The Sloppening
Anthropic is putting invisible watermarks into text generated by Claude. Which sounds like bad news for AI slop. Until you start asking what counts as AI generated in the first place.What happens if C...
14 Aug 23min
The Good, The Bad, and The Baddies of AI
Who are the good guys in AI? Bad news: there probably aren’t any. We look at Anthropic, OpenAI, open weights, corporate backstabbing and the curious business strategy of telling everyone your product ...
31 Jul 17min
Rotten to the Core
Steve Jobs said great artists steal. Apple's lawyers would now like a word. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
15 Jul 14min
Golden Eggs and AI God Complexes
SoftBank has explained the future of AI using a golden goose, a conveyor belt of ASI eggs and the calm financial logic of a man trying to turn PowerPoint into scripture. Duncan and Ollie ask whether t...
29 Jun 13min
What's going on with Meta
Prediction markets, smart glasses, a Kylie Jenner voice in your sunglasses. Meta will copy anything that moves. Today: the most profitable company on earth with no idea what it actually wants to be. H...
25 Jun 12min
The Open AI Money Pit
OpenAI is burning through money fast enough to make a small country nervous, so we worked out how long the runway really is and what happens when one of these AI giants can't pay its bills. It's also ...
24 Jun 13min
Cursor Bought, Social Media Ban, Google's Chips
This week on Short Fuse News, Duncan and Ollie tackle SpaceX buying Cursor, the UK’s looming social media ban, and Google deciding it might quite like to sell chips after all. Expect AI wrappers, Jens...
20 Jun 38min
IPOs, Fable 5
The US government has told Anthropic that Fable is off-limits to anyone who isn't American. Is it genuinely too dangerous, or the best marketing stunt since a deodorant advert convinced a generation o...
15 Jun 41min
