Episode Details

This week, we discuss OpenAI’s new browser, AI trying to build spreadsheets, and when to use Claude skills. Plus, Coté explores the art of the perfect staycation.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 543

Runner-up Titles

• Firewire is dead
• USB, what are you going to do?
• It’s like I tell my son: you know what to do, you chose not to do it.
• I am just a guest.
• I don’t need helpful
• An amazing hole.
• Slides for nobody
• You closed the loop
• It’s pretty amazing, but does it need to exist?
• Slackhole

Rundown

• OpenAI
  • Introducing ChatGPT Atlas
  • OpenAI Is Building a Banker
  • OpenAI has five years to turn $13 billion into $1 trillion
  • AI agents are not amazing, they are slop: says OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy as he strongly disagrees with CEO Sam Altman on AGI timeline - The Times of India
  • OpenAI’s ChatGPT will soon allow ‘erotica’ for adults in major policy shift
  • OpenAI Inks Deal With Broadcom to Design Its Own Chips for A.I.
• Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
• OpenStack Flamingo pays down technical debt as adoption continues to climb

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