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  1. JAN 25

    99: Anthropic's Apology and the Death of Reality

    This episode uncovers the internal power struggle at Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab, revealing how secret talks with Sam Altman led to a co-founder exodus back to OpenAI. We also explore the philosophical implications of Anthropic’s new "constitution" for Claude, which controversially suggests the model may possess functional emotions and includes apologies to the AI itself. The conversation shifts to major industry consolidations, including Google DeepMind’s strategic acqui-hire of Hume AI’s leadership to bolster emotional intelligence in Gemini, and reports that Apple is overhauling Siri into a chatbot while developing a new wearable. Plus, we discuss Runway’s Gen-4.5 fooling human viewers, the launch of the autonomous scheduling tool Blockit, and Salesforce’s mass adoption of Cursor for coding.

    18 min

  2. JAN 23

    98: Claude’s "Soul" Revealed, Apple’s 2027 Wearable, and AI Hits the Music Charts

    This episode breaks down three major shifts reshaping AI: Anthropic's constitution for Claude and the rise of machine morality and persona control; the music industry’s pivot from litigation to licensing AI-generated voices; and Apple’s push toward body-worn AI hardware and new partnerships for Siri. Together these stories show a wider trend from novelty to integration — new rules, new business models, and deep ethical questions about how we treat and build intelligence.

    13 min

  3. JAN 21

    97: Chips Are Weapons and Code Is Free

    Today's episode takes you straight to Davos, where the World Economic Forum became the stage for Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s stark warning that selling AI chips to China is akin to arming North Korea with nuclear weapons, a sentiment countered by Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis who argued Chinese firms remain six months behind Western labs. We then examine the financial fallout hitting the software sector as major SaaS stocks like Salesforce and HubSpot tumble in response to the rise of AI coding agents, prompting Block Inc. to launch "Goose," a free, open-source competitor to Claude Code. The conversation continues with a look at "Humans&," a three-month-old startup that just raised a massive $480 million seed round at a nearly $4.5 billion valuation to build "human-centric" AI, and wraps up with new creative capabilities from LTX’s audio-to-video generation tool and OpenAI’s latest age-verification safeguards.

    13 min

  4. JAN 19

    96: ChatGPT Ads and Automated Cyber Warfare

    This episode examines OpenAI’s significant shift in monetization strategy, detailing the official launch of targeted advertisements for free users in the U.S. and the global rollout of the lower-cost ChatGPT Go subscription to support broader access. We also unpack the escalating legal and public conflict between Elon Musk and OpenAI, analyzing leaked journals regarding the company’s transition from a non-profit alongside Musk’s deployment of the massive Colossus 2 gigawatt-scale training cluster. Finally, the discussion explores the potential industrialization of cyber exploits by autonomous AI agents and new workflows for mobile coding using OpenAI’s Codex.

    18 min

  5. JAN 12

    95: Making Autonomous Health Decisions

    This episode explores OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT Health, a private experience that integrates personal medical records and fitness data from platforms like Apple Health and MyFitnessPal to provide tailored wellness advice. We also examine Utah’s landmark decision to allow an AI system to autonomously approve prescription refills for 191 different medications, signaling a significant transition from AI providing health information to making actual medical decisions. Beyond healthcare, the discussion covers Lenovo’s new "Personal Ambient Intelligence" assistant, Qira, which follows users across PCs and mobile devices, alongside major industry shifts like Anthropic’s $10 billion funding round and China’s push for domestic AI chips. Finally, the episode touches on practical workflows for automating expense tracking with Claude and Google’s new Gemini-powered audio lessons for educators.

    17 min
  6. 94: The Year AI Earned Legal Authority

    JAN 8

    94: The Year AI Earned Legal Authority

    AI has crossed a line — it no longer only helps, it now decides. This episode traces that boundary shift from personalized health to institutional finance and consumer hardware. We unpack OpenAI’s ChatGPT Health, which links Apple Health, MyFitnessPal, Peloton and Be Well medical records into isolated, encrypted health chats that OpenAI promises not to use for model training — a move designed to trade scale for trust. Then we examine Utah’s landmark approval of Doctronic’s autonomous prescription refill system: 191 drugs covered, critical exclusions (pain meds, ADHD treatments, injectables), 99% agreement with human clinicians across 500 cases, $4 per refill pricing, and supervising physicians retaining legal responsibility — a blueprint states from Texas to Missouri are already watching. On the consumer edge, Lenovo’s Cura (Kira) pushes ambient, cross-device context into millions of PCs, bundling OpenAI/Microsoft cloud models with specialist tools like Stability AI to make assistants feel like continuous collaborators. At the institutional apex, JP Morgan’s Proxy IQ automates proxy voting across $7 trillion in assets — proof that firms now trust AI with governance-level strategy. We also explain the technical engines enabling this leap: context graphs that map relationships across people, projects and decisions, and Hugging Face’s Fine PDFs — a 3 trillion token, high‑quality dataset that unlocks expert reasoning. Practical examples show the immediate value: Claude automating Gmail-to-sheet expense tracking, and ChatGPT 5.2 turning a six‑page PT plan into a 20‑week, patient-friendly recovery grid. Finally, we confront the core question for marketers, technologists and regulators: when billion‑dollar valuations (Anthropic, OpenAI) hinge on systems that will fail sometimes, where does accountability live and who owns the cost when an AI decision goes wrong? This episode equips you to spot the risks and opportunities as AI moves from assistant to authorized actor.

    19 min
  7. 93: Holograms Health Tests and the New Rules of Frontier AI

    JAN 7

    93: Holograms Health Tests and the New Rules of Frontier AI

    Frontier AI just leapt from demos to daily economics — money, models and medicine are moving at breakneck speed and marketers must rethink what wins. This episode synthesizes the week’s biggest moves: massive strategic capital (XAI’s $20B round and sovereign backers that tilt compute and distribution), a hardware arms race (multi‑gigawatt datacenters and Memphis facilities), and product leaps that push AI off the screen — Razer’s Project AVA holographic Grok companions, Gemini’s video‑to‑code transforms, and Sleep FM’s sleep‑based foundation model that predicts dozens of diseases from one night of data. We explain why Claude Skills and Cursor’s dynamic context discovery aren’t just technical tweaks but the cost architecture that makes agents practical (token efficiency + modular skill files = deployable automation), and why OpenAI’s science hiring plus GPT‑5 Pro’s rapid problem solving signals a new industry tradeoff between buying commodity intelligence and building proprietary capability. For marketing teams and AI strategists the takeaways are immediate: treat agent interfaces like product experiences (learn from game design), protect privacy and consent as first‑order business risks for ambient devices and health agents, and pivot content strategy from SEO to machine‑first formats that agents can reliably index and reuse. Practical next steps include auditing your data plumbing, prototyping one agent workflow with human checkpoints, and negotiating distribution and compute in any partnership — because in 2026 the winners will be the teams that pair cheap, fast intelligence with ironclad trust and operational controls.

    13 min
  8. 92: AI Agents Are Leaving the Cloud and Entering the World

    JAN 6

    92: AI Agents Are Leaving the Cloud and Entering the World

    This episode slices through a blistering news cycle to track three seismic shifts: AI assistants have migrated from speakers to the web and every screen; reasoning AI is going physical with open‑source stacks for cars and robots; and consumer adoption in healthcare is already massive and quietly consequential. We unpack Amazon’s tactical pivot — Alexa.com and an agentic Alexa Plus with Expedia, Yelp and Uber integrations — and why that distribution advantage matters as rivals like OpenAI chase vision and commerce (hence the Pinterest chatter). Then we explain Nvidia’s Alpamayo and the “ChatGPT moment for physical AI”: chain‑of‑thought reasoning, open datasets, and auditable decision traces that lower the barrier to building autonomous vehicles and robots — and force regulators to rethink safety for open components. We cover the hardware and economics powering the shift: Vera Rubin chips promising ~10x cost cuts, AMD roadmaps that leapfrog performance, Meta’s Kernel Evolve automating hardware-specific tuning, and smaller smart models like Falcon H1R that beat much larger rivals. For marketers and founders the implications are immediate — agentic commerce, visual-first shopping experiences, and turnkey creative workflows (think Gen Store and nanobanana Pro) change go-to-market economics for solo sellers and brands. We also dig into the hidden story in healthcare: ~40 million daily ChatGPT health users, 5% of all prompts, 70% outside clinic hours and hundreds of thousands weekly from rural “hospital deserts,” pushing regulators toward new FDA pathways. Finally, we highlight what investors and builders must watch: gross profit per token (gppt) as the new valuation lever (0.71 correlation), risky CAPEX bets built on LOIs, and the regulatory tension between fast open innovation and public safety. Actionable takeaways for marketing pros: plan for agentic, multimodal experiences; prioritize efficiency over scale; and map regulatory exposure as a go‑to‑market risk.

    15 min
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  • Creator
    Pete Larkin
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
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