Musk is suing OpenAI, Anthropic is keeping Mythos locked behind Project Glasswing, and the age of subsidised AI is ending. We're back after a break to work through the news that piled up.

Duncan and Ollie cover the OpenAI lawsuit and what discovery might surface, why Mythos staying behind closed doors is as much an economics story as a safety one, the Opus 4.7 pricing sleight of hand, Meta's keystroke logging and latest round of layoffs, the missing AI productivity gains, and humanoid robots at CES vs Hannover Messe.

00:00 Welcome Back and Podcast Overview

00:47 Elon Musk vs OpenAI: The Lawsuit

03:39 The Future of AI and OpenAI's Challenges

07:05 Consumer Preferences in AI: Anthropic vs OpenAI

08:35 Meta's AI Strategy and Workforce Concerns

10:30 Mythos and Cybersecurity: The Cost of AI Models

14:53 The Economics of AI: Subsidies and Costs

20:04 Humanoid Robots: CES vs Hannover Messe

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You probably won't remember this episode. That's partly the joke, and partly the point. Duncan and Ollie get into what AI is doing to human memory: why it's already unreliable, why offloading recall to a machine might be making it worse, and why you'll eventually stop noticing the difference between a decision you made and one a chatbot/agent made for you. Also: a 17p refund dispute, and Ollie's four-and-a-half-year search for a new car.

Long or short on memory? They're both short. The argument is worth hearing anyway.

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Meta's VR retreat turns out to be more complicated than the LinkedIn takes suggested. Karpathy vibe-coded a jobs analysis, got ratio'd, and deleted it. Bernie Sanders got Claude to endorse a data centre moratorium, which tells you more about how these models work than it does about data centres. Nvidia's DLSS5 is yassifying your favourite game characters whether you asked for it or not. And the big tech giants signed a voluntary energy pledge at the White House, which is going about as well as the stakeholder capitalism open letter from 2019.

Also: the Carey System gets its first official outing, Ollie is still not buying a car, and Duncan nearly gets something right about Jensen Huang.

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