Copilot Slowdown, AI Taxes, OpenAI Images, ty/Toad, ALPR Watch, and the 300TB Spotify Mirror
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Enjoy the holidays everyone! 🧑🎄 🎆
This episode we have:
- (00:00) - Intro
- (02:25) - Microsoft denies lowering targets for AI software sales growth (Copilot)
- (09:26) - If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? (robot tax)
- (18:00) - The internet just made a 300TB copy of Spotify (Anna’s Archive)
- (26:06) - The new ChatGPT Images is here (GPT Image 1.5)
- (32:33) - Announcing the Beta release of ty (Rust Python type checker)
- (43:17) - alpr.watch — Track Surveillance Tech in Local Government Meetings
- (48:10) - Developers can now submit apps to ChatGPT
- (56:30) - Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal
- (01:04:48) - Tidbits
- (01:05:00) - Anthropic “Skills” goes public + MCP comparisons
- (01:07:11) - Claude for Chrome released
- (01:09:03) - Lovable raises $330M at a $6.6B valuation
- (01:10:28) - Alphabet/Google chips vs Nvidia (TPU support for PyTorch w/ Meta)
- (01:12:59) - McKinsey eyes thousands of job cuts
- (01:14:48) - Wrap-up (last episode of 2025)
- (01:18:42) - Outro / Merry Christmas & Happy New Year
Microsoft denies report of lowering targets for AI software sales growth | 2025-12-03
A Reuters piece says Microsoft denied a report that it lowered sales growth targets for AI tools like Copilot Studio, even as some customers resist new agent-building products. Shares dipped nearly 3% before paring losses, and the company emphasized quotas remain intact while adoption and ROI pressures intensify.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-lowers-ai-software-sales-quota-customers-resist-new-products-2025-12-03/
If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? | 2025-11-30
EL PAÍS revisits the ‘robot tax’ debate as AI investment soars and layoffs mount, asking whether automation should help replace lost labor taxes. Economists warn design is tricky; one expert notes labor provides about 85% of U.S. federal revenue, while the IMF favors adjusting capital taxes instead.
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-30/if-ai-replaces-workers-should-it-also-pay-taxes.html
The internet just made a 300TB copy of Spotify! | 2025-12-22
A pirate preservation group, Anna’s Archive, says it scraped nearly all of Spotify—publishing metadata for 256 million tracks and starting to release 86 million audio files via torrents, about 300TB. Organized by Spotify “popularity,” the dump claims to cover ~99.6% of listens and will roll out in stages—setting up legal fights over mass scraping.
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