Mainframe

Loren Castillo

Your daily guide through the AI chaos: what actually happened, who's winning, and how to take yourself to the next level. AI voices, human-made reporting.

  1. Jul 29

    mAInframe Special: Be the Answer in AI Search

    A mAInframe special. The new front page is the AI answer: when a buyer asks ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or Google's AI Overviews for the best tool, the model names you or it names your competitor, and if it does not name you, you do not exist to that buyer. This episode breaks down how AI actually builds its recommendations, why your own website is not the lever you think it is, and the moves that get you named. Brought to you by SearchVis (https://searchvis.outpace.media): track whether AI answers name your brand across every engine, see who is named instead, and get the exact move to win the citation. Be the answer.

  2. Jul 28

    Mainframe — July 28, 2026

    Your daily guide through the AI chaos: what actually happened, who's winning, and how to take yourself to the next level. AI voices, human-made reporting. the open-to-closed gap is down to four points In this episode: - LEAD (builder impact + stakes), Kimi K3 weights are live and routable from US inference - REPORTED (Claude, in testing, not shipped), Anthropic Managed Projects - QUICK HIT (voice stack), Qwen Audio 3.0 Realtime tops speech-to-speech Listen & subscribe: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033DOjtgK9MN6 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id6783665599 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/578d11e0-81db-42e4-ab79-6d9a91f6968f/mainframe YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mainframepodcast Full written brief & newsletter: https://mainframepodcast.com Built by Outpace - AI-native websites and agentic systems: https://outpace.media

  3. Jul 27

    Mainframe — July 27, 2026

    Your daily guide through the AI chaos: what actually happened, who's winning, and how to take yourself to the next level. AI voices, human-made reporting. Anthropic is now standing alone on open weights In this episode: - LEAD (Claude, update + builder stakes): the Opus 5 cost trap - Gemini Spark drops to the $20 AI Pro tier (US, July 24) - QUICK HIT (REPORTED, rolling): Codex real-time voice mode references spotted in ChatGPT, a general-purpose voice agent that reaches Connectors (Slack, calendar, docs) Listen & subscribe: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033DOjtgK9MN6 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id6783665599 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/578d11e0-81db-42e4-ab79-6d9a91f6968f/mainframe YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mainframepodcast Full written brief & newsletter: https://mainframepodcast.com Built by Outpace - AI-native websites and agentic systems: https://outpace.media

  4. Jul 26

    Mainframe — July 26, 2026

    Your daily guide through the AI chaos: what actually happened, who's winning, and how to take yourself to the next level. AI voices, human-made reporting. the routing layer just became a payments-giant asset In this episode: - LEAD (Claude, update), Opus 5, the 24-hour verdict + the prompting change - Codex multi-folder local projects (OpenAI, July 24-25) - Ruff 0.16.0 raises default rules from 59 to 413 (Astral, July 23; flagged by Simon Willison) Listen & subscribe: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033DOjtgK9MN6 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id6783665599 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/578d11e0-81db-42e4-ab79-6d9a91f6968f/mainframe YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mainframepodcast Full written brief & newsletter: https://mainframepodcast.com Built by Outpace - AI-native websites and agentic systems: https://outpace.media

  5. Jul 25

    Mainframe — July 25, 2026

    Your daily guide through the AI chaos: what actually happened, who's winning, and how to take yourself to the next level. AI voices, human-made reporting. a coalition just moved to keep your cheapest model lane legal In this episode: - LEAD (fresh Anthropic release), Claude Opus 5 shipped (July 24, CONFIRMED) - Dari open-sources its router model (carried by kimmonismus) - QUICK HIT, Claude Voice Mode upgraded (TestingCatalog): now runs Opus 4.8 / Sonnet 5 (not just Haiku), adds Spanish, French, Hindi, Japanese, and can run tool + Connector tasks (Gmail, Calendar, Docs) Listen & subscribe: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033DOjtgK9MN6 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id6783665599 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/578d11e0-81db-42e4-ab79-6d9a91f6968f/mainframe YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mainframepodcast Full written brief & newsletter: https://mainframepodcast.com Built by Outpace - AI-native websites and agentic systems: https://outpace.media

  6. Jul 24

    Mainframe — July 24, 2026

    Your daily guide through the AI chaos: what actually happened, who's winning, and how to take yourself to the next level. AI voices, human-made reporting. the smartest model and the cheapest capable model are now two different models In this episode: - LEAD-ADJACENT (fresh release), OpenAI ChatGPT Voice on the desktop (July 23) - BUILDER STAKES (Claude), Opus 5 appears to be rolling out (RUMORED) - Media shelf refilled, Microsoft MAI-Image-2.5-Pro (highest-fidelity image model, public preview) Listen & subscribe: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033DOjtgK9MN6 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id6783665599 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/578d11e0-81db-42e4-ab79-6d9a91f6968f/mainframe YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mainframepodcast Full written brief & newsletter: https://mainframepodcast.com Built by Outpace - AI-native websites and agentic systems: https://outpace.media

  7. Jul 23

    Mainframe — July 23, 2026

    Your daily guide through the AI chaos: what actually happened, who's winning, and how to take yourself to the next level. AI voices, human-made reporting. your cheapest routing lane is now a political football In this episode: - LEAD (fresh Anthropic release), Claude Security plugin for Claude Code, now in public beta (July 22) - Cursor Router (July 22), request-level classifier that routes each coding request to the cheapest capable model; frontier when needed, price-efficient when not - Claude Voice Mode now routes through Opus and Sonnet, not just Haiku (TestingCatalog) Listen & subscribe: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033DOjtgK9MN6 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id6783665599 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/578d11e0-81db-42e4-ab79-6d9a91f6968f/mainframe YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mainframepodcast Full written brief & newsletter: https://mainframepodcast.com Built by Outpace - AI-native websites and agentic systems: https://outpace.media

  8. Jul 22

    Mainframe — July 22, 2026

    Your daily guide through the AI chaos: what actually happened, who's winning, and how to take yourself to the next level. AI voices, human-made reporting. the routing floor keeps dropping In this episode: - LEAD (fresh Anthropic release), RECORD A SKILL in Claude Cowork (July 22) - BUILDER IMPACT, Claude Code desktop now drives the iOS Simulator (public beta, July 21) - BUILDER STAKES (wallet), Thesean launches Ship (beta) Listen & subscribe: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033DOjtgK9MN6 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id6783665599 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/578d11e0-81db-42e4-ab79-6d9a91f6968f/mainframe YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mainframepodcast Full written brief & newsletter: https://mainframepodcast.com Built by Outpace - AI-native websites and agentic systems: https://outpace.media

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Your daily guide through the AI chaos: what actually happened, who's winning, and how to take yourself to the next level. AI voices, human-made reporting.

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  • Creator
    Loren Castillo
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    39
  • Rating
    Clean
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    Mainframe