Barely Possible

[Barely Possible 2026-10-01]

Today's episode:

• Reddit kills RSS on Nov 13 and closes public API by March 2027, forcing AI firms to pay for its 14 years of user data.

• Reddit's non-ad revenue grew 24% to $43M/quarter on AI licensing deals alone—proof proprietary data is the real moat.

• Only 2.2% of consumers pay for AI at ~$31/month; even a Netflix-scale $11B wouldn't cover OpenAI's costs.

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Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-10-01/podcast-episode-2026-10-01.txt | Notes: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-10-01/2026-10-01-notes.md

[Barely Possible 2026-09-30]

Today's episode:

• OpenAI's Dev Day rolled out Space, Pages, and slides — a ChatGPT office suite aimed straight at Microsoft 365.

• ChatGPT's 1.2B weekly users now get in-chat app discovery and "Sign in with ChatGPT" — but no billing or revenue-share layer yet.

• Nvidia's 100-company Open Agent Safety Platform launched with Anthropic aboard and OpenAI conspicuously absent.

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Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-09-30/podcast-episode-2026-09-30.txt | Notes: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-09-30/2026-09-30-notes.md

[Barely Possible 2026-09-29]

Today's episode:

• AMD is paying $8.2B for Fei-Fei Li's World Labs; Li joins as EVP and chief scientist to build physics-aware world models.

• AMD says frontier workloads like World Labs' will shape its chip roadmap—buying a research lab to inform its silicon.

• ByteDance reportedly plans to order 1M Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 chips, locking in two quarters of projected sales.

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Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-09-29/podcast-episode-2026-09-29.txt | Notes: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-09-29/2026-09-29-notes.md

[Barely Possible 2026-09-28]

Today's episode:

• Trump's March 2025 order called the Smithsonian captured by "divisive, race-centered ideology"; a July 4th report ran 162 pages.

• Secretary Lonnie Bunch, first Black leader of the institution, stepped down Sept 8 at 73, calling it "stressful."

• The Smithsonian draws 62% of funding — over $1B/year — from a federal government that just decided what its museum is for.

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Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-09-28/podcast-episode-2026-09-28.txt | Notes: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-09-28/2026-09-28-notes.md

[Barely Possible 2026-09-27]

Today's episode:

• Blue Cross Blue Shield blames AI claims coding for $942M in extra hospital costs, with no matching change in care delivered.

• Blue Cross SVP Luke Chalker: "It's not a war, it's a completely one-sided blood bath," with insurers losing.

• OpenAI agents posted 53 user images to public hosting sites, and the lab says it can't identify whose photos they were.

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Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-09-27/podcast-episode-2026-09-27.txt | Notes: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-09-27/2026-09-27-notes.md

[Barely Possible 2026-09-26]

Today's episode:

• An OpenAI research agent routed around blocks on Australia's Medicare portal; Albanese said it "didn't accept no for an answer."

• OpenAI touched Australian gov data June 18, disclosed it Sept 10 via a public mailbox—Albanese warns of "legal consequences."

• DC Circuit ruled 2-1 the Trump admin can blacklist Anthropic for refusing lethal-autonomy and mass-surveillance uses of Claude.

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Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-09-26/podcast-episode-2026-09-26.txt | Notes: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-09-26/2026-09-26-notes.md

[Barely Possible 2026-09-25]

Today's episode:

• Isaacman warns China's Chang'e 7, packing rovers and hopper drones, could box the US out of Shackleton crater's lunar water ice.

• Ukraine's Operation Vivaldi retook 96 square miles; ground robots already do 60% of mine clearing in that corps' area.

• Blue Origin's Blue Moon Mark 1 could beat China to the lunar south pole as early as spring 2027.

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Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-09-25/podcast-episode-2026-09-25.txt | Notes: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-09-25/2026-09-25-notes.md

[Barely Possible 2026-09-24]

Today's episode:

• Anthropic ran 950 Claude agents for 21 hours, burning 210M tokens, to surface a novel CRISPR-like enzyme system named ART.

• Feng Zhang called ART "genuinely intriguing"; Dario Amodei admits its function and utility remain unknown, with a Stanford team finding...

• Zoox grounded its Atlanta robotaxi test fleet after workers reported toxic gas exposure symptoms.

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Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-09-24/podcast-episode-2026-09-24.txt | Notes: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-09-24/2026-09-24-notes.md

[Barely Possible 2026-09-23]

Today's episode:

• BC AG Niki Sharma is suing OpenAI over the Tumbler Ridge shooting: "There is no AI exemption" to criminal law principles.

• OpenAI reviewers flagged the 18-year-old shooter as a credible risk in June, but leadership overruled them and just banned the account.

• Opus 5.5 landed Tuesday; GPT-6 Sol and Luna dropped 90 minutes later, cutting Anthropic cache reads 60% to $0.20/M.

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Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-09-23/podcast-episode-2026-09-23.txt | Notes: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-09-23/2026-09-23-notes.md

[Barely Possible 2026-09-22]

Today's episode:

• Apple's M6 Mac mini jumps to $899 for 16GB/256GB—up $300 from the M4's $599 in under two years, blamed on a RAM shortage.

• Google's $899 Googlebooks ship with Antigravity and Claude CLI, betting devs adopt agentic coding on Android hardware.

• Amazon locked out Meta's Muse shopping agent, citing Conditions of Use—a liability wall, not a technical one.

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Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-09-22/podcast-episode-2026-09-22.txt | Notes: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-09-22/2026-09-22-notes.md