Episodes

  • Three 5s, One Morning: Mythos, Fable & Sonnet Drop

    Three 5s, One Morning: Mythos, Fable & Sonnet Drop
    Jul 1 2026
    Anthropic just dropped three "5" models in a single morning—Mythos, Fable, and Sonnet—while the Trump administration quietly lifted export restrictions on Fable and Mythos via a late-night letter. Claude Sonnet 5 brings enterprise-grade agent capabilities at half the price, but the real story is how Anthropic is dominating the release cycle while Amazon quietly searches for cheaper AI alternatives.
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    17 mins
  • South Korea's Trillion-Dollar Bet: Chips, AI & Brain Waves

    South Korea's Trillion-Dollar Bet: Chips, AI & Brain Waves
    Jun 30 2026
    South Korea is betting nearly $880 billion on chips and AI to fuel national growth, while Coinbase quietly turns to China's budget-friendly AI models to cut costs—revealing uncomfortable truths about the AI arms race. From Cursor's new iOS coding editor to AI systems literally reading your thoughts from brain waves, the tech landscape is shifting faster than ever.
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    18 mins
  • Austria Lures Anthropic While Chinese AI Crushes the Claude Myth

    Austria Lures Anthropic While Chinese AI Crushes the Claude Myth
    Jun 29 2026
    Austria is making a bold move to attract Anthropic to European soil while Chinese open-source models are rapidly dismantling the mystique around Claude's capabilities. Meanwhile, we're unpacking a chilling WIRED investigation into UK police using sketchy prediction algorithms—trained on free school meal data and mental health records—to score half a million people with zero transparency.
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    21 mins
  • TikTok's SuperApp Dream & Google Founders Flee CA

    TikTok's SuperApp Dream & Google Founders Flee CA
    Jun 28 2026
    We're diving into TikTok's aggressive pivot toward becoming the everything-app, Google's founders literally packing up and leaving California, and the wild underbelly of AI training where human contractors are gaming the system by feeding AI-generated data back into other chatbots. From the absurd to the genuinely thought-provoking, this episode unpacks the messy reality behind the hype—including Ford's embarrassing admission that their AI-powered automation failed so spectacularly they had to bring humans back on the job.
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    19 mins
  • Trump Controls ChatGPT 5.6 — 20 Names Approved

    Trump Controls ChatGPT 5.6 — 20 Names Approved
    Jun 27 2026
    The US government is now hand-picking who gets access to ChatGPT 5.6 with a strict approval list of just 20 names — and it's sparking serious questions about control and power. Plus, we're diving into how AI data centers are literally supercharging inflation, with wholesale electronics up 27% year-over-year and tech giants forced to raise prices across the board.
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    17 mins
  • Chip Crisis Escalates: Apple's Price Hike & AI's Rabies Rabbit Hole

    Chip Crisis Escalates: Apple's Price Hike & AI's Rabies Rabbit Hole
    Jun 26 2026
    Apple's boosting prices on Macs and iPads as chip costs explode, while Chinese AI models quietly penetrate Western markets through AWS. Meanwhile, a Reddit community of 45,000 is deliberately poisoning AI training data with absurd misinformation—and it's actually working, as DuckDuckGo's search engine recently proved by telling users that Trump died of rabies.
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    19 mins
  • Cannes, Chips & Cooperation: AI's Safety Reckoning

    Cannes, Chips & Cooperation: AI's Safety Reckoning
    Jun 25 2026
    At Cannes Lions 2023, OpenAI reveals a new advertising product while Meta showcases AI tools for smarter ad automation—but the real story is bigger. As US-China AI cooperation talks echo concerns about open-weight models becoming too dangerous to release, the industry faces a pivotal moment between innovation and responsibility.
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    18 mins
  • Claude Goes Slack & MrBeast Becomes a Tech Founder

    Claude Goes Slack & MrBeast Becomes a Tech Founder
    Jun 24 2026
    Anthropic quietly launched Claude directly into Slack while MrBeast unexpectedly pivoted toward founding startups—but the real headline is Meta's employee spying scandal that leaked sensitive data across the entire company. We're breaking down the wildest tech moves of the week, from AI integration to corporate chaos, and what it all means for the future of work.
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    19 mins