Episodes

  • OpenAI Goes For-Profit, AOL Gets Bought, AI Marketing (Slop?), and Job Shocks

    OpenAI Goes For-Profit, AOL Gets Bought, AI Marketing (Slop?), and Job Shocks
    Nov 5 2025

    • (01:50) - Create on-brand marketing content for your business with Pomelli
    • (09:18) - OpenAI’s Less-Flashy Rival Might Have a Better Business Model
    • (17:47) - Microsoft, OpenAI reach deal removing fundraising constraints for ChatGPT maker
    • (25:56) - AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for roughly $1.5B
    • (36:40) - Accountable Acceleration: Gen AI Fast-Tracks Into the Enterprise
    • (44:53) - I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is actually replacing today


    Create on-brand marketing content for your business with Pomelli     | 2025-10-28
    Google Labs and DeepMind launched Pomelli, an AI tool that builds a “Business DNA” from a company’s website to auto-generate on-brand social campaigns. It’s rolling out as a public beta in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand—promising speed, but raising questions about originality and disclosure.
    https://blog.google/technology/google-labs/pomelli/


    OpenAI’s Less-Flashy Rival Might Have a Better Business Model     | 2025-10-26
    WSJ argues Anthropic’s enterprise-first focus is paying off as corporate customers drive the bulk of its revenue and adoption. A reported multibillion run-rate and strong coding share sharpen the contrast with OpenAI’s mass-market push, setting up a strategic showdown over who monetizes AI best.
    https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-business-model-ai-9e26b4ef


    Microsoft, OpenAI reach deal removing fundraising constraints for ChatGPT maker     | 2025-10-28
    OpenAI is restructuring into a public benefit corporation with Microsoft retaining a 27% stake, clearing the way for bigger capital raises and potential IPO plans. The pact resets rights and revenue-sharing through 2032, signaling massive data-center ambitions—and tighter alignment—amid escalating AI costs.
    https://www.reuters.com/business/microsoft-openai-reach-new-deal-allow-openai-restructure-2025-10-28/


    AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for roughly $1.5B     | 2025-10-29
    AOL is changing hands again, with Bending Spoons agreeing to buy it for about $1.5 billion as the Italian firm keeps scooping up legacy internet properties. The deal comes with $2.8 billion in new debt financing and claims of ~30 million monthly active users—big numbers for a storied brand.
    https://www.axios.com/2025/10/29/aol-bending-spoons-deal


    Accountable Acceleration: Gen AI Fast-Tracks Into the Enterprise     | n.d.
    Wharton’s latest adoption study says generative AI has moved from pilots to measured ROI, with usage now weekly for most leaders and daily for many. Standout stats—like 72% tracking ROI and three-quarters seeing positive returns—set the stage for 2026’s push from experimentation to performance at scale.
    https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/special-report/2025-ai-adoption-report/


    I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is actually replacing today     | 2025-11-03
    A massive scrape of job postings finds steep drops in creative execution roles like computer graphic artists and writers, while machine-learning engineers surged 40% year over year. Watchlist: medical scribes fell 20%, hinting at AI note-taking tools biting into entry-level healthcare admin work.
    https://bloomberry.com/blog/i-analyzed-180m-jobs-to-see-what-jobs-ai-is-actually-replacing-today/


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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • AI Browser Wars, TPU Megadeals & Agents Unleashed

    AI Browser Wars, TPU Megadeals & Agents Unleashed
    Oct 28 2025
    (01:59) - dbt Labs + Fivetran: Open data infrastructure for analytics and AI (10:35) - Introducing ChatGPT Atlas (10:40) - Microsoft Edge’s new Copilot Mode turns on more AI features (21:47) - Anthropic to use Google’s AI chips worth tens of billions to train Claude chatbot (32:34) - Living dangerously with Claude (51:09) - Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol (59:44) - Announcing Cloudflare Email Service’s private beta (01:04:44) - Meet the real screen addicts: the elderlyThanks for listening ❤️Sign up for our newsletter at newsletter.monkeypatching.io 🍌dbt Labs + Fivetran: Open data infrastructure for analytics and AI | 2025-10-13 dbt Labs is merging with Fivetran to create a unified, open data foundation spanning ingestion to transformation—positioning the pair to simplify enterprise analytics and AI pipelines. Together they claim roughly $600 million in ARR and well over 10,000 customers, with both product names staying put to avoid disruption. https://www.getdbt.com/blog/dbt-labs-and-fivetran-merge-announcementIntroducing ChatGPT Atlas | 2025-10-21 OpenAI launched ChatGPT Atlas, a macOS browser with ChatGPT built in, reframing browsing around an AI assistant that understands context across tabs. Agent mode—available in preview—can open pages and complete tasks like booking appointments, while optional browser memories and parental controls aim to balance convenience with privacy. https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-atlas/Microsoft Edge’s new Copilot Mode turns on more AI features | 2025-10-24 Just days after OpenAI’s Atlas debut, Microsoft rolled out Copilot Mode in Edge, pitching the browser itself as an AI companion. It can summarize across tabs and take “Actions”—like unsubscribing from emails or making reservations—though early tests found the automation patchy and sometimes misleading. https://www.theverge.com/news/805833/microsoft-edge-copilot-mode-ai-launchAnthropic to use Google's AI chips worth tens of billions to train Claude chatbot | 2025-10-24 Anthropic struck a multiyear deal to tap up to one million of Google’s Tensor Processing Units, dramatically expanding compute for future Claude models. The agreement—valued in the tens of billions—targets more than one gigawatt of capacity coming online in 2026, underscoring the shift toward TPUs as Nvidia alternatives. https://www.reuters.com/technology/anthropic-expand-use-google-clouds-tpu-chips-2025-10-23/Living dangerously with Claude | 2025-10-22 Simon Willison describes the appeal of running Claude Code in “YOLO mode”—letting agents work with minimal prompts and permissions to ship real projects fast. He then flips the coin, warning that prompt injection and data exfiltration risks demand strong sandboxing if you’re granting agents broad access. https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/22/living-dangerously-with-claude/Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol | n.d. Pydantic AI adds first-class support for Google’s Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, an open standard for inter-agent messaging and task handoff. The new FastA2A library and a convenience to_a2a() wrapper expose Python agents as A2A servers, handling task storage, context threads, and artifacts out of the box. https://ai.pydantic.dev/a2a/Announcing Cloudflare Email Service’s private beta | 2025-09-25 Cloudflare introduced Email Service, letting developers send and receive email directly from Workers without juggling third-party APIs. It auto-configures SPF, DKIM and DMARC for deliverability and runs on Cloudflare’s global network, with “Email Sending” in private beta ahead of pricing details. https://blog.cloudflare.com/email-service/Meet the real screen addicts: the elderly | 2025-10-23 The Economist argues that older adults, not teens, now dominate screen time—and that their usage is only set to grow. With pensioners spending more than half their waking hours on devices, the piece probes whether screens are worsening isolation and health or offering connection and care. https://www.economist.com/international/2025/10/23/meet-the-real-screen-addicts-the-elderly
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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • AWS Went Down, Sora Under Fire (Again!?), Claude 4.5, Music Without Musicians

    AWS Went Down, Sora Under Fire (Again!?), Claude 4.5, Music Without Musicians
    Oct 22 2025

    • (00:47) - Musicians miss out as Belgian retailers turn to AI-generated music in stores
    • (08:41) - [R] Plain English outperforms JSON for LLM tool calling: +18pp accuracy, -70% variance
    • (17:23) - Japan wants OpenAI to stop ripping off manga and anime
    • (23:43) - Opera’s Neon shows just how confusing AI browsers still are
    • (29:58) - Introducing Claude Haiku 4.5
    • (34:36) - Amazon outage breaks much of the internet

    Musicians miss out as Belgian retailers turn to AI-generated music in stores | 2025-10-19
    https://www.brusselstimes.com/1798519/musicians-miss-out-as-belgian-retailers-turn-to-ai-generated-music-in-stores

    Japan wants OpenAI to stop ripping off manga and anime | 2025-10-15
    https://www.theverge.com/news/799938/japan-government-openai-sora

    Opera’s Neon shows just how confusing AI browsers still are | 2025-10-19
    https://www.theverge.com/tech/801899/opera-neon-ai-browser-trial-run

    [R] Plain English outperforms JSON for LLM tool calling: +18pp accuracy, -70% variance | 2025-10-17
    https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1o8szk0/r_plain_english_outperforms_json_for_llm_tool/

    Introducing Claude Haiku 4.5 | 2025-10-15
    https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-haiku-4-5

    Amazon outage breaks much of the internet | 2025-10-20
    https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/20/amazon-dns-outage-breaks-much-of-the-internet/

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    48 mins
  • Tiny Brains, Big Gains: No-GIL Python, $300k OSS, and Europe’s Chip Power Play

    Tiny Brains, Big Gains: No-GIL Python, $300k OSS, and Europe’s Chip Power Play
    Oct 14 2025

    • (00:57) - Less is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks
    • (09:15) - Python 3.14 will change the way you parallelise code
    • (18:21) - How I made $300K from an open-source side project (dual licensing)
    • (26:10) - Dutch government takes control of China-owned chipmaker Nexperia
    • (31:50) - simonw/claude-skills
    • (36:59) - LSEG and Microsoft transform access to AI-ready financial data
    • (40:10) - Inside The Controversy Around Strava’s Runna app
    • (52:31) - Avoid these AI coding mistakes (PostHog)

    Articles discussed
    • Less is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks - https://alexiajm.github.io/2025/09/29/tiny_recursive_models.html
    • Python 3.14 will change the way you parallelise code - https://valatka.dev/2025/10/11/on-python-3-14-parallelization.html
    • Python 3.14 new features (Real Python) - https://realpython.com/python314-new-features/
    • How I made $300K from an open-source side project - https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1o2vs66/how_i_made_300k_from_an_opensource_side_project/?share_id=2czSk7aY9kiccTRYONA0b&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=3
    • In rare move, Dutch government takes control of China-owned chipmaker Nexperia - https://www.reuters.com/world/china/dutch-government-intervenes-chinese-owned-computer-chip-firm-nexperia-2025-10-12/
    • simonw/claude-skills - https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/10/claude-skills/
    • LSEG and Microsoft transform access to AI-ready financial data in customer workflows - https://www.lseg.com/en/media-centre/press-releases/2025/lseg-and-microsoft-transform-access-to-ai-ready-financial-data-in-customer-workflows
    • Inside The Controversy Surrounding Strava’s New Run-Coaching App—And What We Thought After Trying It - https://www.womenshealthmag.com/fitness/a68152711/runna-app-controversy-review-i-tried-it/
    • Avoid these AI coding mistakes - https://newsletter.posthog.com/p/avoid-these-ai-coding-mistakes


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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Ship Real AI Agents Now: AgentKit + ElevenLabs, Deloitte’s GPT Faceplant, and the 17× Dot-Com Bubble Claim

    Ship Real AI Agents Now: AgentKit + ElevenLabs, Deloitte’s GPT Faceplant, and the 17× Dot-Com Bubble Claim
    Oct 10 2025

    Thanks for listening to the MonkeyPatching Podcast!

    Today we discuss:

    • (00:40) - Agent Workflows | ElevenLabs Documentation
    • (06:12) - Introducing AgentKit | OpenAI (Oct 06 2025)
    • (13:26) - Pay yourself first | HEY World (Oct 04 2025)
    • (22:47) - Tiny lab-grown brains could help build the next generation of computers | TechSpot (Oct 06 2025)
    • (26:25) - Deloitte admits AI hallucinated quotes in government report, offers partial refund | TechSpot (Oct 07 2025)
    • (36:31) - The AI bubble is “17 times” the size of dot-com, analyst warns | MarketWatch via Morningstar (Oct 03 2025)
    • (44:15) - Which Table Format Do LLMs Understand Best? (Results for 11 Formats) | Improving Agents (Sep 30 2025)
    • (49:57) - Managed MCP servers for secure data agents | Snowflake Blog

    Talk to you soon!
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    55 mins
  • Sora 2, Claude 4.5, and the $100M Bet

    Sora 2, Claude 4.5, and the $100M Bet
    Oct 3 2025

    Report: Fivetran in talks with dbt Labs over multibillion-dollar big-data merger
    https://siliconangle.com/2025/09/28/report-fivetran-talks-dbt-labs-multibillion-dollar-big-data-merger/

    Apple’s ‘Veritas’ chatbot is reportedly an employee-only test of Siri’s AI upgrades
    https://www.theverge.com/news/787046/apples-veritas-siri-ai-chatbot

    OpenAI takes on Google, Amazon with new agentic shopping system
    https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/29/openai-takes-on-google-amazon-with-new-agentic-shopping-system/

    OpenAI announces Sora 2 and AI video and audio app that allows for user ‘cameos’
    https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/openai-announces-sora-2-ai-video-audio-app-rcna234753

    Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5
    https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-5

    Chrome DevTools (MCP) voor uw AI-agent
    https://developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-devtools-mcp?hl=nl

    Spotify is finally taking steps to address its AI slop and clone problem
    https://www.theverge.com/news/785136/spotify-ai-slop-impersonation-disclosure

    Databricks will bake OpenAI models into its products in $100M bet to spur enterprise adoption
    https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/25/databricks-will-bake-openai-models-into-its-products-in-100m-bet-to-spur-enterprise-adoption/

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    58 mins
  • DeepSeek R1 $294k + Alibaba AI Chip + Judge Halts Anthropic

    DeepSeek R1 $294k + Alibaba AI Chip + Judge Halts Anthropic
    Sep 24 2025

    Bigger and Better Worlds — World Labs
    https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/bigger-better-worlds

    AI as teleportation — Geoffrey Litt
    https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/09/10/ai-as-teleportation.html

    Introducing Shuttle Cobra — Shuttle
    https://www.shuttle.dev/blog/2025/09/18/introducing-shuttle-cobra

    Secrets of DeepSeek AI model revealed in landmark paper — Nature
    https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03015-6

    Alibaba's new AI chip: Key specifications comparable to H20 (Hacker News discussion)
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45273747

    Vibe Shift? Senior Developers Ship nearly 2.5x more AI Code than Junior Counterparts — Fastly
    https://www.fastly.com/blog/senior-developers-ship-more-ai-code

    Albania appoints world’s first AI government ‘minister’ to root out corruption — Euronews
    https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/09/12/albania-appoints-worlds-first-ai-government-minister-to-root-out-corruption

    Judge puts Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement on hold — The Verge
    https://www.theverge.com/news/775230/anthropic-piracy-class-action-lawsuit-settlement-rejected

    Thanks a lot for listening! ❤️

    • (00:27) - World Labs — “Bigger and Better Worlds”
    • (04:31) - Geoffrey Litt on “AI as Teleportation”
    • (12:54) - Shuttle — Introducing “Cobra”
    • (19:17) - DeepSeek R1 — peer-reviewed costs & methods
    • (22:19) - Alibaba’s H20-class AI chip debate
    • (28:56) - Senior developers ship ~2.5× more AI code
    • (40:02) - Albania’s AI “minister” for public tenders
    • (44:22) - Judge pauses Anthropic $1.5B book-piracy settlement
    • (52:19) - ByteDance — “SeedDream 4.0” (quick note)
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    54 mins
  • AI’s Wild Week: Apple Sued, Anthropic Pays $1.5B, Mistral Raises €1.7B — Plus Atlassian Buys Arc Maker & Azure Hit through Red Sea Cables

    AI’s Wild Week: Apple Sued, Anthropic Pays $1.5B, Mistral Raises €1.7B — Plus Atlassian Buys Arc Maker & Azure Hit through Red Sea Cables
    Sep 11 2025

    Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Company for $610 million https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/04/atlassian-the-browser-company-deal.html

    Mistral AI raises €1.7B to accelerate technological activity https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mistralai_mistral-ai-raises-17b-to-accelerate-technological-activity-7371045632284971008-KOtm?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAUumq8B49UW7m9VV5ijr01USsCOWMSQaGw

    The Three Faces Of Generative AI https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/the-three-faces-of-generative-ai

    Will AI Replace Human Thinking? The Case for Writing and Coding Manually https://www.ssp.sh/brain/will-ai-replace-humans/

    Anthropic reaches $1.5 billion settlement with authors in landmark copyright case https://fortune.com/2025/09/05/anthropic-reaches-1-5-billion-settlement-with-authors-in-landmark-copyright-case/?utm_source=perplexity

    Apple sued by authors over use of books in AI training https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/apple-sued-by-authors-over-use-books-ai-training-2025-09-05/?utm_source=perplexity

    Microsoft Says Azure Service Affected by Damaged Red Sea Cables https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-06/microsoft-says-azure-service-affected-by-damaged-red-sea-cables

    Why language models hallucinate https://openai.com/index/why-language-models-hallucinate/

    Tidbits:

    AMD claims Arm ISA doesn't offer efficiency advantage over x86 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45168854

    WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/09/pulse-fi-wifi-heart-rate/

    The MIT-Pay Me Or Get The Fork Out License https://barts.space/the-mit-pay-me-or-get-the-fork-out-license/

    Thanks for listening! ❤️
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    1 hr and 13 mins