Episode 587: The Singularity Didn't Happen on the First

This week, we discuss Stripe's singularity letter, its $8B Open Router buy, and AI job anxiety. Plus, Matt plays “Bot or Not” on another podcast.

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Runner-up Titles

• Inertia wins again
• We don’t talk about the Pope very much.
• Better than this year’s storage arrays
• AI pimps its own ride
• Chonking machine
• A lot of chonk opportunity
• I’m tired of tech people being all fancy
• Thanksgiving with Ed Zitron
• No religion, no politics, no AI
• My recommendation: try harder
• Teletubbies for Adults.

Rundown

• Singularity, Models and Routers
  • Scoop: Stripe says "the singularity" has begun
  • Stripe strikes mega-deal for OpenRouter
  • Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B
  • Routing is coming for the frontier AI labs
  • Terminator Judgement Day: August 29, 1997 2:14 a.m. Eastern Time
• The AI backlash goes mainstream
  • 52% of Americans Now More Concerned Than Excited About AI, With Under-30s Crossing a Majority for the First Time
  • Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad?
  • The AI Hater's Manifesto
• 40 Years of Infrastructure as Code: Ansible → Terraform → Kubernetes → Crossplane → AI Agents

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