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Anthropic’s Money Machine, “Slop” Degrees & the Meat Proxy | TWiAI Ep 37

This Week In Startups is made possible by: PayPal: https://paypal.launch.co Today’s show: Anthropic’s S-1 is finally out and it’s a beast: $16.3 billion in revenue in

Oct 29
1 h 08 min

No One Likes Any of Sam Altman’s 3 AI Endgames | TWiAI E36

This Week In AI is made possible by PayPal: http://paypal.launch.co Today’s show: Sam Altman told OpenAI staff that there are only three ways for AI regulation to go: a

Oct 22
1 h 13 min

Why Fortune 500 Companies Are Quietly Switching to Open Models

This Week In AI is made possible by: PayPal: http://paypal.launch.co Today’s show: Companies are spending $1 million on AI in a single month, but can’t always point di

Oct 15
49 min

Data Centers Aren't Killing the Grid. They Could SAVE It.

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Oct 8
45 min

Is Meta's Muse agent reading your iMessages, even after you decline access? | E33

This Week In Startups is made possible by:PayPal: https://paypal.com/businessToday’s show:OpenAI is delaying GPT-6.1 Astra after UK government testers found GPT-6 Astra l

Oct 1
1 h 21 min

Why OpenAI Should Buy Off the World’s Top Mathematicians | E32

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Sep 24
1 h 16 min

The biggest AI threat still comes from humans | E31

This Week In Startups is made possible by: PayPal: paypal.launch.co Today’s show: Dario Amodei and Sam Altman are apparently scared of AI models going rogue. Swarms of

Sep 17
1 h 13 min

OpenAI's chief scientist wants to slow down | E30

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Sep 10
1 h 20 min

The real danger is the gap BETWEEN two robots | E29

This Week In Startups is made possible by: Paypal Today’s show: Anthropic gave AI agents hands, allowing them to control real-world equipment like robots and microscop

Sep 3
1 h 30 min

XBOW Founder: “Your Infrastructure is Not Safe” | EP 28

This Week In Startups is made possible by:PaypalToday’s show:XBOW’s AI has held the top rank on the HackerOne leaderboard for more than a year. On TWiAI, founder Oege de

Aug 27
1 h 10 min

Anthropic is training to destroy your company | EP 27

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Aug 20
1 h 16 min

Why Anthropic is watermarking every word Claude writes | E26

This Week In AI is made possible by: Paypal Open Today’s show: Anthropic’s new Claude watermark travels around any and all copy-and-pasted text. Is this a logical resp

Aug 13
1 h 28 min

Is open source AI really ahead of the frontier? 3 builders weigh in. | E25

This Week In Startups is made possible by: PAYPAL OPEN Today’s show: China’s Alibaba just dropped a 2.4 trillion parameter open weight model that the company claims on

Aug 6
1 h 20 min

Are we already in the Singularity? | E24

This Week In Startups is made possible by: Paypal Open Today’s show: On a podcast this week, Sam Altman made a bold declaration: “We are now, like, in the singularity.

Jul 30
1 h 06 min

America already lost one AI race | TWiAI Ep 23

This Week In Startups is made possible by: PAYPAL OPEN Today’s show: This week, our panel of AI experts — Anand Kannappan (Patronus AI), Ori Goshen (AI21 Labs), and Al

Jul 23
1 h 00 min

Grok 4.5 and GLM-5.2 kick off Token Price Wars | E22

This Week In Startups is made possible by: PAYPAL OPEN Today’s show: The price of tokens keeps tumbling down, and it’s changing who controls AI. Grok 4.5 and GLM-5.2

Jul 16
1 h 17 min

What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21

This Week In Startups is made possible by: PAYPAL Today’s show: China is weighing a ban on foreign access to its top AI models… the same low-cost open-weight systems o

Jul 9
1 h 20 min

Mythos, Sonnet 5, GLM-5.2 Dominate the News Cycle | Episode 20

This Week In Startups is made possible by: PAYPAL Today’s show: The US government won’t let you use the most powerful releases from US AI labs… but a Chinese lab is gi

Jul 2
1 h 10 min

Are world models the unlock for Physical AI? | Episode 19

This Week In Startups is made possible by: Paypal Today’s show: *When we think of “Physical AI,” most of us conjure images of humanoid robots and self-driving cars. Bu

Jun 25
1 h 13 min

Why AI Models Aren’t the Product Any More | TWiAI Ep 18

SpaceX bought Cursor for $60 billion. Satya Nadella says companies need to stop relying on third party AI models and build their own “token capital.” The focus is shiftin

Jun 18
1 h 21 min