A fast-paced walkthrough of 51 charts that capture where artificial intelligence stands right now and what matters most heading into 2026, spanning capabilities, infrastructure, markets, economics, vibe coding, jobs, and politics. The episode connects model performance, cost curves, hyperscaler spending, enterprise adoption, ROI data, coding agents, labor impacts, and emerging political pressures into a single narrative about how AI is evolving and what that evolution means for the year ahead
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