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Back to EpisodesAI Just Outresearched Its Own Researchers
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Yesterday in AI | Thursday, April 16, 2026
Nine copies of Claude just did in five days what two human researchers couldn't do in seven - at twenty-two dollars an hour. Two frontier labs pick opposite sides of the single biggest question in AI safety, and one of them may have just shown you why the other one is wrong. Token demand jumped three thousand times in five months and the math is catching up with everyone. Plus: an eight hundred billion dollar number, a robot that can finally read the gauge, and a kill switch enters the political conversation.
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