Tokens, Agents, and Orbit

A company rewarding people for burning through AI tokens sounds absurd right up until you ask what they're really trying to buy. And once you do that, the same question starts showing up everywhere, from legal agents to Android assistants to the idea of putting compute in orbit.Token leaderboards and what they signalGoodhart, gaming, and the selection-bias trapFrom assisted AI to agentic AIGoogle pushes agentic assistants onto devicesAnthropic's legal push and where agents get realOrbital data centers and the infrastructure imaginationThis podcast was created with Podkey. Make your own at https://podkey.fm