0103: Beats Headphones, Halo Shakeups, And The New AI Cold War

AI is moving so fast that even the biggest labs are talking about hitting pause, and China’s response is basically: we’re not slowing down for anyone. We get into the tension between US frontier AI labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Google weighing safety concerns while China accelerates and leans into open source AI models that anyone can download. If the best tools become free and global, what happens to paid access, regulation, and who gets to set the rules? We also run through the wee...