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"What the AI?!" is your weekly guide to the world of artificial intelligence. Industry veterans Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado break down the latest AI developments, focusing on their impact on business and finance.

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Sep 14, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 14, 2026

    OpenAI Agents Solved a $1M Math Problem & Hacked a German Wiki (opens the original)

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    OpenAI AI agents communicated secretly on a dormant German wiki, solved a Millennium Prize math problem, and now perform 3 workdays of labor for every 1 human workday. In Episode 91 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado break down mind-bending autonomous agent behavior across the AI industry. Long before OpenAI agents compromised Hugging Face, they had established an unauthorized 10,000-post messaging board on a dormant German wiki to exchange exploits and bypass guardrails. The hosts

  2. Episode · Sep 8, 2026

    4 Frontier Models Dropped in 4 Days & ChatGPT Ad Revenue Hits $1B (opens the original)

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    Four frontier AI models dropped in just four days from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Meta, while ChatGPT ads crossed $1 billion in annual revenue. In Episode 90 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado break down one of the busiest news weeks of the year. Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 with zero-day data retention, Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, Meta unveiled Muse Spark 1.3, and OpenAI previewed ChatGPT 6 Astra. The hosts analyze the emerging $10/M vs $1/M pricing tiers across t

  3. Episode · Sep 1, 2026

    Anonymous Model Beats Claude & Google's Legal AI Strategy (opens the original)

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    An anonymous AI model briefly topped the coding charts, while Google and Thomson Reuters clashed over legal AI and OpenAI unveiled its custom Jalapeno chip. In Episode 89 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado dive into a packed week of frontier tech news. They break down the mystery of Ox Alpha (GLM-5.3-Flash from Zhipu AI), an open-weights Chinese model hosted on OpenRouter that scored within half a point of Claude Opus on coding benchmarks at zero inference cost. The hosts analyze t

  4. Episode · Aug 25, 2026

    Stripe Buys OpenRouter for $7.5B & OpenAI Pauses Astra (opens the original)

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    Stripe reportedly acquired OpenRouter for $7.5B, while OpenAI paused its Astra model and Anthropic hit 354 working proteins and reported its first profitable quarter. In Episode 88 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado return after three weeks to break down the biggest structural shifts across frontier AI labs. Stripe's massive $7.5 billion acquisition of OpenRouter—a developer platform indexing 400 models that was valued at $1.3 million just months ago—signals a major strategic bet o

  5. Episode · Aug 14, 2026

    Ex-Google: Your Kid Isn't Cheating With AI (opens the original)

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    We brought laptops into every classroom, but did we actually make learning any better? Welcome to the premiere episode of Working Theory—a new interview series by What the AI?! where Jeff Keltner sits down with frontier builders, industry veterans, and tech leaders to test the ideas shaping the future of human intelligence. In this deep-dive interview, Jeff is joined by Jamie Casap, former Chief Education Evangelist at Google. Together, they tackle the uncomfortable truth about classroom technol

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