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The episode discusses recent developments in AI, including Anthropic's Fable timeout and OpenAI's IPO challenges.

This week, we discuss Anthropic's 18-day Fable timeout, whether AI is actually killing jobs, and OpenAI's trillion-dollar IPO problem. Plus, SoftBank's golden goose slides. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 579 Runner-up Titles Everything is Files It’s just about meetings Did you do the pre-meet? Meetings Judgement Let it ride If it’s hot, turn on the AC I don’t have time for a towel. Headless HEB Rundown I was fired by Google for creating the Google Workspace CLI Fable is Back White House lifts export control on advanced AI model from Anthropic Trump administration lifts restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5 OpenAI and Anthropic limit new AI models to Trump-approved customers during cybersecurity review AI News of the Month - June 2026 AI is NOT killing jobs Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short AWS puts $1 billion into new AI unit to embed engineers with customers A New Look at AI’s Impact on Jobs The Unstoppable Force of A.I. Hype Is Meeting One Immovable Fact Cloudflare Acquires VoidZero to Build the Future of the AI-Native Web OpenAI Leans Toward Waiting Until Next Year for I.P.O. SoftBank’s slides are just trolling us The PDF of the Slides…

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