaller at an accelerating rate””
https://x.com/pressgazette/status/2092908777938833507
This week on Autonomy Signals presented by @KPMG, @gbrulte and @RobGsix discuss @Tesla’s upcoming Cybercab commercial launch and their self-certification path, @Waymo’s California monopoly and @Softbank’s $200M bet on @GravisRobotics. Episode Chapters 0:00 KPMG Sponsor”
https://x.com/RoadToAutonomy/status/2090863128061820982
This week on Autonomy Markets, @gbrulte and @WaltLightShed analyze @Waymo’s California regulatory moat, @Tesla’s upcoming Cybercab launch in Austin, and why @Uber’s series of supervised launches in Europe are not autonomous. Unsupervised is the metric. Episode Chapters 00:00″
https://x.com/RoadToAutonomy/status/2091166714830500124
China still continues to produce only sub-10% of incremental world compute. But their domestic production will have a big ramp up starting 2028. We talk about what implications this has for the discussion I had with Jensen:”
https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2092718735576732102
From weather forecasting to robotics, intelligent decision-making relies on understanding the unknown. Our VP Research @ZoubinGhahrama1 explores with @fryrsquared why teaching systems self-doubt and probability can lead to safer, more reliable real-world decision-making. 🧠”
https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/2093019627437662680
From torrent links to API gates.
https://t.co/5mDpXpzGv2 released GLM 5.3 and it’s been a shift in how providers are handling open weights @altryne and @yampeleg trace how we got here from Mistral’s legendary torrent drop days 👀”
https://x.com/thursdai_pod/status/2092689569926013109
Sergey Levine (@svlevine) is one of the world’s top robotics researchers and co-founder of Physical Intelligence. We talked about where humanoid robotics is today, thoughts on the Chinese robotics ecosystem, and his predictions for future timelines. In this episode: •”
https://x.com/ryanlpeterman/status/2091873166927020478
(62) Building pi in a World of Slop … Mario Zechner – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjfbvDXpFls&t=5s
The BBC has published its Youtube commissioning brief, a step towards original content made specifically for the platform. It’s looking for ideas conceived for Youtube, with a strong sense of the 16-24 year-old audience they’re aimed at”
https://x.com/pressgazette/status/2092160528424616340
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how agencies are sorting out which teams take the lead for buying YouTube Shorts ads.
https://x.com/Digiday/status/2092590416759591166
Toy brand Sticki Rolls is hoping to turn its YouTube creator-generated buzz into a Gen Alpha collectible brand through pop-ups and retail expansion.
https://x.com/Digiday/status/2090748278207848483
Inside OpenAI’s Reboot
https://time.com/article/2026/08/26/openai-sam-altman-interview/
The world seems to be ready’: An interview with OpenAI head of product Thibault Sottiaux | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/the-world-seems-to-be-ready-an-interview-with-openai-head-of-product-thibault-sottiaux/
Go to New York, they said. It’s gonna be fun, they said. You will meet interesting people, they said. …They were right. A day with @viamrobotics. Full episode drops this Sunday.”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2090861993582346388
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