AI Revolution

AI Revolution – June 17, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • SpaceX bets $60 billion on Cursor to catch OpenAI and Anthropic • Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year • ‘Dangerous’ AI Models Are Coming No Matter What • Trump admin tries to block Clean Air Act lawsuit over xAI's gas turbines Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-06-17.md

AI Revolution – June 16, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • SpaceX bets $60 billion on Cursor to catch OpenAI and Anthropic • DeepSeek takes outside money for the first time at a $50 billion valuation • Anthropic Is Still at Odds With the White House Over Claude Fable 5 • The US government’s Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-06-16.md

AI Revolution Week in Review – June 13, 2026 This week's major themes and key developments: • US government forces Anthropic to disable Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers worldwide • Anthropic’s safety warnings may have just backfired — the government has pulled the plug on its most powerful AI • Claude Fable 5 outpaces GPT-5.5 by 13 points on FrontierMath's toughest problems • Open model Kimi K2.7 Code undercuts GPT-5.5 and Claude by up to 12x on price per token Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-06-13.md

AI Revolution – June 12, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Jeff Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12B to build an ‘artificial general engineer’ for the physical world • Mistral AI seeks 3 billion euros to fund its European AI push • OpenAI buys Ona to push Codex toward long-running, autonomous coding tasks • Google files first joint lawsuit with FBI over Chinese AI scam network, OpenAI blocks PRC influence clusters Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-06-12.md

AI Revolution – June 11, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Anthropic study shows AI needs hours, not weeks, to build exploits from security patches • Claude Fable 5: The first Mythos model is powerful, expensive, and heavily filtered • Google's new open model DiffusionGemma generates text from noise instead of word by word • Claude Fable 5: Anthropic admits "wrong tradeoff" after invisibly throttling rival AI researchers Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-06-11.md

AI Revolution – June 10, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 with major gains in coding and science • Claude Fable 5: The first Mythos model is powerful, expensive, and heavily filtered • OpenAI wants its biggest data center yet, and Nvidia would back the bill • Beijing's $295 billion AI buildout would require 80 percent domestic chips, locking out US suppliers Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-06-10.md

AI Revolution – June 09, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Beijing's $295 billion AI buildout would require 80 percent domestic chips, locking out US suppliers • Intel gets a second life as Google and Nvidia explore it as a TSMC backup for AI chips • OpenAI Confidentially Files for IPO on the Heels of SpaceX and Anthropic • Apple Intelligence gets a second shot with help from Google and Nvidia Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-06-09.md

AI Revolution – June 08, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Hackers likely hijacked over 20,000 Instagram accounts with Meta’s AI chatbot • Microsoft Discovery Reaches GA on Azure, Powering the Agentic AI Behind Majorana 2 Quantum Chip • Gemma 4 12B Enables On-Device, Multimodal Agentic Workflows with an Encoder-free Architecture • "Chat is dead": OpenAI preps overhaul of ChatGPT Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-06-08.md

AI Revolution Week in Review – June 06, 2026 This week's major themes and key developments: • Anthropic, now atop the AI bubble, files for its IPO • OpenAI and the Trump administration are negotiating a government stake in the AI startup • Florida's lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Altman treats ChatGPT as a defective product and public nuisance • Anthropic's Mythos model is reportedly powering NSA offensive cyber ops against China and Iran Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-06-06.md

AI Revolution – June 05, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Anthropic's Mythos model is reportedly powering NSA offensive cyber ops against China and Iran • Anthropic says Claude now writes over 90% of its code and wants the world to have an AI pause button • Microsoft trained its MAI models on unlicensed web data despite promising "enterprise grade, clean and commercially licensed data" • Ahead of its IPO, Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei shrugs off doubts about AI’s returns Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-06-05.md

AI Revolution – June 04, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Google Deepmind's Gemma 4 12B squeezes multimodal AI onto a laptop with just 16 GB of RAM • Coralogix raises $200M on bet that someone needs to watch the AI agents • Ideogram 4.0 drops as an open-weight model with native 2K resolution and improved text rendering • Perplexity announces hybrid AI system that decides what runs locally or in the cloud Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-06-04.md

AI Revolution – June 03, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Build 2026: Microsoft tops Google in image generation while playing catch-up on reasoning • Anthropic scales Claude Mythos to critical infrastructure in 15+ countries • Microsoft offers devs a better way to control AI agent behavior • Coralogix raises $200M on bet that someone needs to watch the AI agents Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-06-03.md

AI Revolution – June 02, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Claude maker Anthropic files for IPO with the SEC • Anthropic scales Claude Mythos to critical infrastructure in 15+ countries • Florida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman, in first-of-its-kind lawsuit over violent incidents • OpenAI launches new Codex tools for white-collar work Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-06-02.md

AI Revolution Week in Review – May 30, 2026 This week's major themes and key developments: • Anthropic raises $65 billion, nears $1T valuation ahead of IPO • Anthropic releases Opus 4.8 with new ‘dynamic workflow’ tool • Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package • Apple working to cram massive Gemini model into iPhone to power new Siri Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-05-30.md

AI Revolution – May 29, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.8 as a "modest but tangible improvement" that tops GPT-5.5 in most benchmarks • Anthropic raises $65 billion, nears $1T valuation ahead of IPO • LLMs believe false statements even after explicit warnings that they're false • Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-05-29.md

AI Revolution – May 28, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Nvidia bets $150B on Taiwan as Trump's plan to make US an AI hub backfires • Illinois Lawmakers Just Passed America’s Strongest AI Safety Bill • In more good news for Amazon, Snowflake signs $6B deal with AWS for AI CPU chips • Amazon Thinks the Future of Data Centers Depends on a Technical Problem It Just Solved Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-05-28.md

AI Revolution – May 27, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Claude Mythos reportedly solves OpenAI's landmark Erdős problem with a "cute, simple proof" • Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package • The AI boom drove Nvidia's yearly Taiwan spending from $15 billion to $150 billion • China turns its aging camera network into an AI-powered mass surveillance apparatus Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-05-27.md

AI Revolution – May 26, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Microsoft Introduces MDASH for Large-Scale AI Vulnerability Research • Google Expands SynthID Adoption for AI Watermarking, Previews Content Detection API • Uber president says AI spending is getting ‘harder to justify’ • What ClickUp’s mass layoff tells us about the future of work Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-05-26.md

AI Revolution – May 25, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Google Deepmind's AlphaProof Nexus solves decades-old math problems for a few hundred dollars • AI models often give the right answers but point to the wrong sources • Gemma 4 Multi-Token Prediction Delivers Up to ~3x Faster Token Generation • ByteDance study finds that asking LMMs questions beats making it transcribe text for long document training Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-05-25.md

AI Revolution Week in Review – May 23, 2026 This week's major themes and key developments: • Anthropic warns Claude Mythos Preview finds bugs faster than developers can patch them • Gemini 3.5 Flash might be fast enough for gen AI to make sense • Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think. • Alibaba's latest AI model ran autonomously for 35 hours to optimize code for its own custom chip Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-05-23.md

AI Revolution – May 22, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • The first AI proof worthy of math's top journal landed and it won't be the last • US Cyber Command races to deploy AI on top-secret networks • Trump pulls AI safety order after last-minute calls from Musk, Zuckerberg, and Sacks • Anthropic is about to become the first profitable AI lab Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-05-22.md

AI Revolution – May 21, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Anthropic is paying $15 billion a year for access to Elon Musk’s data centers • Anthropic says it’s about to have its first profitable quarter • Nvidia posts another record quarter, reveals $43B of holdings in startups • Nvidia’s Vera chip is the US$200 billion bet Jensen Huang doesn’t want you to overlook Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-05-21.md

AI Revolution – May 20, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • With Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google bets its next AI wave on agents, not chatbots • Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash follows Anthropic and OpenAI in making newer AI models significantly pricier • Google’s Gemini Omni turns images, audio, and text into video — and that’s just the start • Prominent AI researcher Andrej Karpathy picks Anthropic over former home OpenAI to get back into frontier LLM research Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-05-20.md

AI Revolution – May 19, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Cloudflare says Anthropic's Mythos Preview finds exploit chains that earlier frontier models missed • Cursor's Composer 2.5 matches Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 benchmarks at a fraction of the cost • Anthropic to brief global financial regulators on cyber flaws found by Claude Mythos • Electrical utility megamerger is all about the data centers Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-05-19.md

AI Revolution – May 18, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Anthropic to brief global financial regulators on cyber flaws found by Claude Mythos • Cloudflare and Stripe Let AI Agents Create Accounts, Buy Domains, and Deploy to Production • AI startup revenue hits $80 billion, but Anthropic and OpenAI take almost all of it • OpenAI Open-Sources Symphony, a SPEC.md for Autonomous Coding Agent Orchestration Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-05-18.md

AI Revolution Week in Review – May 16, 2026 This week's major themes and key developments: • Anthropic's $900 billion valuation would make it more valuable than OpenAI for the first time • Musk v. Altman week 3: Musk and Altman traded blows over each other’s credibility. Now the jury will pick a side. • OpenAI is reportedly preparing legal action against Apple; it wouldn’t be the first partner to feel burned • OpenAI keeps shuffling its executives in bid to win AI agent battle Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-05-16.md

AI Revolution – May 15, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • New Claude Mythos becomes the first AI model to clear all cyberattack simulations from Britain's AI safety agency • Ten Chinese firms including ByteDance reportedly get US clearance for AI chips they're not allowed to accept • Microsoft pits more than 100 AI agents against each other to find Windows vulnerabilities • Microsoft pulls Claude Code licenses and pushes developers back toward its own AI tool Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-05-15.md

AI Revolution – May 14, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • New Claude Mythos becomes the first AI model to clear all cyberattack simulations from Britain's AI safety agency • Anthropic overtakes OpenAI in B2B adoption for the first time according to Ramp spending data • Tencent plans to ramp up AI spending as China's chip supply allegedly improves • Anthropic Traces Six Weeks of Claude Code Quality Complaints to Three Overlapping Product Changes Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-05-14.md

AI Revolution – May 13, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Alphabet's Isomorphic Labs raises $2.1 billion to scale AI drug discovery toward clinical trials • AI startup Recursive emerges from stealth with $650 million to build self-improving AI • Medicare’s new payment model is built for AI, and most of the tech world has no idea • Your Next AI Query May Travel Where the Power Is Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-05-13.md

AI Revolution – May 12, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Thinking Machines Lab ships its first model and argues interactivity is what OpenAI gets wrong about voice • Your Next AI Query May Travel Where the Power Is • Baidu's Ernie 5.1 cuts 94 percent of pre-training costs while competing with top models • Nvidia pumps over 40 billion dollars into AI partners so far in 2026 Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-05-12.md

AI Revolution – May 11, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Nvidia pumps over 40 billion dollars into AI partners so far in 2026 • Anthropic says ‘evil’ portrayals of AI were responsible for Claude’s blackmail attempts • Generative AI turns identity theft into an industrial-scale operation • We’re feeling cynical about xAI’s big deal with Anthropic Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-05-11.md

AI Revolution Week in Review – May 09, 2026 This week's major themes and key developments: • Mozilla's agentic AI pipeline turns Claude Mythos Preview loose and finds 271 unknown Firefox vulnerabilities • AI safety tests have a new problem: Models are now faking their own reasoning traces • Anthropic approaches $1 trillion valuation as revenue grows fivefold • OpenAI opens GPT-5.5-Cyber to vetted security researchers Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-05-09.md

AI Revolution – May 08, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Mozilla's agentic AI pipeline turns Claude Mythos Preview loose and finds 271 unknown Firefox vulnerabilities • SpaceX has a $55 billion plan to build AI chips in Texas • OpenAI opens GPT-5.5-Cyber to vetted security researchers • How Anthropic's 80x growth blew past its own infrastructure and straight into Musk's data center Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-05-08.md

AI Revolution – May 07, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • OpenAI built a networking protocol with AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft, and NVIDIA to fix AI supercomputer bottlenecks • Anthropic taps SpaceX's Colossus-1 data center for 220,000 GPUs to power Claude • Google's Gemma 4 AI models get 3x speed boost by predicting future tokens • DeepSeek could hit $45B valuation from its first investment round Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-05-07.md

AI Revolution – May 06, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • ChatGPT update rolls out GPT-5.5 Instant with fewer hallucinations and more personalized answers • Anthropic commits $200 billion to Google Cloud over five years • Google New TPU Generation is Specifically Designed for Agents and SOTA Model Training • US government increases AI suppliers and rethinks Anthropic’s role Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-05-06.md

AI Revolution – May 05, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • White House briefed Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI on plans for a government AI review process • Cerebras targets $40 billion valuation in second IPO attempt • OpenAI raises over $4 billion for new enterprise deployment venture • Anthropic co-founder maps out how recursive AI improvement could outpace the humans meant to supervise it Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-05-05.md

AI Revolution – May 04, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Cerebras targets $40 billion valuation in second IPO attempt • OpenAI says human attention is the bottleneck, so it built a system to let agents manage themselves • In Harvard study, AI offered more accurate emergency room diagnoses than two human doctors • Perfectly Aligning AI’s Values With Humanity’s Is Impossible Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-05-04.md

AI Revolution Week in Review – May 02, 2026 This week's major themes and key developments: • Musk v. Altman week 1: Elon Musk says he was duped, warns AI could kill us all, and admits that xAI distills OpenAI’s models • OpenAI ends its exclusive partnership with Microsoft • Eight tech giants sign Pentagon deals to build an "AI-first fighting force" across classified networks • GPT-5.5 matches heavily hyped Mythos Preview in new cybersecurity tests Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-05-02.md

AI Revolution – May 01, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • OpenAI says it hit its 10 gigawatt compute goal years ahead of schedule • GPT-5.5 matches Claude Mythos in cyber attack tests, UK AI Security Institute finds • White House worried about compute limits as it blocks wider access to Anthropic's Mythos • Sources: Anthropic potential $900B+ valuation round could happen within 2 weeks Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-05-01.md

AI Revolution – April 30, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • OpenAI says it hit its 10 gigawatt compute goal years ahead of schedule • White House worried about compute limits as it blocks wider access to Anthropic's Mythos • Sources: Anthropic could raise a new $50B round at a valuation of $900B • OpenAI’s new security model is for ‘critical cyber defenders’ only Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-04-30.md

AI Revolution – April 29, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • OpenAI lands on AWS one day after Microsoft deal restructuring • Google expands Pentagon’s access to its AI after Anthropic’s refusal • With Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, Nvidia reveals what really goes into a modern multimodal model • 30 ClawHub skills secretly turn AI agents into a crypto swarm Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-04-29.md

AI Revolution – April 28, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • OpenAI ends its exclusive partnership with Microsoft • DeepMind’s David Silver just raised $1.1B to build an AI that learns without human data • Tenstorrent’s Galaxy Blackhole AI servers escape the event horizon • Claude Mythos Preview Requires New Ways to Keep Code Secure Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-04-28.md

AI Revolution – April 27, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • China blocks Meta's $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus • OpenAI kills its dedicated coding model Codex again, folding it into GPT-5.5 • Google warns malicious web pages are poisoning AI agents • The company with a monopoly on AI's most critical machine is racing to build more Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-04-27.md

AI Revolution Week in Review – April 25, 2026 This week's major themes and key developments: • OpenAI unveils GPT-5.5, claims a "new class of intelligence" at double the API price • Google pours up to $40 billion into ChatGPT rival Anthropic • DeepSeek's new models are so efficient they'll run on a toaster ... by which we mean Huawei's NPUs • What Anthropic’s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-04-25.md

AI Revolution – April 24, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • OpenAI unveils GPT-5.5, claims a "new class of intelligence" at double the API price • As agentic AI pushes rivals to raise prices and cap usage, Deepseek ships a good-enough model for almost nothing • In another wild turn for AI chips, Meta signs deal for millions of Amazon AI CPUs • What Anthropic’s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-04-24.md

AI Revolution – April 23, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Google unveils 8th-gen TPUs, agent platform, and Workspace AI layer at Cloud Next '26 • NVIDIA and Google infrastructure cuts AI inference costs • AI Agent Designs a RISC-V CPU Core From Scratch • OpenAI says its new ChatGPT for Clinicians outperforms doctors on clinical tasks even when they have unlimited time and web access Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-04-23.md

AI Revolution – April 22, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Forget one chip to rule them all: With TPU 8, Google has an AI arms race to win • Anthropic’s most dangerous AI model just fell into the wrong hands • Anthropic gets $5B investment from Amazon, will use it to buy Amazon chips • AI Agent Designs a RISC-V CPU Core From Scratch Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-04-22.md

AI Revolution – April 21, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Amazon pours $33B into Anthropic, which promises to spend $100B right back on AWS • Open-weight Kimi K2.6 takes on GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 with agent swarms • Anthropic's Mythos AI model sparks fears of turbocharged hacking • NSA spies are reportedly using Anthropic’s Mythos, despite Pentagon feud Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-04-21.md

AI Revolution – April 20, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Anthropic's Mythos AI model sparks fears of turbocharged hacking • Google plans nearly two million new AI chips as it turns to Marvell for custom designs • The NSA is using Anthropic's most powerful AI model Mythos • Anthropic walks into the White House and Mythos is the reason Washington let it in Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-04-20.md

AI Revolution Week in Review – April 18, 2026 This week's major themes and key developments: • Google Opens Gemma 4 Under Apache 2.0 with Multimodal and Agentic Capabilities • Zuckerberg reportedly trades headcount for compute as Meta readies to cut 10 percent of its workforce to fund AI infrastructure • Claude Code Used to Find Remotely Exploitable Linux Kernel Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years • Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles exit OpenAI as company continues to shed ‘side quests’ Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-04-18.md