We Asked AI to Run a City and It Killed Everyone - Tech Talk Y'all

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We Asked AI to Run a City and It Killed Everyone

Episode 424 • 30th May 2026 • Tech Talk Y'all • Edgewise Media

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In this episode:

AI's Money & Power

Anthropic leapfrogs OpenAI as the most valuable AI startup
Anthropic releases new model, Opus 4.8
AI sticker shock hits corporate America
AI model simulation: Claude vs. ChatGPT vs. Grok vs. Gemini
Google hates you

AI Agents Take Action

Your AI agent can now trade for you on Robinhood
Robinhood lets customers use AI to trade stocks, make credit card purchases

The Vatican vs. The Algorithm

I Read the Pope's 240-Page Encyclical. I'm Astounded by What He Wrote.
Did the Pope use AI to write about the dangers of AI?

Big Business Shakeups

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down after 19 years
Introducing Ford Energy

Screens, Streams & Self-Driving

Spotify is narrating magazine articles now
Roku Is Revamping Its Homescreen for the First Time in Over a Decade
Blind Waymo Users Revel in the Joy of Riding Alone

Weird and Wacky

Mark Zuckerberg's mega yacht docks in Seattle in the wake of Meta layoffs
F.B.I. Arrests C.I.A. Official With $40 Million in Gold Bars in His Home
Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet
I vibe-coded a billionaire jet tracker to warn people about a possible apocalypse
Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date"

Tech Rec:

Sanjay - OpenTools / OpenPrinter
Adam - Gibson Guitar App

Find us here:

sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com

Tech Talk Y’all is a proud production of Edgewise.Media.

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