A groundbreaking World Economic Forum report reveals massive shifts ahead in how we work, while Sam Altman drops major hints about AGI and superintelligence in a new Bloomberg interview. Plus, surprising new data on why enterprises are choosing proprietary AI over open source, unpack a $20B investment in U.S. data centers, and examine Anthropic's massive new funding round. In this packed episode, Paul and Mike break down these developments and much more reshaping the AI landscape.

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Timestamps:

00:04:55 — World Economic Forum Releases Future of Jobs Report

00:17:35 — Sam Altman’s “Reflections” and Bloomberg Interview

00:28:31 — Prophecies of the Flood by Ethan Mollick

00:40:17 — The Law of Uneven AI Distribution

00:44:35 — Notes on the State of AI in the Enterprise from Box CEO Aaron Levie

00:48:47 — Why OpenAI Is Taking So Long to Launch Agents

00:53:11 —CES + AI

00:58:41 — AI Startup Anthropic Raising Funds Valuing It at $60 Billion

01:02:16 — Trump Announces $20B Foreign Investment in New US Data Centers

01:05:52 —Grok/xAI Updates

01:10:02 — AI Researcher François Chollet Co-Founding Nonprofit to Build AGI Benchmarks

01:13:46 — Why Businesses Are Skipping Open-Source Models

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