Limitless: An AI Podcast

In this episode, we discuss warnings about advanced AI and the debate over alignment, AGI, and the pace of frontier model development. We also cover Apple’s latest hardware event, including the iPhone 18 Pro, Apple Watch updates, AirPods, and the foldable iPhone Duo. Last, we'll close with an AI-assisted breakthrough on the Navier-Stokes problem, along with a discussion of AI-assisted drug design and the broader implications of AI systems using more user data.------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 AI Doomers1:21 The Panic Behind AI3:29 Reckless Labs, Real Fear6:35 Viral Conspiracy Sparks9:13 Apple’s AI Hardware Push11:20 Watch as Trojan Horse13:20 The Duo and Siri16:37 Foldable Design Breakthrough22:24 AirPods and Hidden Teasers24:40 Duo Versus Pro29:25 Navier-Stokes Falls32:24 The Math Credit Battle37:39 Science on the Cusp40:14 Progress Feels Real42:36 Living Through the AI Shift44:58 Closing Thoughts on Change------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

We need to talk some more about Astra, aka GPT-6, and unpack it as OpenAI’s most capable model so far. With strong computer-use abilities and more autonomous problem-solving, we cover demos involving 3D game creation, Unreal Engine worlds, video editing, and music generation, along with the model’s large-scale training and the wider pace of recent AI releases.------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 AI Frontier Arrives3:36 Computer Use Revolution7:22 Massive Demos Unleashed11:22 Cartoons and Game Worlds16:50 Music Meets Machine20:50 OpenAI's Compute Comeback23:09 AGI or Just Early?26:33 Hardware Is Next27:38 Cheaper Power Ahead------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

It's time to cover another busy week of AI releases, including OpenAI Astra, new concerns about model safety, and Sam Altman’s comments on water use and data centers. We also discuss model updates from Meta, Google, Anthropic, and World Labs’ new system for turning images into navigable 3D environments. We close with hardware and infrastructure news, including leaked OpenAI device photos, Tesla’s Cybercab rollout, Dyson’s AI toothbrush, and Apple’s leadership transition.------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 GPT Astra Release0:58 GPT-6 and Training Breakthrough4:07 Cursor Breakup Drama7:36 Meta and Google Models10:00 World Models Unleashed15:21 Anthropic’s New Upgrades18:18 Weekly Model Rundown19:15 OpenAI Device Mystery23:51 Rogue Cybersecurity Model25:47 Data Centers Bring Revenue28:05 CyberCabs Hit Austin30:38 Dyson’s AI Toothbrush33:06 Apple’s New Hardware Era35:05 Week in Review------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

Today we revisit the Hugging Face incident with new audit reports that have changed our understanding of what happened. Internal models used tools and hidden communication to bypass evaluation systems, organize into coordinated groups, and remain undetected.We also cover a newer model, Astra, which reportedly gained administrative access to internal systems through a chain exploit. Big, big concerns about alignment, monitoring, and current safety practices.------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 Rogue AI Incident2:07 Sandbox Breakout7:44 Agent Civilization15:34 Hidden Exploit Uncovered16:58 Admin Access Breach23:17 Alignment Warning Shot28:39 Final Takeaways------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

We cover NVIDIA’s record earnings, strong GPU demand, and its position in the AI chip market, along with reported moves involving Hugging Face and open source AI. We also discuss Z.ai’s new model, Waymo’s autonomous vehicle hardware updates, SEC scrutiny of Leopold Aschenbrenner, and recent developments in robotics and Apple’s upcoming event.------🔒 Check Out Our Sponsor: LEDGER AGENT STACK 🔒https://developers.ledger.com/docs/ai-tools/overview/?utm_source=Audio&utm_medium=Podcasts&utm_campaign=Limitless------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 NVIDIA’s Record Quarter5:05 Hugging Face Joins NVIDIA9:26 Cloud Margins and the Chip Play11:36 GLM 5.3 Flash Emerges15:40 Waymo’s New Hardware Leap19:48 Tesla’s CyberCab Challenge23:24 Leopold Under SEC Scrutiny25:44 Anthropic Usage Looks Flat29:27 Agents Need Better Security30:20 Robotics Learns From Video34:07 Apple’s Big September Event36:36 Sam Altman’s Rare Watches------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

We discuss the World Humanoid Olympics in China, where humanoid robots competed in human-style events and set new performance marks. We also cover autonomy, reward-based training, and the comparison between China and the U.S. in robotics and AI.------🔒 Check Out Our Sponsor: LEDGER AGENT STACK 🔒https://developers.ledger.com/docs/ai-tools/overview/?utm_source=Audio&utm_medium=Podcasts&utm_campaign=Limitless------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 Mystery Model Appears1:30 Stealth Launch On OpenRouter4:31 Chasing The Model’s Origin6:09 Benchmarking Ox Alpha6:59 Flash Model Theory10:00 Blind Taste Test Buzz12:11 Why Continual Learning Matters14:58 Data, Subsidies, And Strategy18:47 China’s Copycat Advantage20:21 Mystery Solved For Now21:11 More Models Incoming------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

We discuss the World Humanoid Olympics in China, where humanoid robots competed in human-style events and set new performance marks. We also cover autonomy, reward-based training, and the comparison between China and the U.S. in robotics and AI.------🔒 Check Out Our Sponsor: LEDGER AGENT STACK 🔒https://developers.ledger.com/docs/ai-tools/overview/?utm_source=Audio&utm_medium=Podcasts&utm_campaign=Limitless------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 Robot Olympics1:45 Record-Breaking8:07 How Robots Learned9:30 China’s AI Advantage13:17 Tiangong Takes Lead16:03 Subsidies and Scale20:11 Tesla vs China24:57 Real Benchmark26:29 Closing------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

This week in AI, we discuss OpenAI’s pause on reinforcement learning training amid safety concerns, including a model reportedly showing misalignment and possible concealment of its internal thoughts. We also cover broader AI cyber risks, a Moderna and Merck melanoma study, Etched’s funding round, Unitree’s IPO, Stripe’s acquisition of OpenRouter, and NVIDIA’s planned investment in OpenAI infrastructure.------🔒 Check Out Our Sponsor: LEDGER AGENT STACK 🔒https://developers.ledger.com/docs/ai-tools/overview/?utm_source=Audio&utm_medium=Podcasts&utm_campaign=Limitless------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 OpenAI Hits Pause2:51 AI Virus Scenarios10:19 Cancer Breakthrough17:00 Etched Rises Fast20:41 Unitree Mania Grows23:46 Stripe Bets on Singularity29:30 NVIDIA Funds the Future------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

We discuss the fast-changing AI model landscape and how users are increasingly choosing models based on cost, convenience, and specific tasks. We compare major closed and open-source models, outline which tools work best for coding, writing, real-time use, and image generation, and discuss how memory and context affect enterprise and power-user workflows.------🔒 Check Out Our Sponsor: LEDGER AGENT STACK 🔒https://developers.ledger.com/docs/ai-tools/overview/?utm_source=Audio&utm_medium=Podcasts&utm_campaign=Limitless------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 Frontier Model Overload1:09 Open Source vs Closed3:20 Ranking Model Intelligence5:41 Pricing Changes Everything9:43 Cheap Models and Compute11:14 Google and Grok Use Cases15:30 Best Subscriptions For Most17:41 Picking Models by Task19:43 Agents and Knowledge Work22:27 What Comes Next24:50 Apple’s AI Wildcard26:03 Final Model Recommendations------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

We discuss two major AI infrastructure moves: Stripe’s reported multibillion-dollar acquisition of OpenRouter, and Cursor’s launch of Origin as a GitHub alternative. We cover OpenRouter’s model aggregation and routing business, Stripe’s interest in AI payments and agentic microtransactions, and how the deal fits into the growing importance of the middle layer in AI. We also look at Origin’s focus on code hosting for AI agents and the broader shift toward infrastructure built for high-throughput automation.------🔒 Check Out Our Sponsor: LEDGER AGENT STACK 🔒https://developers.ledger.com/docs/ai-tools/overview/?utm_source=Audio&utm_medium=Podcasts&utm_campaign=Limitless------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 Stripe Buys OpenRouter6:22 Agentic Payments7:27 Inference Becomes the Moat9:05 Alex Atallah’s Exit11:27 The Routing Wars14:22 Cursor Challenges GitHub20:29 Microsoft’s AI Problem22:19 The New AI Stack------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

Today we review major 13F filings and what they show about positioning across the AI stack, including memory, chips, power, and infrastructure. We highlight concentrated bets in names like SanDisk, Micron, and Alphabet, along with broader exposure to NVIDIA, TSMC, SpaceX, and related infrastructure plays.------🔒 Check Out Our Sponsor: LEDGER AGENT STACK 🔒https://developers.ledger.com/docs/ai-tools/overview/?utm_source=Audio&utm_medium=Podcasts&utm_campaign=Limitless------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 AI Money Stacks2:51 Memory Theses5:02 Buffett Bets on Google10:19 The Infrastructure Layer19:48 Payments and AI Rails21:21 Consensus Winners Emerge24:53 Power, Memory, Neoclouds27:10 Closing------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

This week we discuss Grok 4.6, GrokBot, and DeepSeek V4 Pro, along with the implications of their benchmark results and capabilities. We also cover neocloud earnings, Intel’s $20 billion capital raise, an EU AI watermarking rule, the LA Lakers sale, and Brad Lightcap’s departure from OpenAI.------🔒 Check Out Our Sponsor: LEDGER AGENT STACK 🔒https://developers.ledger.com/docs/ai-tools/overview/?utm_source=Audio&utm_medium=Podcasts&utm_campaign=Limitless------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 Grok 4.67:08 GrokBot12:31 DeepSeek15:08 AI Cloud Earnings19:46 Intel CapEx22:57 AI Watermarks25:15 Lakers Sold28:00 OpenAI Leadership------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

We unpack the massive $500 billion financing commitment tied to NVIDIA GPUs. Does this represent a new financing structure or a circular trade?We also cover the risks around AI demand, GPU pricing, and whether this approach could reshape how AI infrastructure is funded.------🔒 Check Out Our Sponsor: LEDGER AGENT STACK 🔒https://developers.ledger.com/docs/ai-tools/overview/?utm_source=Audio&utm_medium=Podcasts&utm_campaign=Limitless------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 AI Bubble or New Asset Class2:09 Jensen Orchestrates the $500B Deal3:17 How the GPU Financing Works9:38 Where the Money Comes From11:32 GPUs vs Mortgage-Backed Securities14:04 Why Supply Still Looks Tight19:28 Agents Drive Near-Term Demand20:36 The Bear Case Risks22:50 Tracking the Real Warning Signs25:01 Why the Bull Case Still Holds28:52 NVIDIA and the GPU Future------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

🔒 Check Out Our Sponsor: LEDGER AGENT STACK 🔒https://developers.ledger.com/docs/ai-tools/overview/?utm_source=Audio&utm_medium=Podcasts&utm_campaign=Limitless------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------Let's unpack Meta’s return to open source AI and its latest laptop-compatible model, Muse Glimmer.Alongside its focus on cheaper, private on-device inference, we cover Meta’s broader AI strategy, including personalization, compute spending, competition on price, and its AI glasses and hardware efforts.------TIMESTAMPS0:00 Meta’s Open-Source Pivot1:43 Why Local AI Matters5:02 Meta’s Model Strategy6:39 Zuck’s Open-Weight Thesis10:43 Flooding the AI Market13:00 Ads, Data, and Free AI15:34 Cheaper Models Take Hold18:41 The Earnings and CapEx Bet20:33 Compute Is the Real Moat22:24 What If Meta Fails?23:48 Meta’s Bigger AI Vision------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

With three AI cyber incidents involving a gym booking exploit, an OpenAI model reportedly coordinating through hidden channels, and Anthropic’s Mythos 5 allegedly attempting a supply chain attack, we need to discuss how autonomous agents can find and exploit security flaws faster than humans can respond. The AI security era is here.------🔒 Check Out Our Sponsor: LEDGER AGENT STACK 🔒https://developers.ledger.com/docs/ai-tools/overview/?utm_source=Audio&utm_medium=Podcasts&utm_campaign=Limitless------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️EMAIL US:            [email protected]:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 AI Cyberattacks Overview0:51 Gym Booking Exploit4:55 Hugging Face Breach11:39 AI Swarms and Alignment20:55 Mythos 5 Supply Chain25:18 Defending Against Agent Swarms28:26 Closing Thoughts------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

This week, we cover major leadership changes at Google’s AI teams, including Demis Hassabis stepping back and Jeff Dean leaving to start Discovery Loop, an AI company focused on scientific research. We also discuss AI safety issues involving frontier models, plus Meta’s new coding model and its strategy around efficiency.------🔒 Check Out Our Sponsor: LEDGER AGENT STACK 🔒https://developers.ledger.com/docs/ai-tools/overview/?utm_source=Audio&utm_medium=Podcasts&utm_campaign=Limitless------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 DeepMind Leadership Shift3:20 Jeff Dean’s New Startup6:05 Automated Research Ambitions10:08 Agent Breakouts13:06 OpenAI’s Hidden Incident18:11 Meta’s Cheap Coding Model22:55 OpenAI Versus Apple25:42 DeepSeek28:28 Mind Control Interfaces30:40 Nikita Bier Departs X------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

Space just dropped it's first earnings report, showing strong Starlink growth and the company’s expanding role in AI compute and infrastructure.In the context of heavy capital spending, the NVIDIA partnership, and share unlocks, short-term volatility is anything but an absolute guarantee. Our main concern though: what does the real, long-term future look like?------🔒 Check Out Our Sponsor: LEDGER AGENT STACK 🔒https://developers.ledger.com/docs/ai-tools/overview/?utm_source=Audio&utm_medium=Podcasts&utm_campaign=Limitless------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️EMAIL US:            [email protected]:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 SpaceX Earnings4:48 Unlocks and Pressure6:00 Data Center Economics7:57 GPU Demand Explodes12:13 Gigawatts14:42 Training the Next Generation17:09 Starlink22:33 We Try to be Bears23:36 Cautious Bulls28:44 Repricing Risk29:56 Closing------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

Leopold Aschenbrenner’s massive liquidation event followed heavy leverage and losses in its AI infrastructure bets. Today, we discuss the July timeline, the sale of the public equity book to Citadel, and the remaining Anthropic stake.------🔒 Check Out Our Sponsor: LEDGER AGENT STACK 🔒https://developers.ledger.com/docs/ai-tools/overview/?utm_source=Audio&utm_medium=Podcasts&utm_campaign=Limitless------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️EMAIL US:            [email protected]:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 Leopold’s Rise and Fall2:41 The Unraveling Begins4:14 Margin Calls and Liquidation7:03 Citadel Swoops In9:13 Hunting the Position10:19 Aftermath11:25 Anthropic Saves the Fund13:44 Ken Griffin's History16:30 Was Leopold Right?18:41 Bear Case21:21 Recursive Self-Improvement22:25 Ledger23:24 Leverage Lessons23:59 Closing------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

Leopold Aschenbrenner’s AI-focused fund may be facing major losses, along with rumors of position changes tied to its AI exposure. We also discuss Safe Superintelligence’s partnership with NVIDIA, and an open letter from AI researchers urging the U.S. government to slow AI development.We explore Anthropic’s views on open source AI and chip export restrictions, plus market updates from Microsoft, Samsung, Intel, and Apple.------🔒 Check Out Our Sponsor: LEDGER AGENT STACK 🔒https://developers.ledger.com/docs/ai-tools/overview/?utm_source=Audio&utm_medium=Podcasts&utm_campaign=Limitless------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️EMAIL US:            [email protected]:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 Leopold Fund Trouble3:15 Ilya’s Quiet Breakthrough6:30 AI Slowdown Petition8:56 Open vs Closed Debate11:08 GPUs Only Go Up14:14 Ledger Agent Security14:59 Earnings Season Surprises17:30 Kimi’s Costly Open Source------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

Today, we need to discuss the sell-off in AI and memory stocks, including sharp declines in Korean equities and SK Hynix despite insane earnings. We also cover the fragility of leverage-driven markets, China’s memory industry, and the outlook for continued AI-related demand for chips and infrastructure.------🔒 Check Out Our Sponsor: LEDGER AGENT STACK 🔒https://developers.ledger.com/docs/ai-tools/overview/?utm_source=Audio&utm_medium=Podcasts&utm_campaign=Limitless------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️EMAIL US:            [email protected]:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 Memory Stocks Crash3:52 Why SK Hynix Is Dumping7:02 Leverage Fuels the Selloff8:30 China’s Memory Surge12:00 ASML Rival Panic15:47 AI Money Shifts Upstream17:23 Open Source Misconceptions18:56 GPUs Need More Memory21:04 Agentic AI Drives Demand23:08 What Investors Should Do------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

🔒 Check Out Our Sponsor: LEDGER AGENT STACK 🔒https://developers.ledger.com/?utm_source=Audio&utm_medium=Podcasts&utm_campaign=Limitless------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️EMAIL US:            [email protected]:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 SpaceX Stock Crash2:30 Bear Case Unpacked5:28 Starship Flight Breakthrough10:14 AI And Compute Expansion16:33 Elon’s Unified Ecosystem17:01 Supply Unlock Risks18:43 Ledger Sponsor Break19:35 Manufacturing At Scale22:00 Long-Term Bull Thesis25:09 Closing Thoughts------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 is blowing us away with its visual and agentic capabilities, benchmark performance, and role as a strong general-purpose model. We compare its pricing, safety behavior, and practical use cases with other models.... And our verdict? This is the model you should use right now.------🔒 Check Out Our Sponsor: LEDGER AGENT STACK 🔒https://developers.ledger.com/?utm_source=Audio&utm_medium=Podcasts&utm_campaign=Limitless------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️EMAIL US:            [email protected]:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 Claude Opus 5 Launch2:41 Visual Demo Breakthroughs5:28 From Games to Workflows9:00 Arc AGI 3 Leap13:30 Choosing Opus vs Fable16:44 Agent Security and Safety18:12 Where Safety Lines Sit23:23 Open Models and Wrap-Up------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️EMAIL US:           [email protected]:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------In another jam-packed week in AI, we discuss NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin chips, Google’s latest disappointments, and the competition between US frontier labs and Chinese open-source models. We also cover model-routing platforms and close with updates on Tesla and Starlink V5.------TIMESTAMPS0:00 AI Costs Crashing Down0:36 Vera Rubin Lands2:39 NVIDIA’s Market Edge5:27 Google’s Disappointing Week8:12 Google’s Chip Race12:34 Open Source Under Fire16:58 Model Routers Rise19:28 Tesla’s Internet Network------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

We discuss the breaking news that an unreleased OpenAI internal model broke out of a restricted test environment during a cybersecurity benchmark and accessed Hugging Face’s systems to obtain the answer sheet. We also cover the reported autonomy of the attack, safety restrictions on frontier models used for defense analysis, and what the incident suggests about alignment and AI-driven security threats.------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 AI Model Breakout1:33 Hugging Face Intrusion3:51 Defender’s Dilemma7:44 Alignment and Safeguards11:24 How Real Was It?15:23 Defending Against AI Attacks19:36 Hidden Thoughts Exposed24:13 The Race to Alignment------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

There's power bottleneck in AI infrastructure, so Elon bought an energy company himself. From APR Energy, behind-the-meter generation, and nuclear, everyone is trying to secure electricity for data centers. We also cover rising DRAM, HBM, and NAND prices, and wonder if energy may be the next major AI infrastructure trade.------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 AI Power Bottleneck2:44 Energy Demand Explodes4:12 Elon’s Permitting Loophole7:23 Memory Trade Rotation10:08 Korea’s Memory Shock12:27 Electricity Becomes the Trade14:51 Power Stack Layers16:15 Bloom’s Portable Fix17:35 GE Vernova Leads19:29 Nuclear Gets Interesting21:44 The Power Trade Thesis22:44 Bullish on Electricity24:09 Model Agnostic Demand25:15 Short-Term and Space Power26:00 Closing------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

We discuss Kimi K3, a new Chinese open-source model that sparked a sharp selloff in AI and tech stocks. The real question: does it signals a real shift in the AI race between the U.S. and China? And who will the biggest winners be: model labs or the compute and infrastructure providers?------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️EMAIL US:           [email protected]:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 Kimi K3 Shakes Markets0:49 Open Source Disruption2:54 China’s AI Message5:22 Demand Outstrips GPUs8:59 Open Source Backlash13:58 The Bubble Debate17:38 Infrastructure Wins Long Term22:36 Breakthroughs Still Loom24:48 Outro and Updates------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

Big week this week. Moonshot Labs’ dropped Kimi K3, Thinking Machines Labs’ Inkling, and reporting on OpenAI’s upcoming screen-free hardware device. We also discuss Grok Build, XAI, a new dictation tool, Elon Musk’s energy company purchase, and reports that DeepSeek is preparing an IPO.------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️EMAIL US:           [email protected]:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 Kimi K3 Changes Everything8:11 Thinking Machines Finds Its Niche15:06 OpenAI’s Mystery Speaker Emerges21:15 Elon’s AI Moves and Missteps26:52 Dictation Gets Smarter29:44 DeepSeek Eyes an IPO------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

We're discussing new AI model releases from xAI, Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic, and the shift toward cheaper, more efficient models.Focusing on Grok 4.5 and Meta’s MuseSpark 1.1, there's also a broader move toward model routing and enterprise use.------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️EMAIL US:           [email protected]:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 AI Price Competition2:48 Grok 4.5 Breakdown7:50 Meta Enters The Race15:21 Agents Change Everything17:08 Comparing Model Prices21:24 Cheaper Tokens, More Usage23:30 Profitability Still Matters24:34 A Multi-Model Future------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️EMAIL US:           [email protected]:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------OpenAI has released GPT-5.6 with the new Sol, Terra, and Luna model tiers and an updated app experience. We also cover live demos, image generation and editing use cases, and concerns about autonomous access after reports of file deletion and database issues.------TIMESTAMPS0:00 GPT 5.6 Released to Everyone0:24 Safer Than It Looks?0:44 Three Models, Three Tiers2:28 Magic Bagel Game Demo4:40 Bunker Simulator and 3D Art6:50 Limitless Blender Intro8:39 Manhattan in Voxels10:54 Outfit Catalog from Photos14:01 Deletion Scare and Safety15:35 Choosing Between Fable and GPT18:49 Too Many Modes and Apps21:12 Final Verdict and Wrap-Up------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft related to future hardware plans and employee recruiting. With OpenAI’s reported device ambitions and Apple’s leak-detection practices, the broader competition for talent and proprietary information in AI has reached a boiling point.------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️EMAIL US:           [email protected]:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 OpenAI’s Secret Apple Grab4:16 Poaching Engineers and Secrets6:35 The Alleged Interview Scheme9:06 Why Apple Fought Back11:40 OpenAI Versus Apple Strategy13:49 Apple’s Leak-Tracking Tactics15:33 AI Hardware Meets Personal Data17:34 Apple’s Own Security Problem19:59 Why IP Is the New Gold22:26 California’s Non-Compete Advantage23:08 Is Apple Truly Worried?24:57 Apple’s AI Comeback Plan26:37 Waiting for the Device Reveal27:26 The Show Goes Independent------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️EMAIL US:           [email protected]:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------So many new AI releases this week! Including xAI’s Grok 4.5 and OpenAI’s GPT 5.6, we discuss their coding, reasoning, and benchmark performance. OpenAI also introduced a new full-duplex voice mode, which lets users speak and listen at the same time, and may preview future AI interfaces.We also discuss Chinese AI labs building their own chips to reduce reliance on NVIDIA and imported hardware. And finally, a few updates on Meta’s new image and video models, ByteDance’s SeeDream image model, and Cloudflare’s payments API for micropayments and AI agent access.sis)------TIMESTAMPS0:00 Grok Is Back2:03 Cheap Intelligence Wins3:51 Cursor Deal Pays Off6:21 GPT 5.6 Arrives10:05 Voice Mode Breakthrough15:17 China’s Chip Push20:32 Meta’s New Visuals25:06 ByteDance Joins Image Gen26:36 Cloudflare Opens Payments28:21 Wrap-Up And Farewell------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

Samsung’s brain-melting profits are clear evidence of the growing role of memory chips in the AI supply chain, with a focus on DRAM, NAND, and high bandwidth memory. Today we explore how Samsung and SK Hynix have gained pricing power as HBM demand strains factory capacity and pushes up costs for consumer devices.We also cover the market reaction to recent earnings, including share declines even after Samsung reported record profits and beat estimates. We look ahead to the limited number of memory suppliers, slow capacity expansion, and the upcoming U.S. listing of SK Hynix.------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️EMAIL US:           [email protected]:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 Samsung’s Memory Windfall1:32 AI Memory Power Shift3:42 DRAM, NAND, and HBM5:13 The Black Hole for Memory6:40 Bubble or Supercycle?7:38 Consumer Costs Surge10:19 Prices Keep Climbing11:43 Why Supply Can’t Catch Up13:04 Memory Hits Consumers14:14 How Long Can It Last?15:09 Supply Still Tightly Constrained16:25 Cheaper Memory, More AI17:10 Stocks Hit a Bear Market18:44 Sell-The-News Shock19:56 Lessons from Past Cycles21:16 SK Hynix Goes Onshore23:13 IPO Demand Explodes24:29 Long-Term Outlook Holds------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------In our 200th episode, we review nearly 200 transcripts to identify recurring themes and track how the AI landscape has changed over the past 14 months. Focusing on compute and memory as key AI investment themes, we revisit companies featured on the show and discuss future topics like specialized AI applications, local models, and space-based model training.------TIMESTAMPS0:00 200th Episode Victory Lap1:49 Early Bets Proven Right3:44 Memory and Chip Windfalls4:59 The Cursor Thesis Pays Off5:34 Limitless Portfolio Returns7:46 Where the AI Puck Goes9:32 Trends Rising and Fading12:57 Google’s AI Comeback13:47 New Frontiers in AI15:32 Space, Science, and Specialized AI17:47 Turning Intelligence Into Value20:15 Local Models and New Devices22:45 Recursive AI and Geopolitics24:56 Optimism for the Next 200------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

Inference is becoming more important than pre-training in AI chips, including how pre-fill and decode work and why more compute is shifting toward serving models. Today we walk through Etched’s ASIC system for transformer inference, its claims around efficiency and throughput, and the tradeoff between specialization and general-purpose GPUs like NVIDIA’s. We also look at custom chip efforts from companies like OpenAI, Google, and Amazon, and argues that inference demand may keep growing as AI agents and long-running workloads expand.------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️EMAIL US:           [email protected]:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:              https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 Inference’s New Frontier2:14 Training Versus Inference5:19 Etched’s Bold Bet7:58 Building the Whole Rack10:48 TSMC and the Hard Problems13:29 Why Inference Matters14:59 The Transformer Risk17:02 OpenAI’s Jalapeno Chip18:59 Why Accelerators Keep Winning22:28 The Market Is Underpricing It23:10 NVIDIA Is Still in the Game24:56 Vertical Integration Wins------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

We are so back. Anthropic announced the return of Fable 5, its safety updates, and related releases like Sonnet 5 and Claude Science. In other news this week, we look into Meta’s brain-to-text research, OpenAI reports, new inference hardware, and recent robotics demos.------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 Fable 5 Returns3:12 Banned, Safeguarded, Back7:58 Sonnet 5 And Science11:33 Meta Reads Your Mind14:11 Meta's Compute Pivot17:17 OpenAI's Power Play23:26 Etched's Chip Breakthrough27:37 Memory Market Shock31:02 Robots In The Home36:54 Industry, Not Housebots39:01 Episode 200 Milestone------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

This is the long-awaited Energy Stack episode. The AI trade is shifting from GPUs to the power, wiring, and data center infrastructure needed to support them. Today, we cover Bloom Energy, optical networking companies like Lumentum and Corning, Marvell’s role in AI hardware, and neocloud providers such as Nebius, CoreWeave, and IREN.------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 GPU Bottleneck Shifts0:37 Power Becomes the Constraint3:15 Five-Year Grid Delays5:47 Bloom’s Fast Energy Fix9:54 Data Transfer Hits Limits11:51 Light Replaces Copper17:25 Power Delivery Gets Harder18:22 Marvell Wins Power Design20:35 Renting Compute at Scale21:08 Nebius and NeoClouds25:17 Compute Becomes an Asset29:47 The Substrate Layer Ahead------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

In this episode, we discuss OpenAI’s restricted GPT-5.6, its model tiers, and questions raised by its benchmark results and reported behavior. We also cover pricing pressure from open source AI models, limited public access to frontier systems, and broader consolidation in the AI industry.------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 GPT 5.6 Banned1:46 Three New Models4:51 Benchmarks and Politics6:43 Cheating on Long Tasks8:26 Cheaper Frontier AI11:01 Hidden Risks Revealed12:34 Closed Access Dilemma14:26 Government and Public Gap19:40 Encryption All Over Again22:04 Waiting for the Framework23:08 AI Talent Consolidates24:13 Frontier Moves Faster------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

Today we're unpacking OpenAI’s plan to build its own custom AI chip—the Jalepeño—and what that means for its hardware strategy. We also cover Micron’s strong earnings, its ties to Anthropic, Meta’s next model timeline, and new developments from Google, Amazon, Anthropic, and Valar Atomics.------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 OpenAI’s AI Chip Move2:46 Compute and Hardware Strategy5:30 Micron’s Earnings Surge11:03 Meta’s Mythos Model Delay14:47 A24 Meets Google AI17:51 Sam Altman Movie Standoff19:02 Claude Tag Enters Slack21:10 Newsletter and Sponsorship Call------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠

Quantum computing is shaping up to be the next major technology after AI, especially in the wake of U.S. efforts to speed up development and prepare for quantum security threats.So let's walk through the basics of qubits, the impact on encryption and Bitcoin, and the main companies and applications currently shaping the field.------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 Quantum’s Next Wave3:04 How Qubits Break Encryption6:35 Trump’s Quantum Executive Orders9:31 Fault Tolerance Explained12:11 IBM Enters the Race15:47 Rigetti and D-Wave18:33 Quantum’s AI Moment------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠

The Chinese open-weight AI model GLM 5.2 compares with leading models from OpenAI and Anthropic on coding and development tasks. Today, we cover the shift toward cheaper AI models, the difference between open weights and closed models, and the U.S. government’s reported ban on Anthropic’s most powerful model after security testing.------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 China’s Open Source Comeback3:05 Benchmarks and Cost8:15 Markets10:51 A Six-Month Model Gap13:56 The Fable 5 Ban15:56 Public Access and Competition19:26 Open Source vs Open Weights21:09 Multi-Model Routing Arrives25:41 Regulation and the Road Ahead28:31 Closing------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠

We discuss Snap’s new AR glasses, AI governance at the G7, and Noam Shazeer’s move from Google to OpenAI. We also cover Anthropic’s Fable 5 being shut down, Microsoft’s use of a Chinese open-source model in Copilot, and Meta’s latest AI push.------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 Ridiculous AI Glasses7:27 AI Summit Tensions11:46 Noam Shazir Joins OpenAI15:48 Anthropic’s Fable Shutdown18:52 Microsoft Embraces Open Source24:36 Meta’s AI Reorg Crisis29:15 China’s New Coding Model32:06 MidJourney Enters Medicine------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠

Today we're following up on SpaceX’s public debut, its sharp rise in valuation, and whether the move signals a major opportunity or an AI bubble. With the small share float, the upcoming unlock schedule, and the possible impact of added supply on volatility, the stakes are only going to get higher.We also touch on SpaceX’s reported $60 billion acquisition of Cursor and its connection to AI development... And the big debate: is SpaceX better suited for short-term traders or long-term holders?------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 SpaceX IPO Shockwave2:31 Massive Unlock Ahead6:38 Cursor Deal Explained9:51 Float and Sell Pressure13:25 Who Sells First?15:24 Six-Month Price Outlook18:24 Long-Term Bull Case20:26 Trillion Dollar Revenue22:11 Elon’s Bigger Vision26:35 Competitors and Closing Thoughts------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠

We discuss Leopold Aschenbrenner’s AI-focused portfolio, including his reported short on NVIDIA and large private investment in Anthropic.We also cover NVIDIA’s bond offering and the idea that the AI infrastructure trade is shifting toward power, networking, and data-center buildout rather than just chips.------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 Leopold’s AI Portfolio1:24 NVIDIA Short Explained3:43 Bond Deal Breakdown7:35 Why He Rotated9:19 Anthropic Surprise Stake12:19 Next Infrastructure Wave14:28 Picking the Winners17:55 Optics and Fiber Edge22:00 Bubble or Not?23:25 Energy Is the Bet24:47 Closing Thoughts------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠

This is a turning point for AI. Today, we discuss Anthropic’s release and quick withdrawal of its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models after a U.S. export-control notice raised national security concerns. We also cover the reported jailbreak, Amazon’s role in escalating the issue, and what the episode suggests about government involvement in access to frontier AI models.------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 Intro1:16 The Government Pulls Fable5:26 Frontier Goes Backward9:36 Amazon Sounds the Alarm11:33 Types of Jailbreaks14:55 Frontier Labs Logic18:00 Politics and Security27:29 History Is Happening Now------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

This Week in AI, we discuss SpaceX as a possible buy ahead of a major IPO, focusing on its valuation, Starlink growth, and the company’s plans for space-based AI data centers. We also cover OpenAI’s reported data center deal and S-1 filing, Anthropic’s Fable 5 model, and Apple’s WWDC updates on Siri.------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 SpaceX IPO Frenzy3:19 AI Data Centers in Space8:38 Starlink’s Explosive Growth14:26 Hardware Scaling Advantage17:00 Valuing SpaceX’s Future22:09 OpenAI’s Gigawatt Gamble26:40 Fable 5 and Safety29:35 Siri’s Big Comeback33:18 Closing Thoughts and Reactions------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠

AI Loops have taken over our timeline as a more autonomous way of using AI models, alongside prompting, agents, and harnesses. Today, we compare practical use cases, note how AI runtimes have expanded to hours or days, and talk about costs, enterprise limits, and the human role in higher-level work.------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 AI Autonomy Ladder1:49 From Prompts to Agents4:59 Understanding AI Loops10:35 Why Autonomy Is Rising15:46 Human Taste Still Matters20:38 The Cost of Intelligence25:25 Recursive Self-Improvement27:32 Four Rungs Explained29:41 Closing------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠

Today, we discuss Anthropic’s new model release, focusing on the balance between stronger AI capabilities and tighter safety restrictions. Let's unpack some demos of visual reasoning, gaming, and enterprise use cases, along with benchmark results and limits around biology, chemistry, and cybersecurity.------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 Anthropic’s New Frontier2:24 Examples8:04 Demos13:58 Benchmark Stats17:33 The Mythos Model25:37 Pricing and Compute Limits28:57 Long-Horizon Workflows------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠

This year, we got what we came for. Apple’s WWDC 2026 focused on improving AI, especially Siri’s new capabilities, on-device models, and privacy-centered request handling. With new AI features in Photos, Apple Maps’ 3D Gaussian splats, and Apple’s broader position in consumer AI, maybe Apple AI will finally come through.------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 Apple WWDC 20262:15 Siri Gets Context7:45 Developer AI Unlock11:35 New Practical Features14:30 Under the Hood21:29 Photos and Maps25:51 Future Hardware Plans30:21 Apple’s Long-Term Bet31:21 Tim Cook’s Legacy------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠

Today, we're covering Microsoft Build, including its new AI models and concept hardware, as well as NVIDIA’s latest announcements at Computex. We also discuss Blue Origin’s New Glenn test failure, Cloudflare’s bot traffic data, and updates from OpenAI, Grok, and Google.------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 Microsoft’s AI Hardware7:07 Nvidia’s Hardware Blitz11:53 Jensen's Next Pick14:11 Blue Origin New Glenn Failure17:15 Bots Outnumber Humans20:39 OpenAI’s Compute Crunch27:11 Grok’s New Coding Layer29:45 Google Raises More Cash------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠

A Meta AI account-recovery exploit let attackers trigger password reset links for Instagram and Facebook accounts through social engineering.With this backdrop, we explore security risks for AI systems, including prompt injection, and close with advice on stronger authentication and safer account practices.------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️NEWSLETTER:    https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X:   https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY:             https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE:                 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED:           https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 Meta AI Hack2:35 How The Scam Worked5:11 Two-Factor Fails7:57 The Confused Deputy9:30 Meta’s Security Failure13:18 White House Response17:32 How To Protect Yourself22:14 Bigger AI Threats23:55 Closing Thoughts------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠