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Uber puts all 30,000 employees on ChatGPT Work; plus, Spotify’s current AI bet is about being the music service that agents choose

Uber previously deployed a much smaller pilot for ChatGPT Work, but is now taking the enterprise agent company-wide. Also, Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström explains why the rise of AI agents could be good news for the music service. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

7 MIN

Anthropic pitches AI safety bill; plus, Hugging Face CEO warns that Netflix’s OpenAI hack documentary isn’t accurate

The proposed policy seems to offer protections against AI run amok but actually forbids federal agencies from blocking a model's release without the permission of a judge. Also, before you share the Netflix documentary "AI Gone Rogue" take note. Clem Delangue, Hugging Face's co-founder who is featured in the film, says it went "full doomer mode" and isn't accurate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

9 MIN

People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again

A number of developers and vibe coders have recently been sharing solutions for “vibe-coding” your TV to get rid of sponsored ads, speed up the app launcher, redesign the home screen, disable tracking features, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

6 MIN

Everyone’s watching the Elizabeth Holmes documentary ‘You Can See Everything’; plus Anthropic is committing to a ‘public benefit fund’

"You Can See Everything" is having the second biggest opening weekend ever for a documentary film. Also, Anthropic said that it will commit 5% of its shares to the fund. And the filing also says that the “vast majority” of Character.AI employees who were offered jobs at Disney accepted them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

5 MIN

Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access; plus, AI agents are coming to Rivian’s cars

METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

6 MIN