Episode 424
We Asked AI to Run a City and It Killed Everyone
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In this episode:
AI's Money & Power
- Anthropic leapfrogs OpenAI as the most valuable AI startup
- Anthropic releases new model, Opus 4.8
- AI sticker shock hits corporate America
- AI model simulation: Claude vs. ChatGPT vs. Grok vs. Gemini
- Google hates you
AI Agents Take Action
- Your AI agent can now trade for you on Robinhood
- Robinhood lets customers use AI to trade stocks, make credit card purchases
The Vatican vs. The Algorithm
- I Read the Pope's 240-Page Encyclical. I'm Astounded by What He Wrote.
- Did the Pope use AI to write about the dangers of AI?
Big Business Shakeups
Screens, Streams & Self-Driving
- Spotify is narrating magazine articles now
- Roku Is Revamping Its Homescreen for the First Time in Over a Decade
- Blind Waymo Users Revel in the Joy of Riding Alone
Weird and Wacky
- Mark Zuckerberg's mega yacht docks in Seattle in the wake of Meta layoffs
- F.B.I. Arrests C.I.A. Official With $40 Million in Gold Bars in His Home
- Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet
- I vibe-coded a billionaire jet tracker to warn people about a possible apocalypse
- Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date"
Tech Rec:
- Sanjay - OpenTools / OpenPrinter
- Adam - Gibson Guitar App
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