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Opus 5.5 vs. GPT-6 Sol: which model won my blind taste test?
Watch now (39 mins) | 🎙️ I ran blind evaluations across writing, frontend prototypes, long-running agentic tasks, SVGs, coding, and video editing, then put Opus 5.5 through Barbie Bench
I left Claude for months. Opus 5.5 is why I’m back
Listen or watch on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts I’ve been off Claude for months. Not because it got dumb, but because it got annoying. The rambling, the hedging, the preachy little disclaimers on tasks that didn’t need them. I moved most of my daily work to Codex and I didn’t miss it. Then Anthropic shipped Opus 5.5: 40% cheaper than Opus 5, faster, and with what they’re calling a fundamentally different alignment approach. I ran it for a week across real work, including four long-running agentic tasks, a full ChatPRD homepage redesign,
Episode 851 | The Messy Middle of a SaaS Pivot
How do you pivot your SaaS when things aren’t working? This week Rob talks with Nathan Tyler, founder of BlinkMetrics, about the messy, uncertain process of finding product market fit in real time. Nathan walks through why his original EOS scorecard idea didn't work, how hundreds of coffee chats led to a done for you reporting business, and why he just launched a second product, BlinkPages, right in the middle of it all. Topics we cover: (2:43) – The Staging Pilot exit to Pantheon (4:44) – BlinkMetrics origin story
A rainbow of iMac G3s? This ‘old tech’ party in L.A. is a balm for our isolated times
Welcome to Dead Internet Theory, a Y2K-era event that celebrates a time when social media meant AOL Instant Messenger and when tech evoked excitement rather than dread.
How iPhone users can file to get up to $95 from a $250-million settlement
People who purchased certain iPhones can now start submitting claims to get money as part of a settlement.
Newsom signs bills to regulate data center industry, criticizes Trump for inaction
California's growing data center industry will have more oversight after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed seven bills to regulate the industry's electricity costs and track water consumption.
Why some musicians aren’t happy about labels signing AI deals with platforms
Record labels that sued AI music companies are now licensing them. But payouts are undisclosed, lawsuits continue and musicians ask who benefits.
20VC: Why AI Cannot Replace Humans in Enterprise | Why Work Processes Not Models Will Be The Most Valuable Asset in AI | Why Europe Has Lost and Building in the US vs EU with Daniel Dines, UiPath
Daniel Dines is one of the greatest European founders of the last decade. As the Co-Founder of UiPath, he has scaled the business to a market cap high of $ 44BN in 2021, with the company now generating $1.72BN in revenue, growing 15% year-on-year. The company raised $2BN before its IPO, backed by Sequoia, Accel, CapitalG, Coatue and Kleiner Perkins. AGENDA: 05:00 Why Dario is Wrong About Millions of AI Einsteins? 13:00 Is AI Safety Becoming an Excuse to Kill Open Source? 21:00 Does UiPath Really Need 4,000 Employees?
How Silicon Valley helped turn secondhand fashion into a $240-billion boom
Thrifted clothes have become a Hollywood fashion flex, as California-born platforms like the RealReal, Poshmark, ThredUp and eBay turn secondhand shopping into a $240-billion, fast-growing global industry.
20VC: "Anti-Data Centres is a Chinese Psyop" | How Many Planned Data Centers Will Actually Get Built? | Is Energy AI's Biggest Bottleneck? With Thomas Sohmers, Co-Founder @ Positron
Thomas Sohmers is the co-founder and chairman of Positron AI, building chips to make running AI dramatically cheaper and more energy-efficient. The company recently announced an $875 million Series C at a $5 billion valuation, backed by investors including Gavin Baker’s Atreides Management, NEA, Valor Equity Partners and Netscape co-founder Jim Clark. AGENDA: 04:30 Why Does AI Inference Need Different Hardware from Training? 10:25 What Is Nobody Telling You About AI’s Token Economics? 13:10 Should We Really Slow Down the AI Frontier?
Newsom creates panel on AI safety regulation, suggests possible ‘kill switch’
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday ordered the formation of a panel to come up with safety regulations for the state's artificial intelligence companies, including the development of a possible "kill switch" for AI programs that go rogue.
The State of Startups in 2026
YC works with thousands of founders every year, which gives us an early look at how startups are changing. Right now, the shift is striking: startups are moving from bits to atoms, nearly one in five YC companies has a solo founder, and companies are reaching meaningful revenue faster than ever.In this episode of The Lightcone, Garry, Jared, Diana, and Harj dig into what’s driving these changes and what they mean for founders.
Meta glasses captured and shared intimate images without users’ consent, lawsuit claims
People who use Meta's smart glasses or were recorded with the gadget are worried about how the social media giant is using their photos and videos.
AI crisis heightens the stakes of Xi’s visit to Washington
Ahead of the meeting, rhetoric from Washington and Beijing has underscored only deepening acrimony and distrust over their rush to dominate the technological frontier.
He Grew to $100M Almost Entirely Through Inbound
He never bought a keyword, never ran content marketing, and the big outbound sales force he tried did not work. Rodney Robinson still grew TabaPay to $100 million in revenue, almost entirely through inbound, on a single $2.5 million seed round that stayed the company's only outside money for nine years.
20VC: Why "Pacing the Frontier" is BS | Instinct Raising $1BN at $10BN & Meta Launches Muse | Miro Sells for $1.35BN After a $17.5BN Valuation | Mistral Raises €3BN & Could Sam Bankman-Fried Win His Freedom?
AGENDA: 03:40 Dario Calls to “Pace the Frontier” 11:30 Why the Fed Will Raid Anthropic if Needed 21:50 Meta Launches Muse to Take On Instinct 28:30 Instinct Raising $1BN at $10BN—Would You Invest? 39:55 Miro Sells for $1.35BN After a $17.5BN Valuation 47:45 Could Sam Bankman-Fried Win His Freedom? 51:25 WordPress Power Struggle: Matt Mullenweg Ousted, Then Returns 1:01:20 Mistral Raises €3BN in Europe’s Biggest-Ever Tech Round 1:05:00 Adobe’s New CEO & Canva’s Slowing Growth: SaaS Giants Under Pressure
187 Paysquad: Buy Now, Pay Together
Cam Richardson built Paysquad to make group payments easy with a button at checkout and no awkward Venmo requests. Can he convince VCs that Gen Z wants to pay together for all their events, trips, and gifts?
Episode 850 | How Not to Screw Up When Hiring Your first Developer and More Listener Questions (with Derrick Reimer)
How do you onboard a hire onto a codebase you built alone? In this episode, Derrick Reimer joins Rob to tackle four listener questions. They cover hiring and onboarding your first developer as a bootstrapped founder, then move into the temptation to build features just because AI makes them cheap to ship, getting past social anxiety as a founder, and whether it's worth trademarking your product name. Topics we cover: (3:59) – How do you hire your first developer? (5:14) – Qualities to look for in a first developer hire
Democratic leaders panic and GOP divides as AI fears spread
Top executives from three of the country's leading AI companies issued exceptional calls for collaboration on a path forward that could "pace the frontier" of AI development.
Ask Jason: AI Extinction, Grok's Rogue Meme Coin & Weed Farms as Data Centers | E2337
This Week In Startups is made possible by: Quo: The Conservation Fund: CLA: Today’s show: A 27-year-old Anthropic researcher quit last week warning that AI could cause human extinction, and by Friday, a caller’s 76-year-old mother was texting her in a panic. Jason’s answer: the labs are already shipping the safeguards Doomers say don’t exist. On an all live calls episode of TWiST, learn about the AI implications Jason is actually scared of, and why it involves a terrorist cell and a thousand cheap drones.
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