About this episode

The episode discusses various topics including AI software sales, the concept of AI taxes, and recent developments in AI technologies and surveillance.

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…

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Microsoft, Reuters, alpr.watch, Spotify, Alphabet, Google, Nvidia, McKinsey

Products: Copilot, AI software, ChatGPT Images, ty, Toad

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