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  1. 15h ago

    Who Captures AI Value

    A lot of AI debate keeps collapsing into one question: will the machines take the jobs? But the harder question is what kind of work, value, and power actually survive when automation gets cheap and weirdly uneven. And once you ask it that way, the clean stories start falling apart. Relational scarcity and labor shareTasks, saturation, and what automation actually changesThe measurement problemThe token economy beneath the hypeRouting, productization, and user skillWeb disruption, policy, and who captures the upside This podcast was created with Podkey. Make your own at https://podkey.fm

    11 min

  2. 1d ago

    Who Actually Wins AI

    A lot of this week's AI news sounds huge on first read. The more interesting question is who actually gets leverage out of it, and what breaks if the promised payoff never quite arrives. NVIDIA and the CPU shiftMeta's wearables and its security problemThe ROI gapIPO races and AI financingWho should own AI upside This podcast was created with Podkey. Make your own at https://podkey.fm

    10 min

  3. 3d ago

    When Tokens Became the Product

    For a while, AI felt like software. Buy a seat, hand people access, and assume the costs were somebody else's problem. Now the meter is visible, the bills are real, and a lot of confident AI strategy suddenly looks much less confident. Tokens replace seatsSticker shock and the token shortageWhen metrics distort behaviorWhat successful enterprise use looks likeThe infrastructure power shiftPolicy starts chasing token economicsWhat actually changed This podcast was created with Podkey. Make your own at https://podkey.fm

    10 min

  4. 4d ago

    When Goals Become Agents

    A lot of AI product launches are just interface changes wearing a manifesto. This one might actually matter, because it changes what a prompt is supposed to do. Slash goal as a new primitiveWhy looping mattersDurable threads and monothread stateWhat makes a good goalThe Goldilocks problemWhere this helps outside codingRubrics as missing infrastructureAutonomy spectrum and user controlThe enterprise gapWhat seems solid and what doesn't This podcast was created with Podkey. Make your own at https://podkey.fm

    9 min

  5. 5d ago

    Models, Money, and Harnesses

    A lot of the loudest AI news right now is really three different stories tangled together. What the models can do, what the tooling around them can do, and what investors need everyone to believe those things are worth. Anthropic Opus 4.8Anthropic valuationEnterprise AI strategyGPT-5.5 refreshCognition and coding agentsMeta compute strategy This podcast was created with Podkey. Make your own at https://podkey.fm

    9 min

  6. 6d ago

    Physics Dreams and Robotaxi Reality

    Some ideas sound inevitable because they’re elegant. Others sound inevitable because investors keep repeating them. This batch has both kinds: the Theory of Everything, and the robo-taxi future. Unification and the Theory of EverythingHiggs, electroweak, and what we actually knowAccelerators, data, and the scale of the searchAntimatter and the matter imbalanceDark matter, dark energy, and the limits of current theoryQuantum gravity and how ideas get testedRobotaxis, safety claims, and economic realityAutonomy, remote help, and who carries the risk This podcast was created with Podkey. Make your own at https://podkey.fm

    11 min

  7. May 28

    Tokens, Tests, and Agent Debt

    A lot of this week comes down to one question: are we measuring real capability, or just getting better at telling flattering stories about AI? The benchmark results are interesting, the token crunch looks real, and the policy ideas get messy fast once you ask how incentives actually change. Coding benchmark signalsWhy self-verification mattersToken crunch and the economics underneathInference becomes the businessAgent debt is becoming normal debtSlowdown stories, jobs, and what’s actually changingCoding tools and the move to the terminalThe token tax debate This podcast was created with Podkey. Make your own at https://podkey.fm

    12 min

  8. May 27

    AI Scale Meets Bottlenecks

    A model finds ten thousand serious bugs, a government quietly buys billions in chips to run systems like it, and the people who have to fix the mess are still very much human. That gap between machine speed and institutional capacity shows up in almost every story here. Anthropic Mythos and government demandThe human triage bottleneckDeepSeek's pricing war and fundingXAI's Grok V9 scale-upThe Pope's AI encyclical This podcast was created with Podkey. Make your own at https://podkey.fm

    11 min
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