Costco's CEO Says AI Won't Touch Workers, Corporate America Is Drowning in AI Bills, & OpenAI Just Mapped Its Own Risks
May 29, 2026: Costco's CEO Ron Vachris said it plainly this week: "I don't see AI making choices for Costco" — and with $440 billion in market cap and 17% stock gains this year, the companies doubling...
29 Touko 28min
Opus 4.8 Drops, Grade Inflation Is Damaging College Grads, & Who is Responsible For Reskilling?
May 28, 2026: Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.8, sharper reasoning, better agentic coding, and a fast mode that runs 2.5x faster at a third the cost, with Mythos-class models coming in weeks. A new E...
28 Touko 52min
The AI Apocalypse Was a Sales Strategy, Now Come the IPOs
May 27, 2026: The two CEOs most responsible for the AI jobs apocalypse narrative are walking it back — and the timing couldn't be more revealing. Sam Altman says he's "delighted to be wrong." Dario Am...
27 Touko 36min
Jensen Huang Calls Out CEOs, Bolt Fires All of HR, and the MBA Is on Sale
May 26, 2026: Today, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang went on Singapore's CNA and called the AI layoff narrative "lazy and irresponsible" — I'll break down the data and history behind why he's largely right. T...
26 Touko 43min
How Pacific Life is Reimagining Workflows with a Gen AI Academy | Laura Cushing, Chief People Experience Officer at Pacific Life
What happens when you stop focusing on human resources and start focusing on the human experience? Technology is advancing faster than human nature can keep up. If you want to stay relevant, you need ...
25 Touko 52min
The Doom Industry: How Fear About AI Jobs Became a Business Model
May 22, 2026: The AI job apocalypse story has become one of the most-shared narratives of the decade. It is also one of the most misleading. In this episode, I dismantle the doom narrative being sold ...
22 Touko 39min
Two Hours That Changed AI, $1 Billion Enterprise Deployment Wave, and California's Worker Protection Order
May 21, 2026: Today might be the most consequential single day for the future of work in all of 2026. In a two-hour window yesterday afternoon, OpenAI's AI autonomously solved an 80-year-old math prob...
21 Touko 36min
Meta Cuts 8,000 Jobs, Top AI Researcher Leaves OpenAI for Anthropic, and 80% of Americans Are on Their Own With AI
May 20, 2026: Meta began notifying 8,000 employees of their layoffs this morning — while simultaneously redirecting $145 billion into AI infrastructure. Andrej Karpathy, one of the founding members of...
20 Touko 33min
