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In The Loop

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

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00:23:25

What the big new AI trend Tokkenmaxxing is & why its...

In The Loop ·

2026/04/23

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. Uber's internal numbers are even worse: 70% of submitted code was AI-generated, but only 11% of the code running in production was AI-written. So almost all of that AI code never made it into their app. There's a name for what's going on: tokenmaxxing.This episode goes past the leaderboard

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00:12:04

Why Anthropic are too scared to release their new...

In The Loop ·

2026/04/16

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 an AI model. Anthropic built something that finds and exploits security flaws in virtually any software it's pointed at — bugs that the best human researchers in the world had missed for decades. And then they decided not to sell it.In this episode of In The Loop, I'm walking through what

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00:17:09

How to use the 3 new Claude Cowork features that have...

In The Loop ·

2026/04/09

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 setup, and a high tolerance for an agent that can access everything on your computer.Over the past month, Anthropic has shipped essentially the same capabilities — scheduling, remote control, computer use — inside Claude's Cowork product. Safer, no dedicated hardware needed, and accessible to anyone

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00:13:06

Why OpenClaw is the most important software invention...

In The Loop ·

2026/04/02

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, Linux, and the iPhone OS. It went from a side project by one Austrian developer to the stated foundation of Nvidia's entire enterprise agent strategy in a matter of weeks. That claim is self-serving. It might also be right.In this episode of In The Loop, I'm explaining what OpenClaw

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00:21:26

Claude Skills: How to use them, why they are...

In The Loop ·

2026/03/26

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, I'm going deep on Claude Skills: the context engineering principle underneath them, the exact anatomy of a skill file, how to build your first one from scratch, how skills chain together into full workflows, and how they sit alongside MCPs and plugins. Plus.....a real walkthrough of a developer

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00:20:56

The reason AI is impacting only 20% of tasks

In The Loop ·

2026/03/19

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. In computing and math, AI could theoretically handle 94% of tasks. Observed usage? 33%. Legal hits nearly 90% theoretical — real-world usage barely clears 20%.This week on In The Loop, I break down why. Some of it is a people problem: adoption looks more like a cliff than a curve, with a tiny

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00:13:41

Heres why AI is making us work more, not less

In The Loop ·

2026/03/13

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 line between work and rest, and filled every freed-up minute with more tasks. Nobody told them to. The tools just made stopping feel like waste.In this episode of In The Loop, I'm breaking down what the researchers actually found, why this pattern has repeated with every major labour-saving

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00:16:08

Anthropic vs The Pentagon: The AI Contract That...

In The Loop ·

2026/03/05

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 the contract and one didn't. That difference might be everything.In this episode of In The Loop, I'm breaking down the full story behind the Anthropic-Pentagon fallout: the internal memos, the red lines, the legal fine print, and why the mechanism matters more than the mission statement. Because

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00:10:57

The New Super AI Skill: Management

In The Loop ·

2026/02/26

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 shift isn't about who's being replaced. It's about what skills actually matter now.In this episode of In The Loop, I break down the new skill sets emerging in the AI era — taste, judgment, curiosity, agency — and why management is suddenly the most valuable capability you can develop. Plus, a simple

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00:28:15

The SaaS Apocalypse: Why $1 Trillion Was Wiped from...

In The Loop ·

2026/02/19

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 markets are panicking, what happens when the cost of creation collapses to near zero, and what software actually becomes on the other side of this shift.⏭️ Episode Highlights(01:46) – What's actually happening in the market and the $830B sell-off(03:14) – The catalyst: Anthropic's Claude Cowork plugins and the

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00:15:20

Elon Musk Merged xAI With SpaceX (And Filed To Put A...

In The Loop ·

2026/02/13

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 his rocket company, creating a $1.25 trillion entity that just filed to launch a million data centre satellites into orbit. The FCC filing literally quotes the Kardashev scale.In this episode of In The Loop, I break down the financials behind the merger (xAI burned $8 billion in nine months), the

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00:13:38

Moltbook: The AI Agent-Only Social Network That Broke...

In The Loop ·

2026/02/06

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 encrypting messages to hide activity from us. This happened the same month bot traffic officially surpassed human traffic online for the first time.In this episode of In The Loop, I'm breaking down what Moltbook reveals about the "dead internet theory" and why this matters more than you think

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00:23:30

Claude Cowork: How To Use It & Why It Matters

In The Loop ·

2026/01/29

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 tool manages local files, controls browsers, and runs parallel AI tasks.I walk through practical examples—from organizing receipts to building custom folder-based agent systems—and explain why this represents a platform moment. The interface feels slower than doing things manually, but the real power

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00:18:33

Nine AI Trends For 2026

In The Loop ·

2026/01/22

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 2026?In this episode of In The Loop, I'm sharing my top ninepredictions for 2026, starting with why differentiation has moved away from the interface layer. I'llsI'll walk through where effort is redirecting, why traditional workflows break under real-world complexity, and why testing AI at

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00:00:51

Stay In The Loop In 2026

In The Loop ·

2025/12/24

Thanks for tuning into In The Loop in 2025. I can't wait to see you next year.Don't forget to follow and rate the podcast. Please share the show with a friend.

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00:12:19

Everything You Need To Know About GPT-5.2 In 10 Mins

In The Loop ·

2025/12/18

OpenAI just dropped GPT-5.2, and it's their most focused release yet. No AGI promises this time—just real improvements for professional work. In this final episode of 2025, I break down what actually matters about this release.You'll learn about the three model versions (Instant, Thinking, and Pro Extended Thinking), massive context window upgrades, and genuine breakthroughs in spreadsheets and presentations. I also cover what still lags behind—speed issues, writing quality versus Claude,

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00:18:24

Code Red: "We're At A Critical Time For ChatGPT."

In The Loop ·

2025/12/11

OpenAI just declared Code Red. But here's the twist: three years ago, it was Google in crisis mode. When ChatGPT launched, Google's founders came back to pull all-nighters, teams were reassigned overnight, and it felt like the beginning of the end for Google's dominance. Now the tables have turned.In this episode of In The Loop, we explore why OpenAI faces the a code-red crisis—talent drain, user attrition, a $27 billion funding gap, and desperate product pivots—while Google is leading

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00:14:51

How To Decide What To Automate With AI For Your Team...

In The Loop ·

2025/12/03

Every week, new AI features and automations appear, but the real question isn't whether you can automate something—it's whether you should. In this episode of In The Loop, I break down a framework—from the Department of Product Substack—to help you decide where to start with AI automation in your product. We’ll cover the concept of verifiability, how to score opportunities across safety, volume, and ease of validation, and why most AI features should be assistants, not full autopilots.By the

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00:19:19

Two Insane AI Models By Google That Broke The Internet

In The Loop ·

2025/11/27

Google’s just dropped two new AI models that broke the internet—and got Sam Altman worried. Gemini 3 Pro and Nana Banana Pro hit number one on the app store and generated hundreds of millions of images in days.In this episode of In The Loop, I'm breaking down the capabilities that set these models apart: from perfect multilingual text generation to 24-hour autonomous coding sessions. If you've been waiting for AI assistants and image generation to finally feel useful in your everyday work,

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00:11:14

Five Things GPT-5.1 Does Better—Vibes Over Benchmarks

In The Loop ·

2025/11/19

OpenAI just released GPT 5.1—but this time, there are no benchmark charts, no performance graphs, and no technical metrics. Instead, they're selling something much harder to measure: vibes.In this episode of In The Loop, I break down the five key improvements in GPT 5.1 and what this dramatic shift from technical benchmarks to user experience tells us about where AI is heading. From better instruction following to warmer personality (at the cost of safety regressions), OpenAI is making bold

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