Bugs, Bankruptcies, and the Battle for Your Wallet I 14th October
An OpenAI engineer gets arrested for planting a listening device inside company offices - and the implications go way beyond one bad actor. Character.AI files for bankruptcy just five years in, with Disney swooping in for pennies on the dollar. American Express and Shopify are racing to define who controls your money in the age of AI agents. And Google drops Gemini 4 Argon, its most powerful model yet. Alex and Sam dig into what a week of wild AI news really means for the people building with it, working alongside it, and trying to regulate it - plus a big announcement about the show itself…
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