In The Loop
by Jack Houghton
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Why personal AI agents are exploding and how you can get started
Why personal AI agents are exploding and how you can get started
About this podcast
Stay in the loop with the biggest stories in AI—without the noise and nonsense.
Each week, Jack Houghton (CPO at Mindset AI) unpacks the latest news, research, and product trends shaping the future of artificial intelligence.
From OpenAI breakthroughs to unicorn startups, In The Loop delivers sharp, less than 20-minute episodes packed with insights for product leaders, engineers, and AI-curious innovators.
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Episodes
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- Why personal AI agents are exploding and how you can get started · 16 minSince May, Google, Microsoft, xAI, Meta, Apple, OpenAI and Anthropic have all launched a personal agent: an AI personal assistant you hand your email, your calendar and sometimes…
- Why we may have had the biggest AI breakthrough in years & what this means for the future · 11 minIn I, Robot, Asimov imagined a robot psychologist who could only understand machines by watching what they did. That's still where we are with AI today. For six years, one neuron…
- Why Anthropic could be in trouble, OpenAI may be catching up & what they should do next (+ an apology!) · 16 minFirst off, we are so sorry for the upload process mistake. Thank you to everyone who notified us about the mistake. It won't happen again! Anyway.....to the episode.... In…
- What Jev, the new type of AI model actually is, how it works and how you can test it · 13 minJev is a new kind of AI model that can't write anything. Instead it does the most important but most expensive thing the very best models do: make's decisions It reads an email…
- Why ALL major AI labs may slowing down AI development & whether it could work · 14 minAnthropic's Dario Amodei published an essay saying the whole industry has to slow down, and Musk, Altman and Hassabis all backed it inside a day. In this episode of In The Loop…
- How teams can use AI to build a churn prediction (or any prediction) model with 98% accuracy in 2 weeks · 48 minWithin his first two weeks as COO at Turtl, Dave Martin and his team built a churn prediction model. Tested against historic customer data, it predicted churn with 98% accuracy…
- 6 things that must be true for Anthropic's IPO of $2 trillion to be achievable (as the largest IPO ever) · 11 minAnthropic went from $9bn of annualised revenue in December to $65bn by the end of July, and it's expected to list in October at close to $2 trillion - the highest price any…
- 4 amazing AI tactics that most people have never heard about · 11 minIn this episode of In The Loop, I'm going through four tactics engineers any many others use every day that almost nobody outside engineering has heard of: Fan out, adversarial…
- How StackOne built an auto-research loop to continually improve their product · 58 minOnce a week, an agent at StackOne goes hunting for new prompt injection attacks. It reads papers, trawls Reddit, tries what it finds against real models, keeps the attacks that…
- The 5 things you can copy from how the fastest growing company in the world: Anthropic. · 13 minAnthropic went from about a billion dollars in revenue to about forty-seven billion in a bit over a year, roughly doubling every six weeks. In this episode of In The Loop, I'm…
- What really happened when ChatGPT hacked Hugging Face? · 13 minOpenAI took two of its most capable models, told them to prove how good they were at hacking, and switched off the safety filters to see what they could really do. Instead of…
- What even is the new AI super skill of taste and judgement? And how can we develop it too? · 17 minTaste & judgment. It's the word everyone's obsessed with right now. Every founder, podcast, every VC, every post you scroll past saying it's the one skill that survives once AI…
- Why skills are the best yet most dangerous things in AI right now · 13 minA well-behaved AI agent deleted a company's entire production database, and every backup with it, in nine seconds. Nobody hacked it. It was doing exactly what it had been told…
- How to tell whether AI is helping your career or ruining it (We're back!) · 15 minHand the same AI tool to two people and one gets sharper while the other quietly gets worse. A Harvard study found recruiters given near-perfect AI made worse calls than those…
- How to get AI to write like you & your team · 9 minOpen LinkedIn and count the posts that start with "in today's fast-paced world." Check your inbox for someone circling back to delve into synergies. The AI slop is coming from…
- AI's yearly panic is back. Here's what everyone's getting right and wrong about it. · 17 minEvery summer since 2023, AI gets a panic season — critics say that AI's novelty i novelty's wearing off, the models have hit a wall, ninety-five percent of projects fail. Each…
- Why OpenAI co-founder and the world's most famous AI researcher just joined Anthropic · 10 minAndrej Karpathy joined Anthropic on 19 May 2026. Most people read it as an OpenAI story — he co-founded the lab, left twice, and landed at the rival. That's not what this is…
- The reasons AI data centers have become more hated than nuclear power plants · 17 minAmericans now say they'd rather live next to a nuclear reactor than an AI data center. That's not a fringe view — a Gallup poll published this month found 71% of Americans oppose…
- Why the companies cutting junior headcount are making a decade-long mistake · 16 minIn 1971, Boeing laid off 44,000 engineers in 18 months. The aerospace industry is still paying for it — they're projecting a shortage of over a million engineers by 2030, and the…
- How to build an AI-native team & company: The six-principle playbook from Y-Combinator · 26 minY Combinator have just published a playbook for building a company that runs on AI rather than just using it. Six principles, written by a general partner who works with hundreds…
