Episode Details

This week, we discuss Anthropic's 18-day Fable timeout, whether AI is actually killing jobs, and OpenAI's trillion-dollar IPO problem. Plus, SoftBank's golden goose slides.

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Runner-up Titles

• Everything is Files
• It’s just about meetings
• Did you do the pre-meet?
• Meetings
• Judgement
• Let it ride
• If it’s hot, turn on the AC
• I don’t have time for a towel.
• Headless HEB

Rundown

• I was fired by Google for creating the Google Workspace CLI
• Fable is Back
  • White House lifts export control on advanced AI model from Anthropic
  • Trump administration lifts restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5
  • OpenAI and Anthropic limit new AI models to Trump-approved customers during cybersecurity review
• AI News of the Month - June 2026
• AI is NOT killing jobs
  • Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short
  • AWS puts $1 billion into new AI unit to embed engineers with customers
  • A New Look at AI’s Impact on Jobs
  • The Unstoppable Force of A.I. Hype Is Meeting One Immovable Fact
• Cloudflare Acquires VoidZero to Build the Future of the AI-Native Web
• OpenAI Leans Toward Waiting Until Next Year for I.P.O.
• SoftBank’s slides are just trolling us
  • The PDF of the Slides

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