👻 Ghosts, GPUs, and GPT‑5: Your Daily AI News Episode 013 Preview

Noah McDonough
Jul 7
3 min read

Updated: Jul 16

"It was there. We saw it! And now... It's gone."

A digital illustration with a dark teal circuit board background features the bold title “GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE” at the top. Below, a ghostly human face appears to emerge from swirling digital mist, blending into the circuitry. The lower right corner is intentionally left blank for added branding. Rick Ninja & Noah McDonough — *Ghosts In the Machine. Now you see it, Now you don't!*

That’s not a line from a sci-fi movie.That’s what prepping Episode 013 of Your Daily AI felt like.

This Wednesday’s show is all about the strange, glitchy reality of working with AI tools, including a few very real moments where the machine seemed to forget what it just did.

🔄 The Silent Upgrade to GPT-4.1

We got the heads-up mid-session:

"You're now using a newer version of ChatGPT."

No release notes. No changelog. Just a quiet model shift... and suddenly, the AI was suggesting two completely different paths forward , Which was kind of like a cool "choose your own adventure" vibe, on a concept we were exploring. It was intriguing. A little eerie. And something we’d never seen before.

🕳️ The Vanishing Conversation

At one point, we created a whole conversation thread, complete with a title and working ideas… only to find it completely blank when we returned. It existed... until it didn’t.

🖼️ The Missing Promo Image

We generated a square graphic for Episode 013. It appeared. It uploaded. We confirmed it.But when we went to download it from the library?

Gone.

No file. No log. No crash.Just one more ghost in the machine.

A digital promo graphic for Episode 013 of "Your Daily AI News," featuring glitchy visual effects, overlapping AI-themed illustrations, and the headline “Ghosts in the Machine” alongside key story icons like a chalkboard for education, a DNA helix for AI medicine, and a GPU chip. — *Episode 13 - Your dAiLy Ai News*

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Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok 4, is dropping today at 8 PM PT, skipping over Grok 3.5 in favor of a much bigger leap forward—enhanced reasoning, coding acumen, and multimodal promise—all packed into one live-streamed reveal on X via @xAI. Get ready for a front-row seat to Grok’s next chapter.

🎓 AI Academy for Teachers

The AFT and top AI labs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft) just launched a $22.5M initiative to train K–12 teachers on tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Copilot. Why it matters: The classroom is about to get a serious AI upgrade—and educators need support to use it wisely.

🧬 Isomorphic Labs’ AI-Created Cancer Drugs Enter Human Trials

Google DeepMind’s sister company says its AI-designed drugs are already in Phase I human trials for hard-to-treat cancers. Why it matters: If validated, this could mark a turning point in how we develop life-saving treatments—faster, cheaper, and more targeted.

💰 Meta’s Superintelligence Labs Poaches Elite AI Talent

Meta is going all in, hiring away top engineers from OpenAI, Apple, Google, and Anthropic. Rumors of mid-seven-figure compensation packages are circulating. Why it matters: The AI talent wars are real—and Meta wants to compete at the frontier of AGI.

🚀 GPT‑5 Rumored to Drop This Summer

Credible leaks point to a July or August release, with advances in reasoning, memory, personalization, and multimedia capabilities. Why it matters: If true, this could be the most powerful general-purpose AI ever released to the public.

⚙️ OpenAI Doubles Down on Nvidia

Despite its cloud partnership with Google, OpenAI is prioritizing Nvidia GPUs over Google’s TPUs for core infrastructure. Why it matters: It’s a major signal of Nvidia’s dominance—and they just crossed the $4 trillion market cap.💡 GPU = Graphics Processing Unit, great for parallel AI tasks💡 TPU = Tensor Processing Unit, Google’s custom AI chip