Read more about the article Silicon Drama – Episode 24: Sam and Dario Build the Tools. Who Lets Them Act?
Sam and Dario build the tools. Who lets them act? Silicon Drama Episode 24.

Silicon Drama – Episode 24: Sam and Dario Build the Tools. Who Lets Them Act?

OpenAI and Anthropic turn answers into working surfaces. Google proposes a workplace agent, Microsoft brings controlled execution to Windows, and Hark enters the personal-assistant contest. Silicon Drama Episode 24 examines who controls these workflows, why portable context matters, and how local AI, cloud computing and human intervention shape the next steps for humanoid robots.

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Read more about the article Silicon Drama – Episode 23: Sam’s Cute Agents, Elon’s Government Door and Kill Switches

Silicon Drama – Episode 23: Sam’s Cute Agents, Elon’s Government Door and Kill Switches

Sam Altman’s OpenAI launches dots while withholding a planned Astra upgrade. Jensen Huang’s Nvidia proposes controls outside the agent, and Grok and Gemini are reported to power America.gov. Silicon Drama Episode 23 follows the struggle over agent permissions, EU access, voluntary safety commitments and Amazon’s 20-year nuclear power agreement.

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Read more about the article Silicon Drama – Episode 22: Sam Calls for Control. Dario Scales Anthropic.

Silicon Drama – Episode 22: Sam Calls for Control. Dario Scales Anthropic.

Sam Altman asks governments to help govern increasingly capable AI as Australia investigates an OpenAI agent that crossed a Medicare portal boundary, with no evidence patient records were accessed. Dario Amodei launches Opus 5.5 and scales Anthropic’s compute, while Mark Zuckerberg pushes beyond the smartphone and Masayoshi Son raises $11.1 billion in bonds.

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Read more about the article Silicon Drama – Episode 21: Who Gets to Hit the Brakes?

Silicon Drama – Episode 21: Who Gets to Hit the Brakes?

OpenAI sent 10,000 agents after Navier-Stokes. Meta and Apple asked for authority over personal accounts. Google secured nuclear power, Oracle turned customer prepayments into data centers, Europe bought satellites and military planners prepared for humanoid machines. The intelligence moved. The control layer struggled to keep up.

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Read more about the article Before AI Slop, There Was Just Slop

Before AI Slop, There Was Just Slop

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Dismissing all AI-assisted work ignores what these tools also make possible: An individual turning an original idea into an illustrated story, a song or a publication that previously required resources they simply did not have. That deserves curiosity. And we need a name for work that earns it. I propose AI Craft. Work created with AI and shaped by human purpose, taste, judgment and responsibility. AI with a point of view.

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Read more about the article Silicon Drama – Episode 20: Ten Thousand Agents Walk Into Mathematics

Silicon Drama – Episode 20: Ten Thousand Agents Walk Into Mathematics

OpenAI sent 10,000 agents after Navier-Stokes. Meta and Apple asked for authority over personal accounts. Google secured nuclear power, Oracle turned customer prepayments into data centers, Europe bought satellites and military planners prepared for humanoid machines. The intelligence moved. The control layer struggled to keep up.

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Read more about the article Silicon Drama – Episode 19: Jensen Huang Moves to Own Hugging Face. Sam Altman Hands Astra the Controls.

Silicon Drama – Episode 19: Jensen Huang Moves to Own Hugging Face. Sam Altman Hands Astra the Controls.

NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face. OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra can operate computers while its own evaluations raise new questions about monitoring and control. Episode 19 follows the power shift across compute, capital, energy, regulation and physical AI.

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Read more about the article Silicon Drama – Episode 18: The Robot Beats Bolt, Jensen Buys the Future and Elon Takes the Coast

Silicon Drama – Episode 18: The Robot Beats Bolt, Jensen Buys the Future and Elon Takes the Coast

A humanoid robot runs below Bolt’s time on the clock but still cannot stop gracefully. Meanwhile, NVIDIA secures future supply, SpaceX plans a Louisiana launch campus, OpenAI and Apple build agent machines, and China finances its domestic AI stack.

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Read more about the article Silicon Drama – Episode 17: Mythos Lies. Mark Moves Mountains. The Kids Wait.

Silicon Drama – Episode 17: Mythos Lies. Mark Moves Mountains. The Kids Wait.

A rare book loses its spine. An AI agent fabricates an identity. Meta faces a youth-safety trial as Stripe moves to acquire OpenRouter, Nvidia backs OpenAI’s Ohio campus, robots reach public markets and Brazil rejects a binary AI Cold War.

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Read more about the article Silicon Drama – Episode 16: Elon Orders Ten Gigawatts, Jensen Builds a Bank and Tim Trains an AI for China

Silicon Drama – Episode 16: Elon Orders Ten Gigawatts, Jensen Builds a Bank and Tim Trains an AI for China

Elon Musk orders ten gigawatts, Jensen Huang builds an AI bank, and Tim Cook trains a second brain for China. Episode 16 maps the new access wars reshaping AI, robotics and Big Tech.

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