Anthropic pre-IPO hit $900B. Claude Code crossed $2.5B ARR in nine months — the fastest B2B growth ever recorded. And your Claude Opus didn't get dumber — Anthropic quietly nerfed it (73% drop in reasoning depth across 7,000 sessions).

This week on God Mode Pod: Rik, Ben, and Luca break down the three-week Anthropic news dump — the Tesla vs NVIDIA playbook debate, the Opus reasoning rollback, the desktop Claude Code redesign, and whether IDEs will actually be dead by end of year.

Plus: Tesla AI5 tapes out (2,500 TOPS, 17x jump from 2019). The OpenAI CRO memo leak. Luca's antitrust prediction. A 24-year-old ex-OpenAI researcher who turned a $254M fund into $5.5B in one year. Allbirds pivoting to AI compute for a 910% single-session run. And the best builder story of the week — a pool postcard AI agent that's already making money.

Three builders. One hour. Everything that mattered in AI this week.

New episode every Saturday.