Ep. 38 — Google rearranges its AI leadership and funds the exit, SoftBank's $50 million lands two months before a federal land lease, and Meta joins the coding-agent fight

Google rearranges its AI leadership and funds the exit, SoftBank's $50 million lands two months before a federal land lease, and Meta joins the coding-agent fight 00:48 — Google reshuffles its AI leadership: Hassabis becomes DeepMind chair and Alphabet chief scientist, Kavukcuoglu takes over DeepMind, and Jeff Dean leaves after 27 years to found Discovery Loop - with Alphabet as a founding investor 02:17 — SoftBank disclosed it gave $50 million to the Trump presidential library in January - two months before announcing a lease of federal land in Ohio for what the Energy Department calls the world's largest AI data center 03:47 — Meta ships Muse Code, a terminal coding agent built on Muse Spark 1.2 that fans work out to parallel sub-agents in isolated worktrees - and pitches itself against Claude Code and Codex on cost 05:17 — Reddit is putting LLMs in the moderator seat with Rules Hub, and says it can eventually replace much of what Automod does 05:42 — Google Maps adds agentic features - food ordering, hotel booking and event tickets - with Square, Toast and Uber Eats behind the transactions 06:06 — Follow-up: OpenAI moves to dismiss Apple's trade-secrets suit, calling it "meritless" and "rotten to its core" 06:30 — Hark previews Handoff, a browser-use agent that works sites with no API - from a startup that raised $700 million in May Daily Prompt with Archer & Iris.