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Anthropic Just Reset AI Expectations

May 21, 2026

Summary

This episode covers Anthropic’s first profitable quarter and the hiring of former OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy, signaling a shift toward recursive self-improvement in AI research. It also details OpenAI’s imminent IPO filing, a new White House executive order on AI safety, and NVIDIA’s record earnings. Finally, it highlights Anthropic’s massive compute partnership with SpaceX, which positions Elon Musk as a key infrastructure provider for the AI race.

Topics discussed

Intro, sponsors, and show announcements OpenAI IPO timeline and market dynamics New AI executive order and policy framework Compute constraints, enterprise capacity, and efficiency Sponsor segments: KPMG, Robots & Pencils, Assembly AI, Section Andre Karpathy joins Anthropic and recursive AI research Anthropic's first profitable quarter and revenue growth NVIDIA earnings record and market reaction Anthropic-SpaceX compute deal and conclusion
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