The White House just reversed its position on AI regulation, asking the same companies it spent the past year deregulating to suddenly slow down. On Episode 10 of Show Your Priors, Jason Thompson and Michael Nichols break down what triggered the about face, why Anthropic just surpassed OpenAI at a $900 billion valuation, and what Apple opening Siri to third party AI models reveals about who really controls the next App Store. Then we sit down with three time author and Thinkers50 management thinker to watch Dan Toma for a deep dive on corporate innovation, cargo cult strategy, and why innovation theater keeps killing real growth.

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https://www.amazon.com/Open-Innovation-Works-Successfully-Leveraging/dp/1805920715

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Music by ThunderWof.

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What we cover in this episode:

A peer reviewed study where an AI model out diagnosed two attending physicians on real emergency room cases at a Boston hospital, and what that means for medical education, AI safety, and clinical deployment.

Apple's reported plan to let iOS 27 users pick which AI model powers Siri, and why owning the customer beats building the model when you already control the channel.

Amazon weaponizing its logistics stack as a product for any business in the country, running the AWS playbook for the second time, and which industries should be most worried.

Nvidia's $500 million investment in Corning to ten times its optical fiber capacity, and why the next AI compute bottleneck is the pipes, not the chips.

Anthropic's reported $900 billion valuation, putting it ahead of OpenAI for the first time, and what the B2B versus B2C split tells you about strategy, pricing power, and enterprise AI.

A new EPFL benchmark showing AI models routinely hallucinate sources, even citing real journals for fake claims, and how to use AI without getting burned.

A Claude curated Firehose covering the Anthropic SpaceX Colossus deal, Pennsylvania's first state level lawsuit against an AI company, McDonald's and Shake Shack earnings, Whirlpool's recession signal, Intel's Apple chip deal and the reshoring of semiconductors away from TSMC, Michael Burry exiting GameStop after the eBay acquisition pitch, Novo Nordisk and the GLP-1 weight loss boom, the protein supply crunch, LinkedIn's AI powered job search, the AI versus four year degree debate, and the Pentagon's UAP file release.

The main topic: the Trump administration studying an executive order that would require AI models to clear a government approval process modeled on how the FDA approves drugs, what changed since JD Vance dismissed AI safety concerns at the global AI summit 15 months ago, the leaked Anthropic Mythos model, and how to think about regulation, leverage, and the art of the deal.

Then our interview with Dan Toma, strategic innovation advisor to blue chip companies, World Economic Forum contributor, and author of The Corporate Startup, Innovation Accounting, and his latest book Open Innovation Works. We dig into cargo cult innovation, why copying Spotify's operating model fails inside banks and pharma companies, vendor management dressed up as open innovation, the high failure rate of M&A and corporate ventures, and why real innovation has to be a repeatable discipline instead of a one time moonshot.

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00:00 Intro

00:38 Headlines: AI Out Diagnoses Doctors in ER Study

08:02 Apple Opens iOS 27 Siri to Multiple AI Models

13:20 Amazon Opens Its Logistics Empire to Every Business

22:14 Nvidia Bets $500M on Corning for Optical Fiber

28:34 Anthropic Hits $900B and Passes OpenAI

33:31 AI Models Are Hallucinating Their Sources

40:21 Firehose

1:06:54 White House Moves to Regulate AI

1:18:03 Interview with Dan Toma