ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 just dropped and Hollywood is panicking, we break down why this AI video tool changes everything for creators. Plus, Sam Altman and Dario Amodei have the most awkward photo op of 2026, OpenAI and Microsoft pour millions into AI safety, Google goes geothermal to power AI, states crack down on chatbots talking to your kids, and a university gets caught faking their own robot. All that plus a tool that lets you build a website just by describing it.

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2. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/19/openai-sam-altman-anthropic-dario-amodei-india-ai-summit.html
3. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/openai-and-microsoft-join-uks-international-coalition-to-safeguard-ai-development
4. https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/google_ormat_geothermal_datacenter_deal
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8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_Impact_Summit

Today on Basically AI, we cover India's new frontier AI commitments and the massive wave of investment heading into AI infrastructure, plus Sam Altman's renewed push for urgent regulation. Then we hit the product front: OpenAI's ad pivot (and the backlash), Anthropic's Claude 4.6 leap for coding/agents, and DeepMind's Deep Think approach for science.

OpenAI hires Instagram partnerships exec (The Verge)

OpenAI creative partnerships hire (Vanity Fair)

India "Frontier AI Impact Commitments" (Economic Times)

AI investment pledges at India summit (Reuters)

Reliance investment / India AI push (Reuters)

Tata data center business signs OpenAI as customer (Reuters)

Google: AI Impact Summit partnerships (Official Google Blog)

Altman: world urgently needs AI regulation (TechXplore / AFP)

OpenAI: Testing ads in ChatGPT (Official)

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (Official)

Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Official)

DeepMind: Gemini Deep Think (Official)

Google: Gemini Deep Think update (Official Google Blog)

BAFTA "human creativity" guidance (Financial Times)

Security: AI collapses response window (The Hacker News)

AI's hunger for chips is hitting your wallet. Today we break down the global memory shortage that's driving up prices on everything from iPhones to PlayStations, Meta's multi-billion dollar Nvidia deal, Saudi Arabia's $3B bet on Elon Musk's xAI empire, Anthropic's rapid-fire Claude Sonnet 4.6 launch, and Google's brand new Lyria 3 music generator that lets anyone make songs for free. Plus, your Tool of the Week is something you can try right now.

Stories Mentioned In The Show:

• RAMmageddon / Memory Chip Shortage: https://fortune.com/2026/02/15/ai-demand-memory-chip-shortage-crisis-dram-hbm-micron-skhynix-samsung/
• Meta x Nvidia Chip Deal: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/17/meta-nvidia-deal-ai-data-center-chips.html
• Saudi Arabia's Humain Invests $3B in xAI: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/saudi-arabia-humain-invests-3-123558006.html
• SpaceX-xAI $1.25 Trillion Merger: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/03/musk-xai-spacex-biggest-merger-ever.html
• Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/17/anthropic-ai-claude-sonnet-4-6-default-free-pro.html
• Google Lyria 3 Music Generation (Tool of the Week): https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/lyria-3/
• Google I/O 2026 Announced: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/google-i-o-2026-leans-into-ai-heres-what-it-means-for-you/

Welcome to the very first episode of AI for the Rest of Us, a weekly show that explains artificial intelligence in plain English for normal people.This week: ChatGPT just started showing ads for the first time. We break down exactly what happened, how it works, why it matters for anyone who uses AI tools, and what your options are. Plus, Anthropic's hilarious Super Bowl ads, why AI might be slowing down (and why that's actually good), and our Tool of the Week: Google NotebookLM, a free AI research assistant that turns your documents into podcasts.