Episode Details

This week, we discuss how normal people use AI, Alphabet's Anthropic-fueled earnings, and skills vs. agents. Plus, catching AI-cheating students with a hidden prompt.

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Runner-up Titles

• “Do you think they named them red delicious because they knew they were delicious?”
• I thought they were First World
• Steal your Alpha-tier
• Cory uses only 100% free-range, organic AI.
• Copy, paste, go.
• Stolen fruit from the poisoned tree all the way down.
• It’s a different kind of cold. It’s a dry cold.

Rundown

• AI IRL
  • How people use AI in 2026: TV, homework, the DMV
  • Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32 students cheating on their midterm with AI
• Amazon confirms it’s closing key AI site in San Francisco but says work on its top models continues
• Google Cloud is killing it
• Skill vs. Agents
  • Atlas: Wiz's autonomous AI Agent for vulnerability research
  • Don't Build Agents, Build Skills Instead

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