This episode uncovers the internal power struggle at Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab, revealing how secret talks with Sam Altman led to a co-founder exodus back to OpenAI. We also explore the philosophical implications of Anthropic’s new "constitution" for Claude, which controversially suggests the model may possess functional emotions and includes apologies to the AI itself. The conversation shifts to major industry consolidations, including Google DeepMind’s strategic acqui-hire of Hume AI’s leadership to bolster emotional intelligence in Gemini, and reports that Apple is overhauling Siri into a chatbot while developing a new wearable. Plus, we discuss Runway’s Gen-4.5 fooling human viewers, the launch of the autonomous scheduling tool Blockit, and Salesforce’s mass adoption of Cursor for coding.
