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Monologue: The Year Ahead

Monologue: The Year Ahead

Better Offline · Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

January 16, 20267m 42sbonus

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Show Notes

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through the seeming collapse of Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines, and why the AI bubble can’t survive the death of OpenAI.

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Kylie Robison’s scoop about Thinking Machines: https://x.com/kyliebytes/status/2011572331798548899

Max Zeff of WIRED’s follow-on story: https://www.wired.com/story/thinking-machines-lab-cofounders-leave-for-openai/

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