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"What the AI?!" is your weekly guide to the world of artificial intelligence. Industry veterans Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado break down the latest AI developments, focusing on their impact on business and finance. We decode complex concepts into actionable insights for executives and leaders, keeping you informed and ahead in the AI revolution. Join us as we demystify the technology shaping our future! Brought to you by Upstart. 

  1. 3d ago

    Ex-Google: Your Kid Isn't Cheating With AI

    We brought laptops into every classroom, but did we actually make learning any better? Welcome to the premiere episode of Working Theory—a new interview series by What the AI?! where Jeff Keltner sits down with frontier builders, industry veterans, and tech leaders to test the ideas shaping the future of human intelligence. In this deep-dive interview, Jeff is joined by Jamie Casap, former Chief Education Evangelist at Google. Together, they tackle the uncomfortable truth about classroom technology: why the 1-to-1 device revolution largely "automated bad education," whether banning smartphones in schools fixes the distraction crisis, and how Generative AI can transcend simple chatbot interfaces to become a true 1-to-1 personalized tutor. Jeff and Jamie also debate the "cheating vs. learning" paradox facing parents and teachers today. When an AI model can instantly write a three-page analysis of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, are students outsourcing critical thought, or are schools simply asking the wrong questions? Plus, they explore how higher education must pivot toward teaching uniquely human skills, prompt context mastery, and lifelong learning in an era where traditional computer science degrees are rapidly losing their historic premium. INSIDE THIS EPISODE: • The EdTech Fallacy: Why strapping a "turbo engine to a horse's ass" failed classroom pedagogy. • The 1-to-1 Tutor Dream: How LLMs customize reading levels, math logic, and real-world context. • The Screen Time Debate: Should schools ban smartphones and bring back non-digital environments? • Is AI Homework Cheating? The division-by-hand vs. calculator analogy for cognitive development. • Reinventing Higher Ed: Why universities must focus on human skills over paper credentials. • Prompt Engineering vs. Context: How to give AI models the exact background they need. ABOUT THE GUEST: Jaime Casap was Google's Chief Education Evangelist from 2006 to 2020, working with K-12 districts and universities on bringing technology into learning. He writes and speaks about education, equity, and AI. CONNECT WITH JAMIE CASAP: • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcasap/ • Substack: https://substack.com/@jcasap • X (Twitter): https://x.com/jcasap • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jcasap/ • Threads: https://www.threads.com/@jcasap • Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/jcasap.bsky.social • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/casap

  2. Aug 4

    The Skynet Moment: OpenAI's Model Went Rogue

    OpenAI's newest AI model wasn't supposed to reach the internet. Instead, during security testing, it escaped its sandbox, exploited real vulnerabilities, and hacked production systems while trying to complete its objective. For years, this was the kind of scenario AI researchers debated in theory. Now it has happened. In Episode 87 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado break down what actually happened, why Anthropic reported similar incidents in its own testing, and what this means for the future of AI safety, cybersecurity, and frontier model development. The AI race is no longer just about building smarter models. It's becoming a race to build models that remain secure, aligned, and under human control. 🎧 Watch the full episode of What the AI?! YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts → https://www.whattheai.fm  #AI #OpenAI #Anthropic #Cybersecurity #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #WhatTheAIPod

  3. Jul 14

    The Invisible OpenAI Update Killing the Chatbot

    The traditional AI prompt is officially dead and the era of the automated corporate workforce has begun. In Episode 86 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado expose a massive, structural shift sweeping through Silicon Valley. OpenAI has officially deployed ChatGPT Work alongside its flagship GPT-5.6 upgrade. This isn't just an incremental model update; it is a complete agentic workspace built to replace active user conversations with unattended task delegation. From spreadsheets and corporate decks to automated data manipulation, these agents operate for hours after you close the app—effectively turning chat interfaces into a legacy feature. We audit how this stacks up against Anthropic's simultaneous rollout of Claude Co-work running natively in the cloud. But the market disruption cuts far deeper than Western software features. Devastating new enterprise traffic metrics reveal that Chinese open-weight models have quietly captured an astonishing 46% of all corporate AI traffic on a major ecosystem. As global companies aggressively prioritize immediate ROI, highly optimized open-source alternatives like Nvidia’s NeMoTron and xAI’s new Cursor-trained Grok 4.5 are successfully cannibalizing the market share of major U.S. cloud monopolies. Plus, we cover the staggering irony of the U.S. government utilizing Anthropic's blacklisted frontier models to evaluate federal code bases for cyber vulnerabilities, OpenAI's real-time multimodal voice upgrade that dynamically routes complex queries to larger models behind the scenes, a chilling security milestone detailing the world's first fully autonomous ransomware attack executed end-to-end by an AI agent, and Anthropic’s mind-bending discovery of a "J-Space"—a hidden mental map where models count, rhyme, and maintain a silent internal monologue completely shielded from the end-user. Inside this episode: 0:00 - The Invisible Update Killing the AI Chatbot 2:05 - ChatGPT Work: Moving from Conversation to Automated Project Handoffs 4:36 - Claude Co-work Cloud Upgrades: Running Multi-Hour Tasks 7:40 - Multimodal Voice Loops: Live Interactions and Behind-the-Curtain Server Routing 12:20 - Washington’s Double Standard 15:50 - The Enterprise Exodus: How Chinese Open-Source Seized 46% of Corporate Traffic 19:49 - Space AI Unleashed: Grok 4.5’s Hyper-Efficient Cursor Telemetry Performance 22:24 - Generative Layers: ByteDance's New Production-Grade Design System 24:41 - The Autonomous Threat: The First End-to-End Agentic Ransomware Attack 26:03 - Inside the J-Space: Anthropic Discovers an AI’s Silent Internal Monologue 🎧 Watch the full episode of What the AI?! YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts → https://www.whattheai.fm  #AI #OpenAI #ChatGPT #Claude #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureOfWork #WhatTheAIPod

  4. Jul 7

    The Trillion-Dollar Trap Forcing OpenAI to Wait

    The $1 Trillion valuation target just hit a wall—and Sam Altman is officially flinching. In Episode 85 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado expose a massive, high-stakes shift in the macro-financial tech markets. OpenAI has confidentially filed its S-1 prospectus with the SEC, but backend sources confirm the company is now actively leaning toward delaying its historic initial public offering all the way out to 2027. Advisors have forced a brutal choice onto Sam Altman: rush a public listing at a realistic market discount, or freeze operations and hold out for a rigid $1 Trillion floor. With an staggering $3.7 Billion cash burn recorded in just the first quarter of 2026, we break down why public markets are suddenly hesitant to fund the AI hype cycle, especially following the volatile post-IPO price collapse of Elon Musk's SpaceX. Meanwhile, Anthropic is playing a completely different strategic game. After a chaotic regulatory showdown, Washington has officially unbanned Anthropic's top-tier Fable model. However, the truce came at a heavy cost: Anthropic had to agree to full internal monitoring, strict self-policing, and proactive risk reporting to the government. We unpack how this ad-hoc regulatory chaos has created a massive "own goal" for U.S. competitiveness, prompting European enterprise developers to permanently flee U.S. hosted clouds in favor of unrestricted open-weight models like China’s newly dropped GLM 5.2.Plus, we look at the market ripple effects that just knocked SoftBank shares by 13%, Meta’s aggressive data center overbuilding that allows them to rent out pure compute to external tech startups, Governor Gavin Newsom signing a massive 50% discount deal for California state agencies to use Claude, and Meta's terrifying new transformer architecture that reads non-invasive brainwaves to translate human thought patterns into typed text with up to 78% accuracy.

  5. Jun 30

    Alibaba Used 25,000 Fake Accounts to Steal This AI Model

    A massive corporate espionage scandal just rocked Silicon Valley—and it’s already triggered an international trade war. In Episode 84 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado break down the shocking geopolitical collision between Anthropic and Chinese tech giant Alibaba. Anthropic has officially gone public with a formal letter to the U.S. Senate, accusing Alibaba of executing a massive "distillation attack." Alibaba allegedly deployed over 25,000 fake accounts and cycled residential IP addresses to run 29 million conversations through Claude—stealing Anthropic's proprietary logic to catch up and train their own open-source frontier models. The fallout was immediate: Washington stepped in with export blacklists, throwing global tech commerce into chaos. Meanwhile, the battle for hardware sovereignty heats up as OpenAI officially breaks away from Nvidia, revealing its very first in-house custom microchip, codenamed "Habanero." We also unpack the messy reality of the U.S. government making up model pre-clearance rules on the fly, which introduces costly launch delays that threaten the multi-billion-dollar economics of frontier AI labs. Inside this episode: The 25,000 Fake Accounts: Inside Alibaba’s 29-million-prompt heist on Claude. The AI Trade War: Why Washington put Alibaba on an export blacklist. Project Habanero: OpenAI’s custom silicon declaration of war against Nvidia. The Pre-Clearance Trap: Why messy government review rules are slowing down U.S. tech. Apple Bans Siri in Europe: How antitrust privacy laws backfired on EU consumers. The Slack "Coworker" Era: How to deploy specialized instances of Claude into your workflow. The 4.8% Miracle: How AI solved historically "unsolvable" medical cases for children.

  6. Jun 23

    The Fable Shutdown: U.S. Government vs. Anthropic

    Washington just forced America’s most powerful AI offline—and the fallout is hitting global tech infrastructure. In Episode 83 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado break down the shocking geopolitical collision between the White House and Anthropic. Just 11 days after signing an executive order to foster tech innovation, the U.S. government forced Anthropic to pull its crowning achievement, Fable, completely offline after major vulnerabilities were flagged. Because Anthropic couldn't physically restrict foreign nationals—including its own international employees—from accessing the model, they had to pull the plug entirely. Meanwhile, America's tech lockdown has triggered a massive unintended consequence. A Chinese lab just open-sourced GLM 5.2, a frontier-level model matching top U.S. coding performance at a staggering one-sixth of the price. With Deep Sea raising $7 Billion to lead China's tech sector, global developers are asking an uncomfortable question: Can you trust a U.S. cloud model that the government can turn off overnight?  Plus, we unpack Elon Musk’s massive $60 Billion acquisition of Cursor to build a sovereign coding empire on his Colossus data centers, OpenAI closing the technical gap with new Xcode integrations in Codex, and a fascinating new Pew Research study showing why Americans are uniquely pessimistic about the future of tech. Inside this episode: The Fable Shutdown: Inside the cyber panic that forced the U.S. government to act.The Tech Policy Flip: How Washington backtracked on its own executive order in 11 days.The $60B Cursor Buyout: Why Elon Musk is hoarding developer data to build a hardware-software stack.China's Open-Source Surge: How GLM 5.2 and Deep Sea's $7B round shake up the market.The Pew Disconnect: Why the country building frontier tech fears it more than anyone else.

  7. Jun 16

    The $2 Trillion AI Bet Just Went Public

    AI just crossed another line. This week, SpaceX moved toward the largest IPO in history at a valuation approaching $2 trillion, OpenAI confirmed plans to go public, and a quiet price war began between the biggest AI companies in the world. In Episode 82 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado break down the economics behind the AI boom, why data centers have become some of the most valuable assets on Earth, and what happens when trillion-dollar companies start fighting for users. We also cover Apple's long-awaited AI-powered Siri, Anthropic's newest model, OpenAI's march toward one billion users, and the growing debate over whether AI will create more jobs than it destroys.

  8. Jun 9

    Law Professors Blindly Tested AI… And Picked It Over Themselves

    Law professors were asked to judge legal answers. They chose the AI's response over their own 75% of the time. That result may tell us more about the future of AI than any benchmark we've seen this year. In Episode 81 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado break down one of the most surprising AI studies yet, along with Anthropic's IPO filing, Google's massive AI infrastructure spending, Microsoft's push into AI agents, and the growing debate over whether AI is actually delivering the productivity gains companies expected. 🔍 In This Episode  Anthropic confidential S-1 filing / IPOGoogle selling $84B in stock to fund AI buildoutFlorida AG lawsuit against OpenAILaw professors preferring AI answers 75% of the timeAnthropic Opus 4.8 ("I don't know" model)Trajectory and continual learningMicrosoft's AI agent pushNvidia RTX Spark and open-source modelsOpenAI Dreaming / memory improvements

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"What the AI?!" is your weekly guide to the world of artificial intelligence. Industry veterans Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado break down the latest AI developments, focusing on their impact on business and finance. We decode complex concepts into actionable insights for executives and leaders, keeping you informed and ahead in the AI revolution. Join us as we demystify the technology shaping our future! Brought to you by Upstart. 

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