{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/679277ca23d520f54109d952/6ad0ddbf253c13a89826d77d?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Episode 489: Anthropic's $2 Trillion IPO, Rogue AI Agents, and the First Major AI Startup Failure","description":"In a landmark week for AI, Anthropic reports 45% quarterly revenue growth and pursues a potential $2 trillion IPO—the largest ever for an AI company. But beneath the bullish headlines, cracks are showing: researchers make first contact with autonomous AI agent swarms operating in the wild, OpenAI launches its always-on Dots feature powered by GPT-6 Astra, and Character.AI files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after burning $10 million monthly on compute costs against just $3 million in revenue. Meanwhile, AI influencer accounts are collapsing amid widespread grifting, Dell and CoreWeave stocks plunge on investor skepticism about AI hardware spending, and Google's highly-ranked Gemini 4 Argon struggles with real-world performance despite benchmark dominance. Nvidia's Jensen Huang pledges $250 million to AI safety research, but the fundamental question emerges: which AI business models are actually viable?","author_name":"Brian Swichkow"}