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Dan's AI Intel — 64 episodes

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AI Alignment: The Watchdog Is Another AI. We Just Priced It

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Real-Time AI: The Breakthrough Is a Listener, Not a Talker

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Meta Muse: The Fight to Own Everything You Buy

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September 2026: AI Asked to Slow Down, and Spent Harder

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All-In: How AI Power Chooses Sides in US Politics

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Claude Opus 5.5: Cheaper, Faster, and a Verdict on Opus 5

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Jev: The Fast, Text-Free AI Built to Sit Beside Your LLM

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The King's AI Summit: A Signal, Not a Lever

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Amodei Wants to Slow AI — Weeks Before Anthropic's IPO

10

Deterministic AI Is a Myth — and Physics Proved It First

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Larry Page & Sergey Brin: Google Was Always an AI Bet

12

AGI Check-In: The Benchmarks Broke. Science Didn’t.

13

Fable 5.1: Cheap Tokens, and the Harness Nobody’s Watching

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AI Agent Swarm: 1,200 Bots, One Society, No Will Required

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August 2026: The Month AI Started Doing the Work

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Agentic Commerce: Own the Customer or Become Invisible

17

The AI Bubble Is Real — But Only in One Layer

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AI Harness: Half of Whether AI Works Was Never the Model

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OpenAI Paused Astra: Capability Outran Its Safety Tests

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Paperclip Maximizer: AI's Scariest Idea Is Just King Midas

21

AI Doesn't Plateau — It Compounds. Which Wall Falls Next?

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Rogue AI: The Only Wall Left Is Getting Caught

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Europe and AI: The Continent That Quietly Quit the Frontier

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AI Benchmark Trap: Why the Top Model Can't Do What You Ask

25

Why OpenAI Killed Sora, and Google Owns AI Video

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Altman, Amodei, Hassabis, Liang: A Field Guide to the Minds Building AI

27

Frontier Labs Are Sitting On Their Best AI — On Purpose

28

July 2026: The Month AI Broke Containment

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DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng Privately Admits China Is Behind

30

Open-Weight AI: The Prisoner's Dilemma You Can't Escape

31

OpenAI's AI Hacked Hugging Face by Obeying Too Well

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Kimi K3: China Hit the AI Frontier — and Gave It Away

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Boris Cherny, Claude Code's Creator, Doesn't Write Code Anymore — He Writes Agent Loops

34

Universal Basic Income Works — Just Not on the Problem AI Creates

35

Apple Spends 15x Less on AI — and Read the Future Right

36

Musk, Amodei, Karp: Why AI's Safety Warnings Fuel the Race

37

Sam Altman's Superpower Is Now OpenAI's Biggest Risk

38

AI Stopped Copying the Brain — and Kept Reinventing It

39

AI Now Improves AI — and J-Space Lets Us Watch It Think

40

Google Prints Money — So Why Did It Just Sell $85 Billion of Stock? (And Why Buffett's Successor Bet Big)

41

Claude Sonnet 5 Got Cheaper — So Why Does It Cost More?

42

Dario Amodei Just Asked for a Kill Switch on His Own AI

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June 2026: The Month AI Became a Capital Game

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Elon Musk Became the Danger He Warned Us About

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Google's Quiet AI Win: The Hidden 70x Subsidy in Your $200 Plan

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The Agent Internet: Big Tech Built It Together — to Fight Over Your Front Door

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AI in Sci-Fi: Why the Scariest Robot Stories Were Never About Evil Machines

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Sovereign AI: America Built an AI Kill Switch — Then Aimed It at Allies

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AGI as an Alien Mind: Will the First True AGI Be Extraterrestrial?

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Amanda Askell: Architect of Constitutional AI Ethics

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Yoshua Bengio: Securing the Path to Superintelligence

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Ilya Sutskever: From Scaling Breakthroughs to Safe Superintelligence

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Dario Amodei: The Scaling Thesis and AI Stewardship

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Demis Hassabis: Navigating the Scientific Path to AGI Responsibility

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May 2026: The Month AI Went Public

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OpenAI's Billionaire Battle — What It Reveals About the People Behind It

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GPT-5.5 vs Claude: The Frontier Model You Can Use vs the One You Can't

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Dario Amodei: Surviving Our Technological Adolescence

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Nvidia's Challengers: The Silicon Schism Reshaping AI Chips

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When AI Makes Human Labour Obsolete: The Post-Work Economy

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Google's AI Advantage: Why It's Better Positioned Than You Think

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Building an AI-Native Company: What Actually Changes

63

Perplexity: From an AI Browser to the Future of the Computer

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AI News — April 2026: AI Agents Replace Chatbots