Episode 42 covers a week where AI stopped being optional. Elon Musk spent three days on the witness stand in federal court seeking $134 billion and the unwinding of OpenAI's for-profit conversion. Microsoft's Copilot agentic mode went generally available across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, with Excel engagement up 67% in preview. DeepSeek released V4 at roughly one-seventh the cost of Western frontier models. The Pentagon signed classified AI deals with seven major tech firms while 580 Google employees protested the company's military contract. The episode closes with a practical toolkit of advanced prompting techniques for getting more honest output from any LLM.

CHAPTERS

0:34 - The $134 Billion OpenAI Lawsuit

4:02 - The Agentic Office and the App-Free Phone

7:05 - AI Psychosis and the Shapes Group Chat

8:21 - Medical AI: Clinicians and Consensus

9:34 - Pentagon Power and the Google Backlash

12:14 - Cloud Wars and DeepSeek's Price Disruption

15:30 - The Advanced Prompting Toolkit

19:30 - Final Thought: Calibrated Honesty

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