Show Notes
This week, we discuss Anthropic's 18-day Fable timeout, whether AI is actually killing jobs, and OpenAI's trillion-dollar IPO problem. Plus, SoftBank's golden goose slides.
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Runner-up Titles
Everything is Files
It’s just about meetings
Did you do the pre-meet?
Meetings
Judgement
Let it ride
If it’s hot, turn on the AC
I don’t have time for a towel.
Headless HEB
Rundown
I was fired by Google for creating the Google Workspace CLI
Fable is Back
White House lifts export control on advanced AI model from Anthropic
Trump administration lifts restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5
OpenAI and Anthropic limit new AI models to Trump-approved customers during cybersecurity review
AI News of the Month - June 2026
AI is NOT killing jobs
Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short
AWS puts $1 billion into new AI unit to embed engineers with customers
A New Look at AI’s Impact on Jobs
The Unstoppable Force of A.I. Hype Is Meeting One Immovable Fact
Cloudflare Acquires VoidZero to Build the Future of the AI-Native Web
OpenAI Leans Toward Waiting Until Next Year for I.P.O.
SoftBank’s slides are just trolling us
The PDF of the Slides
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News Flash: You Are the Exit Liquidity for the SpaceX IPO
Cerebras Systems Announces Strong First Quarter 2026 Results
The AI Compass
T-Mobile appears to be quitting VMware
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