Musk Sues Open AI, Mythos Locked, Meta Layoffs, Tokenomics, More Robots

Musk is suing OpenAI, Anthropic is keeping Mythos locked behind Project Glasswing, and the age of subsidised AI is ending. We're back after a break to work through the news that piled up.Duncan and Ollie cover the OpenAI lawsuit and what discovery might surface, why Mythos staying behind closed doors is as much an economics story as a safety one, the Opus 4.7 pricing sleight of hand, Meta's keystroke logging and latest round of layoffs, the missing AI productivity gains, and humanoid robots at CES vs Hannover Messe.00:00 Welcome Back and Podcast Overview00:47 Elon Musk vs OpenAI: The Lawsuit03:39 The Future of AI and OpenAI's Challenges07:05 Consumer Preferences in AI: Anthropic vs OpenAI08:35 Meta's AI Strategy and Workforce Concerns10:30 Mythos and Cybersecurity: The Cost of AI Models14:53 The Economics of AI: Subsidies and Costs20:04 Humanoid Robots: CES vs Hannover MesseShort Fuse is a podcast about emerging tech, human behaviour, and cultural movements. Hosts take long and short positions on the stories that matter and defend their reasoning.Visit shortfuseresearch.com for written analysis, the discovery tracker, and bespoke research. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.