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The episode discusses the differences between agentic AI and chatbots, the implications of SK Hynix's new plant in Indiana, and Bernie Sanders' proposal regarding government equity in AI companies.

EPISODE DESCRIPTION Everybody throws around "agentic AI" like it means the same thing as the chatbot they have used since 2022. It does not, and Jason walks Julie through exactly where the line sits. A chat interface answers your question. An agent goes off and does the work. Jason's own setup pulls a week of voice memos out of NotebookLM, drafts the No Code CAIO and Field Notes newsletters, pushes them to GitHub, and ships them to Cloudflare while he barely reviews a thing. Then it turns local. SK Hynix is putting a 3.87 billion dollar chip-packaging plant in West Lafayette, residents have a lawsuit going over transparency, and Indiana keeps handing billion-dollar companies decades of zero sales tax just to show up. Jason and Julie get into the part nobody says out loud: golf courses use five times the water data centers do, the California almond industry dwarfs both, and we the people keep paying the electricity bill while big tech hands out a hundred million for overseas social programs and calls it generosity. Plus Jason's read on Bernie Sanders wanting the government to take a 50 percent equity stake in OpenAI, Anthropic, and the rest, and why he thinks that one…

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