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EPISODE · Apr 16, 2026 · 32 MIN

Rope-a-Dope

from The AI Transition · host Stephen, Lauren and Christiane

 Muhammad Ali didn't win in Kinshasa by being passive. He had a plan. George Foreman didn't. So — is that what's playing out between the two biggest AI labs right now? Anthropic tripled its revenue in four months. OpenAI killed Sora with less than an hour's notice to Disney. Ads are coming. The IPOs are coming. And the most dangerous AI model ever built? The US government isn't allowed to use it. Stephen and Lauren break down who's on the ropes — and who's got a plan. 

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