Episode Details

This week, we discuss the Fable ban, SpaceX's $60B Cursor buy, and why Lovable wins when AI picks your stack. Plus, Europeans are at the World Cup and already drank Boston dry.

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Runner-up Titles

• Waited out the storm
• Maybe we should build some castles or something
• Years of lawsuits ahead of us
• The ultimate dream
• AI SEO
• I hope you’re paid by the hour
• Always be monitoring to me

Rundown

• Anthropic
  • How Amazon and the White House ended Anthropic's Fable
  • Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
  • Dario Amodei — Policy on the AI Exponential
• Cursor
  • Live Updates: Elon Musk Becomes World’s First Trillionaire as SpaceX Starts Trading
  • SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO
• Vibe Coding
  • Lovable says it has hit $500M in annualized revenue, with 1 million new projects a week
  • Vibe-coding phenomenon lifts AI startup Supabase to $10.5 billion valuation
  • Database startup Supabase raises $500 million $10.5 billion valuation
• curl summer of bliss

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