58: Drones Bomb Data Centers While Spite Coders Rebuild the Apps They Hate
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Today's episode starts with drones hitting server farms instead of oil refineries, and asks what happens when compute becomes the new oil. Meta storms the frontier with Muse Wonder, codenamed Watermelon, scoring 56 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with active memory that powers its chart-topping Muse personal agent app and API prices set below rivals. Andrej Karpathy's sharp funnel explains why only about 5,000 insiders see what frontier AI can really do while nearly 6 billion people have never used it. Down the funnel, the consumer SaaSpocalypse is booming through spite coding, from an open source Adobe alternative to a homemade LG TV streaming app, while one fraudster's 10,000 bot listeners earned him $8 million and 18 months in prison. Microsoft's Maia 300 chip chases 40 percent more output per megawatt as Ukrainian, Russian, and Iranian strikes turn data centers into military targets. AI also enters expensive loops, with DeepMind cracking unsolved Erdős problems and calling a hurricane landfall days ahead, and GLM-Legal matching frontier legal reasoning. We close on Anthropic's self-replication research and a question about what a digital survival instinct looks like.
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