AI with Kyle

Kyle Balmer
  • 0.0 (0)
  • ENTREPRENEURSHIP
  • UPDATED DAILY

AI With Kyle – Daily AI News With Zero Hype, Zero BS AI With Kyle is the daily podcast for people who want to understand artificial intelligence without hype, without jargon, and without getting lost in marketing nonsense. Every day, Kyle breaks down the biggest AI news, model releases, research updates, leaks, lawsuits, policy moves, and industry shifts - fast, clear, and brutally honest. If you're tired of exaggerated claims, clickbait headlines, or breathless “AGI tomorrow” predictions, this show gives you what actually matters in AI right now. Every episode covers: Major AI model releases and upgrades (OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Meta, xAI, Mistral) Real benchmarks, real performance, and how new models actually behave The business story behind AI: funding rounds, strategy changes, earnings, and power plays Research explained plainly - world models, multimodality, reinforcement learning, generative video, synthetic data Practical impacts for creators, entrepreneurs, and businesses Regulation, AI safety, copyright cases, and everything changing the landscape Tech industry shifts happening under the surface This show is perfect for: Founders and entrepreneurs Creators and educators Business leaders following AI strategy Anyone who wants signal, not noise What you get here: Straight explanations Clear context No hype No fluffy futurism Just the important stuff AI changes daily. This podcast helps you keep up - not by guessing about the future, but by understanding the present. Subscribe if you want calm, honest, daily AI coverage you can actually trust.

  1. 7 HR AGO

    150: Pentagon vs Anthropic, AI Does Half UK Students' Homework, Claude Crashes IBM Stock

    Learn how to become an AI trainer - Live Webinar: https://aiwithkyle.com/ai-workshop-series/webinar Get AI-Ready with Kyle’s 5-Day Challenge: https://aiwithkyle.com/join Kyle’s AI Canon — Curated list of AI learning essentials: https://aiwithkyle.com/ai-canon Subscribe and turn on notifications to catch the next live stream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChlLglbHDASnoGkbjDeHnQg This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle Live Stream’ First aired: 25 February 2026 Summary: Anthropic are having a rough week. The Pentagon have given them until Friday to strip Claude's safety guardrails for military use (think autonomous weapons and mass surveillance) or face being labelled a US supply chain risk, a designation normally reserved for Chinese companies. It's an extraordinary situation, and the irony isn't lost on me: Anthropic spent yesterday warning the world about Chinese labs stealing their models on national security grounds, and today they're being threatened by their own government. OpenAI, Google and xAI took the contracts and quietly complied. Anthropic are the only ones drawing a line. Elsewhere, Claude Code quietly knocked 13% off IBM's stock price, its worst crash in 25 years, simply by refactoring legacy COBOL applications. If the code moves off COBOL, the mainframes that run it become redundant, and IBM's entire core business starts looking shaky. One blog post did that. And on the education front, UK students are now using AI for nearly half of all their study tasks, double the figure from last year and the highest of any country surveyed. Teachers increasingly can't tell the difference. The education system hasn't caught up and, frankly, it's not clear it knows how to. —— Time Stamps —— 00:00 Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Friday Deadline Could End AI Giant 10:18 Are AI Benchmarks Meaningless? The Problem with Self-Made Tests 11:09 What "Supply Chain Risk" Means and Why It Could Destroy Anthropic 15:10 Coursera Report: UK Students Now Using AI for 48% of Study Tasks 22:36 Claude Code Remote Control: Code From Your Phone Anywhere 26:01 Cursor's New Agent Tests Your App and Records Bug Videos 28:46 Zero Claw vs OpenClaw: Lightweight AI Assistant Alternatives 30:44 How to Get Into AI: Best Tools at Every Price Point 32:20 CloudFlare Engineer Rebuilt Next.js in One Week for $1,000 34:23 Claude Code Refactors COBOL and Crashes IBM Stock 13% 38:21 AI Trailers: A New Way to Fund Films and Anime Projects 41:39 Why Distribution Beats Building in the AI Age 46:49 How to Validate a Business Idea Before You Build It 50:42 Upcoming Webinars and Where to Find Everything —— More Useful Resources —— Find everything else at https://aiwithkyle.com/ https://youtu.be/8TKAl2zPVyA

    52 min

  2. 1 DAY AGO

    149: Anthropic Accuses Chinese Labs of Stealing, AI Jobs Update (Warning) & China's AI Progress Update

    Learn how to become an AI trainer - Live Webinar: https://aiwithkyle.com/ai-workshop-series/webinar Get AI-Ready with Kyle’s 5-Day Challenge: https://aiwithkyle.com/join Kyle’s AI Canon — Curated list of AI learning essentials: https://aiwithkyle.com/ai-canon Subscribe and turn on notifications to catch the next live stream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChlLglbHDASnoGkbjDeHnQg This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle Live Stream’ First aired: 24 February 2026 Summary: Today I got into Anthropic's claim that three Chinese AI labs, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and Minimax, ran what they're calling an "industrial scale distillation attack" on Claude, using 24,000 fake accounts to extract 16 million interactions and essentially clone its capabilities. It's a serious accusation, dressed up in national security language clearly aimed at Washington rather than the labs themselves. The delicious irony, of course, is that Anthropic built Claude by training on the entire internet's worth of copyrighted material without asking anyone. Thieves stealing from robbers, as I put it. The second half got into something a bit more uncomfortable: AI and jobs. My honest take is that this technological shift is different from everything that came before it, because AI won't just automate tasks, it'll take the new jobs it creates too. Blue collar and physical work buys you some time, but if your job mostly lives behind a screen, the clock is ticking. My practical advice is simple: don't panic, don't quit, but quietly start building alternative income streams now, because nobody, and I mean nobody, actually knows what survives the next five years. —— Time Stamps —— 0:00 Anthropic Accuses Chinese Labs of Stealing Claude 1:31 What Is Model Distillation? Teacher vs Student Models Explained 2:39 DeepSeek, Moonshot & Minimax: 16 Million Exchanges Exposed 5:00 National Security or Corporate Strategy? Anthropic's Real Motive 6:38 Open Source vs Closed Source: The Hidden War Behind Distillation 11:54 Export Controls and the US-China AI Chip Race 14:44 The Numbers Don't Add Up: Is This Really "Industrial Scale"? 16:52 Minimax Had an Official Claude Deal — Are the Numbers Inflated? 18:23 Theo's Rebuttal: "I'm Pretty Confident Anthropic Is Lying" 19:12 Kyle's Verdict: Exaggeration, Not Espionage 20:34 The Irony: Anthropic's Own $1.5 Billion Data Theft Settlement 24:53 OpenClaw: Chinese Labs Welcome What Anthropic Banned 25:39 Newsletter & AI Workshop Masterclass Announcement 27:03 Q&A: Why "AI" Is Not a Business Model 27:53 Why AI Job Loss Is Different From Every Revolution Before 29:23 Which Jobs Are Safe From AI? Blue Collar vs White Collar 30:54 4 Characteristics of AI-Resistant Jobs 34:10 How AI Hollows Out Industries From the Bottom Up 35:18 AI Won't Fire You — It'll Stop New Jobs Being Created 38:59 Humanoid Robots Now Cost $5,000 — Blue Collar Jobs Next? 40:46 The AI Paradox: If Nobody Works, Who Buys Products? 41:52 Senior Lawyer Admits: AI Did His Job in 30 Seconds — Better 42:59 Is the AI Bubble About to Pop? Dot-Com vs NFTs vs AI 46:09 Universal Basic Income: Great Idea, No Government Can Deliver 47:27 China's Long-Term AI Strategy vs Western Chaos 48:54 A 70-Year-Old Using DeepSeek on the Streets of Beijing 50:46 Will Any Jobs Survive AGI? The Jagged Frontier 51:31 Coding Is the Canary in the Coal Mine for AI Jobs 53:00 Who Profits From AI? The Hyper-Concentration of Capitalism 54:48 Build Multiple Revenue Streams Before It's Too Late 56:59 The Identity Crisis: When AI Takes Your Purpose and Status 58:19 Why Europe Already Lost the AI Race (DeepMind's $500M Deal) 1:00:22 Outro & Where to Find Everything —— More Useful Resources —— Find everything else at https://aiwithkyle.com/ https://youtu.be/8TKAl2zPVyA

    1h 1m

  3. 2 DAYS AGO

    148: How to Build a Website With AI in 2026 (And Which Tool You Should Actually Use)

    Learn how to become an AI trainer - Live Webinar: https://aiwithkyle.com/ai-workshop-series/webinar Get AI-Ready with Kyle’s 5-Day Challenge: https://aiwithkyle.com/join Kyle’s AI Canon — Curated list of AI learning essentials: https://aiwithkyle.com/ai-canon Subscribe and turn on notifications to catch the next live stream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChlLglbHDASnoGkbjDeHnQg This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle Live Stream’ First aired: 23 February 2026 Summary: Everyone asks me how to build a website with AI, and the answer is more complicated than it should be. The real problem isn't the building — it's that most people don't know whether they actually need a website or a web app, and that distinction matters enormously. Use something like Lovable or Bolt and you'll end up with a slick-looking site that Google simply cannot read, because client-side rendered apps serve up a blank page to search engine crawlers. Your SEO is dead before you've written a single blog post. So here's how I'd think about it: if you want something static, informational, and discoverable on Google, use a proper website builder or a static site generator. If you're building something dynamic — user accounts, payments, dashboards — then yes, reach for the vibe coding tools, but go in with your eyes open. The right tool for the right job sounds obvious, but in a market where every AI product is screaming for your attention, it's genuinely easy to get this wrong. Pick based on what you're actually building, not what's trending on Product Hunt. —— Time Stamps —— 0:00 Building a Website with AI: Which Tool Should You Use? 1:49 Lovable, Bolt, V0 and Replit: The New Vibe Coding Tools 2:31 Cursor, Claude Code and Codex: Advanced AI Coding Tools 3:19 Website vs Web App: The Critical Difference Nobody Explains 5:11 Why Your Lovable Site Doesn't Show Up on Google 9:58 Landing Pages and Quick Tests: When Vibe Coding Works 11:04 Blog and Content Sites: Why Vibe Coding Kills Your SEO 11:50 Don't Vibe Code Your E-Commerce Store (Use Shopify Instead) 13:15 Decision Matrix: Matching the Right AI Tool to Your Project 15:01 Two Paths to Building a Website with AI 17:53 Path 2: Building from Scratch with GitHub and Codex 19:28 What Is a Backend? Databases Explained for Beginners 21:04 Web Hosting with Vercel and Netlify: Going Live 22:20 Start Simple with Lovable, Then Scale Up 24:47 Rapid Prototyping: Why the Best Website Is the One That's Live 27:45 Newsletter, Community and Free AI Courses 28:16 AI Workshop Webinar: Teaching Businesses About AI 30:06 Live Q&A Begins 31:08 Building All-in-One Platforms with Gmail Integration 31:25 Google Is Cracking Down on AI Agents Using Gmail 32:40 Why All-in-One SaaS Platforms Fail (The Zoho Problem) 34:28 Validate Your Business Idea Before You Build Anything 37:46 Where Do SaaS Ideas Come From? 38:43 $100 Million Offer Framework: Turning Ideas into Sales 39:01 The $200 Landing Page Test: Validate with Meta Ads 40:09 Don't Build a Product Then Find a Market 42:00 WordPress Is Fine: Just Launch Your Site 42:49 $200 in Ads vs a Year Building in Secret 44:20 How to Run Meta Ads to Validate Business Ideas 46:42 OpenClaw Alternatives: Manus Personal Agent Mode 48:08 Burnout, Work-Life Balance and Loving What You Do 49:40 Only 16% of People Use AI Chatbots Right Now 51:00 AI Adoption Is Like the Internet in 2004 52:23 AI Will Take Jobs: Preparing for What's Coming 53:41 Starting a Vibe Coding Business: Train Staff, Don't Build For Them 54:57 Kids and AI: Should We Be Worried About Education? 57:22 Writing a Book About AI Taking Jobs 58:25 Is AI a Bubble? Lessons from the Dot-Com Crash 1:00:13 Teaching Kids to Code with Robotics Kits 1:02:24 Learn to Code by Building Projects, Not Reading Textbooks 1:03:06 Is AI Engineering Still a Good Career Path? 1:05:01 16 Claude Agents Built a C Compiler for $20K in Two Weeks 1:06:49 Elon's Everything App vs China's WeChat and Alipay 1:09:54 My Journey: Oxford, Vietnam, China, NYC and Moving to Cyprus 1:10:43 The UK Wasted £4.1 Million on a Terrible AI Skills Hub 1:13:07 Why I'm Leaving the UK: Taxes, Housing and Broken Infrastructure 1:13:27 Closing: Subscribe and Join the Newsletter —— More Useful Resources —— Find everything else at https://aiwithkyle.com/

    1h 14m

  4. 6 DAYS AGO

    146: Which AI is best to use in 2026?

    Get AI-Ready with Kyle’s 5-Day Challenge: https://aiwithkyle.com/join Kyle’s AI Canon — Curated list of AI learning essentials: https://aiwithkyle.com/ai-canon Subscribe and turn on notifications to catch the next live stream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChlLglbHDASnoGkbjDeHnQg This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle Live Stream’ First aired: 19 February 2026 Summary: Ethan Mollick just dropped his latest guide on which AI models are actually worth your time in 2026, and for the first time ever he's changed the format — because the game has changed. It's no longer just about which chatbot writes the best email. We're firmly in the agentic era now, where your AI is off doing tasks while you get on with your life. I walked through his breakdown of models, apps, and harnesses live, and it's probably the clearest map of the current AI landscape you'll find anywhere. On the side, the OpenAI vs Anthropic drama continues to be genuinely funny and genuinely important in equal measure. From refusing to hold hands on stage next to the Prime Minister of India, to the OpenClaw saga where Anthropic managed to look like the villain despite being entirely in the right — it's been a rough few weeks for the Claude crowd. OpenAI, meanwhile, are doing a very good job of positioning themselves as the scrappy, democratic option. Strange times. —— Time Stamps —— 0:00 OpenAI vs Anthropic: The Rivalry Heating Up 0:43 Sam Altman & Dario Amodei Refuse to Hold Hands at AI Summit 2:23 Why OpenAI and Anthropic Actually Hate Each Other 3:18 Claude vs ChatGPT User Numbers: 30M vs 900M 4:25 Sam Altman Fires Back: Why ChatGPT Needs Ads 5:41 OpenAI Is the More Accessible AI — Here's Why 6:12 ClawBot to Open Claw: The Full Saga 6:51 OpenAI Hires Open Claw Creator for Hundreds of Millions 8:02 Anthropic Bans Claude Usage Inside Open Claw 8:55 Anthropic's PR Nightmare: Crushing a One-Person Dev Team 9:18 OpenAI Outmaneuvers Anthropic — Developers Shift Back 10:48 Q&A: CEO Drama, Heights & Petty Billionaire Fights 11:42 Open Claw vs Claude Code: When to Use Each 12:48 B2B vs B2C: Why Anthropic Doesn't Need Ads 14:43 Why Anthropic Can't Go Viral (No Images, No Video) 15:13 Claude Sonnet 4.6 Review + 1 Million Token Context Window 17:03 All AI Models Are Now Very Good — So What Matters? 18:09 Best AI for Non-Coders? Claude vs ChatGPT Memory Compared 19:49 Pentagon May Label Anthropic a Supply Chain Risk 22:14 Claude Cowork Explained: Claude Code for Non-Techies 22:28 What You Get with $200 vs $20 Claude Subscription 23:12 GPT-4o Was Removed — How to Still Access It via API 25:29 Q&A: Background, Token Limits & Agent Usage 27:20 Ethan Mollick's AI Guide: The Biggest Shift Since ChatGPT 30:02 The Big Three AI Models Explained (GPT, Claude, Gemini) 31:17 Why Grok Isn't Worth Using Unless You Want Twitter Data 31:48 Models vs Apps vs Harnesses — What's the Difference? 32:57 What Are AI Harnesses? The Horse Analogy That Explains Everything 34:17 Open Claw Is a Harness — You Don't Need a Powerful Computer 35:15 Running 5 AI Agents Simultaneously in the Background 36:24 "Which AI Should I Use?" Is Now Harder to Answer 37:24 Why You MUST Pay $20/Month for Serious AI Work 39:06 Stop Using Auto Mode — How to Pick the Right AI Model 41:16 ChatGPT's Hidden Model Problem: 7 Variations You Didn't Know About 42:37 Ethan Mollick's Exact Model Recommendations 44:36 Q&A: Agent Mode in Gemini, ChatGPT & Open Claw Setup 46:57 The AI App Landscape: ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini Features 49:10 ChatGPT's Hodgepodge of Features (Most Aren't Good) 50:54 Claude's Focused Approach: No Apps, No Images, Just Intelligence 51:54 Why Harnesses Now Matter More Than the Model You Choose 53:37 Claude Code, Codex & Anti-Gravity: The Real Power Tools 54:08 Using Claude Code for Non-Coding Tasks 54:51 Ethan Mollick Made 80 Books with Claude Code and Sold Out in a Day 56:47 Other Harnesses: Claude for Excel Beats Microsoft Copilot 57:36 Claude Cowork Deep Dive: The Desktop AI Agent 59:29 AI That Does Your Work vs AI That Talks About Your Work 1:00:07 NotebookLM Deep Dive: The Best Free AI Learning Tool 1:02:08 Open Claw: Why You Probably Shouldn't Use It Yet 1:04:09 Ethan Mollick's Final Advice: Just Start Using AI for Real Work 1:05:40 The Future of AI Is Management Skills, Not Technical Skills 1:07:10 Anthropic's Full PR Disaster Recap: From Beloved to Bad Guys 1:08:41 Google Lyria Demo: Free AI Music Generator 1:10:50 AI Writes a 90s Rap About Anthropic's PR Crisis 1:12:04 NotebookLM Multi-Language Support Demo 1:13:22 What Is an API? Explained with NotebookLM 1:16:14 Closing & Where to Get All Resources Free —— More Useful Resources —— Find everything else at https://aiwithkyle.com/

    1h 17m

  5. 19 FEB

    145: AI Is Killing Your Brain & Here's How to Fight Back

    Get AI-Ready with Kyle’s 5-Day Challenge: https://aiwithkyle.com/join Kyle’s AI Canon — Curated list of AI learning essentials: https://aiwithkyle.com/ai-canon Subscribe and turn on notifications to catch the next live stream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChlLglbHDASnoGkbjDeHnQg 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. —— Time Stamps ——   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   —— More Useful Resources —— Find everything else at https://aiwithkyle.com/

    41 min

  6. 18 FEB

    144: Is AI to blame for UK unemployment rate hitting 52% high?

    Get AI-Ready with Kyle’s 5-Day Challenge: https://aiwithkyle.com/join Kyle’s AI Canon — Curated list of AI learning essentials: https://aiwithkyle.com/ai-canon Subscribe and turn on notifications to catch the next live stream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChlLglbHDASnoGkbjDeHnQg 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. —— Time Stamps ——   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   —— More Useful Resources —— Find everything else at https://aiwithkyle.com/

    54 min

  7. 17 FEB

    143: OpenAI Buys Viral OpenClaw, Anthropic Fumbles, Europe Loses Another Top Talent in Peter Steinberger

    Free how-to-setup OpenClaw guide: https://aiwithkyle.com/openclaw Get AI-Ready with Kyle’s 5-Day Challenge: https://aiwithkyle.com/join Kyle’s AI Canon — Curated list of AI learning essentials: https://aiwithkyle.com/ai-canon Subscribe and turn on notifications to catch the next live stream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChlLglbHDASnoGkbjDeHnQg 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. —— Time Stamps ——   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   —— More Useful Resources —— Find everything else at https://aiwithkyle.com/

    38 min

  8. 16 FEB

    142: Lean Testing Method - Validate Business Ideas with AI Before Ever Building the Product

    Get AI-Ready with Kyle’s 5-Day Challenge: https://aiwithkyle.com/join Kyle’s AI Canon — Curated list of AI learning essentials: https://aiwithkyle.com/ai-canon Subscribe and turn on notifications to catch the next live stream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChlLglbHDASnoGkbjDeHnQg 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. —— Time Stamps ——   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?   —— More Useful Resources —— Find everything else at https://aiwithkyle.com/

    52 min
See All (100)

About

AI With Kyle – Daily AI News With Zero Hype, Zero BS AI With Kyle is the daily podcast for people who want to understand artificial intelligence without hype, without jargon, and without getting lost in marketing nonsense. Every day, Kyle breaks down the biggest AI news, model releases, research updates, leaks, lawsuits, policy moves, and industry shifts - fast, clear, and brutally honest. If you're tired of exaggerated claims, clickbait headlines, or breathless “AGI tomorrow” predictions, this show gives you what actually matters in AI right now. Every episode covers: Major AI model releases and upgrades (OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Meta, xAI, Mistral) Real benchmarks, real performance, and how new models actually behave The business story behind AI: funding rounds, strategy changes, earnings, and power plays Research explained plainly - world models, multimodality, reinforcement learning, generative video, synthetic data Practical impacts for creators, entrepreneurs, and businesses Regulation, AI safety, copyright cases, and everything changing the landscape Tech industry shifts happening under the surface This show is perfect for: Founders and entrepreneurs Creators and educators Business leaders following AI strategy Anyone who wants signal, not noise What you get here: Straight explanations Clear context No hype No fluffy futurism Just the important stuff AI changes daily. This podcast helps you keep up - not by guessing about the future, but by understanding the present. Subscribe if you want calm, honest, daily AI coverage you can actually trust.

Information

  • Creator
    Kyle Balmer
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    100
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2025 All rights reserved.
  • Show Website
    AI with Kyle

You Might Also Like