Episode Details

The Insanely Great Podcast — Episode 11
Christopher Weeks & Darrell | June 16, 2026

The U.S. government just killed the most powerful AI model ever built — and it might be the best thing that's ever happened to Anthropic. Chris and Darrell dig into the Fable shutdown, get hands-on with iOS 27's new AI Siri, weigh in on SpaceX's trillion-dollar IPO, and make their case for (and against) half of Hollywood's summer lineup.

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IN THIS EPISODE

00:11 — The government just killed the most powerful AI ever built
Anthropic's "Fable" was reportedly packing 6 trillion parameters — and the world got to use it for exactly two days. A U.S. executive order pulled it offline within 30 minutes. Chris breaks down why this might have handed Anthropic the greatest pre-IPO headline in tech history, while China quietly spent those two days harvesting everything they could from it.

04:03 — Were you even talking to Fable?
Here's an uncomfortable question: did anyone actually get the full Fable model, or were conversations being silently downgraded to the cheaper Opus 4.8 the whole time? Third-party routing tools say mostly the latter. Chris and Darrell dig into what that means for how much we can trust what's actually running under the hood.

09:00 — The zero-day machine
What made Mythos — the model Fable was built on — genuinely terrifying wasn't just that it could find security vulnerabilities. It's that it could chain them together into working exploits. Every other model finds the holes. Mythos figured out how to use them. Darrell explains why that distinction changes everything.

11:37 — A $3 trillion company born from a government shutdown?
When your AI model is so powerful that the U.S. government has to pull it by executive order, you don't need a marketing department anymore. Chris makes the case that Anthropic's path to becoming potentially the most valuable company in history just got clearer — for the most ironic reason imaginable.

13:34 — Chris goes full beta guinea pig
Three days on the iOS 27 beta, three days waiting for AI Siri access, and one very slow AI assistant later — Chris reports back. The potential is real. The speed is not. And there's a sneaky reason why getting into the waitlist now might pay off big when the public release drops.

18:32 — Apple's on-device AI has a dirty secret
The new on-device model is 9GB. That's not a bug — it's a business decision. Darrell lays out why Apple is using a 20-billion parameter model to do tasks a 300MB model handles just fine, and what it tells us about who Apple is really building this for. Hint: it's not you, it's the device upgrade cycle.

20:26 — Every guardrail has a back door
The Chinese labs are shipping model updates every few weeks, and the jailbreaking community is keeping pace. From prompt injection to AI-generated image descriptions that fool moderation systems, Chris and Darrell break down the cat-and-mouse game — and what OWASP's Top 10 LLM Attacks tells us about how fragile these guardrails really are.

22:55 — The $100/month Google question
YouTube Premium, Gemini AI, Nest camera storage, family sharing — it all sounds great on paper. But is the $100/month Google One plan actually worth it, or is the $20 tier still the move? Chris and Darrell run the numbers and figure out where the value actually cuts off.

27:02 — The first trillionaire is here, and his rockets mostly lose money
SpaceX went public and Elon Musk is now worth more than seven countries. Chris walks through which divisions are actually profitable (it's basically just Starlink), why the Mars mission would likely bankrupt the company's investors, and how his wife's 401K ended up in the middle of all this without his blessing.

29:51 — Do we actually need to go back to the moon?
The pitch is that a moon base is just a pit stop on the way to Mars. Chris isn't fully sold. Darrell tries t