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State of Play: Pt.2
AI economy, you're going to have to bend over. It's time for more temperature checks and we've only got our rectal thermometer on hand, sorry. It's for your health.
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State of Play: Pt.1
Week two of baby season and we're still out here, still feeding you content-starved little varmints hot and fresh intelligence. This week, we thought it was a good time for a general temperature check on the AI world. Who's leading, who's flailing, and who the hell is curing their dog's cancer with…
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State of Play Pt.1
Week two of baby season and we're still out here, still feeding you content-starved little varmints hot and fresh intelligence. This week, we thought it was a good time for a general temperature check on the AI world. Who's leading, who's flailing, and who the hell is curing their dog's cancer with…
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Teeth, Laptops, Cots and Software
In this short-but-sweet premium ep, Raph and James rattle through some of the biggest stories from the past week, planting flags for later told-you-so's: Private equity firms are feeling the SaaSpocalypse Apple's MacBook Neo play The SNOO Zuckerberg vs Wang Plus, Raph describes his whirlwind weeke…
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On The Chopping Block (PREMIUM)
You may know Jack Dorsey as co-founder of Twitter or the guy who runs the company that makes those little card reader doo-dads at your local coffee shop, or perhaps that one random mention in a Kendrick Lamar song. Right now, he's in the news for laying off a whole hunk of people from Block, the c…
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Anthropic Goes To War
For today's free ep, we examine the current spat between Anthropic and Trump's Department of War over use of their AI model Claude. Should a next-token prediction model be allowed to make decisions in the heat of battle? Should the snuffing out of a human life be prompted by a computer? Is Mark Zu…
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Anthropic Goes To War
For today's free ep, we examine the current spat between Anthropic and Trump's Department of War over use of their AI model Claude. Should a next-token prediction model be allowed to make decisions in the heat of battle? Should the snuffing out of a human life be prompted by a computer? Is Mark Zu…
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The Far-Flung Future of 2028
When one thinks of impossible futures, they often think of a luxurious, technological wonderland. An unimaginable utopia where humans live in perfect harmony, their every want and need being fulfilled through meteoric advances in artificial intelligence. A prosperous society of abundance and civili…
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The Far-Flung Future of 2028
When one thinks of impossible futures, they often think of a luxurious, technological wonderland. An unimaginable utopia where humans live in perfect harmony, their every want and need being fulfilled through meteoric advances in artificial intelligence. A prosperous society of abundance and civili…
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