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Someone decompiled Adobe's entire Creative Cloud suite and published open-source versions, and games are now being routinely decompiled too. Nick and Jack ask whether software is dead: where the moat is when any app can be cloned in minutes (regulation, design, distribution), why Mark Cuban would pick an AI consulting business over a new startup in 2026, and how long companies like Adobe can keep charging subscriptions when free alternatives work. Then Nicolas Cage refuses to sign Amazon's AI likeness waiver, Microsoft's new Decision 1 model turns out to be post-trained on Qwen 3.5, and how the hosts use small decision models. Plus viewer comments on being nice to AI, and each host's AI apocalypse plan.

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Someone rebuilt Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Lightroom, After Effects, InDesign and Acrobat in Rust with Claude Opus 5.5 and released the whole suite as open source. We go through why this one took off, why you may never need to pay for SaaS again, and what Wikipedia tells us about open source beating paid products. Then OpenAI's report on an Iran-origin operation that placed about 100 AI-assisted articles under fake bylines, AI engagement bait and fake personas across social media, and why first-principles thinking is the antidote. Plus Claude's Teams-only dashboards, Roko's basilisk, how we evaluate new models, Anthropic's rules on abusive users, and ultra fast pricing.

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Anthropic can now ban users who abuse Claude, Elon agrees that cruelty to AI is not okay, and we look at the "digital whip" people built for Claude Code. OpenAI fires three safety researchers, and we read their open letter and debate whether OpenAI should answer to the public. Sol Ultrafast runs 8x faster at 6x the price, and we ask whether that speed is worth paying for. Plus the Mac mini giveaway draw, viewer comments on whether AI can already physically harm us, and synthetic filters.

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Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5 at 10 cents per million input tokens, a 10x price cut that also beats GPT 6 Luna on GDPval, and why the "dumb" model tier isn't dumb anymore (Haiku would have been the world's frontier model five months ago). OpenAI opens GPT 6 to free users and rolls out intelligent visual UIs in ChatGPT, which we test live, plus whether plumbers and nurses are really safe from AI. Google opens its SynthID Detector to everyone, and we put LinkedIn images and a Goldman Sachs video through it. Plus viewer Q&A on ASI, open weights, and saving tokens without losing intelligence.

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OpenAI publishes hundreds of results from an internal model on long-open math problems, from the Kakeya maximal conjecture to aperiodic 3D tiling, and why physics, chemistry and biology are next. Elon Musk says Grok bot will route to the best backend model for each task, including Claude Opus 5.5, and what that admission says about the frontier. Viral AI influencers nobody could tell were fake, Mistral Large 4's benchmarks (and the one it wins), plus viewer Q&A on home AI labs, how much RAM you need, and whether to learn machine learning.

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