Move over ChatGPT, Claude is now the #1  

Anthropic announced a new $65 billion funding round, bringing their valuation to $965 billion and making their company more valuable than OpenAI (valued at $852 billion in March). Now the race is on for the first AI company to grow to be worth $1 trillion.  

I just can't stop thinking about the incredible wealth growth of their employees. We thought social media fuelled a new class of wealth, but this is next level.  

It came the same day they launched Opus 4.8, which they say has better capabilities in agentic tasks, advanced coding, and comes with more of a focus on honesty and self-correction.  

 

Search engine DuckDuckGo is embracing the AI backlash  

Google announced it was going all in on AI for search. They're planning to retire the ten blue links and search will be "reimagined". In the promo video they show you being able to get alerts when your favourite bands are going on tour, or when an item you have your eye on drops in price. You can search multi-modal more easily – so using photos and text together to help explain your query.   

But not everyone is onboard, with concerns that if everything happens inside Google, the open web and the websites will die.  

DuckDuckGo —the privacy focused search engine— is offering a "No AI" search experience. Since Google's announcement they're seeing a 30% jump in users, but it’s worth remembering they have just a 2% market share. 

 

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Move over ChatGPT, Claude is now the #1 &nbsp;
Anthropic announced a new $65 billion funding round, bringing their valuation to $965 billion and making their company more valuable than OpenAI (valued at $852 billion in March). Now the race is on for the first AI company to grow to be worth $1 trillion. &nbsp;
I just can't stop thinking about the incredible wealth growth of their employees. We thought social media fuelled a new class of wealth, but this is next level. &nbsp;
It came the same day they launched Opus 4.8, which they say has better capabilities in agentic tasks, advanced coding, and comes with more of a focus on honesty and self-correction. &nbsp;
&nbsp;
Search engine DuckDuckGo is embracing the AI backlash &nbsp;
Google announced it was going all in on AI for search. They're planning to retire the ten blue links and search will be "reimagined". In the promo video they show you being able to get alerts when your favourite bands are going on tour, or when an item you have your eye on drops in price. You can search multi-modal more easily – so using photos and text together to help explain your query. &nbsp;&nbsp;
But not everyone is onboard, with concerns that if everything happens inside Google, the open web and the websites will die. &nbsp;
DuckDuckGo —the privacy focused search engine— is offering a "No AI" search experience. Since Google's announcement they're seeing a 30% jump in users, but it’s worth remembering they have just a 2% market share.&nbsp;
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News, sport, books, music, gardens and celebrities – what better way to spend your Saturdays?

Jack Tame’s crisp perspective, style and enthusiasm makes for refreshing and entertaining Saturday morning radio on Newstalk ZB. News, sport, books, music, gardens and celebrities – what better way to spend your Saturdays?

Jack Tame’s crisp perspective, style and enthusiasm makes for refreshing and entertaining Saturday morning radio on Newstalk ZB.News, sport, books, music, gardens and celebrities – what better way to spend your Saturdays?

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

Paul Stenhouse: Anthropic announces $65 billion funding around, DuckDuckGo users spike as Google moves to replace search with AI

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/7784f840-c291-422a-924b-ad9000bbad71/clips/0e0b6176-01b6-40ca-a722-b45901843ffa/transcript

On the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame Full Show Podcast for Saturday 30 May 2026, Joel Little is in studio to launch 'BIG FAN’, his move to support the next generation of musicians and live music gig culture. 

Jack has thoughts on the tattoo trend losing momentum. 

Dr Dougal Sutherland unpacks the research that suggests attending live music events is good for your wellbeing. 

Ruud Kleinpaste has tips to help your local garden bird population. 

And our music critic Chris Schulz reviews Sir Paul McCartney's brand-new album, ‘The Boys of Dungeon Lane’. 

Get the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame Full Show Podcast every Saturday on iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts. 

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On the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame Full Show Podcast for Saturday 30 May 2026, Joel Little is in studio to launch 'BIG FAN’, his move to support the next generation of musicians and live music gig culture.&nbsp;
Jack has thoughts on the <a href="https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/saturday-morning-with-jack-tame/opinion/jack-tame-the-tattoo-trend-has-run-its-course/">tattoo trend losing momentum</a>.&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/saturday-morning-with-jack-tame/audio/dougal-sutherland-research-suggests-going-to-live-music-gigs-can-benefit-wellbeing/">Dr Dougal Sutherland</a> unpacks the research that suggests attending live music events is good for your wellbeing.&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/saturday-morning-with-jack-tame/audio/ruud-kleinpaste-natural-pest-control-by-your-local-birds/">Ruud Kleinpaste</a> has tips to help your local garden bird population.&nbsp;
And our music critic Chris Schulz reviews Sir Paul McCartney's brand-new album, ‘The Boys of Dungeon Lane’.&nbsp;
Get the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame Full Show Podcast every Saturday on iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts.&nbsp;
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Full Show Podcast: 30 May 2026 

There are lots of things we know are good for our wellbeing, like eating properly, getting enough sleep, and doing exercise. But many of these are, let’s face it, pretty boring some of the time and we might not feel very motivated to do them. But what if doing things for your wellbeing was actually fun? New research has looked at the impact listening to live music can have on us.  

Music itself has some very positive aspects to it such as changing our mood and helping us feel connections with other people who like the same music or whom we’re playing music with. It seems going to a live music gig can have an even deeper impact on us via a phenomenon called “collective effervescence”.  

Collective effervescence is defined as having a strong sense of connection to other people present, feelings of elation, and that something special or even sacred is occurring – by its very definition it’s only something you can get when you are experiencing something jointly with other people.  

You can get this with non-music events too – for example going to a wedding or for some people, attending a religious service. Collective effervescence seems to help reduce loneliness and improve people’s mood – basically you feel better and more connected with other people.  

New research found people rated group events involving live music as more emotionally intense and unifying than group events that didn’t involve music, and that the stronger a sense of emotional connection with others the more enjoyable people found the gig. This shared emotional high was linked not only to greater enjoyment and meaning during the event, but also to significantly greater happiness up to a week later.  

Need to be cautious about the results as it involved people looking back on what they remember happening, but it does seem that the appeal of gigs may lie in more than just performance alone.  

I’ve had lots of experiences of this myself but the best example I can remember of this is when our daughter went to the Taylor Swift concert in Sydney a couple of years ago – we went out to the stadium with her and the sense of a collective buzz amongst people on the train going out there and even just milling around  was almost palpable.  

TayTay won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but whatever your taste in music is why not get out there and seem some live music and enhance your own wellbeing in a way that’s fun and enjoyable, especially as it’s just coming to the end of New Zealand Music month! 

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There are lots of things we know are good for our wellbeing, like eating properly, getting enough sleep, and doing exercise. But many of these are, let’s face it, pretty boring some of the time and we might not feel very motivated to do them. But what if doing things for your wellbeing was actually fun? New research has looked at the impact listening to live music can have on us. &nbsp;
Music itself has some very positive aspects to it such as changing our mood and helping us feel connections with other people who like the same music or whom we’re playing music with. It seems going to a live music gig can have an even deeper impact on us via a phenomenon called “collective effervescence”. &nbsp;
Collective effervescence is defined as having a strong sense of connection to other people present, feelings of elation, and that something special or even sacred is occurring – by its very definition it’s only something you can get when you are experiencing something jointly with other people. &nbsp;
You can get this with non-music events too – for example going to a wedding or for some people, attending a religious service. Collective effervescence seems to help reduce loneliness and improve people’s mood – basically you feel better and more connected with other people. &nbsp;
New research found people rated group events involving live music as more emotionally intense and unifying than group events that didn’t involve music, and that the stronger a sense of emotional connection with others the more enjoyable people found the gig. This shared emotional high was linked not only to greater enjoyment and meaning during the event, but also to significantly greater happiness up to a week later. &nbsp;
Need to be cautious about the results as it involved people looking back on what they remember happening, but it does seem that the appeal of gigs may lie in more than just performance alone. &nbsp;
I’ve had lots of experiences of this myself but the best example I can remember of this is when our daughter went to the Taylor Swift concert in Sydney a couple of years ago – we went out to the stadium with her and the sense of a collective buzz amongst people on the train going out there and even just milling around &nbsp;was almost palpable. &nbsp;
TayTay won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but whatever your taste in music is why not get out there and seem some live music and enhance your own wellbeing in a way that’s fun and enjoyable, especially as it’s just coming to the end of New Zealand Music month!&nbsp;
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Dougal Sutherland: Research suggests going to live music gigs can benefit wellbeing

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/7784f840-c291-422a-924b-ad9000bbad71/clips/a13cdc3e-aab5-4cab-af33-b45a00059d75/transcript

Last week I got rather excited with my bird feeding exercise in the garden – silvereyes everywhere, bellbirds becoming part of the ornithological gig, starlings in good flocks, hedge-sparrows in hedges.  

As the winter is getting near, the birds will come and visit your generous fodder in good numbers: sugar water, bits of meat and dripping, but also remnants of very ripe bananas, fruit bits, and anything that is edible. 

One of the biggest attractants is sugar water and the old bits of meat – dozens and dozens of birds will make their way to the smorgasbord.  

An important point we need to consider about feeding birds in your garden is that you’ll need to keep going till spring. Your generosity is something the birds rely on and when you stop, there will be consequences for the artificially high populations created by extra feeding. 

I often catch large numbers of silvereyes when they dash in the direction of the food resources; they often have no idea that my very fine bird-catching net is not always visible. All I do is get the birds and give them a light-weight metal and numerical band around their leg, so I can always tell who is who in our garden. Hundreds of them each autumn/winter, individually coded.  

In some parts of the South Island, we also get Bellbirds and Tui. 

You might think you will have “lost” them from the garden when spring is moving in – they are getting very secretive around nesting time, but they will remember your place as a heaven full of food. 

Yes, they know where you live – I reckon they’ll also know what kind of plants you have in the garden. And the most important aspect of it all is that in spring and summer they’ll come and do the pest control business for you by scouting the scale insects and aphids, psyllids, whitefly, and mealybugs from your plants to feed their kids.  

LOTS OF FOOD! 

Over the past decades I have been doing some local research in my gardens (West Auckland, East Auckland, and some spots in Canterbury) where I observed the silvereyes, tūi, and bellbirds literally hoovering the small insects from our plants.  

Seeing as I hate spraying systemic insecticides, I like these birds with their knowledge of entomology and the location of the food – I have great respect for their job in our garden.  

Oh, and by the way: tūi and bellbirds will probably do a significant job of pollination in your garden as well.  

What’s not to like? 

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Last week I got rather excited with my bird feeding exercise in the garden – silvereyes everywhere, bellbirds becoming part of the ornithological gig, starlings in good flocks, hedge-sparrows in hedges. &nbsp;
As the winter is getting near, the birds will come and visit your generous fodder in good numbers: sugar water, bits of meat and dripping, but also remnants of very ripe bananas, fruit bits, and anything that is edible.&nbsp;

One of the biggest attractants is sugar water and the old bits of meat – dozens and dozens of birds will make their way to the smorgasbord. &nbsp;
An important point we need to consider about feeding birds in your garden is that you’ll need to keep going till spring. Your generosity is something the birds rely on and when you stop, there will be consequences for the artificially high populations created by extra feeding.&nbsp;
I often catch large numbers of silvereyes when they dash in the direction of the food resources; they often have no idea that my very fine bird-catching net is not always visible. All I do is get the birds and give them a light-weight metal and numerical band around their leg, so I can always tell who is who in our garden. Hundreds of them each autumn/winter, individually coded. &nbsp;
In some parts of the South Island, we also get Bellbirds and Tui.&nbsp;
You might think you will have “lost” them from the garden when spring is moving in – they are getting very secretive around nesting time, but they will remember your place as a heaven full of food.&nbsp;
Yes, they know where you live – I reckon they’ll also know what kind of plants you have in the garden. And the most important aspect of it all is that in spring and summer they’ll come and do the pest control business for you by scouting the scale insects and aphids, psyllids, whitefly, and mealybugs from your plants to feed their kids. &nbsp;
LOTS OF FOOD!&nbsp;
Over the past decades I have been doing some local research in my gardens (West Auckland, East Auckland, and some spots in Canterbury) where I observed the silvereyes, tūi, and bellbirds literally hoovering the small insects from our plants. &nbsp;
Seeing as I hate spraying systemic insecticides, I like these birds with their knowledge of entomology and the location of the food – I have great respect for their job in our garden. &nbsp;
Oh, and by the way: tūi and bellbirds will probably do a significant job of pollination in your garden as well. &nbsp;
What’s not to like?&nbsp;
LISTEN ABOVE&nbsp;

Ruud Kleinpaste: Natural pest control by your local birds

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/7784f840-c291-422a-924b-ad9000bbad71/clips/c3dcba33-a735-4c56-8997-b45a0003477c/transcript

Paul Stenhouse: Anthropic announces $65 billion funding around, DuckDuckGo users spike as Google moves to replace search with AI

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