Episodes

  • The Sloppening

    The Sloppening
    Aug 14 2026

    Anthropic is putting invisible watermarks into text generated by Claude. Which sounds like bad news for AI slop. Until you start asking what counts as AI generated in the first place.

    What happens if Claude edits one sentence? If AI reorganises your own ideas? If your company actively expects you to use AI at work? And if AI touches almost everything we write, does an AI watermark eventually tell us anything useful at all?

    Duncan and Ollie get into Claude’s new AI watermarking plans, the EU AI Act, AI slop, authorship, false attribution, workplace AI and the increasingly difficult question of who wrote what.

    Also: graffiti, The Hungry Caterpillar, authentically human crime and the beginning of The Sloppening.

    #AI #Claude #Anthropic

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    23 mins
  • The Good, The Bad, and The Baddies of AI

    The Good, The Bad, and The Baddies of AI
    Jul 31 2026
    Who are the good guys in AI? Bad news: there probably aren’t any. We look at Anthropic, OpenAI, open weights, corporate backstabbing and the curious business strategy of telling everyone your product might destroy civilisation.

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    17 mins
  • Rotten to the Core

    Rotten to the Core
    Jul 15 2026
    Steve Jobs said great artists steal. Apple's lawyers would now like a word.

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    15 mins
  • Golden Eggs and AI God Complexes

    Golden Eggs and AI God Complexes
    Jun 29 2026
    SoftBank has explained the future of AI using a golden goose, a conveyor belt of ASI eggs and the calm financial logic of a man trying to turn PowerPoint into scripture. Duncan and Ollie ask whether the AI boom has become a bubble, a religion, or just a very expensive bird with ARM inside it.

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    14 mins
  • What's going on with Meta

    What's going on with Meta
    Jun 25 2026
    Prediction markets, smart glasses, a Kylie Jenner voice in your sunglasses. Meta will copy anything that moves. Today: the most profitable company on earth with no idea what it actually wants to be.

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    12 mins
  • The Open AI Money Pit

    The Open AI Money Pit
    Jun 24 2026
    OpenAI is burning through money fast enough to make a small country nervous, so we worked out how long the runway really is and what happens when one of these AI giants can't pay its bills. It's also really, really hot.

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    14 mins
  • Cursor Bought, Social Media Ban, Google's Chips

    Cursor Bought, Social Media Ban, Google's Chips
    Jun 20 2026
    This week on Short Fuse News, Duncan and Ollie tackle SpaceX buying Cursor, the UK’s looming social media ban, and Google deciding it might quite like to sell chips after all. Expect AI wrappers, Jensen jail, tech bros building tents full of servers, and the usual disciplined attempt to stay on topic.

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    39 mins
  • IPOs, Fable 5

    IPOs, Fable 5
    Jun 15 2026

    The US government has told Anthropic that Fable is off-limits to anyone who isn't American. Is it genuinely too dangerous, or the best marketing stunt since a deodorant advert convinced a generation of boys they'd be chased down the street? Duncan and Ollie work through it via Occam's razor, Aesop, and what the name "Fable" might have been trying to tell us all along.

    Then SpaceX floats, goes up thirty percent, and starts selling the idea that your data centre belongs in orbit. We get into why cooling a computer in space is harder than anyone admits, why mining asteroids still doesn't add up, and why every tech IPO on earth is suddenly happening at once.

    Bubble or business? You decide.

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    41 mins