295 | The Foothills of the Singularity: Connecting the Dots on the Week AI Quietly Became “a Profound Moment for Humanity" (quotes from Demis Hassabis, CEO Google Deep Mind) May 22, 2026

About this episode

This week wasn’t just another wave of AI announcements.

It may have been the week the industry quietly crossed into a different phase entirely.

In this episode, Isar connects the dots behind one of the biggest weeks in AI so far—from Anthropic’s explosive growth, to Google I/O, OpenAI’s legal win, NVIDIA’s record earnings, and Andrej Karpathy joining Anthropic to work on recursive self-improvement.

Individually, each story matters.

Together, they point to something bigger: accelerating AI capability, accelerating infrastructure buildout, and growing signals from the people closest to the frontier that we may be entering a very different era.

The quote that framed the episode came from Demis Hassabis:
 “We were standing at the foothills of the singularity. It will be a profound moment for humanity.”

This episode breaks down what that actually means—and why the implications go far beyond new models and product launches.

In this session, you’ll discover:
 - Why Anthropic’s projected $44B annualized revenue shocked the industry
 - How Anthropic became more profitable per user than OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft
 - Why Andrej Karpathy joining Anthropic may be one of the year’s biggest AI stories
 - What recursive self-improvement (RSI) means—and why labs are racing toward it
 - How OpenAI’s legal win against Elon Musk clears the runway for a potential IPO
 - Why Google’s AI strategy suddenly looks both confusing and incredibly ambitious
 - What Google’s shift from “search” to autonomous AI agents means for websites and SEO
 - Why AI solving an 80-year-old math problem matters more than most people realize
 - How NVIDIA, SpaceX, and compute infrastructure are becoming central to the AI race
 - Why electricity—not chips—may become the biggest bottleneck in AI expansion
 - What Demis Hassabis means when he says we’re at the “foothills of the singularity”

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