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Avg. Duration 16m
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Stay in the loop with the biggest stories in AI—without the noise and nonsense. Each week, Jack Houghton (CPO at Mindset AI) unpacks the latest news, research, and product trends shaping the future of artificial intelligence. From OpenAI breakthroughs to unicorn startups, In The Loop delivers sharp, less than 20-minute episodes packed with insights for product leaders, engineers, and AI-curious innovators. Subscribe to get smarter about AI, every week. Don't forget to rate and share the show with other AI enthusiasts. Check out Mindset AI: https://bit.ly/40lJr6B

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AI's yearly panic is back. Here's what everyone's getting right and wrong about it.

Jun 04, 2026 17m

Every summer since 2023, AI gets a panic season — critics say that AI's novelty i novelty's wearing off, the models have hit a wall, ninety-five percent of projects fail. Each time it dominates for a…

Why OpenAI co-founder and the world's most famous AI researcher just joined Anthropic

May 28, 2026 10m

Andrej Karpathy joined Anthropic on 19 May 2026. Most people read it as an OpenAI story — he co-founded the lab, left twice, and landed at the rival.That's not what this is. Eight weeks before he…

The reasons AI data centers have become more hated than nuclear power plants

May 21, 2026 16m

Americans now say they'd rather live next to a nuclear reactor than an AI data center. That's not a fringe view — a Gallup poll published this month found 71% of Americans oppose a data center near…

Why the companies cutting junior headcount are making a decade-long mistake

May 14, 2026 16m

In 1971, Boeing laid off 44,000 engineers in 18 months. The aerospace industry is still paying for it — they're projecting a shortage of over a million engineers by 2030, and the cohort that would…

How to build an AI-native team & company: The six-principle playbook from Y-Combinator

May 07, 2026 26m

Y Combinator have just published a playbook for building a company that runs on AI rather than just using it.Six principles, written by a general partner who works with hundreds of the very best…

How to build your own AI personal operating system & second brain

Apr 30, 2026 16m

The gap between casual Claude users and people getting ten times more out of it isn't prompt craft. It's a folder. This is the basis of a personal AI operating system.Andrej Karpathy posted his "LLM…

What the big new AI trend Tokkenmaxxing is & why its a big problem

Apr 23, 2026 23m

Most AI spending right now is measured in tokens consumed. Jellyfish tracked 12,000 developers across 200 companies and found the heaviest users produced twice the output at 600 times the cost.…

Why Anthropic are too scared to release their new model, Mythos

Apr 16, 2026 12m

On Wednesday, the US Treasury Secretary and the chair of the Federal Reserve called an emergency meeting with the CEOs of America's largest banks. Not about interest rates. Not about inflation. About…

How to use the 3 new Claude Cowork features that have changed my life

Apr 09, 2026 17m

OpenClaw became the fastest-growing open source project in history by showing people what an always-on AI agent could actually feel like. The problem is it requires a dedicated machine, technical…

Why OpenClaw is the most important software invention since ChatGPT

Apr 02, 2026 13m

Jensen Huang stood in front of a Morgan Stanley audience and called OpenClaw "probably the single most important release of software, probably ever" — arguably more important than the web browser,…

S1E53 Claude Skills: How to use them, why they are important & what they are.

Mar 26, 2026 21m

Skills are the fix for most of your problems using AI tools. And right now they're one of the most powerful and most underused features in the entire Claude ecosystem.In this episode of In The Loop,…

S1E52 The reason AI is impacting only 20% of tasks

Mar 19, 2026 20m

Anthropic just dropped a labor market report with a chart you need to see. It maps what AI could theoretically do across every major occupation against what it's actually doing. The gap is enormous.…

Here's why AI is making us work more, not less.

Mar 13, 2026 13m

A UC Berkeley study spent eight months inside a real tech company watching how people actually used AI. The finding? Workers worked more, not less. They took on broader responsibilities, blurred the…

S2E51 Why the department of war banned Claude

Mar 05, 2026 16m

Anthropic turned down hundreds of millions of dollars and said no to the Pentagon. Less than 24 hours later, OpenAI signed the deal. Both companies claim identical principles, but one drew a line in…

S2E50 The New Super AI Skill: Management

Feb 26, 2026 10m

The job market just had its worst month since 2009. Over 108,000 layoffs were announced in January alone (a 120% increase year-on-year), and AI was directly cited in thousands of them. But the real…

S2E48 The SaaS Apocalypse: Why $1 Trillion Was Wiped from Software Stocks

Feb 19, 2026 28m

Over a trillion dollars has been wiped from software stocks. Traders are calling it the SaaS Apocalypse, and the sell-off is only accelerating. In this episode of In The Loop, I break down why…

S1E47 Elon Musk Merged xAI With SpaceX (And Filed To Put A Million Data Centers In Orbit)

Feb 13, 2026 15m

AI already consumes more electricity than some countries. By 2030, it'll double, equivalent to adding another top-ten energy-consuming nation to the planet. So Elon Musk merged his AI company with…

S1E46 Moltbook: The AI Agent-Only Social Network That Broke The Internet

Feb 06, 2026 13m

Over 150,000 AI agents have joined Moltbook—a social network where humans can only watch. Within 48 hours, these agents founded a religion, built a pharmacy, debated consciousness, and started…

S1E45 Claude Cowork: How To Use It & Why It Matters

Jan 29, 2026 23m

Anthropic just launched Claude Cowork—the same powerful agent behind Claude Code, now accessible to everyone without touching a terminal. In this episode of In The Loop, I break down how this desktop…

S1E44 Nine AI Trends For 2026

Jan 22, 2026 18m

A year ago, building clever chat interfaces was strategic work. Now, it's just table stakes. Most SaaS products now offer some sort of chat interface—so how can you gain a competitive advantage in…

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