That Was The Week

Keith Teare
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That Was The Week is an editorialized and curated weekly look at developments in tech, startups, and venture investing with a video and podcast for paid subscribers. All free subscribers get a 6-month complementary paid subscription. www.thatwastheweek.com

  1. 2025 And All That: The Path to Abundance

    19/12/2025

    2025 And All That: The Path to Abundance

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    42 min

  2. 13/12/2025

    Human¹⁰⁰

    Human¹⁰⁰: Why This Week Proves AI Is Our Greatest Invention, Not Our Replacement This editorial argues that artificial intelligence is best understood as a powerful human multiplier, not a substitute for human labor or creativity. Drawing on recent productivity data, AI is already saving the average white-collar worker nearly an hour a day—worth more than $7,000 annually per employee—yet current AI pricing captures only a small fraction of that value. The result is a widening “AI value gap” that will reshape software pricing, bundling strategies, and enterprise adoption. The piece also highlights how the AI revolution is increasingly physical, not just digital. Massive investments in data centers, energy infrastructure, robotics, and compute signal that the next phase of AI growth depends on power, capital, and real-world systems as much as algorithms. From nuclear energy to purpose-built power generation, the infrastructure race is becoming central to AI leadership. The core conclusion: the most successful companies and societies will not be those that focus on replacing people with AI, but those that redesign work, organizations, and systems around AI-augmented humans. The future of AI is not artificial intelligence—it is amplified human intelligence. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thatwastheweek.com/subscribe

    37 min

  3. 07/12/2025

    Winner Takes it All? Or, The Great Compression

    Is the chaos in the market actually a rational response to a new innovation curve? This week, we explore The Great Compression—a phenomenon collapsing the distance between venture capital stages, career ladders, and the way we access reality. We analyze why "$2 billion seed rounds" and the death of the billable hour aren't signs of a bubble, but symptoms of a "Winner Takes Most" AI curve. In this industrial-scale race, the system is squeezing resources into a "barbell distribution," forcing a choice between achieving massive scale or becoming obsolete. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thatwastheweek.com/subscribe

    41 min

  4. 29/11/2025

    The Year of Intelligence

    The week ending November 30, 2025, was characterized as a "wacky races kind of week," with constant shifts in the perceived leadership of the AI sector. Google was highlighted as the biggest weekly winner, seeing a rise in stock, positive reviews for Gemini, and developing its own chip that critics suggest has pierced NVIDIA's "aura of invulnerability". Other models, including Anthropic's Opus 4.5 and ChatGPT 5.1 Codex-Max, were also noted as big deals in the accelerating innovation cycle. Internationally, China reportedly "leapfrogged the U.S. in global markets for open AI models". Despite individual corporate victories, the discussion emphasized that the AI development is an "endless and accelerating innovation cycle" with no "finish line," making the media framing of a "race" misleading. Key tensions include the fact that corporations are not embracing AI as much as expected due to the innovator's dilemma and general climate uncertainty. Furthermore, AI appears to be "winning the copyright fight", while venture capital is experiencing massive concentration into fewer funds and companies, creating a significant liquidity trap. The overarching theme suggests that the AI boom represents a new industrial stack, not a software bubble, making the ultimate outcome dependent on managing the three Cs: Capabilities, Capital, and Civics This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thatwastheweek.com/subscribe

    40 min

  5. 23/11/2025

    AI, Agents & the New Age of Progress: Work, Poverty & the Future

    AI isn’t breaking the web or destroying jobs—it’s ushering in a new Age of Progress. Intelligent agents, robotics, and abundant compute are pushing us toward optional work, collapsing labor costs and reshaping the economics of wealth. The real challenge: whether society can build the policies and systems to distribute the coming abundance. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thatwastheweek.com/subscribe

    45 min

  6. 15/11/2025

    The Manufactured Moral Panic Against AI

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    46 min

  7. 08/11/2025

    Is China the New America?

    SEO Summary: An in-depth editorial exploring China’s rise in AI and GDP share, historical parallels to U.S. industrial dominance, and how cooperation—not rivalry—will define the next century of technological progress. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thatwastheweek.com/subscribe

    38 min

  8. 01/11/2025

    Can OpenAI Shape Our Future?

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    6 min
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That Was The Week is an editorialized and curated weekly look at developments in tech, startups, and venture investing with a video and podcast for paid subscribers. All free subscribers get a 6-month complementary paid subscription. www.thatwastheweek.com

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  • Creator
    Keith Teare
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2025
  • Episodes
    97
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    Clean
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    © Keith Teare
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