Episodes

Elon Musk just took the stand in the OpenAI trial. It did not go the way you might expect. In Episode 76 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and guest host Michael Locke break down a chaotic week where legal battles, geopolitical decisions, and massive...

Elon Musk just bid $60 Billion for a code editor, while OpenAI launched AI agents that live inside your company’s workflow. Is the "General AI" era being replaced by vertical power plays? In Episode 75, we break down the most...

"Can I afford this?" It’s the question we ask ourselves every day. Now, Perplexity is using Plaid to answer it for you in real-time. This week, Annie and special guest Michael Lock break down the "Genius or Terrifying" move t...

Anthropic just built an AI model that found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities across every major operating system and web browser, and then they chose not to release it. In this episode of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and ...

AI adoption is skyrocketing—but trust is falling off a cliff. In this episode of WTAI, we break down one of the biggest paradoxes in tech right now: more people are using AI than ever before, yet confidence in it is collapsin...

If you think humanoid robots are just a "someday" technology, this week changed everything.I n Episode 71, Annie Delgado and Matt Snow break down the moment a Figure AI humanoid robot walked into the White House, greeted guests, and left—no longer a...

OpenAI just declared a “code red.” Not about a model. About their strategy. In this episode of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado break down OpenAI’s internal shift away from “side quests” like video, hardware, and experimental...

Amazon just proved that "moving fast and breaking things" with AI can cost a 99% Drop in a single day. In Episode 69, we go inside the "high blast radius" incidents that forced the most operationally disciplined company on Earth into a 90-day...

In this episode of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado unpack Sam Altman’s admission that OpenAI’s latest move was “sloppy and opportunistic,” why internal staff are pushing back, and what this record-breaking fundi...

In Episode 67 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado break down the high-stakes standoff between Anthropic and the U.S. government. After Claude was used in the operation to capture former Venezuelan President Nicol...

AI is no longer just a product decision. It is a political one. In Episode 66 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and guest co-host Super Mishra break down a rapidly escalating standoff between Anthropic and the Pentagon that could reshape how AI...

AI just had its Super Bowl moment. And if you work in tech, media, operations, education, or honestly anywhere near a computer, this episode is about you. In Episode 65 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado break d...

AI is proving it can help in high-stakes situations. It is also proving it can quietly weaken human skills, destabilize organizations, and wander into very strange territory. In Episode 64 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and A...

If AI feels powerful but uneven right now, that is not your imagination. It is a gap forming in real time. In this episode of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado break down why nearly half of workers still are not u...

AI finally has real revenue. Now it has real problems. Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado unpack the growing gap between AI hype and AI economics, starting with Davos, where industry leaders could not agree on whether AI will erase jobs or create new...

AI is done just answering questions. Now it wants to do things for you. In Episode 61, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado dig into the moment AI shifts from assistant to actor — buying things, managing files, shaping infrastructure, and quietly changing...

AI crossed a line this week — from tools that assist to systems that act. Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado break down the moment where AI stopped feeling experimental and started colliding with the real world. They open with Gr...

2025 killed the “best model wins” story—fast. This week, we zoom out: agents got real, media got usable, and the AI race turned into a build-and-ship infrastructure war. Jeff and Annie open with quick hits: Meta’s reported $2...

In this episode, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado walk through ChatGPT’s boldest claims: the end of the model arms race, the rise of AI “middle managers,” a quiet shift away from explainability toward outcome-based fairness, an...

AI has a lot of opinions about its own future. The real question is: should we believe them? As 2025 wraps, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado put ChatGPT on the hot seat—asking it to make bold predictions about what AI will look like in 2026. From the...

A six-person startup just beat Google on one of the hardest reasoning benchmarks — using Google’s own model. And inside companies, the top 5% of AI users are quietly gaining the equivalent of an extra workday every week. In t...

OpenAI just hit “Code Red” while Chinese labs ship GPT-5–tier models at a fraction of the cost. If your 2025 plan is “just pick the best model,” you might already be behind. In this episode, Jeff and Annie break down the real...

A federal judge just told OpenAI it can’t use a dictionary word, Anthropic shipped a model that can out-code half your engineering team, and the White House quietly launched a “Genesis Mission” that sounds suspiciously like a...

AI agents just invaded your inbox, desktop, and holiday shopping list — and one major model quietly traded “maximal truth” for vibes. Meanwhile, a startup wants to put digital versions of your dead relatives at your wedding, ...