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This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle Live Stream’

First aired: 18 February 2026

Summary: Today we're talking about cognitive friction — the productive struggle that actually makes you smarter — and why AI is quietly eroding it. I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and the short version is: every time you offload a problem to AI instead of wrestling with it yourself, you're skipping the bit where the learning actually happens. Whether it's writing an essay, debugging code, or learning a language, the messy middle part isn't the obstacle — it is the point.

The good news is there are some genuinely useful ways to use AI that work with your brain rather than replacing it. ChatGPT's study mode, NotebookLM's quizzes and multi-format learning tools, and the Feynman method are all worth your time. The goal isn't to avoid AI — it's to stop using it as a shortcut for the thinking you actually need to do yourself.

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0:00 Welcome + Claude Sonnet 4.6: Is It Worth Upgrading? 2:40 The AI Learning Crisis: What Is Cognitive Friction? 4:10 My Robot Story: How Claude Code Bypassed My Learning (And Why That's a Problem) 5:41 AI Is Not Just a Calculator: Why This Technology Is Fundamentally Different 6:52 The Oxford University Test: What AI Is Doing to Deep Education 11:54 Language Learning, Duolingo & Why You Need to Fail to Learn 13:50 The Illusion of Competence & The Feynman Method 15:44 3 Strategies to Keep Your Brain Sharp in the Age of AI 18:08 ChatGPT Study Mode Live Demo: Using AI as a Personal Tutor 23:13 NotebookLM Live Demo: Quizzes, Podcasts & Multimodal Learning 30:16 Gen Z IQ Decline, Social Media & The WALL-E Warning 33:09 Q&A: How to Set Up OpenClaw the Right Way (And Skip the Mac Mini) 36:34 Q&A: My Agency Past & Can You Use AI to Simulate Learning? 38:29 Free Resources, Newsletter & Community Links

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This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle Live Stream’

First aired: 17 February 2026

Summary: UK unemployment just hit a five-year high — same levels as COVID — and while politicians are busy pointing fingers at each other, I think the more interesting question is what role AI is actually playing in all of this. Spoiler: it's not firing people dramatically. It's doing something far more insidious. Companies are simply choosing not to hire. Entry-level jobs are quietly disappearing, and the 14% unemployment rate among 18-24 year olds is just the beginning of that story.

The structural shift here is the bit that keeps me up at night. Economic cycles reverse — interest rates change, inflation settles — but AI doesn't go away. It has permanently altered the hiring decision, and that's not something that recovers in the next bull market. The good news is there's actually quite a lot you can do about it right now, and that's what we dig into in this one.

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0:00 Introduction: UK Unemployment Hits a 5-Year High 3:31 The Irreversible Shift: How AI Is Changing the Logic of Hiring 7:08 Why the AI Bubble Won't Kill AI Technology 9:04 How AI Is Quietly Eliminating New Job Creation 14:25 The Corporate Pyramid Is Collapsing 19:20 The Jagged Frontier: Why AI Labs Focus on Coding First 22:10 Warning Signs: Is Your Job Already at Risk? 23:54 3 Types of AI-Resilient Jobs (And Why Nursing Is the Best Example) 27:54 What You Should Actually Do Right Now 29:53 How to Earn £2,000/hr Teaching AI to Businesses 33:50 Q&A Begins / Should You Share Sensitive Data with AI Tools? 35:00 Q&A: Can EU Regulation and Unions Actually Stop AI? 35:55 Breaking News: OpenClaw Creator Peter Steinberger Acquired by OpenAI 36:57 Q&A: How AI Is Transforming Academic Publishing 39:01 Q&A: The Best AI Service to Sell to Local Businesses 40:30 Is OpenAI Actually Profitable? The Real Financial Picture 42:27 The Truth About AI's Environmental and Energy Impact 44:55 Claude vs ChatGPT: User Numbers and the Super Bowl Ad Disaster 46:23 Claude Code, AI Tool Pricing, and the Coming Intelligence Divide 47:52 Why OpenAI Is Adding Ads to ChatGPT (And Why It Makes Sense) 49:15 "If It's Free, You Are the Product" — The Unwritten Contract 51:06 Ethan Mollick's 3 Sleepless Nights: How to Process the AI Revolution

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This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle Live Stream’

First aired: 16 February 2026

Summary: OpenAI just acquired OpenClaw from Peter Steinberger, and honestly, the timeline on this is absolutely bonkers. We're talking 19 days between Anthropic sending him a cease-and-desist letter for calling it "Claude Bot" and him selling to OpenAI for what I imagine is around a billion dollars. He's one guy from Austria who's been grinding away on GitHub projects for years, and suddenly every major AI lab in San Francisco is chasing him down. Sam Altman got him, Zuckerberg tried, and Peter's now moving to San Francisco to build a version of OpenClaw that even his mum can use. The project's staying open source in a foundation, which is promising, though I suspect OpenAI will spin off a closed-source version where the real development happens.

The big losers here? Anthropic, who fumbled this spectacularly by only ever communicating with Peter through legal threats instead of actually talking to him. They could've partnered with the fastest-growing open source AI project of all time, but instead they're the baddies in this story. And Europe—yet again—loses top talent to Silicon Valley because we simply don't have the ecosystem or resources to compete. Fair play to Peter though. Thirteen years of building, 40+ projects on GitHub, and he's finally hit something genuinely transformative. OpenClaw is essentially the Jarvis we were promised—a persistent AI assistant that actually works proactively rather than just sitting there waiting to be asked. It's got rough edges and security concerns, but as a preview of what's coming, it's bloody exciting.

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00:00 OpenClaw Sold to OpenAI: How One Developer Became a Billionaire 01:45 What Is OpenClaw? The Jarvis-Like AI Personal Assistant Explained 04:44 The Sale: Sam Altman's Announcement and What It Means 05:36 Will OpenClaw Stay Open Source Under OpenAI? 07:47 Can We Trust OpenAI to Keep It Open? History Says No 08:43 Peter Steinberger's Full Statement on Joining OpenAI 11:12 The DeepMind Parallel: Why Builders Sell to Big Tech 12:27 Peter's Week in San Francisco: Meetings with Meta and OpenAI 14:54 Winners and Losers: What This Deal Means for Everyone 16:54 Why the OpenClaw Hype Is Real — My Personal Experience 19:32 Q&A: Can You Combine n8n with OpenClaw? 20:26 Community Backlash: Is Peter Steinberger Selling Out? 22:38 How Anthropic Fumbled OpenClaw with a Cease and Desist 24:37 The Naming Saga: Claude Bot → Molt → OpenClaw 26:14 Europe's AI Brain Drain: Another Top Talent Lost to America 28:51 Will OpenAI Kill OpenClaw's Open Source Version? 29:53 Q&A: What Should I Learn While Waiting for Consumer AI Agents? 33:32 UK Government Wasted £4 Million on This AI Website 34:36 OpenClaw Security: Best Practices to Protect Yourself 37:24 What's Next for OpenClaw This Week

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This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle Live Stream’

First aired: 13 February 2026

Summary: Friday the 13th and I'm walking through something I've been chatting about loads on my socials lately—how to actually validate a business idea before you waste months building something nobody wants. It's called Lean Testing, borrowed from the Lean Startup methodology, and with AI we can now test ideas ridiculously quickly. The concept is beautifully simple: flip the entire process around. Instead of building in secret for six months, polishing everything to perfection, then launching to crickets, you sell the thing first and build it after you know people actually want it. Sounds backwards, feels backwards, but it works.

I walked through my actual setup from yesterday—the sales pages, the Meta ads, the whole flow—showing how you can test multiple variations of an idea without touching a line of code or building the actual product. The beautiful part is you avoid that soul-crushing moment where you've poured your heart into something and the market just shrugs. I also got into some chat about the current AI coding landscape—Codex 5.3 is genuinely brilliant, first time I've seen something match Claude Code—and Google's Chrome AI assistant which is quietly positioning them rather well in this race. But the core message: talk to your market before you build anything. Revolutionary concept, apparently.

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0:00 What is Lean Testing? Validate Business Ideas with AI 1:38 The #1 Mistake That Kills First-Time Businesses 3:22 The Inverted Method: Launch Before You Build 4:22 Step 1: Generate Testable Ideas Using AI 6:13 Why Your Idea Doesn't Need to Be Perfect Yet 7:37 Step 2: Build AI Sales Pages Instead of Products 8:03 Live Example: AI-Generated Sales Page Walkthrough 8:47 Creating Multiple Sales Page Variations for A/B Testing 10:17 Live A/B Test Results Using PostHog Analytics 13:01 Best Tools for AI Sales Pages (Codex, Lovable, Claude Code) 15:04 Email Waitlist vs Taking Payment: Which Signal Wins? 16:15 How to Handle Pre-Sale Refunds Ethically 18:06 Step 3: Run Meta Ads to Validate Your Offer 19:44 Why Meta Ads Beat Google and LinkedIn for Testing 20:26 Meta Ad Budget: The £20/Day Validation Strategy 22:17 Live Campaign: 8 Ad Variants Tested in 2 Days 25:05 Building an Audience vs Paid Ads: When to Use Each 25:57 Video Ad Scripts: Let AI Write Them, You Record 28:54 How to Validate a Business Idea in One Day 29:47 Step 4: Setting Success & Failure Metrics Before You Test 30:41 Key Metrics: Cost Per Click, Email, and Purchase 32:20 Scenario A: Test Passes — Now Build Your Product 34:37 Scenario B: Test Fails — Kill It and Move On 35:35 The Lean Startup Mindset & Sony Walkman Story 37:13 Don't Build Products, Test Offers 38:31 Velocity Over Ego: Why Your Ideas Don't Matter 40:31 Test One Business Idea Per Day Using AI 41:58 Q&A: Is Gumroad Worth It for Digital Products? 43:47 Q&A: Why Competition is Good (Blue Ocean is Wrong) 46:14 Q&A: How Meta Collects Demographic Data for Targeting 48:30 Q&A: Ex-OpenAI Employee Says They're Stealing Your Data 49:36 Q&A: Claude Code vs Codex 5.3 — Which Coding Tool Wins?

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This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle Live Stream’

First aired: 11 February 2026

Summary: Right, so today's a bit different—no major AI news to report, just a flowery resignation letter from Anthropic that's more gossip than anything substantial. Instead, I'm diving into OpenClaw (or Claude Bot, whatever you want to call it) because whilst it's been out for a few weeks and absolutely exploded on GitHub—185,000 stars and climbing past React, closing in on Linux of all things—there's still loads of confusion about what you can actually use it for. Should you be using it? Are you falling behind if you're not? Spoiler: my mum asked me to set it up for her and I told her not to bother, so no, you're not obligated.

What I'm covering today is practical use cases rather than installation steps, because the real question isn't "how do I install it" but "what can I do with it that I couldn't do before." The key difference is that OpenClaw is always on—it's proactive rather than reactive, so you can set it up like an employee that autonomously handles tasks whilst you get on with other things. I'll walk through examples from the showcase and various meetups happening in San Francisco and Vienna, plus we'll touch on running local models if that's your thing, though fair warning: running something like Gemini 2.5 properly requires about a quarter million quid in GPUs, which is a bit steep for most of us.

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00:00 Introduction: What is Clawd Bot & Should You Use It? 04:20 What Makes Clawd Bot Different From ChatGPT 06:01 Why Management is the #1 AI Skill in 2026 07:14 Pillar 1: Using AI as Your Executive Assistant 09:28 Smart Workflows: Why a Weather Bot Isn't Enough 10:30 Job Search Agents, To-Do Apps & Automation Ideas 11:52 Pillar 2: Automated Agentic Research That Runs 24/7 14:45 Ryan Carson: "This is How You Will Hire Engineers" 16:19 Owning vs Renting Your AI Agent 17:47 Will Big Tech Replace OpenClaw? 18:29 Pillar 3: Marketing & Operations on Autopilot 20:52 AI Content Creation Pipeline: Lives to Newsletters 22:40 Q&A: Should You Build an AI Trading Bot? 24:07 The AI Burnout Crisis Nobody Talks About 26:24 Pillar 4: Clawd Bot as a Junior Developer 28:05 Security Risks & Why Opus 4.6 is Recommended 29:29 Meta and xAI Are Using Claude Code Internally 30:13 Building an OpenClaw Use Case Directory 32:02 Newsletter & Community Resources 32:34 Q&A: Clawd Pricing, Context Limits & Tips 33:38 How to Safely Install OpenClaw (Don't Use Your Main PC!) 35:07 Step-by-Step Installation Commands 36:30 What Hardware Do You Actually Need? 37:35 Installing OpenClaw on Windows with Kimi K2 38:44 Running Kimi K2 Locally: The $250,000 Question 41:00 Renting H200 GPUs vs Buying Your Own 41:52 Best Tools for Running Local AI Models (LM Studio) 42:32 Opus 4.6 vs Kimi K2: Open Source vs Frontier Labs

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This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle Live Stream’

First aired: 10 February 2026

Summary: OpenAI's rolling out ads in ChatGPT and they're taking quite the interesting PR approach—essentially telling everyone that actually, you're going to love these ads. It's a bold strategy, I'll give them that. They're starting with free and Plus users in the US, promising the ads won't influence responses and will be clearly labeled. The spin is that this lets them expand free access to AI for everyone, which is fair enough given they need revenue. But you can tell from the comments that nobody's particularly thrilled about it. Still, I think it's reasonable—they've got to pay the bills somehow.

On a completely different note, I got properly annoyed with the UK government's AI training website. They've spent £4 million of taxpayer money on this thing through PwC, and it's genuinely useless. The "pathways" feature just shows you a filtered list of courses—it doesn't actually create a pathway at all. What's worse, they're missing obvious resources like NHS and civil service training materials that already exist. So I've gone ahead and started building a proper version myself that actually helps people navigate AI training, and I'll release it for free once it's done. Might replicate it for other countries too, because clearly someone needs to do this properly.

Watch full edited live stream: https://youtu.be/qRXXbU21fXk

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00:00 OpenAI Rolls Out Ads in ChatGPT 02:38 Anthropic's Super Bowl Ad Fires Back at OpenAI 03:41 Why Ads Destroy Trust — The Yahoo & Google Lesson 05:33 If It's Free, You Are the Product 08:45 Higgs Field Suspended — AI's Worst Marketing Scandal 15:21 AI.com: $70M Domain, Super Bowl Ad & Possible Scam 21:59 UK Government Spent £4.1M on a Useless AI Website 26:17 How to Clone & Scrape Any Website with AI Tools 27:25 Government Departments Respond to the Criticism 28:54 Building a Free AI Skills Hub & Community Update

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This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle Live Stream’

First aired: 9 February 2026

Summary: I spent today talking about something that's been bugging me—people asking permission to build things when they should just be shipping. Kit just tweeted about it, and I get the same thing constantly: DMs from people with "great ideas" who want to chat before they've built anything. With all due respect, I don't care about your idea. Come back with a link. The technical barriers are gone—vibe coding exists, you don't need a developer or a hundred grand to hire one. If you can't be bothered to prototype something using the tools available right now, that tells me you're not going to put in the work anyway. I'm literally rebuilding that embarrassing £4.1 million government AI Skills Hub myself just to prove the point.

The window is closing, and that's what people need to understand. Right now, you're ahead of the curve if you're watching this—you know AI exists, you understand what it can do, and you have maybe a year or two before everyone else catches up. I walked through a proper framework for finding your market, working out what business to build (hint: start with the business problem, not the AI), and why speed matters more than perfection. Peter Levels said it best—do you really have time to wait a few more years before starting? If we hit AGI, it's going to be exponentially harder to carve out a space for yourself. Build now, get distribution now, get customers now. Stop asking for permission.

Watch full edited live stream: https://youtu.be/xVGVQ4iQrHA

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0:00 Stop Asking Permission — Just Build Something 1:32 UK Government Wasted £4.1M on an $89/Month Website 3:28 Pieter Levels: Why You Must Start a Business NOW Before AGI 4:12 I Built an AI eBay Automation — Someone Should Turn This Into a Business 6:04 How to Validate a Business Idea Fast Using AI 6:58 Q&A: Government Waste and Spending 7:28 Q&A: Should You Sell Digital Products on Gumroad? 7:49 Q&A: Zero Experience — Where to Start with AI 8:07 Q&A: Setting Up Claude Bot / OpenClaw Guide 9:02 Finding Your First $1,000/Month Niche 9:28 Why You Must Find Your Market FIRST (Not Your Idea) 10:12 Why "Follow Your Passion" is Terrible Business Advice 11:01 The 5-Step Market Filtering Process Explained 12:18 Step 1: Hunt for Boring B2B Business Ideas 14:59 Step 2: Finding Complainers and Problem Clusters 18:03 Step 3: Mining 3-4 Star Reviews to Find Gold 20:38 Step 4: Using AI Agents for Competition Research 21:12 Step 5: Finding Your Market Wedge with AI 23:36 Using AI as Your Co-Founder to Structure Thinking 24:10 Why You MUST Talk to Real People — Customer Interviews 25:48 Why Building an Audience is Your Unfair Advantage 26:47 AI Authority Accelerator Launch Details 27:37 Distribution is the Missing Piece — Why Building Isn't Enough 28:24 How AI Content Creators Get $500K Brand Deals 29:00 Build in Public — Document Your Journey From Day One 30:04 Getting Beta Testers and Your First Customers 30:31 Why Stealth Mode Kills Most Startups 31:21 Short Form Video is the Fastest Way to Build an Audience 32:01 AI Business Quiz — Find Your Niche in Minutes 33:08 Vibe Coding Guide: Lovable → Cursor → Claude Code 33:41 Q&A Revisited: Digital Products — Start With the Market First 34:29 Q&A: Kyle's Mom Wants Claude Bot (The Answer is No) 34:48 Why Competition is GOOD — Market Risk vs Competition Risk 37:02 Q&A: Advice for Computer Science Students in the AI Era 37:55 OpenClaw Creator Built 47 Projects Before His Big Hit 39:31 Is Gemini Better Than ChatGPT? Google vs OpenAI Deep Dive 44:14 Show Recap and Newsletter Sign-Up 45:07 AI Authority Accelerator — 150 Pounds for 30 Days 45:43 Outro

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