EPISODE · Jul 5, 2026 · 46 MIN
Ep86 Dead Air
from NET Society · host NET Society
The Net Society crew is back together for a holiday-weekend episode. They begin with Chris’s frustrations around Fable before examining Meta’s struggling engineering culture, copycat tendencies, and surprising progress in brain-signal decoding. From there, the conversation turns to custom models, expert investor judgment, and the growing push for AI sovereignty as enterprises question how much control they should hand to frontier labs. The crew considers whether open-source models, fine-tuning, and intelligent routing will create a more fragmented AI ecosystem where models are selected by cost, reliability, and specialization. They also ask what happened to the inventive energy of the last NFT cycle and whether better tools, cheaper blockspace, and a little AI could make crypto fun again. The episode closes with America’s 250th anniversary, Europe’s resistance to air conditioning, and an unexpectedly serious debate over whether AC belongs among humanity’s greatest inventions.Mentioned in the episodeFable 5 returns https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2072163884430229756Meta Engineering Culture https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/12/metas-months-old-ai-unit-is-a-soul-crushing-gulag-say-the-engineers-stuck-inside-it/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitterNature Article decoding brain activity https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02303-2Bridgewater and Thinking Machines https://x.com/ziv_ravid/status/2072171186620960908?s=46&t=3cJ-BS7Y1NeBdjntkS2hZQBackseats tweet https://x.com/backseats_eth/status/2072020616400757233AC being a hot topic https://x.com/NYCMayor/status/2072411003170472359Show & HostsNet Society: https://x.com/net__societyAaron Wright: https://x.com/awrigh01Chris F: https://x.com/ChrisF_0xDerek Edwards: https://x.com/derekedwsPriyanka Desai: https://x.com/pridesaiProducer/Editor: https://x.com/0xFnkl(00:00) - Fable Returns & Meta’s AI Problem (06:30) - Brain Decoding, BCIs & Meta’s Future (09:00) - Custom Models, Expert Judgment & AI Sovereignty (18:53) - Bringing Fun Back to NFTs (23:34) - Model Evals, Routing & AI’s Commodity Layer (30:44) - Open Source Models & the AI Frontier (36:37) - America at 250 & the Great Air-Conditioning Debate (45:33) - Welcome & Disclaimer
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The Net Society crew is back together for a holiday-weekend episode. They begin with Chris’s frustrations around Fable before examining Meta’s struggling engineering culture, copycat tendencies, and surprising progress in brain-signal decoding. From there, the conversation turns to custom models, expert investor judgment, and the growing push for AI sovereignty as enterprises question how much control they should hand to frontier labs. The crew considers whether open-source models, fine-tuning, and intelligent routing will create a more fragmented AI ecosystem where models are selected by cost, reliability, and specialization. They also ask what happened to the inventive energy of the last NFT cycle and whether better tools, cheaper blockspace, and a little AI could make crypto fun again. The episode closes with America’s 250th anniversary, Europe’s resistance to air conditioning, and an unexpectedly serious debate over whether AC belongs among humanity’s greatest inventions.Mentioned in the episodeFable 5 returns https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2072163884430229756Meta Engineering Culture https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/12/metas-months-old-ai-unit-is-a-soul-crushing-gulag-say-the-engineers-stuck-inside-it/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitterNature Article decoding brain activity https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02303-2Bridgewater and Thinking Machines https://x.com/ziv_ravid/status/2072171186620960908?s=46&t=3cJ-BS7Y1NeBdjntkS2hZQBackseats tweet https://x.com/backseats_eth/status/2072020616400757233AC being a hot topic https://x.com/NYCMayor/status/2072411003170472359Show & HostsNet Society: https://x.com/net__societyAaron Wright: https://x.com/awrigh01Chris F: https://x.com/ChrisF_0xDerek Edwards: https://x.com/derekedwsPriyanka Desai: https://x.com/pridesaiProducer/Editor: https://x.com/0xFnkl(00:00) - Fable Returns & Meta’s AI Problem (06:30) - Brain Decoding, BCIs & Meta’s Future (09:00) - Custom Models, Expert Judgment & AI Sovereignty (18:53) - Bringing Fun Back to NFTs (23:34) - Model Evals, Routing & AI’s Commodity Layer (30:44) - Open Source Models & the AI Frontier (36:37) - America at 250 & the Great Air-Conditioning Debate (45:33) - Welcome & Disclaimer
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