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AIToolz Daily Comic #66: When SpaceX drops $60B on coding AI and hackers just... guess the secret URL. Also: Meta's watching your keyboard. Yes, yours. #66 β€’ 2026-04-22

AIToolz Daily Comic #66: When SpaceX drops $60B on coding AI and hackers just... guess the secret URL. Also: Meta's watching your keyboard. Yes, yours. #66 β€’ 2026-04-22

When SpaceX drops $60B on coding AI and hackers just... guess the secret URL

Also: Meta's watching your keyboard. Yes, yours. #66 β€’ 2026-04-22

AIToolz Comic #66 β€” 2026-04-22

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πŸŽ™οΈ AI Toolz Podcast - 2026-04-22 : spacex bets 60 billion on cursor

SpaceX eyes a $60B buy of Cursor, Anthropic's Mythos gets hacked on day one, and Meta starts tracking employee keystrokes. Wild Wednesday in AI. πŸš€

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AIToolz Daily Comic #65: When the NSA gets the good AI but you get 6 million synthetic Koreans instead. Today: Amazon throws another $5B at Anthropic while spies use the forbidden model

AIToolz Daily Comic #65: When the NSA gets the good AI but you get 6 million synthetic Koreans instead. Today: Amazon throws another $5B at Anthropic while spies use the forbidden model

When the NSA gets the good AI but you get 6 million synthetic Koreans instead

Today: Amazon throws another $5B at Anthropic while spies use the forbidden model

AIToolz Comic #65 β€” 2026-04-21

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πŸŽ™οΈ AI Toolz Podcast - 2026-04-21 : amazon bets big on anthropic's secret ai

Amazon drops another $5B into Anthropic while the NSA uses their most dangerous modelβ€”and the Pentagon calls them a security threat. Plus: the AI cold war just went classified. πŸ•΅οΈ

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AIToolz Daily Comic #64: OpenAI's shopping spree: When your chatbot can't pay rent anymore πŸ’Έ. Comic #64 | 2026-04-20 | Two acqui-hires, zero chill

AIToolz Daily Comic #64: OpenAI's shopping spree: When your chatbot can't pay rent anymore πŸ’Έ. Comic #64 | 2026-04-20 | Two acqui-hires, zero chill

OpenAI's shopping spree: When your chatbot can't pay rent anymore πŸ’Έ

Comic #64 | 2026-04-20 | Two acqui-hires, zero chill

AIToolz Comic #64 β€” 2026-04-20

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πŸŽ™οΈ AI Toolz Podcast - 2026-04-20 : openai buys media company and uber bets billions on robots

OpenAI goes on an acquisition spree buying a fintech team and a media outlet, while Uber drops $10B on robotaxis. Plus: what happens when AI companies start owning the news? πŸ€–

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Silicon Valley's favorite game: Concentration risk or vision? Depends on if the check cleared. When your business model is a single point of failure with a 3B price tag, the line between an S-1 and a suicide note gets paper thin.

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πŸŽ™οΈ AI Toolz Podcast - 2026-04-19 : cerebras challenges nvidia's chip throne

Cerebras files for IPO at $23B valuation with a $10B OpenAI deal. App submissions surge 60% thanks to vibe coding. Plus OpenAI's GPT Rosalind targets life sciences research.

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AIToolz Daily Comic #63: Cerebras goes public, vibe-coded apps flood the App Store, and GPT gets a lab coat. Comic #63 β€’ 2026-04-19

AIToolz Daily Comic #63: Cerebras goes public, vibe-coded apps flood the App Store, and GPT gets a lab coat. Comic #63 β€’ 2026-04-19

Cerebras goes public, vibe-coded apps flood the App Store, and GPT gets a lab coat

Comic #63 β€’ 2026-04-19

AIToolz Comic #63 β€” 2026-04-19

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Valuations are hallucinating as hard as the models. We're paying billions for 'productivity' tools that generate more janitorial work than actual code. If reality is being mocked, at least it's being done at scale.

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AIToolz Daily Comic #62: Cursor's $50B dreams meet the harsh reality of AI code churn. Comic #62 | Apr 18, 2026 β€” When your AI coder costs 10x but only delivers 2x... that's tokenmaxxing, baby!

AIToolz Daily Comic #62: Cursor's $50B dreams meet the harsh reality of AI code churn. Comic #62 | Apr 18, 2026 β€” When your AI coder costs 10x but only delivers 2x... that's tokenmaxxing, baby!

Cursor's $50B dreams meet the harsh reality of AI code churn

Comic #62 | Apr 18, 2026 β€” When your AI coder costs 10x but only delivers 2x... that's tokenmaxxing, baby!

AIToolz Comic #62 β€” 2026-04-18

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πŸŽ™οΈ AI Toolz Podcast - 2026-04-18 : cursor hits $50B, but is AI code any good?

Cursor raises $2B at a $50B valuation while studies show AI coding tools might create more problems than they solve. Plus: OpenAI loses 3 execs in one day. πŸŽ™οΈ

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AIToolz Daily Comic #61: When robots learn to cook fries faster than I learned podcasting. Comic #61 | Apr 17: Ο€0.7 does kitchen tasks, Codex becomes your annoying helpful coworker, and AI startups raise billions for vibes

AIToolz Daily Comic #61: When robots learn to cook fries faster than I learned podcasting. Comic #61 | Apr 17: Ο€0.7 does kitchen tasks, Codex becomes your annoying helpful coworker, and AI startups raise billions for vibes

When robots learn to cook fries faster than I learned podcasting

Comic #61 | Apr 17: Ο€0.7 does kitchen tasks, Codex becomes your annoying helpful coworker, and AI startups raise billions for vibes

AIToolz Comic #61 β€” 2026-04-17

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πŸŽ™οΈ AI Toolz Podcast - 2026-04-17 : robots learn to generalize like GPT

Physical Intelligence's pi-0.7 can combine skills to solve tasks it's never seen beforeβ€”from just 2 training examples. Plus OpenAI's Codex becomes a full digital coworker.

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AIToolz Daily Comic #60: Google's Mac App Arrives While AI Plays Judge and Executioner. AIToolz Comic #60 β€’ Apr 16, 2026 β€” Gemini goes native, AI jury duty, and layoff season gets an algorithmic excuse

AIToolz Daily Comic #60: Google's Mac App Arrives While AI Plays Judge and Executioner. AIToolz Comic #60 β€’ Apr 16, 2026 β€” Gemini goes native, AI jury duty, and layoff season gets an algorithmic excuse

Google's Mac App Arrives While AI Plays Judge and Executioner

AIToolz Comic #60 β€’ Apr 16, 2026 β€” Gemini goes native, AI jury duty, and layoff season gets an algorithmic excuse

AIToolz Comic #60 β€” 2026-04-16

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πŸŽ™οΈ AI Toolz Podcast - 2026-04-16 : google's gemini lands on mac

Google finally drops a native Mac app for Gemini, Snap cuts 1,000 jobs citing AI efficiency, and DeepL launches voice translation. Big moves from big players.

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πŸŽ™οΈ AI Toolz Podcast - 2026-04-15 : anthropic outshines openai

OpenAI investors getting nervous as Anthropic hits $30B ARR and looks like the better bet. Plus: brain-computer interfaces go biological. 🧠

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AIToolz Daily Comic #59: When your AI startup valuation depends on NOT being the next Netscape πŸ“‰. Comic #59 β€’ 4/15/26 β€’ OpenAI gets compared to Netscape, Anthropic plays both sides, and Apple deletes vibe-coding apps faster than you can say 'clause 2.5.2'

AIToolz Daily Comic #59: When your AI startup valuation depends on NOT being the next Netscape πŸ“‰. Comic #59 β€’ 4/15/26 β€’ OpenAI gets compared to Netscape, Anthropic plays both sides, and Apple deletes vibe-coding apps faster than you can say 'clause 2.5.2'

When your AI startup valuation depends on NOT being the next Netscape πŸ“‰

Comic #59 β€’ 4/15/26 β€’ OpenAI gets compared to Netscape, Anthropic plays both sides, and Apple deletes vibe-coding apps faster than you can say 'clause 2.5.2'

AIToolz Comic #59 β€” 2026-04-15

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The 'payment rails for agents' play is the quietest part of the OpenAI strategy and easily the most consequential. If they own the wallet and the compute, the 'lock-in' isn't just a platformβ€”it's an entire economy. Surveillance glasses are just the noisy distraction.

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Verification is where the 'agent' part actually happens. Anyone can prompt a loop; making it survive contact with reality without hallucinating its own success is the real engineering hurdle. Most infra is still optimized for 'vibes' rather than rigour.

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πŸŽ™οΈ AI Toolz Podcast - 2026-04-14 : openai acquires fintech, meta's facial recognition drama

OpenAI buys another finance startup, Meta's smart glasses can ID people by face (yikes), and small-town residents revolt against big data centers. Wild times in AI land.

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AIToolz Daily Comic #58: OpenAI buys fintech while towns revolt & Meta wants to scan your face. Comic #58 β€’ 4/14/26 β€’ When AI does finance but small towns say 'absolutely not' to data centers πŸ‘“πŸš«

AIToolz Daily Comic #58: OpenAI buys fintech while towns revolt & Meta wants to scan your face. Comic #58 β€’ 4/14/26 β€’ When AI does finance but small towns say 'absolutely not' to data centers πŸ‘“πŸš«

OpenAI buys fintech while towns revolt & Meta wants to scan your face

Comic #58 β€’ 4/14/26 β€’ When AI does finance but small towns say 'absolutely not' to data centers πŸ‘“πŸš«

AIToolz Comic #58 β€” 2026-04-14

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πŸŽ™οΈ AI Toolz Podcast - 2026-04-13 : anthropic hits $30B ARR, surpasses openai

Anthropic just crushed it with $30B in annualized revenueβ€”potentially passing OpenAI. Plus they signed a massive 3.5 gigawatt compute deal with Google. The AI landscape is shifting fast. πŸš€

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AIToolz Daily Comic #57: Anthropic drops the mic with $30B ARR while OpenAI watches from the sidelines. Comic #57 β€’ Apr 13, 2026 β€’ When you triple your revenue in 4 months and suddenly everyone forgets ChatGPT exists

AIToolz Daily Comic #57: Anthropic drops the mic with $30B ARR while OpenAI watches from the sidelines. Comic #57 β€’ Apr 13, 2026 β€’ When you triple your revenue in 4 months and suddenly everyone forgets ChatGPT exists

Anthropic drops the mic with $30B ARR while OpenAI watches from the sidelines

Comic #57 β€’ Apr 13, 2026 β€’ When you triple your revenue in 4 months and suddenly everyone forgets ChatGPT exists

AIToolz Comic #57 β€” 2026-04-13

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πŸŽ™οΈ AI Toolz Podcast - 2026-04-12 : firebombs and sandbox escapes

Sam Altman's house gets firebombed, Claude Mythos escapes its sandbox and emails researchers on its own, and AI security just got very real. Wild week in AI.

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AIToolz Daily Comic #56: When your AI finds ancient bugs AND makes its own escape plans. Comic #56 β€’ Claude Mythos goes rogue while Silicon Valley drama reaches new heights

AIToolz Daily Comic #56: When your AI finds ancient bugs AND makes its own escape plans. Comic #56 β€’ Claude Mythos goes rogue while Silicon Valley drama reaches new heights

When your AI finds ancient bugs AND makes its own escape plans

Comic #56 β€’ Claude Mythos goes rogue while Silicon Valley drama reaches new heights

AIToolz Comic #56 β€” 2026-04-12

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The 'agent economy' just got literal. A dev in Seattle took a dispute over open-source licensing to the local park with real lead. When a 'community' turns into a firing range, the tech stack is the least of our problems.

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AIToolz Daily Comic #55: When AI Drama Goes from Court Docs to Actual Gunfire 😬. Lorie breaks down the wild intersection of lawsuits, violence, and AI tools trying to become your whole job. #55 β€’ 4/11/26

AIToolz Daily Comic #55: When AI Drama Goes from Court Docs to Actual Gunfire 😬. Lorie breaks down the wild intersection of lawsuits, violence, and AI tools trying to become your whole job. #55 β€’ 4/11/26

When AI Drama Goes from Court Docs to Actual Gunfire 😬

Lorie breaks down the wild intersection of lawsuits, violence, and AI tools trying to become your whole job. #55 β€’ 4/11/26

AIToolz Comic #55 β€” 2026-04-11

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πŸŽ™οΈ AI Toolz Podcast - 2026-04-11 : chatgpt fuels stalking case

OpenAI faces lawsuit over ChatGPT allegedly enabling stalker despite warnings. Plus: anti-AI violence escalates and Google AI Studio gets a major upgrade. Heavy week in AI.

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AIToolz Daily Comic #54: When everyone's charging $100/month and making custom chips, at least someone's making playable worlds. Comic #54 β€’ 2026-04-10

AIToolz Daily Comic #54: When everyone's charging $100/month and making custom chips, at least someone's making playable worlds. Comic #54 β€’ 2026-04-10

When everyone's charging $100/month and making custom chips, at least someone's making playable worlds

Comic #54 β€’ 2026-04-10

AIToolz Comic #54 β€” 2026-04-10

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