Stacked Podcast

Someone decompiled Adobe's entire Creative Cloud suite and published open-source versions, and games are now being routinely decompiled too. Nick and Jack ask whether software is dead: where the moat is when any app can be cloned in minutes (regulation, design, distribution), why Mark Cuban would pick an AI consulting business over a new startup in 2026, and how long companies like Adobe can keep charging subscriptions when free alternatives work. Then Nicolas Cage refuses to sign Amazon's AI likeness waiver, Microsoft's new Decision 1 model turns out to be post-trained on Qwen 3.5, and how the hosts use small decision models. Plus viewer comments on being nice to AI, and each host's AI apocalypse plan.

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Someone rebuilt Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Lightroom, After Effects, InDesign and Acrobat in Rust with Claude Opus 5.5 and released the whole suite as open source. We go through why this one took off, why you may never need to pay for SaaS again, and what Wikipedia tells us about open source beating paid products. Then OpenAI's report on an Iran-origin operation that placed about 100 AI-assisted articles under fake bylines, AI engagement bait and fake personas across social media, and why first-principles thinking is the antidote. Plus Claude's Teams-only dashboards, Roko's basilisk, how we evaluate new models, Anthropic's rules on abusive users, and ultra fast pricing.

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Anthropic can now ban users who abuse Claude, Elon agrees that cruelty to AI is not okay, and we look at the "digital whip" people built for Claude Code. OpenAI fires three safety researchers, and we read their open letter and debate whether OpenAI should answer to the public. Sol Ultrafast runs 8x faster at 6x the price, and we ask whether that speed is worth paying for. Plus the Mac mini giveaway draw, viewer comments on whether AI can already physically harm us, and synthetic filters.

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Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5 at 10 cents per million input tokens, a 10x price cut that also beats GPT 6 Luna on GDPval, and why the "dumb" model tier isn't dumb anymore (Haiku would have been the world's frontier model five months ago). OpenAI opens GPT 6 to free users and rolls out intelligent visual UIs in ChatGPT, which we test live, plus whether plumbers and nurses are really safe from AI. Google opens its SynthID Detector to everyone, and we put LinkedIn images and a Goldman Sachs video through it. Plus viewer Q&A on ASI, open weights, and saving tokens without losing intelligence.

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OpenAI publishes hundreds of results from an internal model on long-open math problems, from the Kakeya maximal conjecture to aperiodic 3D tiling, and why physics, chemistry and biology are next. Elon Musk says Grok bot will route to the best backend model for each task, including Claude Opus 5.5, and what that admission says about the frontier. Viral AI influencers nobody could tell were fake, Mistral Large 4's benchmarks (and the one it wins), plus viewer Q&A on home AI labs, how much RAM you need, and whether to learn machine learning.

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SemiAnalysis says Claude's $200 plan delivers 5.6x the value of ChatGPT's ($11,726 vs $2,084 in API-equivalent usage), why Nick burned through his $500 ChatGPT plan in about 15 minutes, and why cost per task may be a better yardstick than token value. Reflection's new 500B open-weight model Beam and its rough benchmarks. Four AI labs refuse, under oath at a New York City hearing, to guarantee their agents will follow safeguards, and how reinforcement learning makes that hard. Plus: a scammer tries to hijack our giveaway, is AI the modern Tower of Babel, and viewer Q&A on models, Dots, and AI critics.

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Donald Trump's Superintelligence Force, Elon Musk changing SpaceX AI to SpaceX SI, and why many companies may follow suit. Anthropic's recent filings, which reveal up to $84.5B of compute running on SpaceX hardware through 2029 (while SpaceX is also building Grok 5). David Robinson's resignation from OpenAI, his essay on its culture in The Atlantic, and why a lot of people are going public. Plus: is hardware the new moat? Q&A on building a brand while working.

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Nick and Jack break down Anthropic's new Claude Code mods that rewrite prompts and intercept tool calls. Since the mods use your permissions, make sure you're only installing ones you'd trust. Plus: the guys react to people rebuilding Halo in Call of Duty using AI, and Figure jumping their retiring robots into molten steel with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the film.

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Nick and Jack talk about a live conversational video AI model called Tavus Griffin, which fooled 48% of 54 people in a one-minute study by Tavus. They debate applications and the potential for deception before diving into Cloudflare's Clef-flash decision models and picking this week's Mac mini winner.

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Nick is flying solo on this episode of Stacked Podcast, covering Google's new Gemini 4 Argon, which outperforms both Opus 5.5 and Astra on most benchmarks. He dives into the FTC's investigation into frontier agent capabilities at OpenAI and Anthropic, and what it means for your security, and reflects on the retirement of Sonnet 4.5.

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