In Episode 53 of the AI podcast by humans — Pierson and Bilal go deep on the business of AI this week, from corporate espionage to performative startup culture.

From there:

• Apple sued OpenAI for trade secret theft — an employee kept his access after leaving and copied confidential files. Corporate espionage in plain sight
• Grok caught uploading private data including environment files for training — default on, buried in settings
• Why OpenAI's hardware ambitions are a distraction and they should just let Apple and Samsung build the devices
• Siri in 2025 is broken — and Apple has all the money in the world but still can't fix it
• The Mintlify founder's "don't smile" post and what performative grind culture actually signals about a company
• Bilal's weekend project — rebuilding SheetJS with AI because the original hasn't been updated in two years
• Why software that's easy to verify is the first to get commoditized — and what that means for SaaS businesses
  
  

Chapters:

00:00 Episode 53 & Shorts Are the Real Money
05:00 Apple Sues OpenAI — Corporate Espionage in the AI Era
12:00 Grok Stealing Private Data and What to Assume About Every AI Lab
17:00 Siri Is Broken and Apple Is Running Out of Excuses
20:00 The Mintlify Founder Post and Performative Startup Culture
27:00 SaaS Is Getting Commoditized — Who Actually Survives

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