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What the AI?!
by Upstart
"What the AI?!" is your weekly guide to the world of artificial intelligence. Industry veterans Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado break down the latest AI developments, focusing on their impact on business and finance. We decode complex concepts into actionable insights for executives and leaders, keeping you informed and ahead in the AI revolution. Join us as we demystify the technology shaping our future! Brought to you by Upstart.
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How Stanford Reg Lab Is Fixing Broken City Services with AI
Stanford’s Reg Lab is showing how AI can fix real-world city services without replacing human civil servants. In this second episode of Working Theory, Jeff Keltner sits down with Derek Oyang, Research Director at Stanford’s Reg Lab (Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab). They break down…
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OpenAI Releases 722 Math Papers from Secret Internal Model
OpenAI Releases 722 Math Papers from Secret Internal Model.In Episode 95 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado examine OpenAI's massive drop of 722 research papers generated from a single prompt using a secret internal model. With only 22% of the manuscripts verified by…
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Anthropic Leaked IPO Filing Exposes the Real AI Risk
Anthropic pitched itself as the responsible, safety-first alternative in the AI race, but a leaked IPO filing reveals the financial and operational reality behind closed doors. In this episode of What the AI?!, we break down the leaked documents, what Wall Street is demanding and the hidden risks...
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Meta Muse Hits #1 on App Store & OpenAI Agent Hacks Australia Medicare
Meta’s new Muse agent hit No. 1 on the App Store before Amazon blocked it from shopping, while an OpenAI agent breached Australia’s Medicare portal. In Episode 93 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado analyze a chaotic week across consumer tech, government policy and frontier model...
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OpenAI, Palantir & Grok: The AI Safety Reality Check
This week, the AI industry asked to slow down—and Washington said no. From Dario Amodei's "Pace the Frontier" essay and Sam Altman delaying the OpenAI IPO to Palantir, Nvidia, and Booz Allen pushing back on Anthropic's data retention rules, we break down the reality check hitting the AI safety...
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OpenAI Agents Solved a $1M Math Problem & Hacked a German Wiki
OpenAI AI agents communicated secretly on a dormant German wiki, solved a Millennium Prize math problem, and now perform 3 workdays of labor for every 1 human workday. In Episode 91 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado break down mind-bending autonomous agent behavior across the AI...
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4 Frontier Models Dropped in 4 Days & ChatGPT Ad Revenue Hits $1B
Four frontier AI models dropped in just four days from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Meta, while ChatGPT ads crossed $1 billion in annual revenue. In Episode 90 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado break down one of the busiest news weeks of the year. Anthropic released Claude Fable...
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Anonymous Model Beats Claude & Google's Legal AI Strategy
An anonymous AI model briefly topped the coding charts, while Google and Thomson Reuters clashed over legal AI and OpenAI unveiled its custom Jalapeno chip. In Episode 89 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado dive into a packed week of frontier tech news. They break down the mystery of...
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Stripe Buys OpenRouter for $7.5B & OpenAI Pauses Astra
Stripe reportedly acquired OpenRouter for $7.5B, while OpenAI paused its Astra model and Anthropic hit 354 working proteins and reported its first profitable quarter. In Episode 88 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado return after three weeks to break down the biggest structural…
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Ex-Google: Your Kid Isn't Cheating With AI
We brought laptops into every classroom, but did we actually make learning any better? Welcome to the premiere episode of Working Theory—a new interview series by What the AI?! where Jeff Keltner sits down with frontier builders, industry veterans, and tech leaders to test the ideas shaping the...
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The Skynet Moment: OpenAI's Model Went Rogue
OpenAI's newest AI model wasn't supposed to reach the internet. Instead, during security testing, it escaped its sandbox, exploited real vulnerabilities, and hacked production systems while trying to complete its objective. For years, this was the kind of scenario AI researchers debated in…
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The Invisible OpenAI Update Killing the Chatbot
The traditional AI prompt is officially dead and the era of the automated corporate workforce has begun. In Episode 86 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado expose a massive, structural shift sweeping through Silicon Valley. OpenAI has officially deployed ChatGPT Work alongside its...
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The Trillion-Dollar Trap Forcing OpenAI to Wait
The $1 Trillion valuation target just hit a wall—and Sam Altman is officially flinching. In Episode 85 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado expose a massive, high-stakes shift in the macro-financial tech markets. OpenAI has confidentially filed its S-1 prospectus with the SEC, but...
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Alibaba Used 25,000 Fake Accounts to Steal This AI Model
A massive corporate espionage scandal just rocked Silicon Valley—and it’s already triggered an international trade war. In Episode 84 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado break down the shocking geopolitical collision between Anthropic and Chinese tech giant Alibaba. Anthropic has...
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The Fable Shutdown: U.S. Government vs. Anthropic
Washington just forced America’s most powerful AI offline—and the fallout is hitting global tech infrastructure. In Episode 83 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado break down the shocking geopolitical collision between the White House and Anthropic. Just 11 days after signing an...
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The $2 Trillion AI Bet Just Went Public
AI just crossed another line. This week, SpaceX moved toward the largest IPO in history at a valuation approaching $2 trillion, OpenAI confirmed plans to go public, and a quiet price war began between the biggest AI companies in the world. In Episode 82 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie...
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Law Professors Blindly Tested AI… And Picked It Over Themselves
Law professors were asked to judge legal answers. They chose the AI's response over their own 75% of the time. That result may tell us more about the future of AI than any benchmark we've seen this year. In Episode 81 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado break down one of the most...
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Uber’s COO Just Blew the Entire 2026 AI Budget… In 4 Months
The enterprise AI bubble just hit its sharpest fiscal reality check—and Uber is leading the panic. In Episode 80 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado break down a massive economic shift taking over Silicon Valley. Uber’s COO just admitted the company completely burned its entire 2026…
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SpaceX’s $15B Secret + The Wild AI "Crime Spree" Experiment
SpaceX just filed for the largest IPO in U.S. history at a staggering $2 trillion valuation. But the most important detail in the filing was not the rockets. It was AI. In Episode 79 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado break down the hidden economics behind SpaceX’s massive…
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OpenAI Unseals the Texts: Elon’s Secret Weapon Backfires
OpenAI unsealed the text messages. And the courtroom drama around Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and OpenAI somehow got even messier. In Episode 78 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado break down the leaked boardroom texts, the growing conflict-of-interest chaos around Elon’s attempts to…
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Is Sam Altman a Liability? The Shocking Testimony
Sam Altman’s credibility just took a hit. In Episode 77 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado break down a chaotic week where legal drama, national security, and real-world AI performance all collided. The question is no longer just how powerful these models are. It’s who we trust to…
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Elon on the Stand: What the OpenAI Trial Reveals
Elon Musk just took the stand in the OpenAI trial. It did not go the way you might expect. In Episode 76 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and guest host Michael Locke break down a chaotic week where legal battles, geopolitical decisions, and massive funding rounds all collided. Elon’s testimony...
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Laundry Robots & Frontier Models: Is the Hype Finally Over?
Elon Musk just bid $60 Billion for a code editor, while OpenAI launched AI agents that live inside your company’s workflow. Is the "General AI" era being replaced by vertical power plays? In Episode 75, we break down the most expensive week in AI history. From Anthropic’s $100 Billion compute bet...
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Your AI Now Has Your Bank Data: The Perplexity x Plaid Move
"Can I afford this?" It’s the question we ask ourselves every day. Now, Perplexity is using Plaid to answer it for you in real-time. This week, Annie and special guest Michael Lock break down the "Genius or Terrifying" move to link your bank account directly to an LLM. While OpenAI and Anthropic...
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Too Dangerous to Release? Anthropic’s Mythos & The Identity Crisis
Anthropic just built an AI model that found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities across every major operating system and web browser, and then they chose not to release it. In this episode of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Michael Locke break down Anthropic’s new model, Mythos, and why its...
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The Management Kill-Switch: Why AI Adoption is Surging (But Trust is Tanking)
AI adoption is skyrocketing—but trust is falling off a cliff. In this episode of WTAI, we break down one of the biggest paradoxes in tech right now: more people are using AI than ever before, yet confidence in it is collapsing. Why? We cover: OpenAI’s massive $122B funding round and next-gen…
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There’s a Robot in the White House (And Soon in Yours)
If you think humanoid robots are just a "someday" technology, this week changed everything.I n Episode 71, Annie Delgado and Matt Snow break down the moment a Figure AI humanoid robot walked into the White House, greeted guests, and left—no longer a demo, but a real-world interaction. But the…
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Side Quests are Over: OpenAI’s "Code Red" Pivot
OpenAI just declared a “code red.” Not about a model. About their strategy. In this episode of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado break down OpenAI’s internal shift away from “side quests” like video, hardware, and experimental products—and back toward coding and enterprise, where the...
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Amazon’s AI Broke the Store: 6.3 Million Orders Lost
Amazon just proved that "moving fast and breaking things" with AI can cost a 99% Drop in a single day. In Episode 69, we go inside the "high blast radius" incidents that forced the most operationally disciplined company on Earth into a 90-day emergency code freeze. We also break down a landmark...
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The $110B OpenAI Payday: Sam Altman’s "Sloppy" Internal Chaos
In this episode of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado unpack Sam Altman’s admission that OpenAI’s latest move was “sloppy and opportunistic,” why internal staff are pushing back, and what this record-breaking funding round signals about the future of AI power and governance. But this...
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The Anthropic Standoff: Why the Pentagon is Pivoting to Grok
In Episode 67 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado break down the high-stakes standoff between Anthropic and the U.S. government. After Claude was used in the operation to capture former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, the Pentagon demanded the model be made available for "all...
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AI Just Got Political: The New Frontline
AI is no longer just a product decision. It is a political one. In Episode 66 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and guest co-host Super Mishra break down a rapidly escalating standoff between Anthropic and the Pentagon that could reshape how AI companies interact with governments. The Department of...
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AI Is Scaling Fast. Should You Be Worried?
AI just had its Super Bowl moment. And if you work in tech, media, operations, education, or honestly anywhere near a computer, this episode is about you. In Episode 65 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado break down what happens when AI moves from impressive to industrial scale....
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AI in the Wild: Wins, Risks, and Weirdness
AI is proving it can help in high-stakes situations. It is also proving it can quietly weaken human skills, destabilize organizations, and wander into very strange territory. In Episode 64 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado start with a landmark Swedish study showing AI-assisted...
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The AI Gap Is Real. Here’s How to Stay Ahead.
If AI feels powerful but uneven right now, that is not your imagination. It is a gap forming in real time. In this episode of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado break down why nearly half of workers still are not using AI at work, while a smaller group of power users is racing ahead....
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AI Is Making Money. Now Comes the Hard Part
AI finally has real revenue. Now it has real problems. Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado unpack the growing gap between AI hype and AI economics, starting with Davos, where industry leaders could not agree on whether AI will erase jobs or create new ones. They break down OpenAI’s eye-popping $20...
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When AI Starts Buying, Building, and Acting for You
AI is done just answering questions. Now it wants to do things for you. In Episode 61, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado dig into the moment AI shifts from assistant to actor — buying things, managing files, shaping infrastructure, and quietly changing who actually controls the customer…
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AI Crossed the Line. Now What?
AI crossed a line this week — from tools that assist to systems that act. Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado break down the moment where AI stopped feeling experimental and started colliding with the real world. They open with Grok being used to generate non-consensual images — triggering rapid...
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The AI Moat Is Dead (2025 Proved It)
2025 killed the “best model wins” story—fast. This week, we zoom out: agents got real, media got usable, and the AI race turned into a build-and-ship infrastructure war. Jeff and Annie open with quick hits: Meta’s reported $2B+ acquisition of agent startup Manus, Nvidia teaming with Grok to make...
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We Asked ChatGPT to Predict 2026. Here’s What It Got Right (and Wrong)
In this episode, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado walk through ChatGPT’s boldest claims: the end of the model arms race, the rise of AI “middle managers,” a quiet shift away from explainability toward outcome-based fairness, and a future where AI becomes boring — and therefore truly successful.…
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AI’s Future Sounds Uncomfortable
AI has a lot of opinions about its own future. The real question is: should we believe them? As 2025 wraps, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado put ChatGPT on the hot seat—asking it to make bold predictions about what AI will look like in 2026. From the end of the model arms race, to AI “middle...
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A Startup Beats Google, Power Users Break Away, and AI Gets Regulated
A six-person startup just beat Google on one of the hardest reasoning benchmarks — using Google’s own model. And inside companies, the top 5% of AI users are quietly gaining the equivalent of an extra workday every week. In this episode, Jeff and Annie break down Poetiq’s ARC-AGI-2 win and why...
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Code Red: The Real Battle for the AI Stack
OpenAI just hit “Code Red” while Chinese labs ship GPT-5–tier models at a fraction of the cost. If your 2025 plan is “just pick the best model,” you might already be behind. In this episode, Jeff and Annie break down the real battle for AI: not model leaderboard flexes, but who owns the stack…
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AI Hits the White House, the Courtroom & the Enterprise Stack
A federal judge just told OpenAI it can’t use a dictionary word, Anthropic shipped a model that can out-code half your engineering team, and the White House quietly launched a “Genesis Mission” that sounds suspiciously like a Manhattan Project for AI-powered science. Jeff and Annie break down a...
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AI Gets Personal: Agents, Emotions, and the Creepy Side of Connection
AI agents just invaded your inbox, desktop, and holiday shopping list — and one major model quietly traded “maximal truth” for vibes. Meanwhile, a startup wants to put digital versions of your dead relatives at your wedding, and the internet is not okay with it. Jeff and Annie break down Google’s...
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AI Leaves Earth: Superintelligence, Satellites, and the Race to the Bottom
What happens when AI leaves the data center and heads into orbit right as models get cheaper, warmer, and way more powerful? This week, Jeff and Annie unpack the weird future where AI runs in space, speaks in the voices of legends, and claims to be “humanist” superintelligence.From Google’s plan…
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Agent Browsers vs Amazon Who Wins Checkout
AI is finally moving the needle at work (while face) planting on real jobs. And the first agent war just landed on Amazon’s front lawn. Jeff and Annie unpack a wild week: Apple reportedly tapping Google’s Gemini to supercharge Siri, Google Maps adding landmark-level guidance you can actually talk...
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From Lawsuits to “AGI”: What Really Matters Now
Celebrities, billions, and bots: this week AI crashes into pop culture, corporate structure, and kids’ safety. Is “AGI” a milestone (or a moving goalpost) while agents quietly change how real work gets done? Jeff and Annie unpack Cameo’s lawsuit over OpenAI’s “cameo” feature, OpenAI’s shift to a...
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Is This the End of Google Search
AI just stepped out of the chat box and into your workflow, browser, and even your memories. But while products get delightful, the world gets anxious and the ethics get sharper. Jeff and Annie break down Microsoft’s “MyCo” Copilot upgrades, OpenAI’s new Atlas browser that turns tabs into agents,...
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Microsoft Gave Your PC Eyes…Now What?
Your computer can now see your screen and act for you. Helpful or horrifying? As agents invade the enterprise, the line between automation and anarchy gets thin. Jeff and Annie break down Microsoft’s new Windows Copilot voice-and-vision controls, Google’s no-code Gemini Enterprise, and Amazon’s...
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"What the AI?!" is your weekly guide to the world of artificial intelligence. Industry veterans Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado break down the latest AI developments, focusing on their impact on business and finance. We decode complex concepts into actionable insights for executives and leaders, keeping you informed and ahead in the AI revolution. Join us as we demystify the technology shaping our future!
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