NVIDIA GTC: OpenClaw, inference era, and agents

Who gets to define what intelligence means in the age of AI, and why are tech companies so keen to shift blame onto their creations? This episode digs into moral outsourcing, agency, and the urgent need for independent oversight in the world of artificial intelligence.

• Nvidia Unveils NemoClaw Agent Software
• Nvidia's NemoClaw is OpenClaw with guardrails
• Jensen just put Nvidia's Blackwell and Vera Rubin sales projections into the $1 trillion stratosphere
• Nvidia Unveils Groq-Based Chip System to Speed Up AI Tasks Like Coding
• Nvidia's DLSS 5 is like motion smoothing for video games, but worse
• Zuckerberg has "finished" with Alexandr Wang, worth US$14 billion
• Meta didn't buy Moltbook for bots — it bought into the agentic web
• Meta's Manus AI agent arrives on your desktop to take on OpenClaw
• Introducing GPT-5.4 mini and nano | OpenAI
• Sources: OpenAI signed a deal with AWS to sell its AI services to US government agencies for
• both classified and unclassified work, amid the Anthropic-DOD spat
• Inside OpenAI's Race to Catch Up to Claude Code
• OpenAI, Musk and Focus
• A mystery 1T-parameter AI model called Hunter Alpha, which appeared on OpenRouter on March 11, sparks speculation that DeepSeek is quietly testing its V4 model
• Hustlers are cashing in on China's OpenClaw AI craze
• Baidu is integrating OpenClaw with its Xiaodu devices to work as voice-controlled remotes, as it seeks to catch up with Tencent and Alibaba in the AI race
• Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud
• Judges Find AI Doesn't Have Human Intelligence in Two New Court Cases - Slashdot
• AI Agent Hacks McKinsey
• A study of ~1,500 US workers finds AI use can reduce burnout but also cause "AI brain fry", a mental fatigue from using AI tools beyond one's cognitive capacity
• AI companies want to harvest improv actors' skills to train AI on human emotion
• A Reddit Post, An AI Hallucination, And Two Lawyers Who Never Checked Citations Walk Into A Dog Custody Case
• Digg's open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam
• EchoPrime – Cedars-Sinai’s AI system can read echocardiograms and write the report
• Robotic Surgery Performed Remotely on Patient 1,500 Miles Away - Slashdot
• Ex-Uber CEO Kalanick Debuts Plan for 'Gainfully Employed Robots'
• German philosopher Jürgen Habermas dies at 96
• CanIRun.ai — Can your machine run AI models?
• We tried White Castle from an airport vending machine. It was bleak.
• I tried BigArch. A big mess.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

Guest: Rumman Chowdhury

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