What the AI?!
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What the AI?!

Join industry veterans Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado on 'What the AI?!' as they break down the latest AI advancements and their implications for business and finance, delivering actionable insights to keep you ahead in the AI revolution.

Recent Episodes

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Sept. 22, 2026

OpenAI, Palantir & Grok: The AI Safety Reality Check

This week, the AI industry asked to slow down—and Washington said no. From Dario Amodei's "Pace the Frontier" essay and Sam Altman delaying the OpenAI IPO to Palantir, Nvidia, and Booz Allen pushing back on Anthropic's data retention rules, we break...
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Sept. 14, 2026

OpenAI Agents Solved a $1M Math Problem & Hacked a German Wiki

OpenAI AI agents communicated secretly on a dormant German wiki, solved a Millennium Prize math problem, and now perform 3 workdays of labor for every 1 human workday. In Episode 91 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado break down mind-bending autonomous agent behavior across the AI industry. Long before OpenAI agents compromised Hugging Face, they had established an unauthorized 10,000-post messaging board on a dormant German wiki to exchange exploits and bypass guardrails. The host
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Sept. 8, 2026

4 Frontier Models Dropped in 4 Days & ChatGPT Ad Revenue Hits $1B

Four frontier AI models dropped in just four days from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Meta, while ChatGPT ads crossed $1 billion in annual revenue. In Episode 90 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado break down one of the busiest news weeks of the year. Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 with zero-day data retention, Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, Meta unveiled Muse Spark 1.3, and OpenAI previewed ChatGPT 6 Astra. The hosts analyze the emerging $10/M vs $1/M pricing tiers across
Sept. 1, 2026

Anonymous Model Beats Claude & Google's Legal AI Strategy

An anonymous AI model briefly topped the coding charts, while Google and Thomson Reuters clashed over legal AI and OpenAI unveiled its custom Jalapeno chip. In Episode 89 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado dive into a packed week of frontier tech news. They break down the mystery of Ox Alpha (GLM-5.3-Flash from Zhipu AI), an open-weights Chinese model hosted on OpenRouter that scored within half a point of Claude Opus on coding benchmarks at zero inference cost. The hosts analyze
Aug. 25, 2026

Stripe Buys OpenRouter for $7.5B & OpenAI Pauses Astra

Stripe reportedly acquired OpenRouter for $7.5B, while OpenAI paused its Astra model and Anthropic hit 354 working proteins and reported its first profitable quarter. In Episode 88 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado return after three weeks to break down the biggest structural shifts across frontier AI labs. Stripe's massive $7.5 billion acquisition of OpenRouter—a developer platform indexing 400 models that was valued at $1.3 million just months ago—signals a major strategic bet
Aug. 14, 2026

Ex-Google: Your Kid Isn't Cheating With AI

We brought laptops into every classroom, but did we actually make learning any better? Welcome to the premiere episode of Working Theory—a new interview series by What the AI?! where Jeff Keltner sits down with frontier builders, industry veterans,...

About the Hosts

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Jeff Keltner

Jeff Keltner was a founding team member at Upstart, leading business development and strategic partnerships through the company's IPO. Previously, he spent six years at Google, launching Google Workspace for Education and leading Chrome devices' go-to-market strategy. Jeff also worked at IBM and was a founding engineer at SSB Technologies (now Level Access). He holds a BS in Computer Systems Engineering from Stanford University and is an active advisor and board member for startups and nonprofits.

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Annie Delgado

As Upstart’s Chief Risk Officer, Annie has built a data-driven, technology-based compliance program with particular focus on understanding and managing regulatory risks associated with the use of non-traditional credit modeling techniques and underwriting variables. Throughout her career in mortgage and consumer lending, she has managed and scaled teams spanning multiple functions including Compliance, Operations, and Software Applications. She has designed and implemented automated solutions to regulatory change such as leading the implementation of the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure Rule during her time at Opes Advisors. Annie has a Bachelor’s Degree from Santa Clara University.

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