136: Claude Attacks ChatGPT, UK Wastes £4M on AI Hub, Google Gemini Hits 750M Users

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First aired: 5 February 2026

Summary: The AI drama is heating up. Anthropic just dropped an attack ad targeting ChatGPT's decision to include adverts in their free tier, which is a bold move considering Claude's relatively tiny user base. Sam Altman's response was perfectly brutal—basically saying "we're providing free AI to the world and using ads to fund it, meanwhile hardly anyone uses your product." Fair point, honestly. It's fun watching these tech giants take shots at each other, and ultimately it means better models and more choice for us.

Meanwhile, the UK government managed to spend £4.1 million (that's $5.5 million) on an "AI Skills Hub" that's essentially just a poorly organised catalogue of free courses you could've found on Google. The site's a mess—verification emails land in spam, there's no pricing information for paid courses, and I'm genuinely annoyed enough that I'm rebuilding it myself to show what £4 million should actually get you. On a brighter note, Google quietly revealed they've got 750 million users on Gemini, which means they're catching up to ChatGPT fast whilst everyone else is busy firing shots at each other.

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0:00 UK Government Wasted £4 Million on This AI Website 9:22 Anthropic's Brutal Super Bowl Ad Attacks ChatGPT 12:27 Sam Altman Fires Back at Anthropic 17:28 Google's Quarterly Results: 750 Million Gemini Users 20:59 Chrome Just Became an AI Agentic Browser 25:34 ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini vs Copilot Compared 27:50 Sonnet 5 & GPT 5.3: New AI Model Rumors 31:25 Using Gemini Sidebar for Coding & Web Scraping 33:53 OpenAI Codex vs Claude Code: Which Is Better? 35:19 UK AI Skills Hub: The Missing Courses Problem 37:04 One Year of Vibe Coding: Karpathy's Retrospective 41:45 Show Recap & What's Coming Next

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