OpenAI Going Full YOLO | The Cost of Expansion

06/11/2025 24 min Temporada 11 Episodio 6

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OpenAI’s gone full YOLO: agents that work for you, a Sora app that feels like TikTok, an AI browser that wants to replace Chrome, and a new “adult freedom” stance. Juan and Kate dig into the logic, or lack of it, behind OpenAI’s everything-everywhere strategy, and why even its biggest users are starting to push back.🫟 Additional ResourcesThe AI Resisters (Axios) https://www.axios.com/2025/10/19/ai-resistance-students-codersWorkforce Outlook: The Class of 2026 in the AI Economy https://joinhandshake.com/themes/handshake/dist/assets/downloads/network-trends/class-of-2026-outlook.pdfZuckerberg signals Meta won’t open source all of its ‘superintelligence’ AI models https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/30/zuckerberg-says-meta-likely-wont-open-source-all-of-its-superintelligence-ai-models/🫟 Topics00:00 – Intro00:07 – OpenAI’s new playbook: agents, Sora, and Stargate00:39 – AI agents everywhere: from dev tools to browsers02:52 – Building AGI or burning cash? What’s OpenAI’s real plan?06:00 – The difference between open source and closed AI models06:22 – Meta vs OpenAI: Competing to own AI’s Future09:35 – The rise of AI resistance: workers, coders, students push back11:24 – Using AI tools you don’t trust13:51 – The vibe-coding trap14:40 – Human-made content becoming the new luxury18:30 – Where’s your line in the sand with AI? Ethics and trust19:48 – Smarter ways to use AI21:49 – Puppies & babies, our weekly fix of Slop🫟 About Slop WorldJuan Faisal and Kate Cook plunge into the slop pile—AI news, cultural shifts, and the future’s endless curveballs. They’re not here to sanitize the mess; they’re here to wrestle with it, laugh at it, and find meaning where you least expect it.