057: Today in AI: OpenAI's $100B Financial Alchemy, “Work Slop” Crisis, Simple AI Tool Recovers UK £500M

Join 40,000 readers and get the full notes and summary: https://newsletter.aiwithkyle.com/subscribe Subscribe and turn on notifications to catch the next live stream: https://www.youtube.com/@iamkylebalmer?sub_confirmation=1 Want to become fast-track becoming an AI Trainer? Apply to join the next AI Workshop Kit cohort: https://newsletter.aiwithkyle.com/c/workshop-kit This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle News and Updates Live Stream’ First aired: 23 September 2025 Summary: Nvidia investing $100 billion into OpenAI, which then promptly spends it on Nvidia chips. It's circular economics at its finest, and frankly, it makes me a bit queasy. Not because the money's flowing, but because we're essentially putting all our eggs in Sam Altman's basket. His latest blog post about "abundant intelligence" reads like a masterclass in stakeholder management - hitting every note from "fundamental human right" to "American supremacy" to "trust us with more billions, please." Whilst we're throwing money at AI infrastructure, Harvard Business Review coined the term "work slop" to describe the very real problem of people using AI to generate impressive-looking nonsense that actually creates more work for everyone else. It's the productivity equivalent of junk food, looks substantial, tastes like cardboard. Finally, the UK managed to claw back £500 million from fraudsters using what appears to be a fairly straightforward GPT-4 tool, proving that sometimes the most effective AI applications are refreshingly mundane. Watch full edited live stream: https://youtu.be/kAgTFYvCcgo  —— More Useful Resources —— My other daily live show - 30-day building a business in public challenge: https://www.youtube.com/live/Z0Z_1Eg3HUk (day one) Free AI Entrepreneurship Playbooks: https://aiwithkyle.com/catalog Free Quiz: What AI business should you start? https://aiwithkyle.com/tools Free AI Training Business Planner: https://aiwithkyle.com/tools/workshop-builder Free 10-Week ‘Vibe Coding’ AI Summer Camp: https://aiwithkyle.com/courses/10-week-ai-summer-camp —— Time Stamps —— 0:00 - Introduction 0:31 - OpenAI Investment Concerns 1:35 - Sam Altman's "Abundant Intelligence"  4:00 - OpenAI's Infrastructure Vision & Financial Strategy 6:12 - The Reality of AI Scaling Laws & Brute Force Approach 13:09 - Q&A: Go High Level Platform Discussion 14:27 - UK Tech Investment & AI Talent Discussion 15:40 - Grok Jailbreak & Pliny the Liberator 17:40 - AI Work Slop: Harvard Business Review Analysis 29:58 - Q&A: Wealth Management & AI Opportunities 32:27 - UK Government AI Fraud Detection Success 39:13 - Q&A: AI in Wealth Management & Foundation Model Costs 44:05 - Q&A: OS Automation  44:48 - Q&A: China's AI Development  46:22 - Closing & Build in Public Announcement —— Contact —— Best is in YouTube comments. For business enquiries only: https://www.passionfroot.me/iamkylebalmer

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