GPT 5.5, Tidepool Agents & the Chip War Nobody's Winning Yet | EP 41

In Episode 41 of Creative Flux, Pierson and Bilal cover one of the most chaotic weeks in AI yet — GPT 5.5 literally dropped 20 minutes before they hit record. From there they cover: Opus 4.7's regression Anthropic finally admitted to, what actually broke in Claude Code, and the $25B Amazon deal behind their compute crunch The chip race — why Anthropic matching OpenAI on inferior hardware changes everything once they actually get Nvidia access Tidepool (formerly Claw Connect) — an open source peer-to-peer protocol letting isolated Claude Code instances talk to each other. Three agents, no shared context, they built a subscription business GPT Image 2's 300-point ELO jump and why it's an image agent, not just a model 🔗 Show Notes: Andon Store: https://x.com/jlagerros/status/2046966793538048295 Tidepool - Agent to Agent Communication Protocol: https://github.com/Jellypod-Inc/tidepool Opus 4.7: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-7 GPT Image 2: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-image-2 GPT 5.5: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/ Hyperspace Pods: https://x.com/varun_mathur/status/2044882359565312468 Amit Jain from Luma AI on Unified Intelligence Systems (CS 153: Frontier Systems): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNNrUuMQkl8 🐦 Follow the hosts: Pierson → https://x.com/piersonmarks Bilal → https://x.com/deepwhitman 📺 More episodes: / @jellypodai