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
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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
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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
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