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Snake Oil: Block Layoffs, Netflix & WB, Anthropic RSP, Anthropic and OpenAI vs the DoD
We start the episode with a less-than-lightning round through some events of the week, including Block's 40% layoffs, Netflix walking away from the Warner Bros acquisition, and Anthropic's updates to…
Occam's Razor Split: Moves in Tech Regulation, OpenClaw Call-Out, Alpha School
After a lightning round of updates in government interaction with tech, we discuss the fascinating case study of an OpenClaw agent writing a call-out blog post for an open source maintainer who…
Render Farm in the Bathroom: Discord Age Verification, SpaceXXX, Iron Lung
We almost managed to not talk about AI today. This week's topics include the backlash to Discord rolling out age verification worldwide, SpaceX acquiring xAI and Elon Musk's new moon-based visions,…
U Mad, Bro?: Claude's Super Bowl Ad, Moltbook Mania, the SaaSpocalypse, Anthropic Documents Unsealed
In this accidentally all-Anthropic installment, we discuss Anthropic's firing shots at OpenAI with their new anti-ads ads, the AI tools blowing up this past week (Moltbook and the SaaSpocalypse), and…
Emotional B.O.: US TikTok Issues, Social Media Addiction Suits, Is OpenAI Losing the Race?
Sign the petition to call on tech leaders to speak out against ICE and Border Patrol's actions in Minnesota: https://iceout.tech/This week we discuss accusations of censorship by the newly-divested…
A Little Too Roko's Basilisk: AI at Davos, Razer at CES, Claude's Constitution
This week, we talk about comments from Dario Amodei and Satya Nadella at the World Economic Forum, Razer CEO Min-Ling Tan's interview with Nilay Patel of the Verge, and Anthropic's official release…
Optimistic Dichotomy: Grok and Society, Claude Code and Claude Cowork
In this episode, we review developments in the Grok deepfake epidemic and examine its implications on society at large, and then discuss the wave of excitement over Claude Code and the launch of…
Batteries in the Basement: Grok Deepfakes, War Prediction Markets, Data Center Demand Response
In this episode, we discuss our depression and anger at the current torrent of nonconsensual nudification generated by Grok on X, a $400k Polymarket win on Maduro's deposition and Congress's…
Lock the Bubble: 2026 AI IPOs, AI in the 2026 Midterms, Insights from Amazon Retail
In our first episode of the year, we talk about some 2026 outlook topics: potential IPOs from OpenAI and Anthropic, and AI backlash in the US midterm elections. In the latter part of the podcast, we…
Seymour Cash: Disney-OpenAI Deal, AI Water Use Discourse, Larian Backlash & AI Leadership
This week, we discuss the deal between Disney and OpenAI, including the interesting specifics of the financials and the challenge of implementing Disney's guardrails. Then, we discuss the complex…
Strong Air Quotes: AI Coding Productivity, Polymarket War Betting, Australia's Social Media Ban
In this episode, we discuss research from DX and Anthropic on how much benefit enterprises are seeing from AI coding tools, the Polymarket bet on the Russia-Ukraine war that was probably gamed, and…
AI Vibes: Seattle Hates AI?, Social Media Polarization Research, Claude's Soul Document
This week, we hit the viral discourse that everyone in Seattle hates AI, new research on how social media effects emotional affect and political polarization, and talk about Claude 4.5 Opus's "soul…
Dry Wine Tasting: Recent AI Research from MIT and Anthropic
It's an all AI research week, as we talk about the MIT Iceberg Index - a measure job exposure to AI on a per-task basis - an Anthropic study on the economic impacts of productivity improvements using…
A Burrito: Exec Order on State AI Regulation, Cloudflare's Postmortem, Consensus Investing
This week, we discuss the leaked draft executive order focused on federal pre-emption of state AI regulation and its baked-in assumption that LLMs are magic truth machines, the recent Cloudflare…
30% Earthworm: Anthropic's Political Bias Eval, AI Smut, Marc Andreessen vs the Pope
We start this episode with a shoutout to the closure of Teen Vogue. In the main episode, we discuss Anthropic's recently released open-source evaluation of an LLM's "political even-handedness," a…
Pink Elephants: Amazon v. Perplexity, ChatBot Mental Health Report, NYC Mayoral Election
In this week's episode, we talk about Amazon's recent lawsuit against Perplexity for them masking user agents while browsing the Amazon site, OpenAI's report on mental health-related conversations…
Gambling is Fun: Truth Predict, Grokipedia, Python Software Foundation Diversity Win
This week, we discuss Trump Media's Truth Social platform adding prediction markets, Elon Musk's Wikipedia-clone ego project, and an example of an organization standing on its principles and refusing…
Fun and Sexy: Anthropic x Trump Admin, Twitch Livestreaming, Elon Musk's Robot Army
In this episode, we discuss Twitter beef between Jack Clark and David Sacks prompting an official Anthropic response, Twitch and the future of livestreaming, and how plausible it is that Elon Musk…
Scintillating Economic Policy: OpenAI updates, Anthropic policy research, Private vs Public Markets
In this episode, we take a moment to run through updates on OpenAI topics from our last episode, before launching into two different economic policy topics - policy proposals Anthropic has gathered…
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