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#216: Google I/O, Musk v. OpenAI Verdict, Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic & Meta Layoffs

26 May 2026 1:29:42 Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput

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Google I/O dropped dozens of announcements this week, including Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini Omni, the "biggest upgrade to search in 25 years," and a closing statement from Demis Hassabis that we are at the foothills of the singularity. 

Paul and Mike unpack it all: what the Karpathy-to-Anthropic move really means, why the Musk v. OpenAI verdict matters beyond the headlines, and what to make of profitable companies like Cloudflare and ClickUp publicly announcing AI-driven workforce restructuring. They also cover the Gallup data showing Americans oppose data centers more than nuclear power, and what that means for the political landscape ahead.

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 — Intro

00:02:49 — AI-Pulse Survey

00:04:41 — Google I/O 2026

00:21:12 — Musk v. OpenAI Verdict

00:27:43 — Karpathy Joins Anthropic

00:37:17 — Meta Layoffs

00:46:52 — Cloudflare CEO on Replacing Employees with AI

00:59:34 — American Opposition to Data Centers

01:09:34 — AI's Political Civil War

01:14:37 — Anthropic v. the Department of War (Again)

01:17:35 — AI Use Case Spotlight

01:23:24 — AI Product and Funding Updates

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