Show Notes
$1.75 trillion SpaceX IPO, Meta's closed-source Muse Spark, Anthropic's restricted Claude Mythos, OpenAI's four-day work week proposal, and Google's open-source Gemma 4. This week, the biggest companies in AI are making very different bets on power, access, and what happens next.
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Stories Covered This Week:
Meta launches Muse Spark, its first closed-source AI model under Alexandr Wang's $14B deal
Anthropic restricts Claude Mythos to 50 partners via Project Glasswing over cybersecurity concerns
OpenAI publishes 13-page policy calling for 32-hour work weeks and a "robot tax"
SpaceX files for $1.75T IPO after $1.25T merger with xAI to build orbital data centers
Google releases Gemma 4, open-source models running on a single laptop
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:25 Meta launches Muse Spark, goes closed-source
01:15 Anthropic holds back Claude Mythos over hacking risks
02:10 OpenAI proposes four-day work week and robot tax
03:05 SpaceX files for $1.75 trillion IPO
03:55 Google releases Gemma 4 open-source
04:45 Outro
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