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Join Jason Howell and Alfred Nutile as we break down Anthropic’s Claude Cowork desktop agent, OpenAI’s plan to monetize ChatGPT through ads, YouTube’s evolving strategy to curb AI slop, Alfred’s day-to-day building AI automations for clients, and rapid fire updates on AI water debates, Lego’s AI learning kits, and Wikipedia’s big training data partnerships.

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00:00:00 - Podcast begins

0:03:29 - Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work

0:07:36 - Anthropic’s new Cowork tool offers Claude Code without the code

0:12:20 - Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT

0:12:44 - ChatGPT Go now unlocks unlimited access to GPT-5.2 Instant for $8

0:13:03 - OpenAI Lines Up Advertisers, Reveals Key Details Ahead of Ads Launch

0:14:21 - Google's AI boss: No plans for ads in Gemini

0:19:12 - YouTube CEO Neal Mohan’s Big Ideas for 2026: More Superstar Creators and Transparency, Less AI Slop

0:24:08 - YouTubers will be able to make Shorts with their own AI likenesses

0:26:21 - The rise of ‘micro’ apps: non-developers are writing apps instead of buying them

00:28:27 - Opal by Google

0:56:59 - From Tokens to Burgers: A Water Footprint Face-Off

1:00:02 - OpenAI rolls out age prediction on ChatGPT

1:01:36 - Adobe unveils new AI-powered video editing tools for Premiere

1:04:11 - Lego's latest educational kit seeks to teach AI as part of computer science, not to build a chatbot

1:05:36 - Wikipedia signs major AI firms to new priority data access deals

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