Episode 12 delivers exclusive insights you won't find anywhere else: We rode Tesla's new driverless robotaxis in Austin and Microsoft's own staff are abandoning their $13 billion OpenAI partnership for Claude. Plus ChatGPT's surprising connection to Grok and Comic-Con's anti-AI rebellion.

SEGMENTS:

🚗 TESLA ROBOTAXIS LAUNCH NO SAFETY DRIVER

• Exclusive ride footage from Austin's autonomous taxi service

• Cost comparison: $50K Tesla system vs $200K Waymo LiDAR setup

• Real performance data: 200+ rides, zero accidents, 12 unexpected stops

• Why Tesla's camera-only approach could dominate economics

• The $100M insurance policy backing early deployment

🤖 CLAUDE CODE INVADES MICROSOFT

• Microsoft developers choosing Claude over their own $13B OpenAI investment

• GitHub Copilot's 1M+ paying subscribers vs internal reality

• Why utility trumps corporate strategy in AI tool adoption

• Only 9% of consumers pay for multiple LLMs, but developers are different

💰 CHATGPT PULLS FROM ELON'S GROKIPEDIA

• xAI's $24B valuation challenge to OpenAI's dominance

• The "Grokipedia" phenomenon: ChatGPT citing Grok-specific information

• Elon's $6B bet against the company he co-founded

• Why ChatGPT maintains consumer dominance despite competition

🎨 COMIC-CON SAYS GOODBYE TO AI

• 78% of professional writers fear AI replacement within 10 years

• 2,400+ applicants for human-only certification program

• Why creators who imagined AI futures are now fighting back

• The compensation argument: "Write me a check first"

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• Tesla's economic advantage could reshape autonomous vehicle deployment

• Corporate AI partnerships don't guarantee internal adoption

• Creative industries are organizing against AI training on their work

• The AI wars are intensifying with new players and strategies

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Tesla begins autonomous taxi rides in Austin without human backup drivers. Major milestone in full self-driving deployment raises safety and liability questions.

📊 Key Data:

• • Tesla's camera-only approach costs $50,000 per vehicle versus Waymo's $200,000 LiDAR setup
  • 200+ rides completed in first week with zero accidents but 12 unexpected stops
  • Austin deployment covers 50 square miles between downtown and the airport

Anthropic's Claude AI coding assistant is reportedly gaining widespread adoption inside Microsoft, despite the company's significant investment in OpenAI.

📊 Key Data:

• • Microsoft has invested over $13 billion in OpenAI through multiple funding rounds
  • GitHub Copilot, powered by OpenAI, has over 1 million paying...