This week on Get the Check Maya, Anika, and Priya are recording with less than ideal lighting and after a 4am night, but nothing keeps them wide awake like the Anthropic’s latest release Claude 4, OpenAI’s biggest acquisition yet, and Google’s I/O developer conference (one IO this week clearly isn’t enough!).The pod starts by discussing Claude 4, which unlike previous models is designed to handle long workflows and have better memory capabilities. The pod discusses if this will be the model that replaces the junior engineer. The hosts also dive into Anthropic's paper about their internal safety testing. They give their take on different scenario's Anthropic outlined including a model blackmailing an engineer with information about his affair and two models discovering Buddhism (kidding, kind of). Maya, Anika, and Priya zoom out and discuss what Anthropic activating its SL3 saftey protocol means.From there, the conversation shifts to OpenAI’s $6.5B acquisition of io, a hardware startup led by Apple design legend Jony Ive. The pod discusses OpenAI’s push into screenless AI companions and makes some predictions on what the final device will look like. Maya also dives into what challenges OpenAI is going to face going into hardware, with such a quick turnaround.Finally the hosts dive into Google's developer confrence. They go over the biggest product annoucements, including the future of AI search, Gemini 2.5, Veo 3’s video generation, and updates to Google's glasses. The pod breaks down Google's priorities and how they are positioning themselves in the AI ecosystem.
00:00 Intro
01:14 Claude 4
22:31 Open AI acquires IO
39:46 Google IO
