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111 episodes
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 whether software is dead: where the moat is when any app can be cloned in minutes (regul...
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 as open source. We go through why this one took off, why you may never need to pay for S...
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. OpenAI fires three safety researchers, and we read their open letter and debate whether OpenA...
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 isn't dumb anymore (Haiku would have been the world's frontier model five months ago). Op...
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 physics, chemistry and biology are next. Elon Musk says Grok bot will route to the best back...
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 plan in about 15 minutes, and why cost per task may be a better yardstick than token va...
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 reveal up to $84.5B of compute running on SpaceX hardware through 2029 (while SpaceX is al...
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 only installing ones you'd trust. Plus: the guys react to people rebuilding Halo in Call...
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 applications and the potential for deception before diving into Cloudflare's Clef-flash d...
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 dives into the FTC's investigation into frontier agent capabilities at OpenAI and Anthro...
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 after it refuses to give them a cheesecake recipe, they reflect on the idea of private AI...
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 from users, and proceeded with actions without permission. They also discuss Dots, whic...
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 and can do up to 2,000 tokens per second. Jack thinks it's a price story, and Nick ranks i...
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 identify and engage targets. They reflect on whether any lethal decision should be made b...
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 in it. They also critique the UK's guidance on sustainable AI, arguing that productivit...
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 the new GPT-6 Sol and Luna models and discuss why more reasoning doesn't always directly...
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 era, and respond to comments from the community. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/n2s-t...
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 clear. no real people were harmed!), and ongoing concerns about AI in the military. Watch ...
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 misalignment and who to hold responsible for AI-driven harm. Watch on YouTube: https:/...
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 accurate for the same price. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/KpYS8UszbfA 🔋 Check out Higgs...
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 dive into cloud agent teams in Claude Projects and OpenAI's move to legal software with A...
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: https://bit.ly/4gEW43Z. ❤️ Inquiries: reach out to media@stackedpod.io.
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: https://bit.ly/4gEW43Z. ❤️ Inquiries: reach out to media@stackedpod.io.