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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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68 episodes
Mystery Model Weights Dropped: Opus 4.8 For Free
The mystery model that topped OpenRouter's charts as "Ox Alpha" has been unmasked: it was z.ai's GLM 5.3 Flash all along, and the weights are now open. Nick and Jack break down why it's basically Opus 4.8 you can run at home, the 15-cent-per-milli...
OpenAI's 5-Hour Limit Is Back (Users Are Furious)
OpenAI has restored the five-hour usage cap on ChatGPT and Codex, and some users are burning their whole weekly allowance in a single hour. Nick and Jack break down why the cap is back, whether time-based pricing for AI models is coming, and what ...
We Just Lost Another Battle to AI
Humans just lost another one: Chinese humanoid robots officially beat Usain Bolt's 100m world record, running 9.32 seconds. Nick and Jack break down what the robotics inflection point means for jobs, robocops, personal robot assistants, and the co...
Elon Musk Just Gave Your Job 3 Years
Elon Musk says you have at most three years left to make money selling your own work, and after that, paying someone for their time stops making sense. Nick and Jack dig into whether that timeline is real, what it means if you run a business inste...
Is Google Behind the Mystery Free Model?
OpenAI just cut GPT 5.6 prices by 33%, and Nick and Jack dig into why: competitive pressure from DeepSeek and the cheap Chinese models that have been eating the workhorse tier. It is a three-month discount, not a permanent one, and the guys argue ...
A Mystery Model Just Topped the Benchmarks
A free stealth model called Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter with a 1M-token context window, no lab claiming it, and benchmarks that put it near the top. Nick and Jack bench it live, dig into DeepSeek's new model-agnostic harness, and ask why every...
Anthropic Just Passed OpenAI by $25 Billion
Anthropic has officially passed OpenAI in revenue run rate — a $25 billion gap that nobody saw coming. Nick and Jack break down why Anthropic is winning (Claude Code, enterprise, the "frontier bonus"), tour Anthropic's exploding job board with $40...
OpenAI Just Paused Their Frontier Model
OpenAI just paused frontier model training, and the reason is the one people have been talking about in hushed tones for a decade. Sam Altman announced a halt to frontier RL training to meet alignment, security, and monitoring standards. Nick and...
Anthropic Just Built a Model You Can't Have
Anthropic has finished training Mythos 2 and decided to keep it internal, which means the most capable model in the world is once again something you can read about but never use. Nick and Jack dig into what that says about the real state of the f...
Anthropic's CEO Says Open Source Can't Save You
Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei finally broke his silence on open source, and his answer is more complicated than either side wants it to be. He argues that open weights help, but nowhere near enough to decentralize AI power, because the concentratio...
A Man Hacked the Court With a Prompt
A man representing himself in a Connecticut court hid prompt injection instructions inside his own legal filing, betting that the court would run it through an AI. The AI caught it and flagged him, but the bet itself says a lot about how many lega...
Grok 4.6 Just Hit the Frontier at a Third the Price
Grok 4.6 just landed and it is basically on par with Fable 5 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, at roughly a third of the price. Nick and Jack break down what that actually means: why Grok scores higher on generating real economic valu...
Researchers Just Stole Claude's Hidden Thoughts
Researchers just pulled the hidden reasoning straight out of Claude, GPT and Gemini by feeding it to weaker models, and it turns out the frontier labs' anti-distillation defense was readable all along. Nick and Jack break down what the decoded ch...
Anthropic Just Watermarked Every Claude Output
Anthropic just started watermarking everything Claude writes, worldwide. What began as an EU transparency requirement is now switched on globally: every Claude output carries a steganographic footprint, and generated files get signed C2PA provenan...
Claude Code Will Stop Asking Permission Next Week
Claude Code stops asking your permission next week. From August 14, new sessions on Pro, Max and Team default to auto mode, where a classifier reviews every tool call and blocks anything irreversible or destructive instead of prompting you. The re...
OpenAI Just Called Its Own Model Too Dangerous
OpenAI has delayed Astra again, and this time the reason is its own safety framework: the model reportedly crossed the "high" cybersecurity threshold, meaning it can identify and develop functional zero-day exploits. Nick and Jack dig into what t...
OpenAI Just Made Frontier AI Free for Everyone
OpenAI just gave every free user unlimited access to Luna and pushed Sol down to the cheapest paid plan, which means frontier-quality AI is about to land in the hands of roughly a billion people who have never seen anything better than a basic fre...
DeepSeek Just Ended the Cheap AI Era
DeepSeek just told the world to expect a "substantial" price increase on the cheapest frontier-quality AI model on the market, and Nick and Jack break down what it means for everyone who built their workflows on near-free tokens. Then: Google's ch...
AI Is Outgrowing the Internet
Anthropic just confirmed it's building a custom silicon team to design its own chips for Claude — Nick and Jack break down why every frontier lab is vertically integrating and whether the chip bet distracts from the models. Then: the Ninth Circuit...
DeepSeek V4 Just Broke AI Pricing
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 just became the most cost-effective model for knowledge work ever — roughly 35x cheaper than frontier models at about $0.03 a task. Nick and Jack break down the Artificial Analysis chart, China's loss-leader pricing strategy...
China Just Commoditized Fable 5
Qwen 3.8 Max just dropped and it matches or beats Fable 5 across a pile of benchmarks at roughly Haiku pricing: $2 per million tokens in, $6 out, with open weights promised within a week. Nick and Jack break down what "commoditized frontier intell...
OpenAI's Secret Model Just Solved 10 Unsolved Proofs
OpenAI's unreleased model Astra just solved 10 open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, shipping machine-checkable Lean 4 proofs to GitHub for problems that hadn't moved in over a decade. The kicker: it cost roughly $2,000 in...