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This Week in AI
An experts-only AI podcast: Think the 'All In' podcast for AI. Jason + 3 CEO-level experts breaking down the news & trends.
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Anthropic’s Money Machine, “Slop” Degrees & the Meat Proxy | TWiAI Ep 37
This Week In Startups is made possible by: PayPal: https://paypal.launch.co Today’s show: Anthropic’s S-1 is finally out and it’s a beast: $16.3 billion in…
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No One Likes Any of Sam Altman’s 3 AI Endgames | TWiAI E36
This Week In AI is made possible by PayPal: http://paypal.launch.co Today’s show: Sam Altman told OpenAI staff that there are only three ways for AI regulation…
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Why Fortune 500 Companies Are Quietly Switching to Open Models
This Week In AI is made possible by: PayPal: http://paypal.launch.co Today’s show: Companies are spending $1 million on AI in a single month, but can’t always…
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Data Centers Aren't Killing the Grid. They Could SAVE It.
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Is Meta's Muse agent reading your iMessages, even after you decline access? | E33
This Week In Startups is made possible by:PayPal: https://paypal.com/businessToday’s show:OpenAI is delaying GPT-6.1 Astra after UK government testers found…
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Why OpenAI Should Buy Off the World’s Top Mathematicians | E32
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The biggest AI threat still comes from humans | E31
This Week In Startups is made possible by: PayPal: paypal.launch.co Today’s show: Dario Amodei and Sam Altman are apparently scared of AI models going rogue…
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OpenAI's chief scientist wants to slow down | E30
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The real danger is the gap BETWEEN two robots | E29
This Week In Startups is made possible by: Paypal Today’s show: Anthropic gave AI agents hands, allowing them to control real-world equipment like robots and…
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XBOW Founder: “Your Infrastructure is Not Safe” | EP 28
This Week In Startups is made possible by:PaypalToday’s show:XBOW’s AI has held the top rank on the HackerOne leaderboard for more than a year. On TWiAI…
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Anthropic is training to destroy your company | EP 27
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Why Anthropic is watermarking every word Claude writes | E26
This Week In AI is made possible by: Paypal Open Today’s show: Anthropic’s new Claude watermark travels around any and all copy-and-pasted text. Is this a…
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Is open source AI really ahead of the frontier? 3 builders weigh in. | E25
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Are we already in the Singularity? | E24
This Week In Startups is made possible by: Paypal Open Today’s show: On a podcast this week, Sam Altman made a bold declaration: “We are now, like, in the…
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America already lost one AI race | TWiAI Ep 23
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Grok 4.5 and GLM-5.2 kick off Token Price Wars | E22
This Week In Startups is made possible by: PAYPAL OPEN Today’s show: The price of tokens keeps tumbling down, and it’s changing who controls AI. Grok 4.5 and…
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What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21
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Mythos, Sonnet 5, GLM-5.2 Dominate the News Cycle | Episode 20
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Are world models the unlock for Physical AI? | Episode 19
This Week In Startups is made possible by: Paypal Today’s show: *When we think of “Physical AI,” most of us conjure images of humanoid robots and self-driving…
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Why AI Models Aren’t the Product Any More | TWiAI Ep 18
SpaceX bought Cursor for $60 billion. Satya Nadella says companies need to stop relying on third party AI models and build their own “token capital.” The focus…
This Week in AIHermes Agent, NotebookLM & LiveKit Founders on the AI Agent Race | TWiAI 17
Apple just paid a rival a billion dollars a year because it could not build Siri itself, and that tells you where the AI platform war actually stands: the edge…
This Week in AIAI Layoffs, Compute Costs & Agents | Naveen Rao & Alex Finn on This Week in AI Episode 16
The future of AI isn't about whether the model is smart enough. It's about whether we can afford to run it. We dug into the AI cost panic, the energy wall…
This Week in AI"Nobody Lost Their Job to AI, Just the Promise of AI" - This Week in AI Ep 15
The AI jobs panic is here. Meta cut 8,000. Intuit cut 3,000. CapEx went up. Nobody can agree if anyone has actually lost a job to AI, or just to the promise of…
This Week in AIGrads boo AI, Reese Witherspoon gets dunked + Karpathy joins Anthropic | TWiAI E14
The frontier labs are coming for the application layer, and they're going to steal your idea. We dug into Andrej Karpathy's move to Anthropic, the new rules of…
This Week in AIHow the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)
The future of AI isn't a smarter chatbot. It's a model that watches your screen, listens to the room, and acts on what it sees. We dug into Thinking Machines'…
This Week in AIIs Anthropic a Cult? AI Beats ER Doctors & Recursive Self-Improvement | This Week in AI E12
This week, JCal sits down with two builders working on opposite ends of the AI stack: Naveen Rao, co-founder and CEO of Unconventional AI (his $4.5B startup…
This Week in AICursor's $60B Deal, DeepSeek V4 & the Death of the AI Moat | This Week in AI E11
This week Jason sits down with three founders at the frontier of AI infrastructure, software development, and vertical AI: Matan Grinberg, co-founder and CEO…
This Week in AIAravind Srinivas & Edwin Chen: The $1B Bootstrap, Apple's AI Edge, and Benchmarks | TWiAI E10
This week we sat down with Aravind Srinivas and Edwin Chen. Aravind is the co-founder and CEO of Perplexity, whose revenue has grown from $100M to $500M on the…
This Week in AIThe Future of AI: Personal Agents, Taste & Private Data | Lin Qiao & Demi Guo | E9
This week we sit down with Lin Qiao and Demi Guo on This Week in AI Episode 9. Lin is the co-founder and CEO of Fireworks AI, a frontier inference platform…
This Week in AIWhat's Left for Humans When AI Builds Everything?
This week on TWiAI, Jason sits down with three founders at the center of the AI stack: Kanjun Qiu (CEO of Imbue), Carina Hong (CEO of Axiom), and Jonathan…
This Week in AIHow Focus Killed Sora and Saved Anthropic | This Week in AI with Victor Riparbelli, Nick Harris & Jeremy Fraenkel
This Week in AI, JCal sits down with three CEOs building the infrastructure, intelligence, and interfaces for the next era of AI: Jeremy Fraenkel (CEO…
This Week in AI$2.5B Chip Heist, The Future of American AI, and Purpose-Built Robots | This Week in AI Ep 6
This week Jason sat down with Jake Loosararian and Chris Lattner on Episode 6 of This Week in AI. Jake is the CEO and co-founder of Gecko Robotics, a company…
This Week in AIHow Abridge Built A $5B AI Healthcare Unicorn | Shiv Rao, CEO - This Week in AI Ep 5
This week, JCal sat down with Shiv Rao at LAUNCH Fest 2026. Shiv is a cardiologist, CEO, and co-founder of Abridge, a $5B+ company that's raised close to $1B…
This Week in AIData Centers in Space, AI Excavators & Fixing AI Slop | Philip Johnston, Boris Sofman, Spiros Xanthos
This week we sit down with three founders building at the frontier of AI in space, autonomous hardware, and software reliability: Philip Johnston (StarCloud)…
This Week in AIAI in Warfare, OpenClaw & The Stargate Mega-Campus | This Week in AI E3
This week we sit down with three founders building at the frontier of AI infrastructure, evaluation, and hardware: Chase Lochmiller (Crusoe), Naveen Rao…
This Week in AIThe new rules for hiring, building, and betting on AI | This Week in AI E002
Jason Calacanis sits down with two founders building at the frontier of AI products and infrastructure: Tanay Kothari (Wispr Flow) and Richard Socher (You.com…
This Week in AIWhat is Holding OpenClaw Back?! | This Week in AI Episode 1
Jason Calacanis sits down with three CEOs building at the bleeding edge of the agentic revolution: Mitesh Agrawal (Positron AI), Alex Elias (Qloo), and Kash…
This Week in AIHow to Secure Your OpenClaw Agent | Interview with ZioSec Founders
Welcome to the very first episode of This Week in AI! Host Oliver Korzen kicks things off with an exclusive interview featuring Aaron Walls (CEO) and Andrius…
This Week in AIEverything You Need to Know About Gemini 3.0!
Google released Gemini 3.0 this week, and I’ve been hands-on with it every day since launch. After diving into all the new capabilities, performance upgrades…