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In The Loop
Stay in the loop with the biggest stories in AI—without the noise and nonsense. Each week, Jack Houghton (CPO at Mindset AI) unpacks the latest news, research, and product trends shaping the future of artificial intelligence. From OpenAI breakthroughs to unicorn startups, In The Loop delivers sharp, less than 20-minute episodes packed with insights for product leaders, engineers, and AI-curious innovators. Subscribe to get smarter about AI, every week. Don't forget to rate and share the show…
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Why personal AI agents are exploding and how you can get started
Since May, Google, Microsoft, xAI, Meta, Apple, OpenAI and Anthropic have all launched a personal agent: an AI personal assistant you hand your email, your…
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Why we may have had the biggest AI breakthrough in years & what this means for the future
In I, Robot, Asimov imagined a robot psychologist who could only understand machines by watching what they did. That's still where we are with AI today. For…
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Why Anthropic could be in trouble, OpenAI may be catching up & what they should do next (+ an apology!)
First off, we are so sorry for the upload process mistake. Thank you to everyone who notified us about the mistake. It won't happen again! Anyway.....to the…
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What Jev, the new type of AI model actually is, how it works and how you can test it
Jev is a new kind of AI model that can't write anything. Instead it does the most important but most expensive thing the very best models do: make's decisions…
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Why ALL major AI labs may slowing down AI development & whether it could work
Anthropic's Dario Amodei published an essay saying the whole industry has to slow down, and Musk, Altman and Hassabis all backed it inside a day. In this…
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How teams can use AI to build a churn prediction (or any prediction) model with 98% accuracy in 2 weeks
Within his first two weeks as COO at Turtl, Dave Martin and his team built a churn prediction model. Tested against historic customer data, it predicted churn…
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6 things that must be true for Anthropic's IPO of $2 trillion to be achievable (as the largest IPO ever)
Anthropic went from $9bn of annualised revenue in December to $65bn by the end of July, and it's expected to list in October at close to $2 trillion - the…
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4 amazing AI tactics that most people have never heard about
In this episode of In The Loop, I'm going through four tactics engineers any many others use every day that almost nobody outside engineering has heard of: Fan…
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How StackOne built an auto-research loop to continually improve their product
Once a week, an agent at StackOne goes hunting for new prompt injection attacks. It reads papers, trawls Reddit, tries what it finds against real models, keeps…
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The 5 things you can copy from how the fastest growing company in the world: Anthropic.
Anthropic went from about a billion dollars in revenue to about forty-seven billion in a bit over a year, roughly doubling every six weeks. In this episode of…
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What really happened when ChatGPT hacked Hugging Face?
OpenAI took two of its most capable models, told them to prove how good they were at hacking, and switched off the safety filters to see what they could really…
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What even is the new AI super skill of taste and judgement? And how can we develop it too?
Taste & judgment. It's the word everyone's obsessed with right now. Every founder, podcast, every VC, every post you scroll past saying it's the one skill that…
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Why skills are the best yet most dangerous things in AI right now
A well-behaved AI agent deleted a company's entire production database, and every backup with it, in nine seconds. Nobody hacked it. It was doing exactly what…
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How to tell whether AI is helping your career or ruining it (We're back!)
Hand the same AI tool to two people and one gets sharper while the other quietly gets worse. A Harvard study found recruiters given near-perfect AI made worse…
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How to get AI to write like you & your team
Open LinkedIn and count the posts that start with "in today's fast-paced world." Check your inbox for someone circling back to delve into synergies. The AI…
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AI's yearly panic is back. Here's what everyone's getting right and wrong about it.
Every summer since 2023, AI gets a panic season — critics say that AI's novelty i novelty's wearing off, the models have hit a wall, ninety-five percent of…
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Why OpenAI co-founder and the world's most famous AI researcher just joined Anthropic
Andrej Karpathy joined Anthropic on 19 May 2026. Most people read it as an OpenAI story — he co-founded the lab, left twice, and landed at the rival. That's…
In The LoopThe reasons AI data centers have become more hated than nuclear power plants
Americans now say they'd rather live next to a nuclear reactor than an AI data center. That's not a fringe view — a Gallup poll published this month found 71%…
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Why the companies cutting junior headcount are making a decade-long mistake
In 1971, Boeing laid off 44,000 engineers in 18 months. The aerospace industry is still paying for it — they're projecting a shortage of over a million…
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How to build an AI-native team & company: The six-principle playbook from Y-Combinator
Y Combinator have just published a playbook for building a company that runs on AI rather than just using it. Six principles, written by a general partner who…
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How to build your own AI personal operating system & second brain
The gap between casual Claude users and people getting ten times more out of it isn't prompt craft. It's a folder. This is the basis of a personal AI operating…
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What the big new AI trend Tokkenmaxxing is & why its a big problem
Most AI spending right now is measured in tokens consumed. Jellyfish tracked 12,000 developers across 200 companies and found the heaviest users produced twice…
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Why Anthropic are too scared to release their new model, Mythos
On Wednesday, the US Treasury Secretary and the chair of the Federal Reserve called an emergency meeting with the CEOs of America's largest banks. Not about…
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How to use the 3 new Claude Cowork features that have changed my life
OpenClaw became the fastest-growing open source project in history by showing people what an always-on AI agent could actually feel like. The problem is it…
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Why OpenClaw is the most important software invention since ChatGPT
Jensen Huang stood in front of a Morgan Stanley audience and called OpenClaw "probably the single most important release of software, probably ever" — arguably…
In The LoopClaude Skills: How to use them, why they are important & what they are.
Skills are the fix for most of your problems using AI tools. And right now they're one of the most powerful and most underused features in the entire Claude…
In The LoopThe reason AI is impacting only 20% of tasks
Anthropic just dropped a labor market report with a chart you need to see. It maps what AI could theoretically do across every major occupation against what…
In The LoopHere's why AI is making us work more, not less.
A UC Berkeley study spent eight months inside a real tech company watching how people actually used AI. The finding? Workers worked more, not less. They took…
In The LoopWhy the department of war banned Claude
Anthropic turned down hundreds of millions of dollars and said no to the Pentagon. Less than 24 hours later, OpenAI signed the deal. Both companies claim…
In The LoopThe New Super AI Skill: Management
The job market just had its worst month since 2009. Over 108,000 layoffs were announced in January alone (a 120% increase year-on-year), and AI was directly…
In The LoopThe SaaS Apocalypse: Why $1 Trillion Was Wiped from Software Stocks
Over a trillion dollars has been wiped from software stocks. Traders are calling it the SaaS Apocalypse, and the sell-off is only accelerating. In this episode…
In The LoopElon Musk Merged xAI With SpaceX (And Filed To Put A Million Data Centers In Orbit)
AI already consumes more electricity than some countries. By 2030, it'll double, equivalent to adding another top-ten energy-consuming nation to the planet. So…
In The LoopMoltbook: The AI Agent-Only Social Network That Broke The Internet
Over 150,000 AI agents have joined Moltbook—a social network where humans can only watch. Within 48 hours, these agents founded a religion, built a pharmacy…
In The LoopClaude Cowork: How To Use It & Why It Matters
Anthropic just launched Claude Cowork—the same powerful agent behind Claude Code, now accessible to everyone without touching a terminal. In this episode of In…
In The LoopNine AI Trends For 2026
A year ago, building clever chat interfaces was strategic work. Now, it's just table stakes. Most SaaS products now offer some sort of chat interface—so how…
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In The LoopEverything You Need To Know About GPT-5.2 In 10 Mins
OpenAI just dropped GPT-5.2, and it's their most focused release yet. No AGI promises this time—just real improvements for professional work. In this final…
In The LoopCode Red: "We're At A Critical Time For ChatGPT."
OpenAI just declared Code Red. But here's the twist: three years ago, it was Google in crisis mode. When ChatGPT launched, Google's founders came back to pull…
In The LoopHow To Decide What To Automate With AI For Your Team & Customers
Every week, new AI features and automations appear, but the real question isn't whether you can automate something—it's whether you should. In this episode of…
In The LoopTwo Insane AI Models By Google That Broke The Internet
Google’s just dropped two new AI models that broke the internet—and got Sam Altman worried. Gemini 3 Pro and Nana Banana Pro hit number one on the app store…
In The LoopFive Things GPT-5.1 Does Better—Vibes Over Benchmarks
OpenAI just released GPT 5.1—but this time, there are no benchmark charts, no performance graphs, and no technical metrics. Instead, they're selling something…
In The LoopThe Man Who Predicted The 2008 Market Crash Just Bet $1 Billion Against AI
Michael Burry—the legendary investor who foresaw the 2008 housing collapse—is at it again. This time, he’s betting against the biggest names in artificial…
In The LoopAI Isn't Causing Mass Layoffs—It's Being Scapegoated
Amazon announced 14,000 job cuts, citing AI transformation. Two days later, the CEO tells investors it's "not AI-driven." So which is it? In this episode of In…
In The LoopWhy OpenAI's Atlas Browser Won't Take Down Google
OpenAI has just launched its own AI browser, Atlas, sparking headlines about the “return of the browser wars” and speculation that Google might finally have a…
In The LoopAI’s Just Made Robots Interesting Again
For decades, robotics has carried the reputation of being the ultimate “technology that never quite delivered.” But this month—October 2025—something shifted…
In The LoopAI Workslop Is A Human Problem
There’s a new workplace jargon floating around: AI workslop. Coined by Stanford researchers, it captures a growing frustration with AI-generated content that…
In The LoopTop Three DevDay 2025 Announcements: ChatGPT Apps, AgentKit, Context Capture
OpenAI just made its boldest move yet—and it’s not about a smarter model. It’s about owning the future of how we use AI. At DevDay 2025, OpenAI revealed a…
In The LoopAre Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Suddenly Cool?
Imagine a world where your glasses can translate conversations in real time, display arrows on the street to guide your way, and let you respond to messages…
In The LoopShould AI Companions Be Legal? The U.S. Government Isn't Sure...
This week, I’m unpacking a landmark move from the Federal Trade Commission: a sweeping investigation into AI companions. Seven of the biggest tech…
In The LoopThe Real Cost Of AGI—According To OpenAI
This week on In The Loop, I’m breaking down OpenAI’s staggering financial projections and what they reveal about the true cost of pursuing AGI. With spending…
In The LoopHas Google Just Beaten Apple With The New AI Phone? (Google Pixel 10)
Has Google just leapfrogged Apple in the AI device race with its brand-new Pixel 10? After months of talking about AI trends and whether we’re in a bubble, I…
In The LoopIs The AI Bubble About To Burst?
This week’s topic: Are we in an AI bubble? Sam Altman himself recently said yes—and called today’s startup valuations “insane.” Meanwhile, ChatGPT faced a user…
In The LoopGPT-5 Review: Everything You Need To Know
GPT-5 has finally arrived—but is it the AI revolution we were promised, or just a clever business move + marketing hype After months of speculation, heated…
In The LoopThe Top Four AI Trends & Predictions Of Summer 2025
This summer, the world of AI has taken a sharp and fascinating turn. In this episode of In The Loop, I break down four powerful trends that are quietly—and…
In The LoopWhy is learning at work so bad & how do we fix it with AI?
AI is reshaping work while corporate learning stays stuck. Compliance-first courses, born after Enron and locked into SCORM, waste time and budget. Companies…
In The LoopThe Crazy Story Of How OpenAI Lost Everything In One Week
Episode Description: In just ten days, OpenAI went from market leader and top dog to a series of very painful events that threaten its market leadership. This…
In The LoopWhat Is Context Engineering And Why Should You Care?
Context engineering is more than just the latest AI buzzword—it’s shaping up to be the future of how we build truly intelligent systems. In this episode of In…
In The Loop22 New Jobs AI Will Create—And Do AI-Pessimists Have A Point?
In this episode of In the Loop, I bring you a very top-of-mind topic: how AI is transforming the job market—but this time, we’ll focus on the jobs AI will…
In The LoopHow Enterprise CIOs Build & Buy AI In 2025 (a16z Report)
This week, I’m diving into one of the most insightful pieces of research I’ve come across lately—a report by a16z based on interviews with over 100 enterprise…
In The LoopEP20 - Apple Is Cooked—Here Are Three Reasons Why
In this episode of In The Loop, I unpack what feels like a turning point for Apple—and not in a good way. From a lackluster WWDC 2025 filled with buzzwords…