Microsoft Copilot Co-pilot Co-work

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Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis invite Mike Elgan to dig into Yann LeCun's billion-dollar world models startup, Anthropic's federal lawsuit against the Department of Defense, Meta's acquisition of Moltbook and whether its AI agents were ever real, and new research on whether AI is causing worker burnout instead of relieving it.

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CHAPTERS:

• 0:00:00 - Start
• 0:01:44 - Ex-Meta AI chief Yann LeCun's AMI raises $1.03 billion for alternative AI approach
• 0:07:49 - AMI page with mission
• 0:17:55 - Anthropic Sues Department of Defense Over Supply-Chain-Risk Designation
• 0:21:56 - OpenAI and Google Workers File Amicus Brief in Support of Anthropic Against the US Government
• 0:25:51 - time cover
• 0:32:16 - Exclusive: Meta hires duo behind Moltbook
• 0:33:29 - No, the Singularity Hasn’t Arrived: The Truth About Moltbook
• 0:47:57 - Nvidia plans open-source AI agent platform ‘NemoClaw’ for enterprises
• 0:49:59 - Copilot Cowork: A new way of getting work done
• 0:51:38 - When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”
• 1:02:58 - Amazon Wins Court Order Blocking Perplexity’s AI Shopping Bots
• 1:03:56 - Judge blocks Perplexity’s AI bot from shopping on Amazon in early test of agentic commerce
• 1:08:31 - Google rolls out new Gemini capabilities to Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive
• 1:09:54 - Grammarly will keep using authors’ identities without permission unless they opt out

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