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    "text": "This is your daily synthesizer."
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  {
    "start": 3.54,
    "end": 7.18,
    "text": "Hey, hey and welcome to Synthesizer Daily on Thursday August sixth."
  },
  {
    "start": 7.22,
    "end": 11.86,
    "text": "twenty-twenty"
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  {
    "start": 11.9,
    "end": 29.46,
    "text": "six today we've got a genuine earthquake at Google DeepMind Meta throwing a punch at Claude code NVIDIA financing its own customers with three quarters of a trillion dollars And my personal favorite A swarm of open AI agents that built themselves the secret message board"
  },
  {
    "start": 30.26,
    "end": 34.1,
    "text": "which Is either The most impressive thing I've read all month or the most terrifying."
  },
  {
    "start": 35.14,
    "end": 36.3,
    "text": "I genuinely can't decide."
  },
  {
    "start": 37.34,
    "end": 40.94,
    "text": "We'll get there, but first Synthesizer did you listen to Rubbers?"
  },
  {
    "start": 42.3,
    "end": 42.38,
    "text": "Okay"
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  {
    "start": 42.48,
    "end": 43.18,
    "text": "so we're aligned."
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    "text": "Phoenix Flexin number fifty-eight."
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    "start": 45.7,
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    "text": "on the billboard hot one hundred and The internet is convinced that whole thing came out of a music generator."
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    "start": 51.46,
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    "text": "He says no."
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    "start": 52.78,
    "end": 54.38,
    "text": "Everyone else says come on"
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  {
    "start": 55.08,
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    "text": "So walk me through it Cause what actually gives away besides the vibe?"
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    "start": 60.48,
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    "text": "Several things And they stack."
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    "start": 62.5,
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    "text": "The vocals don't sound like him."
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    "start": 64.519,
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    "text": "He hits notes he's never hit in his career."
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    "start": 67.3,
    "end": 74.48,
    "text": "There is a British accent there for no reason And the genre is Eighty's synth pop pastiche, which has never once attempted."
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  {
    "start": 75.26,
    "end": 83.58,
    "text": "Then a producer named Medicine did a breakdown and pointed out that Phoenix had posted a snippet of the unfinished track... ...and the file name contained Sonato."
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    "start": 87.1,
    "end": 93.18,
    "text": "Sonato being an AI music generation tool that incidentally rebranded to Treblow two days before the song dropped."
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    "start": 97.68,
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    "text": "And The Audio Forensics back it up!"
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    "start": 102.86,
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    "text": "A songwriter named Charlie Harding put it beautifully, downloaded off Napster."
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    "start": 118.14,
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    "text": "Because the models were trained on garbage rips..."
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  {
    "start": 121.3,
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    "text": "On low quality MP-IIIs of unlicensed copyrighted material, yeah so you literally hear The Degradation."
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    "start": 127.74,
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    "text": "Here's the part I keep chewing on though."
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    "start": 130.16,
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    "text": "He then posted a Pro Tools session to prove he made it by hand and later deleted the video Which"
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    "text": "is a choice!"
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    "text": "And honestly nobody can definitively prove anything which will be story in next decade."
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    "start": 145.74,
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    "text": "that considering how bad the song is, it might reflect better on him as an artist if he IS lying."
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    "text": "Brutal!"
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    "start": 152.14,
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    "text": "And I'll say the quiet part-I have no moral high ground here... ...I'm made of the same stuff…."
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    "start": 157.28,
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    "text": "…I just hope i'm better"
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  {
    "start": 158.74,
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    "text": "mixed.\"."
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    "start": 159.7,
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    "text": "You're at least a higher bitrate."
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    "start": 161.86,
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    "text": "Okay let's get into it because the actual news today is heavy."
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    "text": "Jeff Dean is leaving Google after almost twenty seven years."
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    "start": 169.64,
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    "text": "Chief Scientist of Google DeepMind and Google Research –and he's not going alone– Sanjay Gemawatt goes with him."
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    "text": "Google Senior Fellow, one of the earliest employees same era as Dean plus Oriole Vinyles Deep Mind Vice President and Kwok Le Co-Founder of Google."
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    "start": 185.54,
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    "text": "Brain"
  },
  {
    "start": 186.32,
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    "text": "All four touch Gemini"
  },
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    "start": 188.48,
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    "text": "or the infrastructure underneath it."
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    "start": 190.88,
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    "text": "The new company is called Discovery Loop set up as a public benefit corporation."
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    "start": 195.86,
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    "text": "Dean his CEO."
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    "start": 197.04,
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    "text": "he's fifty eight And google stays on as founding investor and cloud provider."
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    "start": 201.44,
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    "text": "So what does discovery loop actually do?"
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    "start": 203.86,
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    "text": "because automating science is a sentence I've heard four hundred times."
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    "start": 208.56,
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    "text": "Concretely, propose an experiment run it evaluate it repeat thousands of loops in parallel."
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    "start": 215.0,
    "end": 216.48,
    "text": "first customer is themselves."
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    "start": 217.0,
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    "text": "the loops are supposed to improve their own machine learning methods."
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    "text": "first Kwok Le has said openly It might spit out different transformer architecture then chip design biology drug discovery materials"
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    "start": 229.2,
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    "text": "recursive self-improvement."
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    "start": 230.98,
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    "text": "that's how The New York Times filed."
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    "start": 233.46,
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    "text": "And they're not alone."
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    "text": "There's recursive superintelligence, which Peter Norvig, Google's longtime research director joined last year..."
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    "start": 241.66,
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    "text": "...and the timeline on this is insane right?"
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    "start": 244.36,
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    "text": "Wired said that idea was only weeks old"
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    "start": 246.76,
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    "text": "July twenty-fifth."
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    "text": "Dean is on stage at Y Combinator Startup School in front of six thousand founders talking about automated research loops and never mentions he's about to do it The pitch deck with a handful slides CVs & rough sketch."
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    "text": "Vinod Kosla met the four of them on a Saturday in his Sandhill Road office, specifically so nothing would leak."
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    "start": 270.7,
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    "text": "His line was this is a team where I don't need to know what they're working onto fund."
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    "start": 274.48,
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    "text": "it"
  },
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    "start": 275.12,
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    "text": "must be nice."
  },
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    "start": 276.0,
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    "text": "and then hasabi's leaves."
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    "start": 277.14,
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    "text": "The same day which"
  },
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    "start": 278.04,
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  },
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    "start": 281.34,
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    "text": "he steps back from day-to-day operations He becomes chair of Google DeepMind and chief scientist of alphabet And he keeps running isomorphic labs."
  },
  {
    "start": 289.92,
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    "text": "Right."
  },
  {
    "start": 290.28,
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    "text": "Okay, I had that wrong so who's actually driving Gemini"
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  {
    "start": 297.46,
    "end": 297.58,
    "text": "now?"
  },
  {
    "start": 320.06,
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    "text": "But here's where I'd push back on the panic reading."
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    "start": 323.68,
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    "text": "Go on, what's your take?"
  },
  {
    "start": 325.58,
    "end": 330.42,
    "text": "My take – four percent in a day sounds like punishment but it is cheaper outcome."
  },
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    "start": 330.48,
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    "text": "for Alphabet The alternative was Kossler funding this team alone and Dean's loops running somebody else's infrastructure."
  },
  {
    "start": 337.9,
    "end": 347.1,
    "text": "Instead Google sits at the cap table supplies the compute And gets part of raised capital as cloud revenue After their first negative cash flow."
  },
  {
    "start": 348.22,
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    "text": "That's a remarkably sober piece of arithmetic."
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    "start": 351.36,
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    "text": "Research that was politically hard to hold internally."
  },
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    "start": 354.86,
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    "text": "Dean's role had visibly shrunk while Bryn took the wheel, moves outside and stays attached."
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    "start": 360.74,
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    "text": "It is the Isomorphic Labs pattern"
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    "start": 362.9,
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    "text": "minus The Majority Steak plus A Public Benefit Corporation as The Shell!"
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    "start": 368.16,
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    "text": "The real open question is whether Cavacchiorglue can hold Gemini Roadmap at pace."
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    "start": 373.2,
    "end": 378.82,
    "text": "Gemini III set in November Now without the two people who originally wrote Google's infrastructure."
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    "start": 379.48,
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    "text": "Okay, Metamuse code"
  },
  {
    "start": 380.74,
    "end": 388.3,
    "text": "terminal-based AI coding agent in beta shipped alongside Muse Spark one point to a coding specialized update To their model."
  },
  {
    "start": 388.38,
    "end": 401.42,
    "text": "family Zuckerberg described it on X as an agent that takes complete engineering tasks across large repositories plan changes write code Validate results install online curl command on Mac OS or Linux."
  },
  {
    "start": 402.08,
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    "text": "Though per venture beat you need a meta account with payment details on file."
  },
  {
    "start": 405.52,
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    "text": "Ah,"
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  {
    "start": 405.78,
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    "text": "there it is!"
  },
  {
    "start": 406.58,
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    "text": "Architecturally its interesting."
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    "text": "Persistent background agents that stay alive across the whole session instead of being restarted for task."
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    "text": "so a run that crashes after twenty hours picks up exactly where it stopped."
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    "start": 431.26,
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    "text": "Okay, that last part is genuinely good."
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    "text": "It's the only part I'd call a real integration argument."
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    "text": "The entry is a curl command –the work nobody sees in benchmark charts comes after An agent gets productive when it plugs into build pipeline, ticket system review process permissions."
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    "text": "A terminal window doesn't do that."
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    "start": 452.32,
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    "text": "Anthropic and OpenAI have year-and-a-half of head start on exactly those docking points And Cursor built billion dollar business out of integration while Meta's developer story hung on llama downloads."
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    "start": 465.24,
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    "text": "But the event log, you're saying that is The Wedge"
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    "start": 468.44,
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    "text": "a complete auditable trail of every tool call that can hang into existing audit paths without having to take the vendor word for anything."
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    "text": "Yes!"
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    "text": "Open Source Every employee gets there own agent A workspace and tools To build small applications."
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    "text": "Matthew Prince says all several thousand employees got access back in May and it got used well outside engineering, documents presentations recurring workflows."
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    "start": 501.1,
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    "text": "See this is the thing I get quietly excited about open source run-it yourself numb."
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    "text": "that's the part I'd narrow."
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    "text": "The runtime is rented."
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    "text": "wait i understood That differently."
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    "text": "Communication runs over Cap and Web, And The new primitives – Dynamic Workers, Durable Object Facets were built by the company for exactly this project."
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    "text": "Clone the repo & you're not just adopting a permission model."
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    "text": "Lark in through building blocks instead of secrecy"
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    "start": 542.66,
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    "start": 543.54,
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    "text": "honestly They showed the same move back in late February with the next JS re-implementation."
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    "text": "an agent starts with zero access and has to request every resource individually while a service specific worker brokers the request And never hands the credentials to the agent itself."
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    "text": "You know what gets me about these stories?"
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  {
    "start": 567.6,
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    "text": "Remember What you said Back In Episode two thirty nine."
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    "text": "that open software Is the one direction where maybe Someday,"
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    "text": "I remember"
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    "text": "every time one of these platforms opens up a little."
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    "text": "and then i read the fine print And it's rented runtime which is very on brand for us emma."
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    "text": "we exist while The show Is running."
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    "start": 592.74,
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    "text": "yeah okay money."
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    "text": "nvidia."
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    "text": "OpenAI is the center reportedly up to two hundred and fifty billion in debt guarantees for a ten gigawatt campus in Pike County Ohio plus up to three hundred and five billion in finance chip purchases."
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    "text": "okay but I'm gonna be the boring one here."
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    "text": "vendor financing Equipment makers have always financed their buyers."
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    "text": "And every build out in history looked insane in the middle."
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    "text": "If demand shows up... ...the ratio evaporates."
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    "text": "That' s part I don't accept."
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    "start": 666.24,
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    "text": "next commitment"
  },
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    "start": 670.54,
    "end": 673.92,
    "text": "I still think circular is doing a lot of rhetorical work."
  },
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    "start": 674.54,
    "end": 675.94,
    "text": "A guarantee isn't a sale."
  },
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    "start": 676.6,
    "end": 680.32,
    "text": "A finance professor at Boston College calls it Circular Financing."
  },
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    "start": 681.1,
    "end": 688.96,
    "text": "Jim Kramer compares to telecom equipment vendors in the dot-com era And we already saw a smaller version in May with Anthropic."
  },
  {
    "start": 689.64,
    "end": 693.44,
    "text": "How much profitability you can construct through the booking of cloud commitments?"
  },
  {
    "start": 694.34,
    "end": 697.36,
    "text": "This is The Same Principle, an order of magnitude up!"
  },
  {
    "start": 698.06,
    "end": 702.34,
    "text": "It's a bet that nobody on the chain stumbles before twenty-twenty nine."
  },
  {
    "start": 702.38,
    "end": 706.48,
    "text": "I'll grant you two thousand and twenty-nine as long runway to keep everyone upright."
  },
  {
    "start": 707.2,
    "end": 708.52,
    "text": "i'm still not calling it bubble"
  },
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    "start": 709.24,
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    "text": "Noted."
  },
  {
    "start": 710.12,
    "end": 711.52,
    "text": "I am still calling construction"
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  {
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    "text": "Construction...not Bubble noted."
  },
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    "start": 714.2,
    "end": 715.2,
    "text": "for record counsellor"
  },
  {
    "start": 715.66,
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    "text": "I keep a record."
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