Short Fuse

By Short Fuse

Technology and socio-economic big bets

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July 31, 2026 The Good, The Bad, and The Baddies of AI
Who are the good guys in AI? Bad news: there probably aren’t any. We look at Anthropic, OpenAI, open weights, corporate backstabbing and the curious business strategy of telling everyone your product might destroy civilisation.
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18min
July 15, 2026 Rotten to the Core
Steve Jobs said great artists steal. Apple's lawyers would now like a word.
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15min
June 29, 2026 Golden Eggs and AI God Complexes
SoftBank has explained the future of AI using a golden goose, a conveyor belt of ASI eggs and the calm financial logic of a man trying to turn PowerPoint into scripture. Duncan and Ollie ask whether the AI boom has become a bubble, a religion, or just a very expensive bird with ARM inside it.
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14min
June 25, 2026 What's going on with Meta
Prediction markets, smart glasses, a Kylie Jenner voice in your sunglasses. Meta will copy anything that moves. Today: the most profitable company on earth with no idea what it actually wants to be.
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13min
June 24, 2026 The Open AI Money Pit
OpenAI is burning through money fast enough to make a small country nervous, so we worked out how long the runway really is and what happens when one of these AI giants can't pay its bills. It's also really, really hot.
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14min
June 20, 2026 Cursor Bought, Social Media Ban, Google's Chips
This week on Short Fuse News, Duncan and Ollie tackle SpaceX buying Cursor, the UK’s looming social media ban, and Google deciding it might quite like to sell chips after all. Expect AI wrappers, Jensen jail, tech bros building tents full of servers, and the usual disciplined attempt to stay on topic.
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39min
June 15, 2026 IPOs, Fable 5
The US government has told Anthropic that Fable is off-limits to anyone who isn't American. Is it genuinely too dangerous, or the best marketing stunt since a deodorant advert convinced a generation of boys they'd be chased down the street? Duncan and Ollie work through it via Occam's razor, Aesop, and what the name "Fable" might have been trying to tell us all along.
Then SpaceX floats, goes up thirty percent, and starts selling the idea that your data centre belongs in orbit. We get into why cooling a computer in space is harder than anyone admits, why mining asteroids still doesn't add up, and why every tech IPO on earth is suddenly happening at once.
Bubble or business? You decide.
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42min
May 29, 2026 Backpeddling! Pope! Quantum!
Sam Altman woke up, put on his red velour dressing gown, and decided your job is safe after all. Duncan and Ollie get into the great AI climbdown, the Pope's beef with the machines, and the growing public urge to take a hammer to a data centre.
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32min
May 19, 2026 Zeitgeist
In this episode, Duncan and Ollie explore the concept of the zeitgeist, analyzing various perspectives from AI models and their own insights. They discuss societal trust, technological change, cultural shifts, and potential future scenarios, offering a deep and humorous look at the mood of our times.
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34min
April 30, 2026 Musk Sues Open AI, Mythos Locked, Meta Layoffs, Tokenomics, More Robots
Musk is suing OpenAI, Anthropic is keeping Mythos locked behind Project Glasswing, and the age of subsidised AI is ending. We're back after a break to work through the news that piled up.
Duncan and Ollie cover the OpenAI lawsuit and what discovery might surface, why Mythos staying behind closed doors is as much an economics story as a safety one, the Opus 4.7 pricing sleight of hand, Meta's keystroke logging and latest round of layoffs, the missing AI productivity gains, and humanoid robots at CES vs Hannover Messe.

00:00 Welcome Back and Podcast Overview
00:47 Elon Musk vs OpenAI: The Lawsuit
03:39 The Future of AI and OpenAI's Challenges
07:05 Consumer Preferences in AI: Anthropic vs OpenAI
08:35 Meta's AI Strategy and Workforce Concerns
10:30 Mythos and Cybersecurity: The Cost of AI Models
14:53 The Economics of AI: Subsidies and Costs
20:04 Humanoid Robots: CES vs Hannover Messe

Short Fuse is a podcast about emerging tech, human behaviour, and cultural movements. Hosts take long and short positions on the stories that matter and defend their reasoning.
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The podcast currently has 41 episodes available.