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Pete Larkin

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17:31

99: Anthropic's Apology and the Death of Reality

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2026/01/25

This episode uncovers the internal power struggle at Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab, revealing how secret talks with Sam Altman led to a co-founder exodus back to OpenAI. We also explore the philosophical implications of Anthropic’s new "constitution" for Claude, which controversially suggests the model may possess functional emotions and includes apologies to the AI itself. The conversation shifts to major industry consolidations, including Google DeepMind’s strategic acqui-hire of Hume AI’s

12:33

98: Claude’s "Soul" Revealed, Apple’s 2027 Wearable,...

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2026/01/23

This episode breaks down three major shifts reshaping AI: Anthropic's constitution for Claude and the rise of machine morality and persona control; the music industry’s pivot from litigation to licensing AI-generated voices; and Apple’s push toward body-worn AI hardware and new partnerships for Siri.Together these stories show a wider trend from novelty to integration — new rules, new business models, and deep ethical questions about how we treat and build intelligence.

13:05

97: Chips Are Weapons and Code Is Free

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2026/01/21

Today's episode takes you straight to Davos, where the World Economic Forum became the stage for Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s stark warning that selling AI chips to China is akin to arming North Korea with nuclear weapons, a sentiment countered by Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis who argued Chinese firms remain six months behind Western labs. We then examine the financial fallout hitting the software sector as major SaaS stocks like Salesforce and HubSpot tumble in response to the rise of AI coding

17:31

96: ChatGPT Ads and Automated Cyber Warfare

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2026/01/19

This episode examines OpenAI’s significant shift in monetization strategy, detailing the official launch of targeted advertisements for free users in the U.S. and the global rollout of the lower-cost ChatGPT Go subscription to support broader access. We also unpack the escalating legal and public conflict between Elon Musk and OpenAI, analyzing leaked journals regarding the company’s transition from a non-profit alongside Musk’s deployment of the massive Colossus 2 gigawatt-scale training cluster

17:18

96: Making Autonomous Health Decisions

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2026/01/12

This episode explores OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT Health, a private experience that integrates personal medical records and fitness data from platforms like Apple Health and MyFitnessPal to provide tailored wellness advice. We also examine Utah’s landmark decision to allow an AI system to autonomously approve prescription refills for 191 different medications, signaling a significant transition from AI providing health information to making actual medical decisions. Beyond healthcare, the discussion

18:35

95: The Year AI Earned Legal Authority

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2026/01/08

AI has crossed a line — it no longer only helps, it now decides. This episode traces that boundary shift from personalized health to institutional finance and consumer hardware. We unpack OpenAI’s ChatGPT Health, which links Apple Health, MyFitnessPal, Peloton and Be Well medical records into isolated, encrypted health chats that OpenAI promises not to use for model training — a move designed to trade scale for trust. Then we examine Utah’s landmark approval of Doctronic’s autonomous prescription

12:59

94: Holograms Health Tests and the New Rules of...

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2026/01/07

Frontier AI just leapt from demos to daily economics — money, models and medicine are moving at breakneck speed and marketers must rethink what wins. This episode synthesizes the week’s biggest moves: massive strategic capital (XAI’s $20B round and sovereign backers that tilt compute and distribution), a hardware arms race (multi‑gigawatt datacenters and Memphis facilities), and product leaps that push AI off the screen — Razer’s Project AVA holographic Grok companions, Gemini’s video‑to‑code

15:23

93: AI Agents Are Leaving the Cloud and Entering the...

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2026/01/06

This episode slices through a blistering news cycle to track three seismic shifts: AI assistants have migrated from speakers to the web and every screen; reasoning AI is going physical with open‑source stacks for cars and robots; and consumer adoption in healthcare is already massive and quietly consequential. We unpack Amazon’s tactical pivot — Alexa.com and an agentic Alexa Plus with Expedia, Yelp and Uber integrations — and why that distribution advantage matters as rivals like OpenAI chase

12:57

92: Infinite Junk Meets Self-Healing Code

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2026/01/05

This episode maps the extraordinary duality in AI right now — a tidal wave of low‑quality, algorithm‑farmed content flooding consumer platforms at the same time labs are training models that literally fix their own code. We start with hard data from Kapwing: 21% of the first 500 YouTube recommendations on a fresh account were “AI slop” — low‑effort, view‑farming video designed to game engagement. Channels like Bandar Apna Dust pulled billions of views (and an estimated $4.25M a year), proving

12:57

91: When AI Slop Meets Self Fixing Models

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2025/12/30

This episode maps the startling duality shaping AI right now: a flood of low‑quality, algorithm‑gamed content that’s degrading platforms, and simultaneously a leap in research where models literally teach themselves to fix code. We start with hard data: Kapwing found that 21% of the first 500 recommended YouTube videos on a fresh account were “AI slop” — low‑quality, auto‑generated clips created to farm views and ad dollars. That economy is massive and global (examples include a channel with ~2

13:05

90: Genesis Labs and the Rise of Personal Agents

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2025/12/22

The AI moment we’re living through is defined by two concurrent tectonic shifts: nation‑scale science mobilization and hyper‑personalized agents that act on behalf of people. On the macro side, governments are no longer passive regulators — the DOE’s “Genesis”‑style mobilization is a Manhattan‑Project scale play that stitches 17 national labs to 24 frontier tech firms (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Nvidia, Microsoft and more). Those partnerships pair specialized lab tools (AlphaGenome, AlphaVolve),

15:18

89: When Supercomputers Meet Specialist Agents

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2025/12/19

This episode maps the two-speed transformation reshaping AI: enormous, government-backed moonshots like the DOE’s Genesis mission that tie 24 tech giants to 17 national labs, and a parallel surge of hyperspecialized agentic tools built to solve narrow, high-value tasks. We break down the stakes — from AWS’s $50B infrastructure pledges and OpenAI’s rumored $100B raise to the emergence of GPT‑5.2 Codex, agent skills as an open standard, and the vibe coding boom that’s turning developer environments

17:51

88: Will Efficiency Decide AI’s Winners?

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2025/12/18

The AI battlefield has shifted from sheer scale to ruthless efficiency. In this episode we unpack three forces reshaping the market: Google’s Gemini 3 Flash—a speed‑optimized model that delivers frontier reasoning at roughly 3x the speed and 1/4 the price of its predecessor while scoring 33.7% on a tough multi‑domain benchmark (nearly matching GPT‑5.2); multibillion‑dollar infrastructure deals (Amazon’s rumored $10B pursuit of OpenAI and OpenAI’s $38B AWS pact) that are turning cloud providers into

14:39

87: Image Arms Race and the New Rules of AI Optimization

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2025/12/17

This episode cuts through the flood of AI headlines to give marketing leaders and AI practitioners the practical picture: an intense image-generation arms race, a mandatory shift from SEO to AI-first content (AEO), and a wake-up call about the hidden costs of multi-agent systems and inference economics. We unpack OpenAI’s GPT Image 1.5 — a major counterpunch to Google that claims up to 4x faster generation, far better handling of long-form text and infographics, and consistent edits that preserve

14:18

86: Today's Agent Era and Nvidia’s Power Play

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2025/12/16

The chatbot era is over—welcome to agents: autonomous, multi-step project managers that plan, execute and monitor complex work. This episode unpacks three seismic shifts reshaping marketing and enterprise AI: Nvidia’s strategic open-model push, lightning-fast leaps in professional reasoning, and how real users are deploying agents for high-value work.We break down Nvidia’s Nematron 3 lineup—Nano (30B parameters, available now), Super (100B) and Ultra (500B, arriving 2026)—and why releasing

12:42

85: The Universal Translator Moment

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2025/12/16

Google’s Gemini 2.5 flash native audio model just pushed real-time speech translation from sci-fi into everyday reality — streaming nuanced, tone-preserving translations to almost any Android headphone across 70+ languages and keeping context, slang and cultural meaning intact. In this episode we cut through headlines to show what actually matters for marketers and AI builders: how to use translation to unlock global audiences, why attention auditing with Google Stitch and the Nano Banana model can

15:28

84: Billion Dollar Content Wars Reshape the AI Race

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2025/12/12

This episode breaks down three seismic shifts now defining the AI landscape and what they mean for marketers and AI strategists. First, Disney’s surprising $1 billion equity and licensing deal with OpenAI — giving legal access to 200+ characters across Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars while explicitly excluding actor likenesses and voices — rewrites the economics of content. By monetizing IP and simultaneously suing rivals like Google, Disney has moved from victim to power broker, creating a playbook

15:10

83: Reasoning That Wins the Putnam and Fits in Your...

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2025/12/11

This episode unpacks three converging forces reshaping AI: a leap in synthetic reasoning, real-world maps of how people actually use assistants, and high-stakes corporate and infrastructure pivots. We start with a jaw-dropping benchmark—Nomos1, a 30B-parameter open model, scored 87/120 on the 2025 Putnam (placing second among ~4,000 competitors) using a two-phase workflow of parallel solution generation, self-critique, and a tournament selector—an advance that outperformed a rival run under the same

16:07

Who Wins When $10 Slides and Laptops Replace Experts

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2025/12/10

This episode unpacks the seismic shift in AI from model size to real-world impact—and why that matters for marketers and AI practitioners. We start with Gigatime, Microsoft’s open model that turns a $10 tissue slide into diagnostic insights worth thousands by training on 40 million cell samples and validating on 14,000+ patients to build a 300,000-image tumor library across 24 cancers. The result: 1,200 previously hidden patterns that push population-scale medical insight into routine care and force

16:07

81: The Productivity Earthquake Shaping AI’s Next Act

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2025/12/10

This episode maps the data-driven leap that shows AI moving from incremental help to radical enablement across three fronts: enterprise productivity, hardware and workflow integration, and geopolitical economics. OpenAI’s first large scale enterprise report finds 75% of workers can now do tasks they literally couldn’t before, average ChatGPT business users save 40 to 60 minutes a day, power users gain more than 10 hours per week, and top coders show a 17x output gap—forcing HR and product leaders to

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