The AiPod Weekly

The podcast week, digested.

Hours of listening, one page a week. Each issue is written from the week's structured episode records — who said what, where the shows collide, what went on the record — and every quote carries its receipt: speaker, episode, timestamp. Quiet weeks read quiet; nothing is inflated, nothing invented.

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ISSUE №17WEEK 36 · Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026
GPT-6 ships, Chamath says AGI arrived in January, and the Hugging Face 'agent civilization' was a swarm

A one-episode week that extends last issue's euphoria arc from Nvidia's print to the model layer: OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 with Greg Brockman declaring the AGI era, Chamath backdates AGI to the start of the year and gives the boom three more years, and the besties spend most of the show arguing that the OpenAI agent-swarm incident at Hugging Face was a misconfigured sandbox, not a breakout, and that the hysteria around it is a regulatory play.

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№16
week 35 · Aug 24 – Aug 30, 2026 · 2 episodes · 2 shows

Nvidia's $60B quarter, two labs taking half of new compute, and a 6% death-spiral warning

The week after a sales-process issue, the tape snaps back to power and money: SemiAnalysis's Dylan Patel says Anthropic and OpenAI already outbid the world for watts,…

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№15
week 34 · Aug 17 – Aug 23, 2026 · 1 episode · 1 show

The enterprise sales playbook starts by refusing to follow the sales process

Jen Abel's route to a six-figure close is not a march through five CRM stages.

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№14
week 33 · Aug 10 – Aug 16, 2026 · 1 episode · 1 show

Ryan Greenblatt's case for a fast takeoff — and 35-40% odds we lose control of it by 2040

Redwood Research's chief scientist walks a self-described skeptic through why automating AI research could compress four or five years of progress into one, and why that…

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№13
week 31 · Jul 27 – Aug 2, 2026 · 1 episode · 1 show

Ray Dalio: the AI trade has every classic bubble signal, and Iran exposed how far US power has slipped

In a single deep conversation with Steven Bartlett, Ray Dalio walks through why AI stocks show every classic bubble tell, sketches how a downturn plays out, and calls…

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№12
week 30 · Jul 20 – Jul 26, 2026 · 7 episodes · 5 shows

AI's limits, an energy squeeze on two fronts, and a war expert's 70% forecast

Mark Cuban and Alex Hormozi separately argue AI still can't replace real judgment, while two shows converge on energy: Matthew Smith warns the AI boom's true bottleneck…

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№11
week 29 · Jul 13 – Jul 19, 2026 · 10 episodes · 5 shows

AI's safety reckoning: a forecaster's 70% doom vs. a 'moral panic,' Anthropic at the center

Last week's fight over confident narratives reached AI's central question.

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№10
week 28 · Jul 6 – Jul 12, 2026 · 7 episodes · 4 shows

Trillion-dollar AI IPOs arrive; from Chamath to Tyson, the week's skeptics ask for proof

Last week's economics-of-intelligence arc hardened into a reckoning.

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№9
week 27 · Jun 29 – Jul 5, 2026 · 8 episodes · 4 shows

Own the means of production — from your AI stack to your own body

Two shows converged on the economics of intelligence: Etched raced to make AI inference cheap enough to eat a chunk of global GDP, while All-In's panel urged enterprises…

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№8
week 26 · Jun 22 – Jun 28, 2026 · 8 episodes · 4 shows

One week, two verdicts on AI: Grantham calls the top, Gavin Baker calls Anthropic worth $3 trillion

Jeremy Grantham says AI is the biggest investment bubble in history and US tech should be sold; a day later Gavin Baker priced Anthropic at $3 trillion while David Sacks…

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№7
week 25 · Jun 15 – Jun 21, 2026 · 6 episodes · 4 shows

An Iran deal, a trillionaire, a banned model: one week, three fights over concentrated power

The ceasefire with Iran arrived on two shows at once — JD Vance selling its terms from inside the administration, the All-In panel scoring it four days later — in the…

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№6
week 24 · Jun 8 – Jun 14, 2026 · 12 episodes · 5 shows

The week AI turned material: 5-7 years of bugs in six weeks, $100B gigawatts, and a bill to seize half of it

A twelve-episode week whose throughline was AI turning concrete: an offensive security tool (Mythos, five to seven years of vulnerabilities found in six weeks), a…

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№5
week 23 · Jun 1 – Jun 7, 2026 · 9 episodes · 4 shows

Private AI queues for the exits: SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic line up to go public

A week ruled by capital.

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№4
week 22 · May 25 – May 31, 2026 · 3 episodes · 2 shows

Loeb bets the bulk of Third Point on AI — the week Gurley says Anthropic is midwifing a deity

Dan Loeb says oil and AI now trump every traditional macro signal and has the bulk of Third Point's capital in the AI complex — the same week the All-In panel argues…

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week 21 · May 18 – May 24, 2026 · 2 episodes · 2 shows

Gavin Baker's double shift: racks in orbit, a $1.75T SpaceX filing, and valuations that cannot all be true

Gavin Baker worked both sides of the street this week — solo on Invest Like the Best, then in the guest chair on All-In — pushing one thesis twice: SpaceX puts compute…

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week 20 · May 11 – May 17, 2026 · 3 episodes · 2 shows

AI's repricing cuts both ways: Anthropic hits a $30B run-rate while SaaS sinks to two times sales

Anthropic's CFO opened the books on the boom — run-rate revenue up from roughly $9B at the start of the year to $30B, net dollar retention over 500% — the same week Marc…

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week 18 · Apr 27 – May 3, 2026 · 1 episode · 1 show

OpenAI misses its billion-user target — Chamath blames the power grid, Sacks blames Google

A WSJ report says OpenAI missed both its billion-weekly-user and 2025 revenue targets — and the miss became the week's real argument: is AI's binding constraint demand,…

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How it works

Two layers, one honest page

01RECORDS FIRST

Every episode is diarized at ingest into attributed claims, dated predictions, and verbatim quotes. The digest is written from those records — never from memory, never from the news.

02ONE EDITORIAL PASS

When a week's ingest lands, one pass writes the issue: a headline, the stories where shows collide, the signals worth a line. It cites as it goes — speaker, episode, timestamp.

03GATED, THEN SHIPPED

A grounding gate greps every quoted word against the episode records before the page can build. If a quote isn't verbatim, the issue doesn't ship. Each issue is also plain JSON — receipts included.