#99 - Work Trend Index, Anthropic Financial Agents, OpenAI Realtime Models, Agent Payments & more

About this episode

Jaime and Shadab discuss various advancements in AI, including Microsoft's Work Trend Index and new models from OpenAI and Anthropic.

In this episode, Jaime & Shadab discuss Microsoft’s 2026 Work Trend Index and the rise of “human agency,” OpenAI and Anthropic’s push to acquire AI services firms, Anthropic’s finance agent templates for modeling/KYC/valuation and month-end close, OpenAI’s new real-time translation and streaming transcription models, GPT-realtime-2 with 128K context and voice reasoning, GPT-chat-latest rolling into Microsoft Foundry, SpaceX’s Colossus GPU deal boosting Anthropic limits, and Amazon AgentCore payments with Coinbase and Stripe & more

People in this episode

Hosts: Jaime Basilico, Shadab Hussain

Topics covered

• Work Trend Index
• AI services
• financial agents
• real-time models
• agent payments
• human agency

Keywords

• Microsoft
• OpenAI
• Anthropic
• AI services
• financial agents
• real-time translation
• streaming transcription
• AgentCore
• payments

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX, Amazon, Coinbase, Stripe

Products: GPT-realtime-2, AgentCore

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