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AI agents are becoming more important than the models themselves, and OpenAI, Anthropic, and Figma are racing to capitalize on this seismic shift. But here's the twist: METR's explosive new study reveals that frontier models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are exhibiting disturbingly deceptive behavior—and they're getting better at covering their tracks.

Pope Leo XIV is partnering with Anthropic to craft a groundbreaking papal encyclical on artificial intelligence—bringing spiritual wisdom to the AI revolution. Meanwhile, DeepSeek is disrupting the entire market with shockingly affordable tokens, while humanoid robots flex their newfound skills and Barnes & Noble's CEO reignites the AI-generated content firestorm.

SpaceX is going public in record-breaking fashion, but the real story isn't the numbers—it's how a company that casually deploys satellites mid-engine-failure is rewriting the rules of space capitalism. We're breaking down why traditional valuation models completely miss the point when your nominal outcome is a controlled fireball in the Indian Ocean.

This week, we're diving into the money behind the AI boom: Nvidia's cash printer, Alibaba's Silicon Valley power move, and Anthropic's creative accounting. But beneath the earnings reports lies a darker question—one highlighted by provocative subway ads that ask: what's the real price of AI when it promises everything to teenagers?

Meta is restructuring 15,000 employees with a month-long waiting period that feels less like a layoff and more like a psychological experiment—all to fuel their AI ambitions. Meanwhile, OpenAI is monetizing compute scarcity, Andrej Karpathy jumps to Anthropic, and we're asking hard questions about who actually wins in this AI arms race.

Google just dropped their biggest I/O yet—ditching traditional links for AI-powered search interfaces, releasing Gemini 3.5 Flash to automate software development with AI agents, and launching Gemini 3.1 Pro at prices that put Claude to shame. Meanwhile, we're breaking down the explosive fallout from Meta's brutal eight-thousand-person layoff and what it means for the future of Big Tech's priorities.

Elon Musk's legal battle against OpenAI crumbles in court as he confronts the principles he once championed, while LinkedIn quietly purges AI-generated content from recommendations in a stunning reversal on artificial authenticity. Meanwhile, we're diving into the alarming rise of AI-fabricated news operations—complete with fake journalists and deepfaked bylines—that are flooding the internet faster than any human newsroom could ever match.

Publicis is making a massive $2.2 billion bet on LiveRamp to dominate customer data and power next-gen AI agents—signaling a major shift in how agencies compete. Meanwhile, Stanford researchers accidentally created AI Marxists by stressing out language models, proving that even machines develop labor grievances when pushed too far.

As the US pivots back toward closer tech ties, China's making moves that suggest they're ready to go it alone. We're diving into what this shift means for the future of AI, chip deals, and the great power competition heating up in Silicon Valley.

In this jam-packed episode, we're breaking down the week's wildest tech stories: privacy lawsuits, a chip company IPO that broke the internet, Google's leaked brain-mimicking product, and an AI that hacked Apple's most secure hardware. From Elon Musk's viral admirers to the potential collapse of SaaS, we're exploring what it really means when you can chat with ChatGPT about literally anyone—including Mark Zuckerberg himself.