Episode 7 is a heavy one. Mike opens up about the anniversary of his dad's death and what it means to actually feel your grief instead of stifling it. Martin admits he cries looking at his dog. Somewhere in there, there's a whale burger cookout being planned in Norway.

Then we get into it:

AI is not going to eat the software industry. Mike breaks down why the market's obsession with AI-displaces-software thinking doesn't hold up against the actual data. Both AI and software are growing and they NEED each other. The people saying otherwise are theorizing. We're looking at the evidence.

Kalshi just won a big legal ruling which is bad for everyone else. We get into why prediction markets are worse than regular sports betting, who benefits from keeping them loosely regulated, and why they're a predatory drain on young men.

OpenAI is quietly trying to limit its own liability. A new bill backed by OpenAI would shield frontier AI labs from responsibility for mass harms. It feels a lot like the Section 230 protections that let social media run wild for two decades.

David Zaslav's $887 million Warner Bros. exit — and why it's both deserved and infuriating at the same time. Hollywood consolidation marches on.

Plus: Microsoft's legalese about Copilot. Michael Burry tanks Palantir with a tweet. Meta pulls ads from law firms that want to sue Meta. And Philz Coffee pulls its pride flags in San Francisco.

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