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In The Loop

by Jack Houghton

Stay in the loop with the biggest stories in AI—without the noise and nonsense. Each week, Jack Houghton (CPO at Mindset AI) unpacks the latest news, research, and product trends shaping the future of artificial intelligence. From OpenAI breakthroughs to unicorn startups, In The Loop delivers sharp, less than 20-minute episodes packed with insights for product leaders, engineers, and AI-curious innovators. Subscribe to get smarter about AI, every week. Don't forget to rate and share the show with other AI enthusiasts. Check out Mindset AI: https://bit.ly/40lJr6B

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Why ALL major AI labs may slowing down AI development & whether it could work

Anthropic's Dario Amodei published an essay saying the whole industry has to slow down, and Musk, Altman and Hassabis all backed it inside a day. In this episode of In

Sep 18
14 min

How teams can use AI to build a churn prediction (or any prediction) model with 98% accuracy in 2 weeks

Within his first two weeks as COO at Turtl, Dave Martin and his team built a churn prediction model. Tested against historic customer data, it predicted churn with 98% ac

Sep 10
47 min

6 things that must be true for Anthropic's IPO of $2 trillion to be achievable (as the largest IPO ever)

Anthropic went from $9bn of annualised revenue in December to $65bn by the end of July, and it's expected to list in October at close to $2 trillion - the highest price a

Sep 3
11 min

4 amazing AI tactics that most people have never heard about

In this episode of In The Loop, I'm going through four tactics engineers any many others use every day that almost nobody outside engineering has heard of: Fan out, adv

Aug 28
11 min

How StackOne built an auto-research loop to continually improve their product

Once a week, an agent at StackOne goes hunting for new prompt injection attacks. It reads papers, trawls Reddit, tries what it finds against real models, keeps the attack

Aug 21
57 min

The 5 things you can copy from how the fastest growing company in the world: Anthropic.

Anthropic went from about a billion dollars in revenue to about forty-seven billion in a bit over a year, roughly doubling every six weeks. In this episode of In The Lo

Aug 6
13 min

What really happened when ChatGPT hacked Hugging Face?

OpenAI took two of its most capable models, told them to prove how good they were at hacking, and switched off the safety filters to see what they could really do. Inst

Jul 30
12 min

What even is the new AI super skill of taste and judgement? And how can we develop it too?

Taste & judgment. It's the word everyone's obsessed with right now. Every founder, podcast, every VC, every post you scroll past saying it's the one skill that survives

Jul 23
16 min

Why skills are the best yet most dangerous things in AI right now

A well-behaved AI agent deleted a company's entire production database, and every backup with it, in nine seconds. Nobody hacked it. It was doing exactly what it had been

Jul 16
13 min

How to tell whether AI is helping your career or ruining it (We're back!)

Hand the same AI tool to two people and one gets sharper while the other quietly gets worse. A Harvard study found recruiters given near-perfect AI made worse calls tha

Jul 9
14 min

How to get AI to write like you & your team

Open LinkedIn and count the posts that start with "in today's fast-paced world." Check your inbox for someone circling back to delve into synergies. The AI slop is comi

Jun 12
9 min

AI's yearly panic is back. Here's what everyone's getting right and wrong about it.

Every summer since 2023, AI gets a panic season — critics say that AI's novelty i novelty's wearing off, the models have hit a wall, ninety-five percent of projects fail.

Jun 4
17 min

Why OpenAI co-founder and the world's most famous AI researcher just joined Anthropic

Andrej Karpathy joined Anthropic on 19 May 2026. Most people read it as an OpenAI story — he co-founded the lab, left twice, and landed at the rival. That's not what thi

May 28
10 min

The reasons AI data centers have become more hated than nuclear power plants

Americans now say they'd rather live next to a nuclear reactor than an AI data center. That's not a fringe view — a Gallup poll published this month found 71% of Americ

May 21
16 min

Why the companies cutting junior headcount are making a decade-long mistake

In 1971, Boeing laid off 44,000 engineers in 18 months. The aerospace industry is still paying for it — they're projecting a shortage of over a million engineers by 2030,

May 14
16 min

How to build an AI-native team & company: The six-principle playbook from Y-Combinator

Y Combinator have just published a playbook for building a company that runs on AI rather than just using it. Six principles, written by a general partner who works with

May 7
26 min

How to build your own AI personal operating system & second brain

The gap between casual Claude users and people getting ten times more out of it isn't prompt craft. It's a folder. This is the basis of a personal AI operating system. A

Apr 30
16 min

What the big new AI trend Tokkenmaxxing is & why its a big problem

Most AI spending right now is measured in tokens consumed. Jellyfish tracked 12,000 developers across 200 companies and found the heaviest users produced twice the output

Apr 23
23 min

Why Anthropic are too scared to release their new model, Mythos

On Wednesday, the US Treasury Secretary and the chair of the Federal Reserve called an emergency meeting with the CEOs of America's largest banks. Not about interest rate

Apr 16
12 min

How to use the 3 new Claude Cowork features that have changed my life

OpenClaw became the fastest-growing open source project in history by showing people what an always-on AI agent could actually feel like. The problem is it requires a ded

Apr 9
17 min

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