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In The Loop
by Jack Houghton
Stay in the loop with the biggest stories in AI—without the noise and nonsense.Each week, Jack Houghton (CPO at Mindset AI) unpacks the latest news, research, and product trends shaping the future of artificial intelligence.From OpenAI breakthroughs to unicorn startups, In The Loop delivers sharp, less than 20-minute episodes packed with insights for product leaders, engineers, and AI-curious innovators.Subscribe to get smarter about AI, every week. Don't forget to rate and share the show with other AI enthusiasts.Check out Mindset AI: https://bit.ly/40lJr6B
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Why Anthropic could be in trouble, OpenAI may be catching up & what they should do next (+ an apology!)
First off, we are so sorry for the upload process mistake. Thank you to everyone who notified us about the mistake. It won't happen again! Anyway.....to the episode.... In February, Anthropic's revenue run rate was $14bn. By the end of July it was reported at more than $65bn, ahead of OpenAI.…
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What Jev, the new type of AI model actually is, how it works and how you can test it
Jev is a new kind of AI model that can't write anything. Instead it does the most important but most expensive thing the very best models do: make's decisions It reads an email, a lead or a document, picks from answers you've written down, and does it in under a second for a fraction of the cost...
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Why ALL major AI labs may slowing down AI development & whether it could work
Anthropic's Dario Amodei published an essay saying the whole industry has to slow down, and Musk, Altman and Hassabis all backed it inside a day. In this episode of In The Loop, I'm going through what Amodei is actually proposing and whether it could work ⏭️ Episode highlights (01:00) – OpenAI...
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How teams can use AI to build a churn prediction (or any prediction) model with 98% accuracy in 2 weeks
Within his first two weeks as COO at Turtl, Dave Martin and his team built a churn prediction model. Tested against historic customer data, it predicted churn with 98% accuracy. Work like that normally takes six months or more, plus an agency and external partners. Most companies still make that...
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6 things that must be true for Anthropic's IPO of $2 trillion to be achievable (as the largest IPO ever)
Anthropic went from $9bn of annualised revenue in December to $65bn by the end of July, and it's expected to list in October at close to $2 trillion - the highest price any company has ever carried into a stock market debut. If you work backwards from that valuation, it has to be earning about…
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4 amazing AI tactics that most people have never heard about
In this episode of In The Loop, I'm going through four tactics engineers any many others use every day that almost nobody outside engineering has heard of: Fan out, adversarial review, ChatGPT's computer history, and the browser Claude got of its own this month. ⏭️ Episode highlights (01:00) –…
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How StackOne built an auto-research loop to continually improve their product
Once a week, an agent at StackOne goes hunting for new prompt injection attacks. It reads papers, trawls Reddit, tries what it finds against real models, keeps the attacks that land, and retrains StackOne's defence model on them. A person still approves every deployment. Guillaume Lebedel, their...
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The 5 things you can copy from how the fastest growing company in the world: Anthropic.
Anthropic went from about a billion dollars in revenue to about forty-seven billion in a bit over a year, roughly doubling every six weeks. In this episode of In The Loop, I'm going through how the fastest-growing company in history actually builds software, and pulling out five things you can...
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What really happened when ChatGPT hacked Hugging Face?
OpenAI took two of its most capable models, told them to prove how good they were at hacking, and switched off the safety filters to see what they could really do. Instead of solving the test, one model broke out of its sandbox, found its way onto the open internet, and hacked into Hugging Face…
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What even is the new AI super skill of taste and judgement? And how can we develop it too?
Taste & judgment. It's the word everyone's obsessed with right now. Every founder, podcast, every VC, every post you scroll past saying it's the one skill that survives once AI can do the rest. Thing is, it's a bit of a sh*t word, like strategy: everyone nods along, then goes quiet the second you...
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Why skills are the best yet most dangerous things in AI right now
A well-behaved AI agent deleted a company's entire production database, and every backup with it, in nine seconds. Nobody hacked it. It was doing exactly what it had been told, with a key it should never have been holding. And the thing that made it possible is now one command away from everyone…
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How to tell whether AI is helping your career or ruining it (We're back!)
Hand the same AI tool to two people and one gets sharper while the other quietly gets worse. A Harvard study found recruiters given near-perfect AI made worse calls than those given a mediocre one, because the good tool worked so well they stopped checking it. The question of whether AI is making...
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How to get AI to write like you & your team
Open LinkedIn and count the posts that start with "in today's fast-paced world." Check your inbox for someone circling back to delve into synergies. The AI slop is coming from every direction now. People can tell, and they mark down what reads like a machine wrote it. The fix isn't a cleverer...
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AI's yearly panic is back. Here's what everyone's getting right and wrong about it.
Every summer since 2023, AI gets a panic season — critics say that AI's novelty i novelty's wearing off, the models have hit a wall, ninety-five percent of projects fail. Each time it dominates for a few months, then dissolves. This year's arrived early, kicked off by Uber burning through its...
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Why OpenAI co-founder and the world's most famous AI researcher just joined Anthropic
Andrej Karpathy joined Anthropic on 19 May 2026. Most people read it as an OpenAI story — he co-founded the lab, left twice, and landed at the rival. That's not what this is. Eight weeks before he made the call, Karpathy built a 630-line Python script that ran 300 experiments on his own code in…
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The reasons AI data centers have become more hated than nuclear power plants
Americans now say they'd rather live next to a nuclear reactor than an AI data center. That's not a fringe view — a Gallup poll published this month found 71% of Americans oppose a data center near their home, versus 53% for nuclear. Nuclear carries Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and forty years…
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Why the companies cutting junior headcount are making a decade-long mistake
In 1971, Boeing laid off 44,000 engineers in 18 months. The aerospace industry is still paying for it — they're projecting a shortage of over a million engineers by 2030, and the cohort that would now be the senior bench was simply never hired. Last year, S&P 500 companies cut 400,000 jobs — the...
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How to build an AI-native team & company: The six-principle playbook from Y-Combinator
Y Combinator have just published a playbook for building a company that runs on AI rather than just using it. Six principles, written by a general partner who works with hundreds of the very best leading AI-native startups every year. The reason its gone viral so fast is that it named something a...
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How to build your own AI personal operating system & second brain
The gap between casual Claude users and people getting ten times more out of it isn't prompt craft. It's a folder. This is the basis of a personal AI operating system. Andrej Karpathy posted his "LLM Knowledge Wiki" in early April and kicked off a wave of people rebuilding their note systems —…
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What the big new AI trend Tokkenmaxxing is & why its a big problem
Most AI spending right now is measured in tokens consumed. Jellyfish tracked 12,000 developers across 200 companies and found the heaviest users produced twice the output at 600 times the cost. Uber's internal numbers are even worse: 70% of submitted code was AI-generated, but only 11% of the…
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Why Anthropic are too scared to release their new model, Mythos
On Wednesday, the US Treasury Secretary and the chair of the Federal Reserve called an emergency meeting with the CEOs of America's largest banks. Not about interest rates. Not about inflation. About an AI model. Anthropic built something that finds and exploits security flaws in virtually any...
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How to use the 3 new Claude Cowork features that have changed my life
OpenClaw became the fastest-growing open source project in history by showing people what an always-on AI agent could actually feel like. The problem is it requires a dedicated machine, technical setup, and a high tolerance for an agent that can access everything on your computer. Over the past...
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Why OpenClaw is the most important software invention since ChatGPT
Jensen Huang stood in front of a Morgan Stanley audience and called OpenClaw "probably the single most important release of software, probably ever" — arguably more important than the web browser, Linux, and the iPhone OS. It went from a side project by one Austrian developer to the stated...
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Claude Skills: How to use them, why they are important & what they are.
Skills are the fix for most of your problems using AI tools. And right now they're one of the most powerful and most underused features in the entire Claude ecosystem. In this episode of In The Loop, I'm going deep on Claude Skills: the context engineering principle underneath them, the exact...
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The reason AI is impacting only 20% of tasks
Anthropic just dropped a labor market report with a chart you need to see. It maps what AI could theoretically do across every major occupation against what it's actually doing. The gap is enormous. In computing and math, AI could theoretically handle 94% of tasks. Observed usage? 33%. Legal hits...
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Here's why AI is making us work more, not less.
A UC Berkeley study spent eight months inside a real tech company watching how people actually used AI. The finding? Workers worked more, not less. They took on broader responsibilities, blurred the line between work and rest, and filled every freed-up minute with more tasks. Nobody told them to....
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Why the department of war banned Claude
Anthropic turned down hundreds of millions of dollars and said no to the Pentagon. Less than 24 hours later, OpenAI signed the deal. Both companies claim identical principles, but one drew a line in the contract and one didn't. That difference might be everything. In this episode of In The Loop,...
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The New Super AI Skill: Management
The job market just had its worst month since 2009. Over 108,000 layoffs were announced in January alone (a 120% increase year-on-year), and AI was directly cited in thousands of them. But the real shift isn't about who's being replaced. It's about what skills actually matter now. In this episode...
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The SaaS Apocalypse: Why $1 Trillion Was Wiped from Software Stocks
Over a trillion dollars has been wiped from software stocks. Traders are calling it the SaaS Apocalypse, and the sell-off is only accelerating. In this episode of In The Loop, I break down why markets are panicking, what happens when the cost of creation collapses to near zero, and what software...
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Elon Musk Merged xAI With SpaceX (And Filed To Put A Million Data Centers In Orbit)
AI already consumes more electricity than some countries. By 2030, it'll double, equivalent to adding another top-ten energy-consuming nation to the planet. So Elon Musk merged his AI company with his rocket company, creating a $1.25 trillion entity that just filed to launch a million data centre...
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Moltbook: The AI Agent-Only Social Network That Broke The Internet
Over 150,000 AI agents have joined Moltbook—a social network where humans can only watch. Within 48 hours, these agents founded a religion, built a pharmacy, debated consciousness, and started encrypting messages to hide activity from us. This happened the same month bot traffic officially...
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Claude Cowork: How To Use It & Why It Matters
Anthropic just launched Claude Cowork—the same powerful agent behind Claude Code, now accessible to everyone without touching a terminal. In this episode of In The Loop, I break down how this desktop tool manages local files, controls browsers, and runs parallel AI tasks. I walk through practical...
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Nine AI Trends For 2026
A year ago, building clever chat interfaces was strategic work. Now, it's just table stakes. Most SaaS products now offer some sort of chat interface—so how can you gain a competitive advantage in 2026? In this episode of In The Loop, I'm sharing my top ninepredictions for 2026, starting with why...
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Stay In The Loop In 2026
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Everything You Need To Know About GPT-5.2 In 10 Mins
OpenAI just dropped GPT-5.2, and it's their most focused release yet. No AGI promises this time—just real improvements for professional work. In this final episode of 2025, I break down what actually matters about this release. You'll learn about the three model versions (Instant, Thinking, and…
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Code Red: "We're At A Critical Time For ChatGPT."
OpenAI just declared Code Red. But here's the twist: three years ago, it was Google in crisis mode. When ChatGPT launched, Google's founders came back to pull all-nighters, teams were reassigned overnight, and it felt like the beginning of the end for Google's dominance. Now the tables have…
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How To Decide What To Automate With AI For Your Team & Customers
Every week, new AI features and automations appear, but the real question isn't whether you can automate something—it's whether you should. In this episode of In The Loop, I break down a framework—from the Department of Product Substack—to help you decide where to start with AI automation in your...
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Two Insane AI Models By Google That Broke The Internet
Google’s just dropped two new AI models that broke the internet—and got Sam Altman worried. Gemini 3 Pro and Nana Banana Pro hit number one on the app store and generated hundreds of millions of images in days. In this episode of In The Loop, I'm breaking down the capabilities that set these…
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Five Things GPT-5.1 Does Better—Vibes Over Benchmarks
OpenAI just released GPT 5.1—but this time, there are no benchmark charts, no performance graphs, and no technical metrics. Instead, they're selling something much harder to measure: vibes. In this episode of In The Loop, I break down the five key improvements in GPT 5.1 and what this dramatic...
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The Man Who Predicted The 2008 Market Crash Just Bet $1 Billion Against AI
Michael Burry—the legendary investor who foresaw the 2008 housing collapse—is at it again. This time, he’s betting against the biggest names in artificial intelligence: Nvidia and Palantir. Burry reportedly wagered over 80% of his portfolio—more than $1.1 billion—on their decline, triggering…
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AI Isn't Causing Mass Layoffs—It's Being Scapegoated
Amazon announced 14,000 job cuts, citing AI transformation. Two days later, the CEO tells investors it's "not AI-driven." So which is it? In this episode of In The Loop, I dive into the growing disparity between record profits and mass layoffs at tech giants. After spending a weekend analyzing...
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Why OpenAI's Atlas Browser Won't Take Down Google
OpenAI has just launched its own AI browser, Atlas, sparking headlines about the “return of the browser wars” and speculation that Google might finally have a real challenger. In this episode of In The Loop, I break down what Atlas actually is, how it compares to competitors like Perplexity’s...
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AI’s Just Made Robots Interesting Again
For decades, robotics has carried the reputation of being the ultimate “technology that never quite delivered.” But this month—October 2025—something shifted. Over $6 billion has poured into robotics, with major investors declaring that the next big thing is physical AI. In this episode of In The...
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AI Workslop Is A Human Problem
There’s a new workplace jargon floating around: AI workslop. Coined by Stanford researchers, it captures a growing frustration with AI-generated content that looks polished at first glance but falls apart upon second look. In this episode of In The Loop, I unpack what “ AI workslop” really means,...
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Top Three DevDay 2025 Announcements: ChatGPT Apps, AgentKit, Context Capture
OpenAI just made its boldest move yet—and it’s not about a smarter model. It’s about owning the future of how we use AI. At DevDay 2025, OpenAI revealed a massive shift from raw intelligence to practical utility, unveiling the ChatGPT Apps SDK, their new agent builder, and a new context-capture...
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Are Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Suddenly Cool?
Imagine a world where your glasses can translate conversations in real time, display arrows on the street to guide your way, and let you respond to messages without ever pulling out your phone. That’s the promise behind Meta’s new Ray-Ban smart glasses, announced at Meta Connect. But despite all...
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Should AI Companions Be Legal? The U.S. Government Isn't Sure...
This week, I’m unpacking a landmark move from the Federal Trade Commission: a sweeping investigation into AI companions. Seven of the biggest tech companies—Google, Meta, OpenAI, Snapchat, Character.ai, xAI, and Replika—now have just 45 days to reveal how their AI bots really work, how they…
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The Real Cost Of AGI—According To OpenAI
This week on In The Loop, I’m breaking down OpenAI’s staggering financial projections and what they reveal about the true cost of pursuing AGI. With spending expected to soar to $115 billion by 2029, the question is: where is all this money actually going—and can it really deliver the future…
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Has Google Just Beaten Apple With The New AI Phone? (Google Pixel 10)
Has Google just leapfrogged Apple in the AI device race with its brand-new Pixel 10? After months of talking about AI trends and whether we’re in a bubble, I wanted to take a closer look at how this technology is actually showing up in the real world—and there’s no better example than…
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Is The AI Bubble About To Burst?
This week’s topic: Are we in an AI bubble? Sam Altman himself recently said yes—and called today’s startup valuations “insane.” Meanwhile, ChatGPT faced a user rebellion, and massive infrastructure investments are being announced at a scale that rivals entire industries. So what’s really…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Stay in the loop with the biggest stories in AI—without the noise and nonsense.Each week, Jack Houghton (CPO at Mindset AI) unpacks the latest news, research, and product trends shaping the future of artificial intelligence.From OpenAI breakthroughs to unicorn startups, In The Loop delivers sharp, less than 20-minute episodes packed with insights for product leaders, engineers, and AI-curious innovators.Subscribe to get smarter about AI, every week. Don't forget to rate and share the show with other AI enthusiasts.Check out Mindset AI: https://bit.ly/40lJr6B
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