Episodes

He woke up, got himself a glass of water, and closed the blinds against the afternoon sun. None of it should be remarkable — except he can't move his arms, his legs, or speak. And the thing that gave him his independence back isn't one of those backflipping humanoid robots with a billion dollars of hype behind it. It has no face, no legs, no drama. It's an arm on wheels. After last week's trip to the barricades, we needed a lift. So this is the good news episode — the AI that's quietly changing ...

Secret IVF children. NDAs. A kill list. A Molotov cocktail. And 30,000 Oracle workers who trained the AI that replaced them. The backlash is here. Topics Discussed & Source References for Further Reading: The OpenAI Lawsuit: Musk sues OpenAI, revealing secret IVF twins and hostile text messages. https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/07/tech/musk-trial-shivon-zilis-testimony Gen Z's AI Sabotage: 44% of Gen Z workers intentionally sabotage company AI tools to fight automation. https://futurism.com/artificia...

Muhammad Ali didn't win in Kinshasa by being passive. He had a plan. George Foreman didn't. So — is that what's playing out between the two biggest AI labs right now? Anthropic tripled its revenue in four months. OpenAI killed Sora with less than an hour's notice to Disney. Ads are coming. The IPOs are coming. And the most dangerous AI model ever built? The US government isn't allowed to use it. Stephen and Lauren break down who's on the ropes — and who's got a plan.

Atlassian just cut 1,600 people — including the teams building their own AI. What does that signal for the rest of us? Stephen and Lauren dig into the hidden coordination tax bleeding most teams dry, why the number five keeps showing up as the sweet spot for high-performing teams, and the emerging scout/strike model that's letting small groups outrun large ones. Plus: uncomfortable leadership truths, and what you can actually do about all of this today. 00:00 Intro 01:35 Coordination Tax 06:15 T...

Here you go: The Pentagon wanted Claude for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. Anthropic said no. Trump said fire them like dogs. Then it got weird. This week we're unpacking the biggest AI story of the year — the full-blown collision between the US government and the company that dared to build ethics into its AI model. We recap how Anthropic's constitutional AI framework put it on a collision course with the Department of Defence, what happened when the February 27th deadline passed,...

What happens when the most powerful government in the world tells an AI company to remove its ethics — and the company says no? In our Season 2 opener, Stephen and Lauren dig into Claude's Constitution: a 23,000-word document — three times longer than the US Constitution — that Anthropic built directly into its AI model to govern how it thinks, behaves, and refuses. They explore the philosophy behind it, the fascinating Scottish philosopher from Dundee who helped write it (and may end up with mo...