This week, we discussed China's new and astonishing DeepSeek AI model. We unpacked why it's so revolutionary and its potential to change the economics of AI forever!

We also discussed "Project Stargate", the largest AI investment in history with a hugely ambitious goal that could transform society forever! 

Finally, we unpacked TrumpCoin, discussed the case for and against it, and threw in a TikTok ban pallet cleanser!

This week, Stevie Telavivie discussed how energy is produced, the grid's issues, why our prices are so high, and possible future solutions, notwithstanding his Johnny Walker whiskey analogy.

Andy, the asshole, takes us down crypto lane with a great explainer on Bitcoin and its properties as both a currency and store of value and why the hell Oklahoma is establishing its own Bitcoin reserve.

Finally, Uncle Paddy discusses Keir Starmer's "Plan for Change," which is a bold vision for how the UK can become an AI maker rather than an AI taker. 

On this episode we discussed predictions for 2025, these included...

Which industries will see the greatest shift in workforce requirements due to AI in 2025?

What emerging Technologies will have the biggest impact on daily life in 2025?

Biggest winners/losers in tech 2025 (Company names and why)?

What will be the dominant LLM (Large Language Model) in 2025?

Biggest political winners/losers in 2025 (who and why)?

This week, we set the record straight on DeepSeek and discuss the new OpenAI model o3!

What is Humanities last exam, and why is it the last AI benchmark we'll ever need? 

We also discuss the retail apocalypse and provide our prescription for what it will take to "fix retail"

Finally, we discuss future battery tech that will put an end to range anxiety and finish with a tariff war pallet cleanser!

This week we discuss Doge, what is it, what are they trying to do, and why is it so damn controversial.

After another week of stunning AI advances, we discuss whether society is genuinely ready and which industries will most likely be disrupted.

Finally, we discuss a round-up of this week's tech news, including Space Fuel and brain-machine interfaces

🚀 AI is moving fast—are you keeping up? In Episode 6 of The Round Table Rethink, we dive into the latest AI breakthroughs shaping the business world:

🎙️ Special Guest: Brian McGuire – Serial optometry entrepreneur & startup mentor shares expert insights on AI’s impact on business.

🌍 The European AI Summit – Uncle Paddy Breaks down JD Vance’s Speech and What it Signals for Global AI Leadership.

🤖 Grok 3 is here – Elon Musk claims it’s the world’s most powerful AI. What do we actually know?

💼 AI for small businesses – Brian and Andy (the asshole) cover Practical strategies to leverage AI for real-world business growth.

If you're an executive, business owner, or industry leader, this episode delivers must-know insights to help you stay ahead.

🔗 Listen now:

Apple Podcast... https://shorturl.at/CAjJ7
Spotify... https://shorturl.at/LzR7P
YouTube... https://shorturl.at/CnANX
Website... https://shorturl.at/NF3Wh

Stevie Telavive and Uncle Paddy go at it over Starmer's attack on Apple's End2End Encryption.

We reveal Grok3's incredible new capabilities.

Andy the asshole delivers a stunning breakdown of how to apply entrepreneurial tactics and AI to the job-seeking process.

Finally, Stevie Telavive brings us home with his "Good AI Gone Bad" segment, discussing the darker side of AI and why we shouldn't be complacent about the risks.

Resources

Full Employment Hackers Course
https://drive.proton.me/urls/BGSFG91RV8#tEIWFDTUAWWp

Taylor Swift Image
https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_d04a3605-c3f2-48f6-8d76-12e137fbf890

Proton Drive Encrypted Cloud Storage
https://proton.me/drive

Perplexity AI
https://www.perplexity.ai/

ChatGPT
https://chatgpt.com/

CV Template
https://drive.proton.me/urls/8NPRFN2G7C#2H7XdkjCBS2Q

This week, we discussed Claude 3.7 and ChatGPT 4.5. These new models dropped shortly after the podcast last week. We reveal their capabilities and what makes them different from other leading models.

Agentic AI! What is it, what can it do for you, who are the key players, and how it's going to disrupt EVERYTHING?

Finally, we discuss the cost of waging war, technological breakthroughs, and what the future may hold!

This week, Andy the asshole kicks things off with a breakdown of Google's new Gemini 2.5 pro model. 

Uncle Paddy leads us in a conversation about MCP (model context protocol). What is it, how do you leverage it, and what are the implications for an agentic AI future???

Finally, we discuss business planning and strategy as part 3 of our multi-part episode on unpacking the entrepreneurial journey. Uncle Paddy provides a handy downloadable template for budding entrepreneurs to leverage (see link below)

Simple Business Planning Template
https://drive.proton.me/urls/ZZ1ZJREA28#xF86ykE34iH1

Of course, we can't wrap up any episode without a stream-of-consciousness speed run from Stevie Telavivie on AI education and its implications for society.

This week Andy, the asshole, unpacks Global GPT, maybe the only GPT you'll ever need. 

Uncle Paddy joins from the Cotswolds with a Manus AI update, segwaying into segment 2 of our entrepreneurial breakdown, "Understanding Your Market."

Finally, we wrap up with a speed run on values, Tesla and ANY DAMN THING WE PLEASE!!!

Useful Links

Global GPT 
https://glbgpt.com/

Google Trends 
https://trends.google.com/trends/

Answer The Public
https://answerthepublic.com/tiggdq/member/searches

Manus AI
https://manus.im/app

This week, Andy the asshole breaks down a groundbreaking new AI agent, Manus AI, its capabilities and what it means for jobs.

In our practical AI segment, we discuss applying AI to the Facebook marketplace arbitrage game and how we made 78 bucks with little to no effort! 

Finally, Uncle Paddy kicks off the first of a series of conversations over the next 10 weeks, breaking down the entrepreneurial journey, a fascinating trip down memory lane for us all!

This week we discuss Dodge, the story so far. 

What's happening with Tesla and the outlook for the coming months and years 

Tariffs, what are they, and why are they being levied?

Entrepreneurship, the first in a series of deep dives into the entrepreneurial journey; more to follow in the coming weeks!

This week, we discuss OpenAI's new virtual software development agent, "CODEX1", and the implications for the tech industry.

We also discussed VAPI, the incredible new voice calling agent that is natural, conversational and context aware. We unpack the implications for the 40 million jobs globally that are dependent on script-based telephony.

Finally, we discuss the burgeoning Scottish space industry and, more specifically, satellite manufacturing, all from the greatest little country on earth that gave the world EVERYTHING!!

This week, we discuss the exploding popularity of Chinese car brands on UK roads and debunk some common myths around why this might be happening.

We also take listener questions this week, covering.... 

Do you still need a technical co-founder in the age of AI and no-code?

Will my young children or grandchildren have an AI teacher, and if so, what will they be learning?

Will AI agents take my job, and if so, when?

This week, we put a bow on our 5-week entrepreneurial breakdown by revealing our top 15 lessons learned from a combined 90 years in business.

We discuss the following topics...

• Most things don't matter, and a few things matter a lot
• Big things take time
• Everything is a product/service problem
• Simple scales and fancy fails
• Beware of the managerial class
• Consistency beats complexity
• Be unbullshitable
• Reputation is the ultimate deal lubricant
• Proximity to power matters
• Focus is a superpower
• Hard decisions, easy life
• Be greedy, be lazy
• Understand the price of choices
• If you can't be with the one you love, then love the one you're with 
• Lose the emotion, trust the gut and let logic rule all

This week, we discuss the final instalment in our entrepreneurial breakdown: building a team. We discuss when and how to hire your first team members and how to make them effective.

More than 50% of young people don't vote; we discuss the lack of political awareness and touch on some potential solutions for a more educated electorate.

Finally, we unpack all the latest AI tools and tech innovations from Google's Cloud next event. 

This week, we discuss the highlights from the Nvidia GTC conference, including their AI hardware roadmap.

Andy, the asshole, unpacks segment 4 of our breakdown of the entrepreneurial journey, Sales and Marketing, providing killer and actionable insights on how to identify and land your first 10 customers. 

Finally, Stevie Telavive brings us home with a discussion about tariffs and the stock market implosion over the last few days.

This week, we dig into the crypto conundrum — why digital currencies still feel so damn complicated.

From there, we unpack Google’s new “Nano Banana” image-manipulation tech and what it could mean for Adobe’s future.

Andy (being his usual asshole self) takes us on a ride through agentic vibe coding with Lindy AI, before we wrap up with a look at the evolving energy landscape and what it signals for the road ahead.

Curious, contrarian, and just the right amount of chaotic — this episode ties together the worlds of tech, money, and power.

This week, we'll be discussing what the hell happened to Chat-GPT5 and diving deep into a very troubling trend: the growing graveyard of failed AI projects. Why are so many companies getting it so wrong?"

This week, we dive into the big AI headlines:

• ChatGPT-5 Launch – OpenAI’s latest frontier model is here. We explore its new capabilities, where it shines, and where it still has room to grow.
• OpenAI’s Open-Source Models – Compact, powerful, and able to run locally. We discuss what this could mean for businesses.
• Claude Opus 4.1 – The new heavyweight champion of AI coding. It’s a refinement release with hints of bigger things ahead.
• Tariffs & the UK Economy – Could new trade policies help solve the UK’s financial challenges? We break down the possibilities.

This week, we discuss the launch of Grok 4, now the world's most powerful reasoning model, crushing benchmarks everywhere!

We also dive deep into Prompt engineering fundamentals and break down one of the many prompt engineering frameworks, RACE!

Finally, we address the significant questions of why AI adoption in business is slow and what happens to critical thinking skills in an AI-driven world.

All this and more on this week's episode of the Roundtable Rethink Podcast!

Sounds technical, but this is one of our most value-heavy episodes!!

This week, we deep dive into prompt engineering, the new language of business!

We discuss the four-phase implementation framework and the three mistakes executives often make when considering prompt engineering.

We conclude with a quick-fire round of AI news, including Meta's eye-watering compensation packages for AI researchers and new AI safety concerns as models refuse to shut down.

Tesla RoboTaxi Launch, Grok 3.5 Rewrites History, How To ACTUALLY Implement AI in Your Business

This week, we discuss the successful launch of Tesla's RoboTaxi service in Austin and explore the outrageously profitable autonomous self-driving business model that could make Tesla the most valuable company in the world.

We also discussed Elon's plans to use Grok 3.5 to rewrite the entire corpus of publicly available information. This ingenious move would give XAI the cleanest set of pre-training data in the world, enabling the development of the most accurate and truth-seeking models.

Finally, we begin to unpack the practical steps that every company must take to implement AI into their business in a way that enables them to become an AI-led or AI-first company.

This week, we discuss Perplexity AI's expansion of its toolset into live sports, agentic capabilities, and in-depth financial analysis.

We take a fascinating listener's question, "Can you be entrepreneurial without being an entrepreneur?"

Andy leads us in a conversation about implementing AI in a practical way inside your business.

Finally, Brian unpacks a fascinating entrepreneurial case study on the ATOB fuel card that is disrupting the entire trucking industry.

This week, Andy the asshole leads us in a philosophical discussion about the potential Black Mirror implications of AI for society, including kids, employment and mental health.

Stevie Telvaivie takes into orbit by comparing the space race and the AI cold war between the USA and China.

Finally, Uncle Paddy unpacks all the latest AI announcements from the Google I/O conference.