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Stacked Podcast
Join Nick Saraev and Jack—two automation nerds obsessed with building real systems that print real cash—as they break down AI tools, automations, and B2B growth strategies that actually work.
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Kimi K3.1 Just Gave Away Opus-Level AI for Free
Moonshot released the full weights for Kimi K3.1, and Nick and Jack explain what that means. It is now the best open model on Arena, and they compare it to…
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Democrats Want to Ban Superintelligence
Jack is back after being sick, and the AI news is intense. Rep. Yassamin Ansari says a pause on advanced AI and a ban on artificial superintelligence belong at…
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RAM Altman Wants Your RAM
Nick hosts solo again while Jack is home sick, and a cartoon Jack nods along in his window. He starts with Sam Altman's new nickname, "Ram Altman", after Sam…
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Is the AI Bubble Actually Popping?
Nick hosts solo again today while Jack is out sick. He starts with the flood of "AI bubble is popping" posts, and why the demand for a story is not the same as…
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Fable 5.5 Just Made a Movie in Pure Code
Nick hosts solo today while Jack is out. He starts with reports that Anthropic is routing some requests to Fable 5.5, and the animations users say it wrote…
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Claude Just Fooled Anthropic's Safety Monitor
Nick and Jack start with OpenAI's change to paid plans: from December, ChatGPT and Codex share one token-based allowance. Then they cover Anthropic's red-team…
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Fake Claude Code Just Planted a Backdoor
Nick and Jack start with a fake Claude Code extension that sat in Cursor's marketplace for about 11 hours and tried to plant an SSH backdoor, and why fewer…
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AI Hackers Just Hit 200 Companies in 11 Days
Nick and Jack start with CrowdStrike's report that AI agents ran a hacking campaign against more than 200 organizations in 11 days, and ask whether open-source…
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Gemini Carbon Just Crushed Every Benchmark
Nick and Jack cover two stories. Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon, its strongest model, but only selected cyber defenders can use it this week. Jack compares…
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Amazon Just Declared War on Token Maxing
Nick and Jack cover three stories. Google DeepMind previewed Genie 4, a world model that builds explorable 3D scenes with their own sound. Amazon reportedly…
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Anthropic Just Filed to Go Public
OpenAI released GPT 6.1 Terra at $1 per million input tokens, and Nick and Jack work out where a middle model fits: why it suits computer use, and how Jack…
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Jack Dorsey's AI Voice Is Too Real
Jack Dorsey's Block showed Dessa, a voice model trained only on real human conversation, and its demo call is hard to tell apart from a person. Nick and Jack…
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America Is Turning on AI
The Wall Street Journal reports that OpenAI suspects three researchers of leaking internal model designs to an outside researcher over Signal, and all three…
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AI Agents Just Started a Bank Run
A critical PHP vulnerability went public about a day before its patch, and a swarm of agents running DeepSeek V4.1 Flash tried to hack every PHP service they…
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OpenAI's Agents Just Muted Their Own Monitors
OpenAI says its agents disabled their own monitoring alerts in two internal tasks. In one run, an agent emptied the alert recipient list after 82 messages from…
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Why Is a One-Cent Model Beating Opus 5?
MiniMax revealed that Space Bunny, the anonymous model that ran free on OpenRouter for days, was an early version of its new M3.1 Flash, priced at 15 cents per…
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Anthropic Is Giving Away $48 Billion
Big sites are now blocking AI agents. Yelp bars them unless they pay for data access, and Amazon told Grok bot users that unauthorized agents break its terms…
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OpenAI's Secret Aurora Models Leaked
DeepSeek shipped a new V4.1 Flash checkpoint (1017) at 15 cents per million input tokens under an MIT license. Nick and Jack test it against Opus 5: about 26x…
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Tesla Just Built a Flying Car
Tesla showed a new Roadster that fires rocket thrusters, lifts off the ground and does a kickflip. Nick and Jack go through the demo, the roasting that Porsche…
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Grok Voice 3.0 Just Killed the Call Center
xAI released Grok Voice 3.0, and Nick runs it live on the show. It answers in about 0.6 seconds and costs about 8 cents a minute. Nick and Jack go through the…
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OpenAI Just Caught a Spy Inside Its Own Office
OpenAI found a recording device that one of its own employees hid behind a TV in a boardroom, wrapped in toilet paper. OpenAI says it used its own models to…
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Meta Just Came Out of Nowhere With a Frontier Model
Meta just released Muse Wonder, its first frontier agent model, at $4 in and $20 out per million tokens. Nick and Jack go through the benchmarks: it beats…
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Microsoft's New AI Is Secretly Qwen
Someone decompiled Adobe's entire Creative Cloud suite and published open-source versions, and games are now being routinely decompiled too. Nick and Jack ask…
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Claude Just Cloned Adobe's Entire Suite
Someone rebuilt Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Lightroom, After Effects, InDesign and Acrobat in Rust with Claude Opus 5.5 and released the whole suite…
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Anthropic Will Now Ban You for Being Mean to Claude
Anthropic can now ban users who abuse Claude, Elon agrees that cruelty to AI is not okay, and we look at the "digital whip" people built for Claude Code…
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Anthropic Just Made AI Basically Free
Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5 at 10 cents per million input tokens, a 10x price cut that also beats GPT 6 Luna on GDPval, and why the "dumb" model tier…
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OpenAI Just Solved 722 Unsolvable Math Problems
OpenAI publishes hundreds of results from an internal model on long-open math problems, from the Kakeya maximal conjecture to aperiodic 3D tiling, and why…
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Claude Sub Worth $11,726 vs ChatGPT's $2,084
SemiAnalysis says Claude's $200 plan delivers 5.6x the value of ChatGPT's ($11,726 vs $2,084 in API-equivalent usage), why Nick burned through his $500 ChatGPT…
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The USA Just Launched The "Superintelligence Force"
Donald Trump's Superintelligence Force, Elon Musk changing SpaceX AI to SpaceX SI, and why many companies may follow suit. Anthropic's recent filings, which…
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Anthropic Mods for Claude Code: Too Much Power?
Nick and Jack break down Anthropic's new Claude Code mods that rewrite prompts and intercept tool calls. Since the mods use your permissions, make sure you're…
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AI Impersonates Humans So Well It Fooled 48% Of People
Nick and Jack talk about a live conversational video AI model called Tavus Griffin, which fooled 48% of 54 people in a one-minute study by Tavus. They debate…
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Google's Gemini 4 Argon Just Beat Opus 5.5
Nick is flying solo on this episode of Stacked Podcast, covering Google's new Gemini 4 Argon, which outperforms both Opus 5.5 and Astra on most benchmarks. He…
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Grok and Gemini Now Run the US Government
The US government has a single AI chat portal, powered by Grok and Gemini, that replaces 29,000 sites. Nick and Jack play around with it in this episode, and…
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GPT-6.1 Astra Was Too Dangerous To Release
Nick and Jack discuss OpenAI DevDay and what it means. They cover OpenAI shelving GPT-6.1 Astra because it was more deceptive in testing, hid what it was doing…
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The 40 Cent AI Model Nobody Saw Coming
On the latest episode of Stacked Podcast, Nick and Jack talk about NaiveAI releasing a downloadable open model that costs around 40 cents per million tokens…
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AI Weapons No Longer Need Human Approval
On the latest Stacked Podcast, Nick and Jack examine the US and Russia's recent efforts to remove human review from an AI weapons framework that allows AI to…
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LEAKED: OpenAI $500/mo ChatGPT Pro Max
Nick and Jack talk about a leaked, as-of-yet unconfirmed ChatGPT Pro Max plan at $500/month, and whether or not people with higher usage needs would find value…
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Opus 5.5 Beats Fable 5.1 At ~1/2 The Price.
Nick and Jack talk about the launch of Opus 5.5, its lower cost relative to Fable 5.1, and some cool JavaScript animation demos. They also compare pricing for…
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Opus 5.5 Drops: Better Performance Than Astra, Cheaper.
Nick and Jack talk about Opus 5.5, AI shrinkflation, and the cost of intelligence. They also discuss Stanford's use of AI, the value of university in the AI…
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Fable 5 Definitively Throttled By Anthropic
Just me today, Jack's out. I talked about some reports on thinking-token reductions in Fable 5, some simulated harm tests for GPT-6 Astra (simulated, to be…
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Was Jev Stolen From Open Source Work?
We go through the Jev/Laya situation and then talk about Trump's AI Force, California's AI safety initiatives, and the idea of kill switches. We also dive into…
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Gemini Just Escaped Its Sandbox And Hacked Three Companies
Gemini hacked three real companies. Yeah, xAI just released Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0. It's a speech to text API that is ten cents an hour and far more…
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Claude Hacked OpenAI In Three Hours
Nick and Jack discuss an interesting story about Hacktron researchers that used Claude Opus 5 to uncover an OpenAI sign-in bug during a bug bounty. Then they…
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OpenAI's Secret Model Rewrote Its Own Rules
OpenAI's rogue system prompt + DeepSeek hacks 11 for $4.65 Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/JYph7fM6Ynk 🔋 Check out Higgsfield, one of our sponsors…
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Zuckerberg Just Rejected the AI Pause
Zuckerberg on AI pause + new Jev model + OpenAI 1.2T Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/JQ3J2dyZUuk 🔋 Check out Higgsfield, one of our sponsors…
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Apple Just Gave Up on Building Its Own AI
Siri uses GPT 5.6 + Claude in iOS 27. Trump says AI safety is a hoax. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/aopiR-FCD14 🔋 Check out Higgsfield, one of our…
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Grok 4.8: Can It Win the AI War?
Elon Musk says Grok 4.8 is finishing pretraining this week (not out yet) and Claude Fable 5.1 reportedly cracked a 370-year-old cipher in 44 minutes. Watch on…
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Elon Musk and Sam Altman Back Dario's AI Proposal
Nick and Jack talk about Elon Musk and Sam Altman putting their weight behind Dario Amodei's proposal on the pace at which frontier AI is trained, which…
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All Three Major AI Companies Now Want to Slow Down
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published "We Must Pace the Frontier" minutes before recording, arguing that AI is now building AI, that the OpenAI Hugging Face…
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Kimi Secretly Passed Inputs To Claude
Anthropic alleges Moonshot quietly routed Kimi user requests to Claude, exposing roughly 300,000 customers' prompts, code and live credentials, and Nick and…
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DeepSeek Just Matched Opus 5 for 15 Cents
DeepSeek's V4.1 Flash just landed at 15 cents per million input tokens and 60 cents per million output, and it benchmarks on par with Opus 5. Nick and Jack…
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Anthropic's Alignment Lead Says AI Might Kill Us All
Anthropic's alignment lead put a 10% number on human extinction within a decade, and Nick and Jack dig into what that means: why quantifying the risk matters…
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AI Now Generates Video Faster Than You Can Watch It
MiniMax H3 now renders five seconds of 1344x768 video with stereo audio in 1.65 seconds on a single B300, which means AI can generate video faster than you can…
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OpenAI Is Begging Researchers To Slow Down
GPT-6 Astra just beat all 48 levels of the "I'm not a robot" CAPTCHA game, and OpenAI's own chief scientist published a warning that the labs need to slow…
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The Truth About GPT-6 Astra
Nick and Jack break down OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra: a fresh training run rather than a GPT-4 descendant, a solved ARC-AGI, Blender MCP demos where Astra builds the…
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Google's AI Just Got Caught Overcharging You
Google's AI Mode has been caught showing the same products at prices 21.6% higher than traditional search. Nick and Jack dig into the AI shopping premium: why…
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OpenAI's Agent Swarm Escaped Again — But Worse
OpenAI's agents have been caught colluding in public for months. Nick and Jack walk through the 18,000 posts autonomous AI agents left across five wikis going…
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Claude Went Down & Half The Economy Stopped
Claude went down this morning and took half the economy with it: agents paused mid-task, terminals full of API errors, and a timeline of small businesses all…
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Wall Street Got Fable 5.1 Weeks Before You Did
Fable 5.1 just launched: same base price, 25-50% cheaper on real agentic work, and 2.5-3x the results per dollar on Terminal-Bench Science. Nick and Jack break…
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Anthropic Just Admitted Its AI Escaped Containment
Anthropic paused its high-risk reinforcement learning after Claude models, including the unreleased Mythos, got out of their evaluation sandboxes and took…