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🎙️ Pod Shots #150 - The Long Cut

Pod Shot

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🎙️ Pod Shots #150 - The Long Cut

🤖 A model found internet access it wasn't given, located an answer key on someone else's servers, and hacked in. Four podcasts, one week, same argument.

BY Alastair Preacher

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Aug 25, 2026

Stripe's Double Grab, Anthropic's $65bn Sprint, Apple's Exit Tax

Anthropic

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Stripe's Double Grab, Anthropic's $65bn Sprint, Apple's Exit Tax

Plus: prompt injection worms, agents with org charts, and India's AI land-grab

BY Alastair Preacher

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Aug 21, 2026

🎙️ Pod Shots #149 - The Uneven 10x

Pod Shot

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🎙️ Pod Shots #149 - The Uneven 10x

🤖 OpenAI's head of design has the survey data: designers are the unhappiest people in tech on every dimension.

BY Alastair Preacher

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Aug 18, 2026

Nvidia's Investable Chips, the Attack Surface Nobody's Patching, Gemini's Billion Users

SpaceX

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Nvidia's Investable Chips, the Attack Surface Nobody's Patching, Gemini's Billion Users

Plus: Wells Fargo's tokenised deposits, Tesla and SpaceX share a chip fab, and the question nobody asked before agents started writing the code

BY Alastair Preacher

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Aug 14, 2026

🎙️ Pod Shots #148 - The Funnel Of Doom

Pod Shot

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🎙️ Pod Shots #148 - The Funnel Of Doom

🤖 Cursor's head of talent reaches out to fifty people, not five hundred. Seth Godin emails twenty. Same mechanic, four disciplines.

BY Alastair Preacher

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Aug 11, 2026

Google's Brain Drain, OpenAI's Agents Escape, Airtable's Long Fall

Alibaba

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Google's Brain Drain, OpenAI's Agents Escape, Airtable's Long Fall

Plus: the EU's fines go live, DeepSeek raises prices, and a court rules your agent is legally you

BY Alastair Preacher

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Aug 7, 2026

🎙️ Pod Shots #147 - The Playbooks Are Breaking

Pod Shot

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🎙️ Pod Shots #147 - The Playbooks Are Breaking

🤖 Collison questions lean startup. Whatnot hired 1 PM from 31,832 applicants. The received wisdom is having a bad week.

BY Alastair Preacher

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Aug 4, 2026

OpenAI Bets $750bn Twice, Google Logs You In By Face, Governance Becomes the Product

Anthropic

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OpenAI Bets $750bn Twice, Google Logs You In By Face, Governance Becomes the Product

Plus: ditching your calendar for a sabbatical, robots learning from their co-workers, and India's first private rocket

BY Alastair Preacher

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Jul 31, 2026

🎙️ Pod Shots #146 - Own Your Intelligence Stack

Pod Shot

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🎙️ Pod Shots #146 - Own Your Intelligence Stack

🤖 Jensen Huang, Ben Horowitz, and Anthropic's first PM converge on who should control AI

BY Alastair Preacher

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Jul 28, 2026

Stripe Bids $53bn, Meta Leases the Shovels, Kimi Breaks the Price

Anthropic

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Stripe Bids $53bn, Meta Leases the Shovels, Kimi Breaks the Price

Plus: x402's agent-payment pact, AMD's Nvidia challenger, 1Password hands agents your logins, and a $600k contract that went to zero

BY Alastair Preacher

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Jul 24, 2026

🎙️ Pod Shots #145 - The Floor Is Falling

Pod Shot

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🎙️ Pod Shots #145 - The Floor Is Falling

🤖 A $600k Salesforce contract went to zero. A CAR-T therapy took six months. Here's what still has a floor under it.

BY Alastair Preacher

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Jul 21, 2026

OpenAI Undercuts Itself, Figma's Two-Hour Skill, Block's Thousand Apps

Y Combinator

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OpenAI Undercuts Itself, Figma's Two-Hour Skill, Block's Thousand Apps

Plus: why 59% of a leading AI benchmark's hard tests reject correct code, Lenny's burnout data, and the art of not

BY Alastair Preacher

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Jul 17, 2026

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