We Asked AI to Run a City and It Killed Everyone

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In this episode:

AI's Money & Power

• Anthropic leapfrogs OpenAI as the most valuable AI startup
• Anthropic releases new model, Opus 4.8
• AI sticker shock hits corporate America
• AI model simulation: Claude vs. ChatGPT vs. Grok vs. Gemini
• Google hates you

AI Agents Take Action

• Your AI agent can now trade for you on Robinhood
• Robinhood lets customers use AI to trade stocks, make credit card purchases

The Vatican vs. The Algorithm

• I Read the Pope's 240-Page Encyclical. I'm Astounded by What He Wrote.
• Did the Pope use AI to write about the dangers of AI?

Big Business Shakeups

• Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down after 19 years
• Introducing Ford Energy

Screens, Streams & Self-Driving

• Spotify is narrating magazine articles now
• Roku Is Revamping Its Homescreen for the First Time in Over a Decade
• Blind Waymo Users Revel in the Joy of Riding Alone

Weird and Wacky

• Mark Zuckerberg's mega yacht docks in Seattle in the wake of Meta layoffs
• F.B.I. Arrests C.I.A. Official With $40 Million in Gold Bars in His Home
• Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet
• I vibe-coded a billionaire jet tracker to warn people about a possible apocalypse
• Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date"

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - OpenTools / OpenPrinter
• Adam - Gibson Guitar App

Find us here:

• sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com

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