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 Juni 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 Juni 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 Juni 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 Juni 41min
Backpeddling! Pope! Quantum!
Sam Altman woke up, put on his red velour dressing gown, and decided your job is safe after all. Duncan and Ollie get into the great AI climbdown, the Pope's beef with the machines, and the growing pu...
29 Maj 31min
Zeitgeist
In this episode, Duncan and Ollie explore the concept of the zeitgeist, analyzing various perspectives from AI models and their own insights. They discuss societal trust, technological change, cultura...
19 Maj 33min
Musk Sues Open AI, Mythos Locked, Meta Layoffs, Tokenomics, More Robots
Musk is suing OpenAI, Anthropic is keeping Mythos locked behind Project Glasswing, and the age of subsidised AI is ending. We're back after a break to work through the news that piled up.Duncan and Ol...
30 Apr 27min
Memory
You probably won't remember this episode. That's partly the joke, and partly the point. Duncan and Ollie get into what AI is doing to human memory: why it's already unreliable, why offloading recall t...
27 Mars 32min
