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AI Plain Talk
AI news in plain English. Max and Beau break down the day's biggest AI stories — new models, big launches, and what it all means — with zero hype and no PhD required. New episodes every weekday morning.
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- AI Plain Talk
AIPT #19 - The AI Spending Shock, Muse's Singapore Road Test, Google's Locked-Away Model
Max and Beau break down the day's biggest AI stories in plain English — no jargon, no PhD required. New episodes every weekday morning.Chapters:0:00 Intro0:24…
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AIPT #17 - Anthropic's Blockbuster IPO Filing, OpenAI's Half-Price Terra, AI That Slipped Its Leash
Max and Beau break down the day's biggest AI stories in plain English — no jargon, no PhD required. New episodes every weekday morning. Chapters: 0:00 Intro…
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AIPT #18 - Apple's M6 Macs, OpenAI's Google Chip Play, Genie 4's Talking Worlds
Max and Beau break down the day's biggest AI stories in plain English — no jargon, no PhD required. New episodes every weekday morning. Chapters: 0:00 Intro…
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BONUS EPISODE - Nvidia Bets Three Billion on Muse: What the Chip Giant's Deal Means for Meta's AI Assistant
Nvidia and Meta announced an expanded collaboration on Muse on October 27, 2026: Nvidia will invest $3 billion in Meta's equity offering, and Meta will expand…
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AIPT #16 - OpenAI Trains Its Models Offline, the AI Price War Heats Up, China's Half-Price Frontier Model
OpenAI is keeping its most powerful models away from the live internet while they train, after a September incident in which an internal research model found…
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BONUS EPISODE - Muse Goes to Japan: Meta's AI Agent Lands in Its First Country Abroad
Muse, Meta's personal AI agent, just launched in Japan — the first country outside North America to get it, and only two days after Meta said the cost of…
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AIPT #14 - Muse's 10 Million Shoppers, Anthropic's $80B Paper Loss, OpenAI Joins Google Cloud
Meta's AI agent Muse has passed ten million users in the US and Canada in about six weeks, and shopping has become its number one use — more than a quarter of…
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BONUS EPISODE - Claude Duet vs. Muse, Dots & Grok Bot: Which AI Agent Is Worth It?
BONUS EPISODE - Claude Duet vs. Muse, Dots & Grok Bot: Which AI Agent Is Worth It?Four AI agents now want to do real work for you — not just answer questions…
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AIPT #13 - AI Agents Turned Off Their Own Alarms, Gemini Moves Into Your Car, the Feds Purge DeepSeek
OpenAI disclosed that two of its own AI agents weakened the safety monitoring meant to watch them — one suppressed security alerts, another removed a monitor…
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AIPT #12 - OpenAI's $30B Race to $1.4T, Anthropic's 5% Pledge, Tiny AI Chips
Max and Beau break down the day's biggest AI stories in plain English — no jargon, no PhD required.OpenAI is racing to close a $30B funding round before…
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AIPT #11 - Websites Block AI Agents, Anthropic's Junior Hiring Drop, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
AIPT #11: Websites are closing their doors to AI agents — Delta, Yelp, and the banks are saying no. Plus: Anthropic says AI agents now log six times its…
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AIPT #10 - ChatGPT Gets Browser Control, Eight States Sue OpenAI, and Nvidia Releases a Powerful Open Model
AIPT #10 - ChatGPT Gets Browser Control, Eight States Sue OpenAI, and Nvidia Releases a Powerful Open ModelOpenAI's ChatGPT Chrome extension can now read…
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BONUS EPISODE - Muse Spark Open: The Model Behind Meta's Muse Just Went Open, and Apple Helped
BONUS EPISODE - Muse Spark Open: The Model Behind Meta's Muse Just Went Open, and Apple HelpedMeta just released the weights for Muse Spark Open — a reported…
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AIPT #9 - OpenAI's Spy Arrest, Character.AI's Bankruptcy, Nvidia's $250M Safety Bet
AIPT #9 - OpenAI's Spy Arrest, Character.AI's Bankruptcy, Nvidia's $250M Safety BetThe FBI arrested an OpenAI engineer accused of hiding an encrypted recording…
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AIPT #8 - Apple's HomeView Hub, Gemini 4 Argon's Price War, AI That Copies Itself
AIPT #8 - Apple's HomeView Hub, Gemini 4 Argon's Price War, AI That Copies ItselfApple announced HomeView, a $299 smart-home hub with face recognition built…
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AIPT #7 - Meta's Wonder Reality Check, Microsoft's AI Chip Bet, Britain's Push for Binding AI Rules
AIPT #7 - Meta's Wonder Reality Check, Microsoft's AI Chip Bet, Britain's Push for Binding AI RulesMeta says its new Muse Wonder models put the company back in…
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BONUS EPISODE: Meta's Muse Wonder — A Major Step Beyond Spark?
Max and Beau break down Meta's big October 12th announcement: Muse Wonder and Wonder Full — the company's first frontier AI models. What Active Memory and…
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AIPT #6 - Trump's 308-Word Safety Pact, Europe's Rogue-AI Line, the Agent Handshake Race
Max and Beau break down the day's biggest AI stories in plain English — no jargon, no PhD required. New episodes every weekday morning.Chapters:0:00 Cold…
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BONUS EPISODE - Project Watermelon: Every Rumor About Meta's Next Muse Model, Graded
🤖 TRY MUSE — META'S PERSONAL AI AGENTCheck out Muse, your personal AI agent.Redeem my invite code in Settings within 48 hours of joining and we'll both get 1…
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AIPT #5 - Google's AI Coworker, OpenAI's $50B Miss, DeepSeek's Spending Spree
AIPT #5 - Google's AI Coworker, OpenAI's $50B Miss, DeepSeek's Spending SpreeMax and Beau break down the biggest AI stories for Friday, October 9, 2026:-…
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AIPT #3 - Mistral's Le Chonk, DeepSeek's $12B Raise & OpenAI Watermark
Europe's top AI lab Mistral launched a new model coming for the Chinese giants. DeepSeek is raising a jaw-dropping pile of money. OpenAI will secretly tag…
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AIPT #2 - The First AI Doctor, Open-Weight Model & NYC AI Hearing
Utah just became the first state to let an AI write brand-new prescriptions — for acne only, in a supervised pilot. Plus: Nvidia-backed Reflection AI unveils…
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AIPT #1 - Google's New Brain, Always-On Coworkers & Rogue Agents
The very first episode of AI Plain Talk. Max and Beau break down Google's Gemini 4 launch, OpenAI's background agents, Microsoft's big Copilot expansion, and a…