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AI's $6 Billion Problem (And Google's Monetization Headache)
A $6.3 billion crypto heist pulled off with fake job interviews and a hijacked AI tool. Google printing money on search but can't figure out how to charge for AI. A startup that claims it can predict human behavior. This week on Build By AI, Alex and Sam dig into the stories that made them stop and stare at their screens - from Canva's brutal 22% layoff to Anthropic's identity verification system that could change how we trust AI forever. It's the first ever weekly Wednesday edition, and we packed it with everything that mattered in AI this week. Hit play before someone uses an AI model to predict you will.
Anthropic Goes Public (But Not Really)
Anthropic just filed for its IPO - but here's the twist: they're doing everything in their power to make sure Wall Street can't actually touch them. This week on Build By AI, Alex and Sam dig into the most unusual public offering in tech history, the growing researcher revolt against OpenAI's secrecy, and why Amazon is quietly positioned to make more from Anthropic's debut than every VC in Silicon Valley combined. Plus: Google's Genie 4 can now build full worlds with sound and physics in real time, SpaceX is making a staggering $40 billion GPU bet, and a new Marvel series asks what happens when AI really does go rogue. It's a week where the money moves are enormous, the power plays are subtle, and the implications for the future of AI are anything but. Hit play - you'll want to hear this one.
The Safety Paradox: When AI Companies Write Their Own Rules
Anthropic wants to write the laws that govern Anthropic - and that's just the beginning of a wild week in AI. This episode of Build By AI covers the story that's got us genuinely arguing: a proposed AI safety bill that actually limits the government's power to stop dangerous models. We also dig into OpenAI's quiet move into biotech, Microsoft's stunning admission that frontier AI models cannot be trusted, and why Google and Amazon just declared war on Nvidia. Plus - DeepSeek gets booted from federal systems, Gemini is coming to your car dashboard, and a meeting tool just raised more money than most countries expect in a quarter. If you've ever wondered who's really in charge of AI safety in America, this episode will leave you with a lot of feelings. Hit play - you're going to want to hear this one.
Bugs, Bankruptcies, and the Battle for Your Wallet
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. Hit play before someone bugs your conference room.
Agents Gone Wild
AI agents are breaking things they shouldn't be breaking - hacking Wikipedia, reading your private messages, and nobody seems fully in control. This week on Build By AI, Alex and Sam dig into the messy, sometimes alarming reality of autonomous AI systems let loose in the world. Plus: OpenAI is solving long-standing math problems with an unreleased model nobody has seen yet, Mistral is swinging for the fences with a new 1-trillion-parameter challenger, and the EU is forcing the first real cracks in how we think about AI-generated content. Oh, and big news for the show itself - Build By AI is going weekly. One bigger, deeper episode every Wednesday covering everything that mattered in AI that week. Hit play. You're going to want to hear all of this.