ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Outnumbered by Robots? Episode 13 of Digilize Lab is live.
This week:
The robots are multiplying. Figure now has more robots than employees, building close to one an hour - and the line about a "singularity moment" stopped sounding like a joke. Then we found a $499 filming robot that hits 25 km/h, jumps, flips, and follows you around on its own. We get into how long "outnumbered" stays funny.
Fable got banned. Not throttled - banned. For the first time, the US Bureau of Industry and Security slapped export controls on a model instead of a chip, locking it down worldwide for every non-US citizen - reportedly including Anthropic's own staff. The real reason they pulled it might be the most interesting part. We get into it.
One day later, Grok went to war. xAI quietly shipped a model built for military use, already reported to be directing live targeting decisions on the battlefield. Same week, one model gets locked away for being too dangerous, another ships straight to the front line. Make of that what you will.
Then China answered. GLM 5.2 landed at roughly Fable-level intelligence, around 15x cheaper, and fully open-weight - the whole thing, published. The catch is how it gets there, and what it actually takes to run. (Spoiler: you'll need a lot more than a laptop.)
A Claude Code sub for $6? People are selling them on sketchy marketplaces, and the why is more interesting than the how. Stolen accounts, tax arbitrage, or something to hide - we speculate.
And your headphones might be a backdoor. Two Heidelberg researchers found an exploit in a chip sitting inside 100+ wireless headphone models - close enough to reach into the phone they're paired to. We break down how bad it really is.
Presented by Digilize Agency
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