GPT 5.4 vs Gemini: Benchmarks, Codex, Excel
Beth Lyons and Andy Halliday open the show with a focused breakdown of GPT-5.4, framing it less as a universal leap and more as a strong advance in white-collar knowledge work and real-world task perf...
6 Mars 56min
AI Bugs, Swarms, and “God’s Eye”
The hosts briefly touch the latest twist in the Anthropic / Pentagon / OpenAI narrative, including discussion around a reported internal memo and how the story keeps evolving. They then move into crea...
6 Mars 57min
Midjourney Woes and Deepseek V4 Buzz
Episode 673 opens with updates on the ongoing Anthropic / OpenAI / DoD situation, including discussion of autonomous systems, decision-speed, and military targeting concepts like “kill chain” vs “kill...
4 Mars 1h 37min
Can Anthropic Sustain This?
Brian Maucere and Beth Lyons open the March 3, 2026 show with Anne Murphy joining early to discuss public reaction to the Anthropic vs OpenAI “Department of War” narrative and how quickly people are s...
3 Mars 1h 4min
Sam Altman AMA + Nate Jones Uncanny Valley
Brian Maucere and Beth Lyons open with carryover news tied to Anthropic’s “Department of War” commentary and the online reaction to Sam Altman’s weekend AMA on X. They discuss the “Quit ChatGPT / Quit...
2 Mars 53min
The Epistemic Escrow Conundrum
Large-scale AI models are now the primary interface for professional research, legal discovery, and scientific synthesis. To ensure "safety," these models are governed by centralized alignment layers,...
28 Feb 23min
We demo Nano Banana 2 and much more
The hosts open with quick show notes (Conundrum episode + newsletter), then dig into Google’s “Nano Banana” (Gemini/Flash image) and what it can do—especially around turning transcripts into visuals a...
27 Feb 53min
Perplexity’s ‘Computer’ Today, Your OS Tomorrow?
Brian Maucere and Beth Lyons discuss Perplexity’s new “computer use” concept (19 agents) and why true impact likely arrives when these capabilities are baked into operating systems. They pivot into th...
26 Feb 48min
