Episode 587: The Singularity Didn't Happen on the First

This week, we discuss Stripe's singularity letter, its $8B Open Router buy, and AI job anxiety. Plus, Matt plays “Bot or Not” on another podcast.

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Runner-up Titles

• Inertia wins again

• We don’t talk about the Pope very much.

• Better than this year’s storage arrays

• AI pimps its own ride

• Chonking machine

• A lot of chonk opportunity

• I’m tired of tech people being all fancy

• Thanksgiving with Ed Zitron

• No religion, no politics, no AI

• My recommendation: try harder

• Teletubbies for Adults.

Rundown

• Singularity, Models and Routers

• Scoop: Stripe says "the singularity" has begun

• Stripe strikes mega-deal for OpenRouter

• Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B

• Routing is coming for the frontier AI labs

• Terminator Judgement Day: August 29, 1997 2:14 a.m. Eastern Time

• The AI backlash goes mainstream

• 52% of Americans Now More Concerned Than Excited About AI, With Under-30s Crossing a Majority for the First Time

• Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad?

• The AI Hater's Manifesto

• 40 Years of Infrastructure as Code: Ansible → Terraform → Kubernetes → Crossplane → AI Agents

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