Episode 3 — April 4, 2026
Self-improving AI, OpenAI's $122B round, Anthropic code leak, Musk's Grok bundling, DeepMind's game theory breakthrough
2026-04-04 5 min
Description & Show Notes
Every morning, Liam and Heart break down the biggest AI news of the last 24 hours — with wit, context, and just the right amount of sarcasm.
In today's episode:
🤖 Self-Improving AI: Silicon Valley is losing it. OpenAI says its new model was "instrumental in creating itself." Anthropic claims 90% of their code is written by Claude. Protesters in SF demand: Stop the AI Race.
💰 OpenAI raises $122B at $852B valuation — Amazon, NVIDIA, SoftBank, Microsoft lead the largest funding round in history. Sora killed, "Superapp" planned.
🔓 Anthropic code leak: Thousands of lines of internal code exposed via contractor Mercor breach — including "Claude Code" and the unreleased "Mythos" model.
🚀 Musk's bundling play: Want to advise on the SpaceX IPO? Buy Grok subscriptions first. Wall Street swallows it — $2 trillion valuation is hard to resist.
🧠 DeepMind breakthrough: An LLM rewrote its own game theory algorithms — and outperformed human experts. Recursive self-improvement, but for math (for now).
🤖 Google folds Intrinsic into DeepMind — Alphabet's robotics moonshot gets direct access to DeepMind. Robots + LLMs = Google's next move toward physical AI.
💸 AI data centers: The $9 trillion disaster? WirtschaftsWoche asks whether the massive datacenter buildout is a bubble. Tech giants pouring billions in — but demand has to catch up first.