OM DENNE EPISODE
Demis Hassabis's Isomorphic Labs raises $2.1B to solve all disease. Musk's case against OpenAI got thrown out on a timing technicality. Siri's becoming polyamorous and opening up to outside models.
Claude Opus 4.7 has started pushing back instead of agreeing. Meta's Tribe V2 models what's happening in your brain when you use a product. OpenHuman trends on GitHub. Land Library hits its first real product-market-fit moment — a thirty-year real estate veteran asking how to get more access.
TIMESTAMPS
(00:00) Cold open
(02:51) Weekly Check-in
(03:39) News
(28:26) Tools
(44:23) Building
(56:47) Rabbit Holes
(01:03:34) Open Questions
(01:17:23) Deep Dive — Interfaces
(01:47:52) AMA
RESOURCES
PEOPLE
Demis Hassabis — Google DeepMind co-founder, runs Isomorphic Labs
Johnny Ive — collaborating with OpenAI on a hardware project
Spike Jonze — directed "Her"
Stefan Sagmeister — designer, recent Long Now talk on progress
PROJECTS / COMPANIES / TOOLS
Cerebras Systems — AI chips, IPO'd with 160% pop on NASDAQ
Claude Opus 4.7 — Anthropic's model, now pushing back instead of agreeing
Gemini Flash Live 3.1 — Google voice model powering Hours
Hours — their voice-based micro-consulting agent
Isomorphic Labs — Hassabis's $2.1B drug-discovery raise
Land Library / Landbook — their land-relationship tool
OpenHuman — Mac-native open source agent, trending on GitHub
TBPN — podcast OpenAI acquired for ~$100M
Tribe V2 — Meta's brain-response modeling tool
FRAMEWORKS / CONCEPTS / LAWS
Bullshit Jobs — ~60% of white-collar work is unnecessary, per the book
Compute futures — arriving on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Gross National Happiness — Bhutan's alternative to GDP
Kaitiaki — Māori concept of land stewardship
Treaty of Waitangi — Māori–British translation gap on land ownership
PAPERS / ARTICLES / ESSAYS
Solve Everything — paper by Alex Wissner-Gross and Peter Diamandis
OTHER
Buns — Portuguese burger joint with a full http://localhost ops suite and AI banana cartoons
