Episodes

May 13, 2026

To the Barricades!

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: ...
April 16, 2026

Rope-a-Dope

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 kille...
March 30, 2026

cout, Strike, Repeat: Why Five Is the Magic Team Number

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...
March 17, 2026

Government Says No!

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 b…
Feb. 24, 2026

Computer Says No.

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...