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NOTE: When you sign up for Patreon, PLEASE do it through a web browser (Safari, Chrome, etc.) and NOT an app on your iPhone. The Apple app charges 30% !!! If you just click on the link above, it should be fine. In today's episode, Becket Cook sits down with Aaron Edwards for his full testimony of coming to faith in Christ. Edwards, a heterosexual husband and father, traces how a 1970s prophecy book given to his Liverpool dad by Anglican chaplain Graham Topping in Jersey planted a seed that later led to his father's born-again conversion after family tragedy, then to Aaron's reluctant trip to Stoneleigh Bible Week, his siblings' faith, his brother's healing, and their mother's salvation before she died. The conversation highlights God's long-range providence—from a hotel tip that wasn't cash, to God TV, Alpha, an "accidental" sinner's prayer, and a reunion that revived a chaplain ready to quit ministry—offering an encouraging family-wide gospel story of conversion, healing, and unexpected grace. The Becket Cook Show Ep. 255 Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.
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What if there are places where the line between this world and something else becomes thinner—and whatever exists there knows when investigators arrive?Near Sedona, Arizona, Bradshaw Ranch has become known for reports of UFOs, Bigfoot, strange entities, missing time, magnetic anomalies and possible portals. The ranch has often been compared to Skinwalker Ranch, but the investigators featured in this episode took a different approach: instead of “poking the bear,” they invited contact.My guests are Ronald C. Meyer and Mark Reeder, co-authors of The High Strangeness of Bradshaw Ranch.Ron is a filmmaker, author, paranormal investigator and paleontology researcher. Through Centre Communications, he has produced documentaries covering Bigfoot, UFOs, near-death experiences, serial killers and unexplained phenomena. His work includes The Bigfoot Alien Connection Revealed, Alien Contact in the Rockies, The Mysteries of Bradshaw Ranch and You Are Immortal: The Truth from Near-Death Experiences. He is also a fifth-degree black belt in Aikido and leads practices exploring contact, consciousness and the flow state.Mark is a historian, researcher, writer and producer who originally approached the paranormal as a skeptic. After reviewing witness interviews and working with Ron on their books, he began reconsidering how unexplained experiences affect individuals and their understanding of reality.In this conversation, Ron describes his investigations at Bradshaw Ranch, including a missing-time experience, a translucent triangular formation surrounded by hundreds of unusual objects, an apparent Bigfoot known as “Big Gal,” unexplained figures detected by SLS equipment and activity that appeared to demonstrate intelligence and situational awareness.We also discuss the government's ownership of the property, possible underground tunnels, Native American petroglyphs, Sedona's vortexes and whether UFOs, Bigfoot, portals and other paranormal phenomena could be different manifestations of the same presence.Ron also discusses the CE-6 Contact Protocol and his Contact and Flow Retreats. These experiences combine meditation, shared intention, the AEIOU chant, flow practices, remote viewing, nature immersion and equipment such as thermal cameras, magnetometers, structured-light scanners and audio recorders. The purpose is to explore possible interaction with what Ron calls “the Presence” and what may happen when participants enter a shared state of awareness.Could Bradshaw Ranch be a place where the boundary between worlds becomes thinner—and something on the other side is aware of everyone who enters?Follow Ronald C. Meyer and Mark Reeder:The Bigfoot Chronicles Trilogy on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Bigfoot-Chronicles-Trilogy/100063547892577/Their books, including The High Strangeness of Bradshaw Ranch, are available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Their documentaries can be found on YouTube, Amazon Prime and other streaming platforms.Follow, subscribe, review and share Wake Up with Miya for more conversations exploring the unexplained.BUY A COFFEE LINK Support the Show & Stay Connected:Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/sensiblehippieJoin My Patreon for ad-free episodes & exclusive content: https://Patreon.com/WakeupwithMiyaIf you're joining Waiola – The Plus Side, please subscribe through a web browser (Safari or Chrome) instead of the Patreon app — it directly supports the show. Mahalo nui loa for supporting independent work and helping keep this platform growing.Shop my Amazon Storefront: https://www.amazon.com/shop/profile/amzn1.account.AGYOPCXXGH6MN5RVAKGQWVZUZLEA/list/26B87RB4FZ9W2?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_aipsflist_6BWRT43TH4MY2NM2XD6XWant to be on the show or suggest a guest? I'm looking for guests who can speak on human trafficking, the paranormal, occult symbolism, hidden history, spiritual warfare, ancient mysteries, and specific military stories involving covert operations, secret programs, psychological warfare, unexplained events, and firsthand accounts. Email me at: Miya@wakeupwithmiya.comExclusive Discount!Shop at LVNTA: https://lvnta.com/lv_IcTq5EmoFKaZfJhTiSUse code OHANA for 20% off!Listen on Your Favorite Platform: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and everywhere podcasts are available!RATE & REVIEW: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wake-up-with-miya/id1627169850 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0UYrXCgma1lJYzf8glnAxyMusic Credits: Beginning: "Echoes in the Shadows" - DKEnd Music: “Crazy” - EkoBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/wake-up-with-miya--6339129/support.
In this episode, we explore the world of Star Wars trading cards, the impact of pricing strategies, and the collector's mindset. We discuss the latest releases from Topps Chrome, the value of vintage versus modern cards, and the broader implications for collectors and fans. Chapters 00:00 Introduction to Star Wars 2026 Topps Chrome set 01:12 Details of the 2026 Star Wars Chrome release 02:28 Pricing discrepancies and market value 03:15 Fanatics' pricing strategies and collector impact 04:49 Autographs, stickers, and card quality 06:22 Debut characters and their market significance 09:29 Comparing Star Wars cards to other collectibles 11:09 Market value of vintage vs. modern Star Wars cards 13:37 The influence of pop culture on card values 15:45 Final thoughts on investing in Star Wars cards Check Out Our Other Content: New Product Releases with Mrs. Doc - Every Wednesday Pack to the Future Podcast - Flagship - Livestream YouTube Thursday, Podcast Saturday
ChatGPT ou Claude Code: o que cada uma faz melhor? Neste episódio do Hotmart Cast, Ana Tex explica onde cada ferramenta está na frente hoje. De um lado, o ChatGPT como IA de entrada, com geração de imagens e Codex. Do outro, o Claude, com Claude Code, Claude in Chrome e skills. E ela mostra como transformar IA em agentes, sistemas e novas fontes de renda. Ana está no mercado digital há mais de uma década: começou ensinando Instagram, passou pelos produtos digitais e, desde 2023, ensina especialistas e profissionais liberais a automatizar processos, criar conteúdo e desenvolver soluções com inteligência artificial para os próprios clientes.A conversa vai além do confronto entre ferramentas. Ana conta como criou uma agente de IA que acompanha os alunos dentro da mentoria e explica por que acredita que as pessoas vão querer skills em vez de aprender da forma tradicional. Ela também apresenta o documento mestre, que dá contexto para a IA trabalhar melhor. O episódio traz ainda o caso de uma mentorada que vendeu um GPT personalizado por R$30 mil, exemplos de médicos e outros profissionais criando os próprios sistemas, ideias de isca digital com IA, como ensinar seu tom de voz para a IA e os cuidados necessários com agentes autônomos. Se você usa IA só para escrever texto, este episódio mostra o que está deixando na mesa. Visite o canal da Hotmart no Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotmart
The panel looks at macOS 27 ending Time Capsule backup support, then debates Google's new Android-based laptops and its attempt to build a tighter ecosystem. Other topics include Chrome's retro-style bookmark launchpad and GM's geolocation privacy settlement before a deep dive into cloud storage, AWS data loss, redundancy, service agreements, and why cloud storage is not necessarily backup. The panel consists of Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Web Bixby, Eric Bolden, Marty Jencius, Jim Rea, and Jeff Gamet. MacVoices is supported by Origin Technology. Origin is endpoint AI observability. See what a trace looks like at https://originhq.com/macvoices. Show Notes: Chapters: 00:00 macOS 27 Ends Time Capsule Backup Support 00:57 The Risks of Aging Time Capsule Hardware 02:20 Google's New Android Laptop Strategy 03:35 Google Tries to Build an Apple-Like Ecosystem 05:09 Chromebooks Versus Android-Based Laptops 06:00 Android and Apple Ecosystem Pricing 07:17 Google Book Pricing Compared With MacBook Neo 08:31 Chrome's Retro Approach to the New Tab Page 09:45 Are Bookmark Launchpads Useful Again? 11:34 GM and OnStar Geolocation Data Settlement 12:08 Origin: Endpoint AI Observability 13:37 Amazon Data Center Strikes and Permanent Data Loss 15:01 Why Didn't AWS Redundancy Prevent the Loss? 16:23 Geographic Redundancy and Cloud Infrastructure 17:52 Planning for Regional Data Center Disasters 18:30 Amazon Regions and Customer Responsibility 20:52 Who Is Responsible for Cloud Data Protection? 22:02 Microsoft Teams, AWS, Azure, and E911 23:14 What Does Your Cloud Service Agreement Promise? 24:26 Cloud Storage Is Not the Same as Backup 25:49 Service Agreements, Redundancy, and Acts of War 27:00 Protecting Critical Data Across Multiple Regions 27:41 Why the 3-2-1 Backup Strategy Still Matters 28:22 Panelist Wrap-Up and Where to Find Everyone Links: PSA: macOS 27 Drops Support for Time Machine Backups to Time Capsule https://www.mactrast.com/2026/09/psa-macos-27-drops-support-for-time-machine-backups-to-time-capsule/ Google's pitch for Googlebooks: A laptop that works better with your Android phone – Engadget https://www.engadget.com/2263649/googlebooks-a-laptop-that-works-better-with-your-android-phone/ Transform Chrome's new tab page into the ultimate bookmark launchpad – Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/91593352/chrome-new-tab-bookmarks FTC Finalizes Order Settling Allegations that GM and OnStar Collected and Sold Geolocation Data Without Consumers' Informed Consent | Federal Trade Commission https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2026/01/ftc-finalizes-order-settling-allegations-gm-onstar-collected-sold-geolocation-data-without-consumers Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/iran-strikes-on-amazon-data-centers-caused-permanent-loss-of-customer-data/ Guests: Get detailed bios and contact information about for the panel on the MacVoices Live! Panel page on our web site: https://macvoices.com/macvoiceslive/macvoices-live-panel/ Support: Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon http://patreon.com/macvoices Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect: Web: http://macvoices.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner http://www.twitter.com/macvoices Mastodon: https://mastodon.cloud/@chuckjoiner Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner MacVoices Page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/ MacVoices Group on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe: Audio in iTunes Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss
What does it take to move from a corporate career into entrepreneurship — and then build and scale a technology business internationally?In this episode of Buy-and-Build & Scaling Stories, Anirvan Sen speaks with Samit Sengupta, Founder and Managing Director of Geologix, about his journey from corporate leader to entrepreneur.But this is not simply a story about starting a company.It is about what happens as the company grows — when the founder's expertise is no longer enough, hiring becomes harder, the organization becomes more complex, and the entrepreneur must evolve alongside the business.Samit shares how his early experience working on oil rigs gave him a first-hand understanding of his customers and helped shape the way he approached the market.He also speaks candidly about one of the challenges many founders eventually face: becoming a bottleneck in their own business.Our conversation then turns to one of the biggest challenges for growing SMEs — hiring.Samit discusses mistakes made by pursuing candidates with impressive “gold label” companies on their CVs and why experience in a major corporation did not always translate into success in a smaller entrepreneurial business.That experience led to a different approach: recruiting less-experienced people, looking closely at their attitude and problem-solving ability, and investing in developing their capabilities over time.We also discuss Geologix's experience with freemium, international scaling, and why Samit continues investing in his own leadership development even after decades of experience.• Samit's journey from corporate leader to entrepreneur• How experience on oil rigs shaped his understanding of customers• Winning the confidence of early customers• Building and scaling an international technology business• Recognizing when the founder becomes a bottleneck• Why impressive corporate CVs do not always produce the right SME hires• Hiring less-experienced people and developing their capabilities• Looking for attitude and problem-solving ability during interviews• Geologix's experience with freemium• Why entrepreneurs need to continue upgrading their own leadership capabilitiesAs your company grows, are you simply building a bigger business — or are you building an organization capable of operating at a bigger scale?One of the strongest lessons from Samit's journey is that the capabilities required to start a business are not necessarily the capabilities required to scale it.Starting often depends heavily on the founder's knowledge, relationships, expertise, and problem-solving ability.Scaling increasingly depends on building those capabilities throughout the organization.And that requires the entrepreneur to keep evolving too.------------Connect with Samit Senguptahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/samit-sengupta-b560613/Geologix:https://www.geologix.com/--------Connect with Anirvan SenLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anirvansen/-------------About Buy-and-Build & Scaling StoriesBuy-and-Build & Scaling Stories brings together founders, CEOs, CFOs, investors, operators, and advisers who have lived through the challenges of building, acquiring, scaling, and exiting businesses.These are stories from inside the journey — the decisions, challenges, mistakes, and lessons that rarely appear in deal announcements or investment presentations.Hosted by Fifth Chrome.Presented by Anirvan Sen.
In this episode, we walk through Quick Rates, SONAR's Chrome extension that gives your team access to real-time rates and market conditions directly from your browser Already have a SONAR login? Click the link below to download the Chrome Extension to your browser! https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sonar-quick-rates/dhibohccgihfbghgkcnlnmgddnphafdm
Returning guest Brandon Kroll joins me to explore Revelation's description of Babylon the Great, the call to “come out of her,” and what that might mean for Christians now. Drawing on biblical passages, ancient history, religious imagery, and modern symbols, Brandon shares his theory that America may reflect aspects of Babylon. We discuss the Statue of Liberty, Mithras and the liberty cap, Nimrod and Tammuz, money and empire, Christian nationalism, and Brandon's questions about technology and end times prophecy. These are Brandon's interpretations and theories, offered for you to examine and consider; his views are not necessarily my own. This episode includes slides and visual comparisons. If you're listening on an audio platform, watch the video on YouTube or Patreon to see what Brandon is referencing. Find Brandon Kroll and the Manna Daily Podcast on YouTube, Spotify, and Rumble. Subscribe to Wake Up with Miya, give this episode a thumbs up, turn on notifications, and share your thoughts in the comments. For extended conversations, join Waiola Plus on Patreon or become a YouTube member.Watch more of my conversations with Brandon Kroll here:BlackRock, Symbolism and the New World Order with Brandon Krollhttps://youtu.be/wIk0JXfpCow?si=IQLNUvP9v2qwFiouThe Hidden Hand: Masonic & Jesuit Plot to Assassinate Abraham Lincoln │ Brandon Kroll https://youtu.be/U8NTC4Qa00k?si=COqjb6qXIHLNG1E7The 33rd Olympic, Apollyon Rises with Brandon Krollhttps://youtu.be/bN75JS7GA4I?si=_p8aHZ1VDxLcOz5mGod's been Divorced with Brandon Krollhttps://youtu.be/QAs9XyZGtNs?si=5Qnui3xKNfKQjKXbThe Hidden Hand: Masonic & Jesuit Plot to Assassinate Abraham Lincoln │ Brandon Kroll https://youtu.be/U8NTC4Qa00k?si=kcNEFPorXC-ItaGJLord of the Stars with Brandon Kroll https://youtu.be/Be6xpAjnFSM?si=K_hkt6Q0RQElIQnwCurse of the Archons ...Statist or Saint? | Brandon Krollhttps://youtu.be/2KIb-3RcJys?si=XhKp5u_0DtJo-oQeDOGE: Rise of the Technocrats┃ Brandon Krollhttps://youtu.be/spDm5Q9geN4?si=B2vTwXmCxShXTn1cBUY A COFFEE LINK Support the Show & Stay Connected: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/sensiblehippieJoin My Patreon for ad-free episodes & exclusive content: https://Patreon.com/WakeupwithMiya If you're joining Waiola – The Plus Side, please subscribe through a web browser (Safari or Chrome) instead of the Patreon app — it directly supports the show.Mahalo nui loa for supporting independent work and helping keep this platform growing.Shop my Amazon Storefront: https://www.amazon.com/shop/profile/amzn1.account.AGYOPCXXGH6MN5RVAKGQWVZUZLEA/list/26B87RB4FZ9W2ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_aipsflist_6BWRT43TH4MY2NM2XD6X Want to be on the show or suggest a guest? I'm looking for guests who can speak on human trafficking, the paranormal, occult symbolism, hidden history, spiritual warfare, ancient mysteries, and specific military stories involving covert operations, secret programs, psychological warfare, unexplained events, and firsthand accounts. Email me at: Miya@wakeupwithmiya.com Exclusive Discount!Shop at LVNTA: https://lvnta.com/lv_IcTq5EmoFKaZfJhTiS Use code OHANA for 20% off!Listen on Your Favorite Platform: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and everywhere podcasts are available!RATE & REVIEW:Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wake-up-with-miya/id1627169850Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0UYrXCgma1lJYzf8glnAxyMusic Credits: Beginning: "Echoes in the Shadows" - DKEnd Music: “Crazy” - EkoBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/wake-up-with-miya--6339129/support.
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In this episode, we walk through Quick Rates, SONAR's Chrome extension that gives your team access to real-time rates and market conditions directly from your browser Already have a SONAR login? Click the link below to download the Chrome Extension to your browser! https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sonar-quick-rates/dhibohccgihfbghgkcnlnmgddnphafdm
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The Fork In Your Ear Ep#222 "Ionic The Hedgehog" - Podcast Show Notes & Summary 9-26-26 Tim and Nate spend the first ten minutes fighting a Discord refresh, a hiss they blame on forced suppression, and a Windows accessibility crosshair that PowerToys cannot kill. Then the ring lands on Life: first day of fall floods Tim's plugged gutters, a USPS driver does an Austin Powers turn in his driveway because Washington will not let carriers reverse more than a foot, and Nate trades a Mustang insurance bill for a 2019 Hyundai Ioniq they immediately name Ionic the Hedgehog. Dream Nate gets a tattoo without telling Mrs. Foo. Amazon cargo e-bikes with fake pedals unload patio furniture in Burbank heat. Games dump after the last episode posted — Diablo 5, StarCraft Dominion, more No Man's Sky, Famitsu wishlists, Kojima's canceled Metal Gear-shaped "Fizzint," Bungie saying "we're listening" again, and Xbox shoving Halo under an Activision Call of Duty team while Halo Studios shrinks to "community support." Tim's HTML RTS playtest is up to 0.58 with dumber-AI rehab. Tech is iPhone Duo vs Z Fold 8 and a missing telephoto that keeps Tim off the fold. Entertainment is Lanterns going feral, Mayday being exactly Ryan Reynolds, Paramount-Warner getting waved through, Darkwing Duck coming back without Jim Cummings, Kara's Spaceballs DVD, and a Reddit stranger who archived Wizard's Rule episodes 0–40. Get forked. Detailed Show Notes
From the earliest days of open-weight models to becoming the neutral routing layer for more than 10 million developers, OpenRouter is one of the clearest bets that the future of AI will be multi-model. In this episode, OpenRouter co-founder & CEO Alex Atallah, with AMP's Anjney Midha returning with swyx to unpack how OpenRouter emerged from the first wave of Llama, Alpaca, Mistral, and Midjourney, why model diversity mattered before it was consensus, and how a company dismissed as “just a wrapper” became critical infrastructure for the AI ecosystem.We go deep on the product and distribution lessons behind OpenRouter: why model labs can spend billions training a checkpoint and still struggle to get it into developers' hands, how Mistral helped prove the value of a competitive inference marketplace, why OpenRouter chose focus over expanding into fine-tuning, memory, and other adjacent products, and how its rankings became a real-time map of how AI usage was changing. Alex also explains OpenRouter's early experiments with model fusion, why they deleted the first version and brought it back years later, and how the platform grew to more than 10 trillion tokens per day.Finally, Anjney explains why Stripe and OpenRouter fit together, why token fraud may become one of the defining security problems of the AI economy, and why the next wave of fraud won't just come from humans but from autonomous agents attacking increasingly valuable token flows.We discuss:* Why OpenRouter bet early that no single AI model would win everything* Alpaca, Llama, and open models becoming impossible to ignore* Why Discord's early AI deployments exposed the limitations of closed models* Why model labs can spend billions on training and still fail at distribution* How OpenRouter became a neutral distribution layer for model developers* Why VCs dismissed OpenRouter as “just a marketplace” or “just a wrapper”* The Mistral price war and the first real proof of an inference marketplace* How Midjourney scaled through Discord and what it taught the AI ecosystem* Why crypto infrastructure became a dress rehearsal for generative AI* OpenRouter vs. LM Arena and why their missions are fundamentally different* Why focus became one of OpenRouter's biggest strategic advantages* Anthropic's early focus on AI pair programming and coding* The OpenRouter products that were prototyped but never launched* MOM, OpenRouter's early Mixture of Models experiment* Why model fusion failed in 2024 — and why it works much better now* How OpenRouter's leaderboard became a live map of the AI industry* OpenClaw, auto-routing, and agents reshaping AI usage* How OpenRouter reached 10+ trillion tokens per day* Why inference gateways are increasingly becoming targets for fraud* Why Stripe's fraud infrastructure is strategically important to OpenRouter* The coming rise of agentic fraud and attacks on the token economy* What changes and what stays the same as OpenRouter joins StripeAlex Atallah* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexatallah/* X: https://x.com/alexatallah* Website: https://alexatallah.comAnjney Midha* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anjney/* X: https://x.com/AnjneyMidha* AMP: https://www.amppublic.com/Timestamps00:00:00 Introduction00:02:12 Alpaca, Llama, and the Multi-Model Bet00:06:04 Discord, Open Models, and OpenRouter's Origins00:14:28 Why “One Model Wins” Was the Wrong Bet00:17:27 Why Model Labs Struggle With Distribution00:23:04 “Just a Wrapper”: Why VCs Misunderstood OpenRouter00:27:58 Bootstrapping OpenRouter Through Community00:36:16 Crypto, Midjourney, and the Early Generative AI Ecosystem00:43:38 Mistral and the Birth of the Inference Marketplace00:47:10 OpenRouter vs. LM Arena00:52:08 Focus, Anthropic, and Roads Not Taken00:59:34 Mixture of Models and Model Fusion01:02:44 Sonnet, OpenClaw, and OpenRouter's Explosive Growth01:09:03 Why Stripe Acquired OpenRouter01:12:45 Fraud and the Emerging Token Economy01:17:47 The Coming Wave of Agentic Fraud01:19:07 What's Next for OpenRouter at StripeTranscriptIntroduction: OpenRouter, Marketplaces, and Pub-Sub as a Product PrincipleSwyx [00:00:00]: Okay, we are here in Anja's house, which is where all big startups in San Francisco start.Anjney Midha [00:00:08]: Howdy.Swyx [00:00:08]: And, congrats on Cursor, Mistral. I don'- God knows what else. You got so much stuff going on.Anjney Midha [00:00:17]: There's, there's a lot going on. Well, OpenRouter is probably the - has been the most, I would say, like, one I'm excited about recently.Swyx [00:00:24]: Yeah. And we have Alex, first time on the pod, but,Anjney Midha [00:00:27]: Thanks for having me.Swyx [00:00:27]: You've been in the IE a few times. I appreciate every time you've shown up, for the community. Congrats. I just, like, what a journey. When I was looking back at your past posts, one of the earliest principles that I saw you write as a product person is sub as a product principle. And I wanted - you to maybe explain how you think about what should exist in the world.Anjney Midha [00:00:49]: Yeah. The sub piece, which was early 2023, I didn't think about it until we talked like 10 minutes ago, is about how there is like a way of thinking about products as an intersection between subscribing to data and publishing data. And marketplaces are an easy example of this. You have suppliers that are publishing some product to a SKU. And the SKU is like a sub topic that a consumer is subscribing to and just going to, like, consume whenever they want. And humans consume in a very, like, discreet, ad hoc way. It's not very scalable. all their attention is on the topic when they're buying the thing, and their attention is nowhere else when that happens. agents and consumers of inference don't act like that. They're consuming continuously, and they're changing the SKUs that they consume from all the time. So OpenRouter is like a blend between a normal API experience and a marketplace where we create model slug. We have the auto router. We have all kinds of, like, product SKUs that you can subscribe to. And then you can, like, continuously add, like, derive value and make decisions based on those consumers.Alpaca, Llama, and the Multi-Model BetSwyx [00:02:11]: Yeah. This is something that was more consensus now, but not consensus when you guys started, which was that there is such a demand for swapping models and changing things out and, that people would not use the native SDKs. I guess, for each of you, what was your realization moment that this would be it? I, - You've, you've given a talk at EIE about Alpaca as,Anjney Midha [00:02:33]: Yeah.Swyx [00:02:33]: One of your inspiring moments.Anjney Midha [00:02:35]: Alpaca, I can, like, rehash the Alpaca moment for a sec. Like, the very beginning, at the end of 2022, OpenAI was the only game in town. There was, like, OpenAI, Cohere,Swyx [00:02:47]: Yes.Anjney Midha [00:02:48]: And then a smattering of, like, early attempts at open weight models.Swyx [00:02:54]: Yeah.Anjney Midha [00:02:54]: When Llama came out in January of 2023, it was like, “Wow, really exciting. This is really big.” It outperforms 3 on, one or two benchmarks. but you can't chat with it. It wasn't like - It wasn't an engaging model, but it seemed like someone just needed to fix a couple things and do some RLHF on it to get it all the way there. And Alpaca was the first model that I saw that did that. It only took $600 to do. A team at Stanford generated a bunch of synthetic data, tuned Llama, and made Alpaca, billion parameter model. Or was - Maybe it was thirteen billion parameters. And it was so good. Like, I was just, like, on an airplane using it. I, - in many cases, I, like, you could not discern a ChatGPT versus an Alpaca result. And I figured if it was this easy to make a model, one, we have a whole new way of monetizing data for the first time. you can just, like, take really valuable data and turn it into a service in $600. and that cost will probably go down over time.Swyx [00:04:03]: When you - So sorry. when you say monetizing your data as, what eventually will become an MCP endpoint or as a training data for a model?Anjney Midha [00:04:12]: Yeah, training data for a model.Swyx [00:04:13]: Awesome.Anjney Midha [00:04:13]: Like, an abstract way of saying like, “Hey, I have this data.”Swyx [00:04:15]: Compress it into a model.Anjney Midha [00:04:16]: Like, it makes sense for me in my product, but, like, I could repackage it in the form of a model and sell it. And so it's just a whole new business model for the economy. It also, of course, provides, like, a way of following what Frontier Labs are doing, but in a way that, like, a single developer or a small team of developers can roll on their own. And so - Whenever you have an example of that, like a breakout app that's doing really well, and then some framework for imitating it with - in your own flavor, you have an immediate ecosystem of, like an immediate ecosystem, like, should arise because there's just a huge gap between the, like, decisions that the single company is making and all of the variations in those decisions that, like, a wider ecosystem can create themselves. And so then, you need a marketplace to, like, discover all of those, services and all of those products. There wasn't any place on the internet that, like, was like a home base for LLMs in terms of seeing how much they were being used and seeing who was using them and why.Swyx [00:05:29]: The closest would be Hugging Face.Anjney Midha [00:05:30]: Hugging Face was the closest at the time, yeah.Swyx [00:05:31]: They just started Hugging, like, a few years ago before that.Anjney Midha [00:05:34]: Yeah, and Hugging Face also didn't have the closed-source models.Swyx [00:05:37]: Yeah.Anjney Midha [00:05:38]: And they didn'- you couldn't use the models at the time. and there wasn't data about who was using them. There were, like, a bunch of differences between OpenRouter and Hugging Face, and those differences felt really critical to me, especially when I was just trying to learn about LLMs and, like, why people are choosing, like, Different little ones that are emerging over time.Discord, Open Models, and the Origins of OpenRouterSwyx [00:06:03]: Got it. And then, Ansh, no stranger to wanting more model diversity, at the time, you're a couple of years into your Anthropic journey, which we covered in the previous podcast as well. What was your introduction to Alex?Alex Atallah [00:06:16]: Well, the introduction was, I think, thirteen years before that.Swyx [00:06:20]: Oh.Alex Atallah [00:06:20]: But the OpenRouter handshake happened right over there, if you remember.Anjney Midha [00:06:23]: Yeah.Alex Atallah [00:06:24]: Which - So Alex and I, met, I believe as sophomores now, if I remember at the Stanford Review,Anjney Midha [00:06:32]: That's rightAlex Atallah [00:06:32]: Meeting for the first time.Anjney Midha [00:06:33]: I think so, yeah.Alex Atallah [00:06:35]: Yeah.Anjney Midha [00:06:35]: Yeah.Alex Atallah [00:06:35]: So Stanford Review was the libertarian newspaper on campus at Stanford that Peter Thiel started back in the day. And, whatever-- for whatever reason, I, Alex and I both showed up to one of the meetings, and I remember, the editor-chief was a mutual friend of ours. Lisa was really a really great editor-chief, where, part of an editor-chief's job is to assign responsibilities to people and make sure the work gets done. and I, I may be misremembering the details, but I remember wanting to. It was surprising to me that at the time there was no dedicated technology section in the newspaper.Alex Atallah [00:07:11]: YouSwyx [00:07:13]: Because it's political, right?Alex Atallah [00:07:14]: It is primarilySwyx [00:07:14]: Like, it's talkingAlex Atallah [00:07:15]: It originally started as like aAnjney Midha [00:07:16]: Yes.Swyx [00:07:17]: Yeah, states and all those things.Alex Atallah [00:07:17]: Correct.Swyx [00:07:18]: Yeah.Alex Atallah [00:07:18]: But it, - To take us back in time, you may remember this, but, there was this technology, legislation that was being debated called, the Net Neutrality Act. And net neutrality is, like, inherently this political concept, right? It's, it's about the regulation of - internet broadband access. And so there was a community of us who were technologists, but also debating the politics of the technology. And I thought the Review would be a great place - to, like, write about that. And I was working on, I think, a net neutrality article, and I remember proposing, “Well, maybe we should start a technology section.” And Alex was one of the only people who said, “Yes, that would be cool.” And said. I forget whether we ended up writing stuff together, but - that's when we first met,Alex Atallah [00:08:03]: Was 2011 or twelve. I forget which year it was. It was one of those.Anjney Midha [00:08:09]: Yeah.Alex Atallah [00:08:09]: It was at Old Union, if I remember correctly.Alex Atallah [00:08:11]: That's where we used to meet. But, along the way, Alex and I have had a chance to, To hang out often. And probably the time when we had the most professional overlap was when I was running the platform at Discord, and it had become this explosive platform for cryptoSwyx [00:08:32]: YeahAlex Atallah [00:08:32]: And NFTs in the middle of the pandemic.Swyx [00:08:35]: Which also, by the way, you were in charge of safety and security as well, right?Alex Atallah [00:08:38]: I was the head of platform, which meant all of the crypto - the DAO and NFT launch security debugging fell onSwyx [00:08:45]: And their phishing and.Alex Atallah [00:08:47]: The phishing, the social engineering attacks, the katana DDoS that we were getting hit by. but it's around the time I first started teaching security at scale at Stanford, CS 153. And Alex was on the, - at OpenSea at the time, and I was trying to figure out how we could defend against all these attacks that we were. Like, and at peak, I forget, if you remember how much NFT volume was running throughSwyx [00:09:10]: DiscordAlex Atallah [00:09:10]: Discord, but it was, like, a meaningful amount of, like, it was, like, several billion dollars in NFT volume of GMV, so to speak, were running through the platform, and it was all coming from OpenSea. It was these, like, buy, sell,Swyx [00:09:20]: TheAlex Atallah [00:09:21]: ServersSwyx [00:09:21]: The D in DAO is Discord.Alex Atallah [00:09:25]: Yes. And so that's when I think we had hung out professionally. But a year after that, OpenAI gave Discord early access to GPT. Sorry, three. No, it was five. Yeah, five, which is the RL version of three. And that's around the time we made a Discord bot with, OpenAI for internal deployment, and that's when I realized we would need. Like, since I was part of the deployment team.Anjney Midha [00:09:50]: What was the use case?Alex Atallah [00:09:51]: There were two that were. And there's, there's a post now called “Discord is Your Place for AI with Friends” that somebody sent me recently that I wrote, and published in twenty-three. But There were two use cases. One was Clyde, which was the - like, a party friend inside of Discord that could help you set up your Discord server and talk to you about onboarding and get your friends to hang out more. and then there was content moderation. And one of the realizations we had with content moderation was - it would refuse to moderate. Like, it would just refuse our prompts because the The training was. We were very early in the training era, and it would just. Our prompts would trigger it, its, like, guardrails. And we told OpenAI, “Hey, guys, we need access to the weights because if we're gonna be doing content moderation at scale, we had 250 million monthly active users, we need more reliability that the model will do what we need it to.” And they said, “Well, sorry, guys, that's not how this works. We're a closed-source company.” And so that was my first realization that we needed open models, and the enterprises would need more control over capabilities, and then ultimately would need some control plane or management system to orchestrate these open models. But there weren't no good - there were no good open alternatives until maybeAlex Atallah [00:11:10]: Six months later when Llama came out. And six months after that, I led the series A into Mistral, which was started by Guillaume and the Llama team. And - That, - Around that time is when I remember hearing about Alex launching OpenRouter and going, “These worlds are gonna collide, and I don't know when it'll make sense to team up.” But Alex was so early and could see. I think he was totally right about this ecosystem starting with Llama that then needed, like, a, an easy layer to manage for, especially for. I was approaching it from the enterprise perspective because I had been that, like, the. As the VP of platform at Discord, it was my job to ensure that when we deployed models to, like, 250 million users, they did what we wanted them to. And that was very hard, because if you outsourced it to the labs and they controlled the guardrails and their guardrails are their safety policies. Forbid the model from responding to your prompts. That was quite catastrophic.Swyx [00:12:05]: Yeah. But what, a moderation is the thing that they want to support. And obviously, beyond that, they would - OpenAI would work with you, presumably to give you a moderation endpoint, which they offer for free.Alex Atallah [00:12:16]: It was an interesting use case, that - So they did give us a moderation endpoint. However, as you guys know, every Discord server is like a mini deployment of itself. And so the use case was instead of having human moderators that have to interpret the norms of the community, you just give the, - Often, like every, subreddit, Discord servers, public ones have their own rules that the user, the users create.Swyx [00:12:41]: Oh, yeah. We run the LinkedIn Discord in. Yeah.Alex Atallah [00:12:43]: And then humans used to read those norms and then enforce it every day manually, like observing each message in these communities. And these communities have like millions of users. So we had a 5,000+ person team globally in the, on the Discord content moderation team. These are outsourced contractors who had a really tough job. And so the idea was instead, if you could give the norms of that server To the LLM, then the LLM would do custom moderation for that server. It's almost like a, like context moderation for that server. And many of those servers' norms just violated OpenAI's rules. And so - It was like we had our own custom eval. So each server had its own custom eval. But Discord-- at the time, OpenAI's evals, we were all soAlex Atallah [00:13:28]: Primitive in our thinking about how to deploy these LLMs that often the training prompts were super handed. It said, “Oh, anything about Harry Potter, anything that has trademarked content, don'- refuse.” And if it was a fan - Harry Potter fan community, this is a real use case, that had content moderation, the LLM would just refuse.Swyx [00:13:48]: Yeah.Alex Atallah [00:13:49]: And that was just not precise enough.Anjney Midha [00:13:52]: Another one that we heard was like if someone was trying to write like a detective story, and there's one chapter with a lot of violence, like maybe someoneAlex Atallah [00:14:01]: RightAnjney Midha [00:14:01]: Like kills someone, the LLMs would just refuse to, like, help with that part of the story.Alex Atallah [00:14:07]: Yeah.Anjney Midha [00:14:07]: And then - like, we used to be like, okay, this is not like structurally inherent to LLMs. There must be, like, some choice out there so that I can, like, switch to another model, when I'm getting, like, a refusal or a bad result from the main one that I have. And that, like, tension also drove me for a marketplace.Why “One Model Wins” Was the Wrong BetSwyx [00:14:28]: Yeah. I think that is well accepted now. What was it like back then when you were raising or, starting this? did people get it? what was the, some of the struggles? I like getting stories out of him about how other VCs don't get it. So like anything you wanna, talk about, now - Let's, let's call it, that the early journey of OpenRouter is done, right? You can obviously talk about some of the early days stuff.Anjney Midha [00:14:54]: Well, I was gonna say that, like, the biggest objection we got is big model win, which is - all of theSwyx [00:15:03]: Scaling laws.Anjney Midha [00:15:04]: Huh?Swyx [00:15:04]: Scaling laws.Anjney Midha [00:15:05]: Yeah, scaling laws, and natural network effects are just gonna accrue to one company, which will be - It'll be a Google-style monopoly, just like how Google won the search market, by a large margin, and you'll just be fighting for scraps at the end. That was probably the biggest objection we got. it is interesting that Google won the search engine race with such a huge margin. I think, like, had there been more interesting benchmarks or had, like, search engines been, - had people, like, seen them a little bit more like LLMs where they're services that you can build companies on top of, that might not have been the case. but LLMs don't merely have a user interface. They're also, like, ways of building entirely new businesses. And, a Google-level monopoly would be like the Dutch East India Company times, quadrillion in magnitude because the whole economy ends up, like, depending on the one monopoly as well. So it didn't seem like would be a really crazy outcome if that happened. And it's also less likely because the economics of, like, creating good competitors are much, like, much more decentralizable.Alex Atallah [00:16:25]: Everything Alex said is true, And I came at it from a completely different perspective, whichSwyx [00:16:31]: Yes, this is why we're here.Alex Atallah [00:16:32]: The scaling laws were never - In my mind, were always a feature, not a bug for why OpenRouter would be very valuable. Because, I was one of the first investors in Anthropic, and it was obvious to me that other researchers in our friends - I went to grad school for machine learning, and I just had a lot of friends in the ML community who it was very obvious to us that the bitter lesson holds. And so I was like, “Oh, fantastic. Now we have at least two proof points that compute scaling works.” It was OpenAI and Anthropic. and by the time I think we decided to team up on OpenRouter, I had already invested in Mistral and Black Forest Labs and Luma. So there was multiple model companies and teams that I was, working with.Why Model Labs Struggle With DistributionSwyx [00:17:14]: But you did other modalities, whereas this is literallyAlex Atallah [00:17:16]: Across different modalities, yesSwyx [00:17:17]: Text.Alex Atallah [00:17:18]: Exactly. And it was so obvious to me that an ecosystem of different kinds of models were being created, and that this whole narrative of, like, Only one company will dominate like Google was, well, like maybe true, but one, I don't believe that. But two, there was so much extraordinary innovation happening across several different research teams. But the shared problem I was noticing across all of them was often, the research teams were fantastic at figuring out how to reason about new capabilities. They think in terms of capabilities, but never - like, are not developer mindset-oriented. Like, what happens after the training is done and the checkpoint comes out? Like, you'd be shocked how, like, similar the early training teams at OpenAI, sorry, Anthropic, BFL, Mistral, were in their, like, default approach to. Taking their research out of the, lab and scaling their impact, which is often, oh, the checkpoint is done, put it out as an API, done, and then there'd be crickets. in the case of Claude, the first Claude checkpoint was done a year before they released it internally. And then ChatGPT came out, and we decided, okay, yes, it's a good idea to release a Claude version externally.Alex Atallah [00:18:34]: And they had no plan, like no plan for how to get developers to try it out. And so if you go to the Claude one blog post, you'll notice there are, like, three developer examples for users of the API, and one is a Discord bot, and the second is Vivian, my wife's startup called Juny Learning, ‘- And then there was, like, Notion, because these were all friends of, like, the Anthropic Because that's how - like, last minute the planning was around, hey, once the model's done training, how do you get it out to the world? There was no distribution platform that understood what developers needed, all the key management, provisioning, like, simple, like, endpoint management, versioning control. Like, all these things that the scientists and researchers go, “ that's plumbing. I don't really think about it.”Swyx [00:19:15]: Implementation detail.Alex Atallah [00:19:16]: Right. And instead, Alex came at it from that perspective. And so, it was so obvious to me that, like, every single lab I was funding would spend - like, literally sometimes billions of dollars into training, and then a checkpoint would be done, and there'd be crickets, like, during early access because they're like, “Oh, that's right.”Alex Atallah [00:19:35]: It's hard to use a checkpoint to make anything. You need a whole bunch of plumbing around it to make it usable by a developer. And so by the - I think - it was so obvious to me that a distribution platform like OpenRouter was critical to have in the ecosystem if we wanted there to be competition to Google. Like, unless-- ‘cause with Google, DeepMind is done training a new checkpoint, and then they push a button, and it gets blasted out across all their surfaces from Google Docs to,Swyx [00:20:01]: Everywhere, even if I don't want it.Alex Atallah [00:20:02]: Everywhere. You wanna know about, like, on Android, like, overnight, they can deploy a new checkpoint to, like, a billion devices, right? And that invisible infra advantage, distribution advantage, most people don't realize, but until OpenRouter showed up, - you had to think about all of that yourself as a model lab. And it was very daunting. at Anthropic, I think it took, well, more than twelve months to get to our first 10 million in revenue. And in contrast with Black Forest Labs, I remember the early days, you guys had a conversation with the BFL team, and, it was so simple for OpenRouter to say, “Oh, no problem. Like, the day you launch, we can send 1 million developers to you.” that was crazy. That was like a step function change in, like, an hour.Swyx [00:20:46]: Is that a real number, a million?Alex Atallah [00:20:47]: I,Swyx [00:20:48]: Okay. All right.Alex Atallah [00:20:48]: I think today it's, like, 4 million. How many developers are on OpenRouter today?Anjney Midha [00:20:52]: Over ten,Alex Atallah [00:20:54]: Yeah.Anjney Midha [00:20:54]: Over 10 million, but, like, it's, it's hard to, youAlex Atallah [00:20:59]: I, yeah, I don't know how to. Yeah.Anjney Midha [00:21:00]: We do a lot of, like, account duping work, but, noAlex Atallah [00:21:04]: If you could get 1,000 developers, just to put in context If you get 1,000 developers who try the model on day one after you release it and just, like, do inference and give you feedback, that's a thousandAnjney Midha [00:21:15]: That's hugeAlex Atallah [00:21:16]: More developers than they knew how to get to on their own.Swyx [00:21:19]: Well, BFL had a reputation, but yes.Alex Atallah [00:21:21]: They had one in Stable Diffusion.Swyx [00:21:22]: Yeah.Alex Atallah [00:21:23]: And with Mistral, I don't know if you guys remember, but the first checkpoint they released was, like, torrents. It was, like, torrent weights.Swyx [00:21:31]: Yeah, they just put up a magnet link.Alex Atallah [00:21:33]: Yeah, there was no API.Anjney Midha [00:21:34]: Yeah.Alex Atallah [00:21:34]: Because they didn'- they weren't infra people.Alex Atallah [00:21:37]: ? Like, it's like, okay, download these weights, and you guys go figure out how to host it.Swyx [00:21:39]: Well, he has a story on his side, yeah.Anjney Midha [00:21:41]: Yeah, in addition to the, like, building a really good developer experience around it, the marketing that we do on, like, for different models is totally different and perceived totally differentlyAlex Atallah [00:21:54]: RightAnjney Midha [00:21:54]: From the marketing that a model lab does for itself.Alex Atallah [00:21:56]: Yes, 1,000%.Anjney Midha [00:21:57]: Right? We are like a, neutral layer looking at this market like it's a big dark room with all the corners completely obscure to users, and users are walking into the room and, like, feeling aroundAlex Atallah [00:22:09]: YeahAnjney Midha [00:22:09]: And trying to figure out what objects to grab off the tables and, like, build into, their companies. And it's just an insane way of working. Like, models are not products where you can just enumerate all their features onto a web page. They're all black boxes, including the open weight ones. So you need to, like, shine lights on all corners of this room, so that people can see what makes this model good, and you need the company shining that light to be a neutral third party, which is what we specialize in. So the, like. It'- In addition to developer experience, there's also, like, a very important, like, marketing and product packaging componentAlex Atallah [00:22:50]: YeahAnjney Midha [00:22:50]: And a way of, like, routing and discovering models becomes, like, critical to your market as a provider or a model lab or a server tool and more in the future.“Just a Wrapper”: Why VCs Misunderstood OpenRouterAlex Atallah [00:23:03]: And this value, to your earlier point about how many VCs, like, just don't. One of my biggest frustrations is that venture capitalists, many of them, like, just don't have any operating experience in the field. so unlike a traditional investor who's just maybe come up through the ranks as, like, a associate working on financial modeling or maybe hasn't been a real operator in the field for, like, more than ten years, which is a big part of the industry now, I had just arrived at a16z, like, a year after running the platform. And so I knew what the challenges were of, like, building a real - great developer experience and like, being able to create a working piece of software with a model. And there were a few, I won't name names, but there were investors who were looking at OpenRouter, and, felt at the time, like, when I would compare notes with people, that it was just, I quote unquote, “just a marketplace.”Swyx [00:23:59]: Yeah, just a thin layer, just aAlex Atallah [00:24:00]: CorrectSwyx [00:24:00]: JustAlex Atallah [00:24:01]: A wrapper or whatever on other people's APIs. And I was like, “You have no idea how strategic the value that OpenRouter has created by being able to orchestrate even three.” APIs in production. The amount of both engineering work and community design that goes into getting that live and running in production at the scale the OpenRouter team had started just doesn't happen by default. And that was one of the things that stood out to me about Alex from the earliest days. Like, he just understood, like, - from a systems perspective, like, how do you get these flywheels going? Like, that stood out to me with OpenSea when we were working together on the NFT integration at Discord. Like, Alex had a level of community-- like, systems thinking on how you get these flywheels going that most scientists and machine learning people just don'tAlex Atallah [00:24:48]: Think of. Like, we often think in terms of training.Swyx [00:24:52]: It's a linear stage.Alex Atallah [00:24:53]: It's this linear pipeline.Swyx [00:24:53]: There's no loop yet.Alex Atallah [00:24:54]: Yeah. It wasn't until much later that the modern context feedback loop cycle really got standardized in the industry. But at the time, if you remember, machine learning was like. Like, mostly we did a lot of ML, like, when I was in grad school on a laptop. So you just, like, download a dataset, ran some ablations, and you looked at the loss curves, and you're like, “Great, I made AI.” And the idea that you have to, like, deploy those capabilities, collect feedback trajectories, then, like, put those into a continuous loop, like, came much later. And it was very counterintuitive to the - like, the traditional AI mindset. I do remember doing the investment phase for, OpenRouter, I just didn't try and educate a bunch of other VCs on why it was not just a marketplace. I was like, “ what? I'm just gonna invest.”Anjney Midha [00:25:41]: Yeah.Alex Atallah [00:25:41]: And I'm going to, like, take the opportunity to partner with Alex, and if - no other VCs get it, that's totally fine. ‘Cause at the time, - it was not obvious, I think, to several of the investors that, like, OpenRouter was not more than just a wrapper around APIs. And - that infuriated me. And I was like, “ what? I don't have time to debate you. I'm - we're gonna, we're gonna invest.” And then I think, like, a month later, Matt Murphy marked it up by 10x. Like, - I think. I forget what the exact money was and so on, but, to his credit, Menlo Ventures realized, “Okay, there's much more strategic value here as well.” Maybe you didn't hear all these conversations behind the scenes But that frustrated me a lot. there's a lot of this, like, opining about wrappers. and if you're like, “Oh, an app is just a wrapper on a model,” then, like. And, OpenRouter is, like, this wrapper on top of other APIs, and this is the most stupid, reductive framework.Alex Atallah [00:26:31]: And so it's clearly somebody who has no experience deploying product at scale.Swyx [00:26:34]: It's the thing you dismiss other things with. Like, you're a - everyone's a wrapper on everything, right? Like, and there's, there's some Some wrappers have value.Alex Atallah [00:26:40]: Investors are wrappers and LPs, right?Alex Atallah [00:26:42]: Like venture capitalists. So, yeah, it's all wrappers down, all down to bare metal, I guess, and like energy.Swyx [00:26:46]: Yeah, there - When I started the whole AI engineer, I guess, the coining, in 2023, like, that was, like, the number one pushback is that this is no value. You should just train models.Anjney Midha [00:26:56]: Right.Swyx [00:26:57]: And, yeah, obviously this is, like. you guys are one of the testaments to the fact that you can build very valuable wrappers, but also very valuable model companies.Alex Atallah [00:27:06]: It's so, hard to be. Like, the day a model launches, the fact that you have an OpenRouter, endpoint for that model frequently at the top of Hacker News on day one, people don't realize the amount of work that goes into accomplishing that. And OpenRouter used. Like, that would happen over and over again, and I remember going, “People have no idea how hard that is.”Alex Atallah [00:27:30]: That's not.Swyx [00:27:31]: Yeah, we've covered some of the inference engineering that goes behind,Alex Atallah [00:27:34]: YesSwyx [00:27:34]: Some of - with Base Ten and all those. Well, today you have, all those, like, cool code name things that people guess what Oxy Alpha is and all those things. But, like, I guess one of the things that you're teasing is, how do you get that initial flywheel going, right? Because today you have your scale and your reputation, all these things, so obviously you - you're driving immense distribution. But when you were early on, when it's mostlyBootstrapping OpenRouter Through CommunityAlex Atallah [00:27:55]: The bootstrap, yeah.Swyx [00:27:56]: Yeah.Alex Atallah [00:27:56]: What was the bootstrap like?Anjney Midha [00:27:58]: To bring it back to early Discord days, I think we, like, initially connected with. This is an OpenSea story, technically. But, and we initially connected when you were at Discord, and we talked about, like, - the Axie Infinity server.Alex Atallah [00:28:13]: Oh, yes. Yes.Anjney Midha [00:28:14]: This server was, like, the biggest server at theAlex Atallah [00:28:17]: YeahAnjney Midha [00:28:17]: At Discord.Alex Atallah [00:28:18]: That's right.Anjney Midha [00:28:19]: And you were like, constantly bumping up theAlex Atallah [00:28:22]: The limits on the server. Oh, my GodAnjney Midha [00:28:24]: Of how many people could be in the server.Swyx [00:28:24]: For those who don't know, like, 10% of Philippines was Axie.Alex Atallah [00:28:29]: Was on that server. That's a big hit.Swyx [00:28:31]: It was, like, a meaningful contributor to the GDP of the country.Alex Atallah [00:28:33]: It was an NFT, like, crypto game, but itSwyx [00:28:35]: It was like a Pokémon breeding thing.Anjney Midha [00:28:36]: Yeah.Alex Atallah [00:28:36]: Yeah. Similar. Yeah. There was battling, there was breeding, and then there was, like, a marketplace for trading.Swyx [00:28:43]: Earn as well.Alex Atallah [00:28:45]: Yeah, earn. And, like, the graphics were really cute and fun, and you like, you get emotional about your Axie that you make. So to, like, start a community like that, which we had to do many times at OpenSea with every early project, for us to create a marketplace for it, we need to make sure that the, like, the community wants it.Anjney Midha [00:29:09]: Right.Alex Atallah [00:29:09]: And it's like building something that people want and going and telling them about it. Like, you can do that on a one basis, but there's way higher leverage to do that in a community where everyone can talk to you at the same time. So we spent a lot of time, like, building things that the community really wanted. We did the same thing for OpenRouter. And, like, the Axie community was one of, like, a zillion communities we did that with. And Anj, like, saw us doing it and. ‘Cause you could just see people sharing OpenSea links constantly in that Discord. Like, users sharing links is a really clear indicator that, like, something important is going on. So we spent, a lot of time, like, first figuring out what the gap is in the technology that people care about. Like, what was the actual problem that needs to be solved? in early LLM days, it was, OpenAI refusing to finish the prompt or,Anjney Midha [00:30:09]: YeahAlex Atallah [00:30:10]: To, like, complete the task. It was also.Anjney Midha [00:30:13]: Inability to customize models. and so there are communities that, like are just completely blocked on that issue, and those are the communities that are most useful to learn about and dive into and explore.Alex Atallah [00:30:28]: Something that really struck me at that time, - as I was just hearing your talk, I remember noting - you may not remember this, but we - we had these, like working, Zoom calls that we were doing a sprint around for, like this OpenSea integration with Discord. and, we'd, we'd - it was myself, my engineering team. I think you were there. And I remember, Alex, in the middle of one of those calls, just like there was like silence. we were all like, “Oh, yeah, this totally makes sense. Let's do this.” And then there's - every, like everybody aligned. And Alex was like, “No, this makes no sense to me.” And everyone's - I remember going, “What? Like, it works. Like, you click on a link and this, then it bounces you out to, like, OpenSea.” And he was like, “It's not a good user experience. Yeah, we should not do this.” And I remember going, he was the only one person out of all of us to raise his hand and go, yes, it made sense from a technical implementation perspective. Like, we were bouncing the user out into the, into OpenSea. And so it kinda checked the box of the product manager's requirements on both sides. But Alex went one step further and was like, “ what would be better, guys? If we just embedded the experience right here inside of Discord so the link opened up as an embedded iframe, and you can just check out right there.”Alex Atallah [00:31:47]: And not one person on the call, and there's like seven of us who had met, like, week after week.Swyx [00:31:52]: And it's the guy who doesn't work for Discord.Alex Atallah [00:31:53]: And it's the guy who doesn't work for Discord.Swyx [00:31:55]: Like, technically, you benefit if they bounce.Alex Atallah [00:31:57]: Exactly. And that was, like, adversarial. To keep the user inside of Discord would be adversarial to OpenSea. And yet Alex put that user experience first. And I was like, “That's special.”Swyx [00:32:08]: Wow.Alex Atallah [00:32:08]: Because it's very hard to have somebody who's technical like Alex and understands the developer flow, but also understands the best user experience and wants to prioritize that. And that's two sides of the flywheel that if you can get spinning, like is often hard to stop. And you just reminded me, like that one was one of those moments where I go, I - I realized I gotta be better at user experience because I should have been the one who came up with that, and I didn't. And I learned from you. And, I think that went into one of our case studies for the PM training program at Discord.Swyx [00:32:34]: Whoa.Alex Atallah [00:32:36]: I don't know if it there is Because ofSwyx [00:32:38]: You need an Alex is the conclusion.Alex Atallah [00:32:40]: Yeah. You need an Alex. And this is why I'm not, nobody should be surprised why Stripe decided like they had to buy OpenRouter because it's a really rare combination of people who understand the machine learning community, the developer experience, and the user experience. And putting all that together has resulted in this extraordinary scale that very few other marketplaces have been able to achieveWindow AI, BYOM, and Finding the Right Form FactorSwyx [00:33:02]: Yeah.Alex Atallah [00:33:02]: Over the last, five years.Swyx [00:33:04]: Yeah. Well, we should talk about the other reasons for acquisitions, whichAlex Atallah [00:33:07]: Yes, we should.Swyx [00:33:07]: You've written about. I wanna proceed somewhat chronologically as well. So - there is a point that, one of the questions that, Dave from H of Zero sent in was, when did it - really started to work? And you brought up Mixtral. I don't know if you wanna bring up that story.Alex Atallah [00:33:22]: Oh, yeah.Swyx [00:33:23]: Which obviously you overlap with, so.Anjney Midha [00:33:26]: Yeah, the MoE was. I don't know when. there's no like one moment where I was like, “Oh, this is, officially starting to work.” It wasSwyx [00:33:36]: The moment where you had a Chrome extension, like, really super early on.Anjney Midha [00:33:39]: Oh, yeah. But, well, - yeah. So before OpenRouter, I wanted to, like, explore a bring-your-own-model experiment. And,Swyx [00:33:47]: Which anyone familiar with crypto is like, yeah, Phantom and all these things.Anjney Midha [00:33:50]: Yeah. So it felt like doing a MetaMask analogy for AI would be a fun way of exploring that. And at the time, there were no AI apps. There were probably as many AI apps that were, like, hitting AI - like, hitting an LLM via an API call as there were, like, games just doing it in JavaScript. like there was a, there was a moment in time where it could have been the case that web apps call LLMs through the browser, like through some desktopAlex Atallah [00:34:27]: Yes.Anjney Midha [00:34:27]: Managed app that is controlled by the user. and of course, there are like, I think, many reasons that did not happen. But back when the days were that primordial, I built a Chrome extension called Window AISwyx [00:34:43]: With Plasmo.Anjney Midha [00:34:44]: With Plasmo.Swyx [00:34:45]: I had come across early on, and I was like, “Who's gonna use this?” You did.Anjney Midha [00:34:49]: Plasmo had a couple, like, I think Phantom was using it. there were some other, like real companies using it.Alex Atallah [00:34:56]: It was like a shim.Swyx [00:34:57]: React for Chrome extension. It compiles to allAnjney Midha [00:35:00]: Yeah.Alex Atallah [00:35:00]: I see.Anjney Midha [00:35:00]: Like Next.js for Chrome extensions.Swyx [00:35:01]: Next.js, Next.js.Alex Atallah [00:35:02]: Okay.Anjney Midha [00:35:03]: And yeah, built Window AI on top of it. The creator of Plasmo, like started contributing code to Window AI, in GitHub, and that turned out to be Louis VicchiAlex Atallah [00:35:15]: Oh, you'Anjney Midha [00:35:15]: Who is the founder of OpenRouter.Alex Atallah [00:35:17]: That's right. You have told me this is how you met Louis. Yes.Anjney Midha [00:35:19]: Yeah.Alex Atallah [00:35:19]: Okay.Anjney Midha [00:35:20]: So, that allowed users to like configure which model they wanted to use for a web page in their browser, and then, like the app would just call out to that model when it needed to do things. not the right form factor for LLMs, but, it's like fun experiment. You learn a lot, and like I open sourced it. And the main learning is like, okay, this has to be an API, and it has to look a little bit - like, there has to be more of a developer experience here and more of a discovery experience as well. Like, I don't know where to use these models, and a little Chrome extension is not gonna help me discover. It's not enough real estate. I need more space. I need visuals. I need graphs. I need, examples. I need images. I need to, like, I need to be able to, like explore both as a human and as an agent.Crypto, Midjourney, and the Early Generative AI EcosystemAlex Atallah [00:36:10]: Yeah.Anjney Midha [00:36:10]: So that's how OpenRouter came to be.Alex Atallah [00:36:13]: A meta point that.Alex Atallah [00:36:16]: I think is underappreciated, but Alex is reminding me, is that we were quite lucky that we were so. we were, like, adjacent to the crypto community in those days. Because in hindsight, crypto ended up being like a dress rehearsal for generative models, right? If you think about the Axie experience, Alex is totally right, there were not that many AI apps at the time. And while I was dealing-- my job was to be the head of platform at Discord, which meant to be a general purpose place for communities and friends to create-- for developers to create apps and bots and, other services that could be deployed across Discord. And while 80% of the attention at the time was being spent on crypto, because that's where all the NFT volume was, there was, like, twenty percent of my time I was spending with a friend, who would get hotbot with me and ask me for. We would play Magic: The Gathering on weekends, and he was working on a little Discord bot that could take a text input and turn it into an image, and it was called Midjourney. YouSwyx [00:37:15]: Is that David?Alex Atallah [00:37:15]: It was David Holz.Alex Atallah [00:37:16]: He was a good friend. And David and I have both been failed ARVR founders, in the before that. And, I remember this. Midjourney was one of the fastest-growing communities we had after Axie Infinity started to peter off. And many of the, like, the abstractions and the infrastructure decisions we made to scale Axie happened just in time because they. Axie did this and then fell off a cliff. And then as Midjourney was taking off, we, like, explicitly decided to help David make the server, the Midjourney server, as the primary place for interaction with the model, because it was very hard for people to understand how to use the model if they couldn't see other people using it and copy them. And so the single-player Midjourney web app on its own, like midjourney.com, had, like, terrible retention because people would show up, they'd see this empty field. It's like E 2, and they would type in, like, cat or dog. And it was, like, paralyzing for them to have this blank canvas that they had to fill because they'd never used an AI model before. But instead, in a Discord server, you could see other people using it and riff off of their prompt, and the engagement was off the charts. And so scaling, Midjourney from zero to, like, 10 million monthly actives was a much smoother approach Axie Infinity. And so,Swyx [00:38:29]: Don't forget the best of four pictures, and you choose one.Alex Atallah [00:38:31]: The best, yeah, and then the other, weSwyx [00:38:32]: Which is the feedback loop.Alex Atallah [00:38:33]: The RLHF feedback loop, which, by the way, separately, like, Tom Brown, David and I used to play Magic: The Gathering on weekends. And so, like, it was one group of friends would hang out, and we'd. Like, these concepts were all being discussed all the time. But, there was.Alex Atallah [00:38:47]: I think there were few of us who bridged both the crypto worlds and the AI worlds. And compared to crypto, where it was - the question was always, what's the use case, for this technology? There was never any need to ask that for AI because it's, like, the use case was so visceral. It was like, I can create now anything at - I can imagine. I can write novels, I can code. And the infrastructure that those of us who believed in the distributed systems, like, value of crypto, like the censorship resistance part, found this use case that was explosive. And I think between Midjourney, the, Claude was a Discord bot launch, that we were using internally as an LLM. ElevenLabs had a TTS model that we had on Discord as well. Like, Discord became this petri dish for, like, early apps to innovate. And I don't think it's a coincidence that they found a home there before OpenRouter gave the world, like, a public home store or, like, a, storefront. Discord was this, like, almost petri dish storefront that - had, like, piggybacked on the infra we'd built for crypto communities. And then I think Alex was one of the first people to realize, wait a minute, like, these apps need their own home, on the internet. And then OpenRouter, to me, was a continuation of that community's needs. And of course, there was the crazy distribution that you enabled for a lot of these developers.Why OpenRouter Couldn't Just Live Inside DiscordSwyx [00:40:07]: So then my question is, how come you were. My perception is OpenRouter is not that Discord-centric, right? You have a Discord.Anjney Midha [00:40:14]: Yeah.Swyx [00:40:14]: And you use it to engage your community, but it's not like Midjourney where, like, no, that is like the primary way people experience OpenRouter.Anjney Midha [00:40:21]: Yeah, Midjourney, like, it really helps to see visually really quickly how people are using the model and how to prompt it.Swyx [00:40:29]: Yeah.Anjney Midha [00:40:29]: And I think that is partly why the server was so critical. It's like it is the user experience. It adds a ton.Swyx [00:40:36]: Yes.Anjney Midha [00:40:37]: And you can go the whole mile with just, like, prompting via Midjourney, like, the, via the Midjourney Discord server, getting your images and then sharing them and having fun. For OpenRouter, for LLMs, like, you need a lot of user experience around LLMs to make them, like, really usable.Swyx [00:40:54]: Charge point.Anjney Midha [00:40:55]: And yeah.Anjney Midha [00:40:57]: The, like, seeing the examples of other people is also not as useful because it's a lot of stuff to read. It takes a long time.Swyx [00:41:03]: Yeah.Anjney Midha [00:41:04]: You need, like, based integration. Not possible to do in a Discord server. You need, Or technic- it's possible. I shouldn't say that. It's just not a great developer experience. you need, like, - you need governance for. At the point where you got based integration, now you need governance for managing the LLMs that have access to it, the data policies, which teams. All that stuff needs a lot more than a Discord server can provide. So it's justSwyx [00:41:30]: YeahAnjney Midha [00:41:30]: It's not the right.Alex Atallah [00:41:32]: Well, in addition, you're not wrong, but also there's the very important distinction that, Midjourney was an end user application.Swyx [00:41:40]: Right.Alex Atallah [00:41:40]: And, that's why Discord, which has 250 million monthly end consumers, made, it made sense for Discord to be a host for that application experience. What I knew was gonna happen soon after Midjourney found explosive product-market fit, because we. I think when Midjourney launched, from launch to $100 million revenue run rate, it was less than eight months. And shortly thereafter, Stable Diffusion launched. And, all of us used to hang out in the Discord server. There, I think it was the,Swyx [00:42:13]: The Stability Discord?Alex Atallah [00:42:14]: It was theSwyx [00:42:16]: Yeah, LAION.Alex Atallah [00:42:16]: Yeah, the LAION Discord server.Swyx [00:42:17]: The image community that spawned Stable Diffusion.Alex Atallah [00:42:19]: The image community. Yeah. And so when Stable Diffusion came out, I realized- Oh, now other people can build their own Midjourney.Alex Atallah [00:42:27]: Because until then, Midjourney did not have an API, so they were a stack company, right? They were training their own models, and they were deploying them as an application. But if you wanted to build your own Midjourney, there was no API of that quality. and I think E two was still quite primitive. Like, Midjourney had great quality. And then when Stable Diffusion came out, suddenly there was this new person who - there was - this new capability in the world, which is a developer could create their own Midjourney. And that, I think, created the need for something like OpenRouter, because then you need an API to. If you - if you had the creativity of David Holz and you had Stable Diffusion as the model and you wanted to put these things together, how could you do that without having to figure out how to host the weights? And what OpenRouter, - the shape of OpenRouter enabled is that. Right? When you have open model alternatives to closed applications, OpenRouter's value in the world becomes extraordinary because now any developer can just show up and use theStable Diffusion and the Need for a Model API LayerSwyx [00:43:20]: You just love model diversity.Anjney Midha [00:43:21]: Did you just say the shape of OpenRouter?Alex Atallah [00:43:23]: Oh, no.Anjney Midha [00:43:25]: Were you in cloud? What is this the real Han?Alex Atallah [00:43:26]: I've been, I've been - I'm, I'm misaligned now. I've been overtrained. I've been using Cloud way too much, haven't I?Swyx [00:43:34]: Claude-ish is what people would say.Alex Atallah [00:43:35]: Claude-ish. Oh, God, I gotta untrain myself.Swyx [00:43:38]: Okay. - And I just wanna cap off the Mistral side. my TLDR is there was a Mistral price war, is what they called it, right? Like, round about NeurIPS is twenty-three or twenty-four.Mistral and the Birth of the Inference MarketplaceAnjney Midha [00:43:47]: Yes. DecemberSwyx [00:43:48]: They launched, the Mistral 8x7B, and like the price went down like 80%.Anjney Midha [00:43:54]: Yeah.Swyx [00:43:54]: To me, that's very positive because it's like the first, like, real competition to host Mistral. Is there more?Anjney Midha [00:44:01]: Yeah, that was. I'm, like, trying to remember it, all the things that happened. It. Like, we saw that model come out and immediately saw people say that it was the best model in the world.Alex Atallah [00:44:15]: Yes.Anjney Midha [00:44:15]: Like, this was, to my knowledge, the first time an open weights model was called that in real seriousness.Swyx [00:44:22]: It's hype, right? Is it?Anjney Midha [00:44:25]: It was hype. It was hype. It was also, like, hype from AI influencers at the time. And there were many examples where it was, like, outperforming four. So people really wanted to try it out and see, is this gonna be true for me too? And if so, at what price? And, the, like, inference landscape was really messy.Alex Atallah [00:44:49]: Yes.Anjney Midha [00:44:50]: We cleaned it up. - it allowed, like, providers to compete on price, so we could give you just the best price in one spot. And so it was, I think, the first clear example of, like, a provider marketplace working in a way that adds value to end developers.Alex Atallah [00:45:08]: Sean, you may not remember this, but I think we met for the first time a few days after Mistral came out at NeurIPSAnjney Midha [00:45:15]: Yeah.Alex Atallah [00:45:15]: At a luncheon.Swyx [00:45:16]: Yeah. That's where I also met BFL as well. Yeah.Alex Atallah [00:45:18]: And Guillaume was there.Swyx [00:45:19]: Yeah.Anjney Midha [00:45:19]: I was at NeurIPS at that time.Alex Atallah [00:45:20]: You were there too. And, we had just announced the Mistral investment, and I remember Guillaume was over there, and I remember turning to Guillaume and asking him, Like, “Is it is all the. Like, how are you feeling after the launch of Mistral and seven B?” And, him in his typical French fashion was like, “ it's a, it's an okay model. It's not that good.” And I was like. It was so, in contrast. But I remember him also saying that part of the reason he felt a lot of people Thought that it was better than four was because of the speed. - it was an MoE model that they had, like, absolutely figured out how to make super efficient. It was on the Pareto frontier. And this is an important thing about LLMs, right? Sometimes when they're faster, you think they're smarter, even though, like, if you did, N of, these common, like, evals that are - you do seven tries, and I don't remember. I think we should go back and figure out what the data says, but I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out, oh, on an N of seven attempts, four was smarter on evals, but the perception of on, like, or correctness would be smarter or more accurate. But, people, like, from a human preference perspective felt that it was faster because it - or smarter because it's so fast.Swyx [00:46:36]: Yeah. And most queries do not take that levelAlex Atallah [00:46:39]: Don't take that. That's true.Swyx [00:46:40]: Right? So this is the start of humans as routerAlex Atallah [00:46:42]: Yes.Swyx [00:46:42]: Which then eventually becomes OpenRouter as router of like theAlex Atallah [00:46:45]: Oh, that's interesting way to think about it. Yeah.Swyx [00:46:47]: Like, because humans are the routing mechanism. Like, I will ask the fast model first, and then if, like, oh, not good enough, I'm gonna upgrade manually.Alex Atallah [00:46:52]: Yes.Swyx [00:46:53]: But then he's gonna auto it.Alex Atallah [00:46:54]: I didn't, I hadn't thought of it that way, but that makes sense.Swyx [00:46:57]: Which then there's, there's a lot more techniques, like fusion. Fusion is the thing that we should talk about. Before I move on to those things, I just want to close off the early years. one thing that I observe, which you are also an investor in Arena.OpenRouter vs. LM ArenaAlex Atallah [00:47:10]: Right.Swyx [00:47:10]: And we talked about Midjourney having that feedback loop of, A, B, C, D, and choosing that very. being very important. And you understand the flywheel. So how come you didn't build Arena, and how come Arena didn't build OpenRouter?Anjney Midha [00:47:23]: Well, Arena started before OpenRouter, right?Swyx [00:47:27]: They had the school projectAnjney Midha [00:47:29]: Yeah, LMSwyx [00:47:29]: And then it became a company.Anjney Midha [00:47:31]: LM Arena, yeah.Swyx [00:47:32]: So, but, and I know you had some Arena experiences, like the up comparison type things.Anjney Midha [00:47:37]: Yeah.Swyx [00:47:37]: But you never really went as hard as Arena did.Swyx [00:47:40]: And,Anjney Midha [00:47:40]: In doing up experiences?Swyx [00:47:42]: Yes. And LM Arena did have a router project based on LM Arena ELOs, which they never commercialized.Anjney Midha [00:47:48]: It's hard to do a company that does both because one company is taking data and selling it, and the other company really can't by default. So, I think there is, like, a branding reason that there are two companies here. like, when you set up OpenRouter, there's no training, there are no prompts, right, aside from what your provider policy set. Like, OpenRou- like, OpenRouter can't see your prompts or completions. If you want to see that as an org, you have to opt into it and enable it. And so we're, like, pretty conservative and careful about data policy and security. And privacy. And LM Arena is like, their business model is like oriented around the labs and,Swyx [00:48:34]: Because they give it for free, right? You don't give it for free to give it for free.Anjney Midha [00:48:37]: Yeah.Anjney Midha [00:48:38]: But we do give some. We like have free endpoints too, but like those free endpoints, we, I think we're not collecting any prompts. We're not like monetizing the data unless you, opt into it for some reason.Alex Atallah [00:48:48]: This comparison. you're not the first person to ask me this, and Alex knows this, but I was the interim, like the founder, like first CEO of Arena for the first five months when, and we were helping Anastasios and Waylin spin out of Berkeley. And, I did invest in that before, OpenRouter, but it was very strange to me the comparisons that outside, folks would make between the two projects because the missions were completely different. The founding entity for Arena, we called it the AI Reliability Institute because it was there as an eval service. Like the data, so to speak, that they were originally, offering the labs was how do you make the evaluation of models more reliable than like the state of the art at the time, which was like really just finger in the wind.Alex Atallah [00:49:38]: That's what Anastasios and Waylin's PhD work was as scientists at Berkeley, was on statistical methodologies for correcting, eval estimates, based on like intrinsic biases and how you collected the data.Swyx [00:49:54]: Yes.Alex Atallah [00:49:54]: AndSwyx [00:49:54]: Style control.Alex Atallah [00:49:55]: Style control and stuff like that. And which is very much like a, hey, how. If you're a scientist and you're trying to. the highest expectation customer for Arena was always like a training and, like a researcher at a lab. Whereas the highest expectation customer from my perspective that Alex like really understood and was the mission was to serve was like a developer, right? Who then takes the result of the research and then produces an application that's deployed to the world. It was a completely different problem and person that these two teams were focused on. And so from the outside in. I don't know if you remember this, but I have a distinct memory of a few weeks before we did the term sheet, together for OpenRouter, I'd given you a call because we were trying to get a pooled data set together from OpenRouter and from Arena to, create like an open source repository of prompts. these projects were so different in their goals that it was totally normal to me to be like, “Oh, yeah, let's call Alex and see if he'd want to team up on pooling data,” because they're so different. We need. We don't have that data at all. We. Like, we didn't have API prompts. We didn't, we didn't have like what developers want to do with the models, which is very different from what researchers inside a model lab want to do before releasing the model.Swyx [00:51:15]: Yeah.Alex Atallah [00:51:15]: Does that make sense? And so to this day, I think you see that this difference, even though at a 30,000-foot level you could. I guess you could conclude that Arena and OpenRouter are adjacent, but, the roadmaps, the missions and so on at the time at least were like in very different directions.Swyx [00:51:36]: That ideal customer, I get. I totally get that.Alex Atallah [00:51:39]: Yes.Swyx [00:51:39]: As a founder, I want to own everything, right?Alex Atallah [00:51:41]: That's possible.Swyx [00:51:42]: Like this is clearly an adjacency that I'm like gonna explore that.Anjney Midha [00:51:45]: Own everything meaning like you don't know what to do yet, so you wanna like make sure you catch PMFocus, Anthropic, and Roads Not TakenAlex Atallah [00:51:51]: No, I think what heAnjney Midha [00:51:52]: As quickly as possible.Alex Atallah [00:51:53]: You want to own the entire infrastructure space, and so you expand to whatever demand you can capture.Swyx [00:51:58]: You want to have a play in each end.Alex Atallah [00:51:59]: Yeah, I think that's, that's hard, in reality, because serving multiple customers is difficult.Swyx [00:52:05]: Clearly, this is the one focus, right?Alex Atallah [00:52:08]: Yeah.Anjney Midha [00:52:08]: Yeah. I still think even in the age of AI, like focus is,Alex Atallah [00:52:12]: Is criticalAnjney Midha [00:52:13]: Underrated and critical, not just because you end up with a better product by focusing your humans on it, but also because the world knows what your focus is.Alex Atallah [00:52:22]: One thousand percent.Anjney Midha [00:52:23]: The world can map like, “Oh, I have this issue. Which brand out there is going to help me with that issue? This is the brand that's known for that focus.”Alex Atallah [00:52:31]: Yes.Anjney Midha [00:52:32]: So like if I want real attention on this issue, like this really matters to me, I should go with the brand that cares the most about it.Alex Atallah [00:52:39]: To underscore Alex's point about how important focus is, in the early days of Anthropic, it was not easy to. Like people think that the early days of Anthropic were like super easy because they were on their 3 guys who left, but it was very
NOTE: When you sign up for Patreon, PLEASE do it through a web browser (Safari, Chrome, etc.) and NOT an app on your iPhone. The Apple app charges 30% !!! If you just click on the link above, it should be fine. In today's episode, Becket Cook sits down with Oxford emeritus mathematics professor and Christian apologist Dr. John Lennox to discuss his stunning new autobiography My Story. Lennox shares his dual life as a full-time missionary and Oxford academic, his Northern Ireland upbringing, mentorship under David Gooding, Cambridge years, Operation Mobilization, and famous public debates with new atheists like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. He recounts high-stakes ministry behind the Iron Curtain in Hungary and East Germany—spies, packed village churches, the Jugendweihe, a life-changing train conversation on grace versus merit, and a moving Holocaust exchange in a Budapest synagogue—plus the Nobel Prize scientist who pressured him to abandon faith. Grab My Story and watch the full conversation. The Becket Cook Show Ep. 254 Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.
Kedykoľvek sa prihlasujeme do bankovníctva, nakupujeme cez internet alebo posielame správy, spoliehame sa na šifrovanie. Málokto si však uvedomuje, že útočníci a cudzí aktéri môžu zašifrovanú komunikáciu zachytávať už dnes a čakať na príchod výkonných kvantových počítačov.Tento prístup zvaný „stiahni teraz, dešifruj neskôr“ stavia dnešné zabezpečenie pred obrovskú výzvu. Kryptológovia preto pretekajú s časom a nasadzujú takzvanú postkvantovú kryptografiu, ktorá je založená na úplne nových matematických úlohách.O tom, prečo asymetrické šifry v kvantovej ére zlyhávajú, ako fungujú šifry na báze mriežok a prečo už dnes používate postkvantovú ochranu v prehliadači Chrome či v aplikácii Signal, sa v technologickom podcaste SHARE rozprával redaktor Maroš Žofčin s kryptológom Tomášom Fabšičom z Fakulty elektrotechniky a informatiky STU v Bratislave.V podcaste sa dozviete aj o týchto témach:Prečo útočníci ukladajú zašifrované dáta už dnes a čakajú na príchod dostatočne silných kvantových počítačov.Prečo niektoré šifry zostávajú bezpečné, no iné v kvantovej dobe úplne zlyhajú.Ako špeciálne kvantové postupy dokážu efektívne rozložiť veľké prvočísla a prelomiť dnešnú ochranu.Na akých nových geometrických úlohách vo viacrozmerných priestoroch stavia postkvantová kryptografia.Ako Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Signal či Apple iMessage potichu chránia používateľov novými šiframi.Ďalšie zaujímavosti k téme prinášame v nasledovnom článku: https://zive.aktuality.sk/clanok/yGBdU6i/expert-niektore-z-neprelomitelnych-sifier-porazia-kvantove-pocitace-it-svet-sa-na-to-pripravuje/ Podcast pripravuje magazín Živé.sk.
Nelver - Proud Eagle Radio Show #643 [Pirate Station Online] (23-09-2026) ✅ Subscribe to Telegram channel: https://t.me/nelvermusic All episodes: https://band.link/proudeagle YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/dLMaoImM12c Tracklist: 01. Mjoi - Resonate 02. Mums - Vibe And Step 03. Pirapus - RENEGADE [Every Day] (Extended Mix) 04. Laetho & Lukher - Misunderstood 05. S.I.O.N & MoTeXx - Taste My Love 06. More Plastic & flowanastasia - Control 07. Tom Finster & Trinist - Firefly 08. Hologram & DKN - Work (feat. Degs) 09. Them Lot - Obey 10. Munxi - Purple Murkle 11. Phibes - Killa Sound 12. Incorporate & Zound - Top Rock 13. Nelver - Desert Mirage 14. R3IDY - Error Code 3000 (Waeys Remix) 15. P Money & Whiney & Doktor & Fred V - Crash 'N Burn 16. T95 - 3AM 17. Summer Hailstorm - Inertia (Nelver Remix) 18. Alloy & The Skeptics & Rvs - Aftermath 19. Dysfunction - Orbiter. 20. Chrome & Leks - IDU 21. ESKR - Terraform (Akuma Remix) 22. Xoneout & Talisman - Not Ready 23. Crystal Clear & Amoss - Earthquake 24. Askel & Elere - Step In 25. Yannons - Turn To Talk (feat. Peas) 26. Metal Work - Outta My Head 27. TER3NCE - Side Roller 28. Xoneout & Talisman - Street Urchin 29. Rift - When Dawn Breaks 30. Apollo Navigation - Crash Test 31. Screamarts - Silver Linings 32. Mollie Collins & Hot Touch Music - Bassline Drops (feat. ALBA) 33. Nelver - Never Be Alone 34. TMK - If I Could 35. Kanine & Jem Cooke - Surrender 36. nCamargo - Reminiscing Jam 37. Sigma - CHEMICALS [feat. Mali-Koa] (Extended Mix) 38. Etherwood & Hugh Hardie - Quema Quema 39. Nelver - Obsession 40. Basq - Beyond Sunset 41. Dim Bolt - Coming Down 42. Nelver - Save Yourself 43. SOLAH & Break - Forever 44. Nelver - The Traveller 45. Insepta - Taste 46. Nelver & EmTee - Untold Soul 47. Sustance - Go Back (feat. J. Appiah) 48. Keeco - My Connection 49. Duoscience - Take Me Home [feat. Professor Funk] (Instrumental) 50. Archangel - Reconnect 51. Keeco - Children Of The Sunset 52. TENEM - Dawn 53. Nelver - Full Sky 54. Bredren - Conflicted 55. Playa - Mixed Emotions 56. Nelver - 2 Questions 57. Foxvalley - Sweet Dreams 58. Shibumi - Signs 59. Skeletone & Silence Groove - Wicked 60. Nelver & Duoscience - Nocturnal Silence 61. Seathasky - Show You 62. Nelver - September's Melody Weekly updated Playlist "Proud Eagle" on Spotify: https://bit.ly/4ncuv3g Follow Nelver: https://vk.ru/nelver https://spoti.fi/2ThGKDT https://soundcloud.com/nelver https://www.facebook.com/nelverdnb/ https://www.instagram.com/nelvermusic/ https://www.mixcloud.com/Nelver/ https://twitter.com/Nelvermusic #nelver #nelvermusic #drumandbass #newmusic #electronicmusic #dnbculture #vibes #mood #exclusive #trending #viral #proudeagle
Buy-and-Build & Scaling StoriesTalent and leadership are among the biggest challenges for companies pursuing rapid growth, scaling, and buy-and-build strategies. Yet HR is still frequently viewed primarily as an administrative function.In this episode, Anirvan Sen speaks with seasoned HR practitioner Michelle Kaihani about how HR's role needs to evolve as organizations grow.What does it take for HR to move beyond administration and become a genuine business enabler? What skills and capabilities are required? And how can HR earn the credibility and respect needed to influence senior leadership?The conversation explores the changing demands on HR and why developing organizational capabilities is essential to scaling a business.Topics covered:How HR's role changes as a business grows and scales.Talent and leadership as potential constraints to growth.The capabilities HR needs to become a genuine business enabler.Moving beyond administration toward greater business contribution.Earning credibility and respect with senior leadership.The importance of evolving organizational capabilities alongside business growth.This episode is relevant to HR professionals, CEOs, founders, investors, acquisition entrepreneurs, and senior leaders responsible for scaling businesses.------------Connect with Michelle KaihaniLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-kaihani-esq-sphr-181b168/Email: mk@mkhrsolutions.com--------------Books mentionedFunctional Integration in Mergers and Acquisitions by Anirvan Sen | Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=9798290562636Performance Intelligence at Work: The Five Essentials to Achieving the Mind of a Champion by Julie Bell | Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=9780071625142--------Connect with Anirvan SenLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anirvansen/-------------About the podcastBuy-and-Build & Scaling Stories features conversations with founders, executives, investors, operators, and advisers who have experienced the challenges of building, acquiring, scaling, and exiting businesses.Hosted by Fifth Chrome. Presented by Anirvan Sen.
September 22, 2026 is when we are unpack The VizzEx Citation Study Mid-study findings! OK, this week I thought it would be fun to run through all the Crawling System Chrome updates that are all related to mitigating THE SAME PROBLEM for Gemini - how much can they cut out of their own costs to render and extract information in 1.5 seconds or less.We're talking Chrome 149 through Chrome 153 which are coming faster and faster - Its even related to why our Search Consoles don't have data from the first couple of week's in June.Mentioned in the show:Registration is open for the next cohort of the AI Visibility Mastery 12-month course. We are committed to the success of our members.https://vizzex.ai/ai-visibility-mastery/Wordpress registration HubSpot registrationSymmetry vs Asymmetry Single Variable Testhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkPi-J54bowTest #2 - Is passing Symmetry alone without schema sufficient? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUkwfboMpiQLast week's episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m89W6-FL_DISymmetry Gate - check the "cost" of your content for AI models to extract informationSubscribe to Confessions of an SEO™ wherever you get your podcasts. Your subscribing and download sends the message that you appreciate what is being shared and helping others find Confessions of an SEO™An easy place to leave a review https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/confessions-of-an-seo-1973881You can find me onCarolyn Holzman - LinkedinAmerican Way Media Google DirectlyAmericanWayMedia.com Consulting AgencyNeed Help With an Issue? - reach out Text me here - 512-222-3132Music from Uppbeathttps://uppbeat.io/t/doug-organ/fugue-stateLicense code: HESHAZ4ZOAUMWTUA
Alli AI, an AEO and SEO automation and white-label platform, recently published a really interesting white paper about invisibility for Fortune 500 companies, and the problem is true for European companies too, including Irish ones and could be a huge revenue depressor. Alli AI has also released a Chrome extension that shows how visible websites are to AI. For example, if you run Costco through the Chrome extension you get 7 percent visibility. In Ireland the number is even worse with Musgrave Marketplace getting 1 percent visibility. To find out more about this I spoke to Kyle Duck the founder and CEO of Alli AI.Kyle talks about his background, AI, Alli AI Crome extension, Cloudflare and more.More about Kyle Duck:Kyle Duck is the founder and CEO of Alli AI, an AEO and SEO automation and white-label platform. Alli AI has served over 26,000 companies, from agencies to enterprise teams. Kyle's recent work focuses on how the internet is splitting between serving the needs of humans vs AI agents. Alli AI and Kyle have been featured in Forbes, Yahoo Finance, Hubspot, ClickUp, Search Engine Land, Search Engine Journal and more.
What if some of San Francisco's strangest buildings, statues, and public artwork are revealing something hidden in plain sight?After visiting San Francisco and noticing unusual symbols throughout the city, I asked Jessie Czebotar to help me examine what they could mean.In this conversation, Jessie shares her interpretations of the San Francisco city seal, the Pacific-Union Club inside the former James C. Flood mansion, Grace Cathedral and its labyrinths, the city's early Masonic history, and the Mayan-inspired imagery covering the 450 Sutter building.We also examine the 12 faceless figures positioned around 580 California Street, San Francisco's enormous heart sculptures, and the connections Jessie sees between the heart imagery, the Ursuline Order, and vampirism.On the Plus Side, the conversation continues into the alleged connection between the Pacific-Union Club and Bohemian Grove. Jessie discusses what she believes may exist beneath the Bohemian Grove owl altar, along with alleged underground areas, secret councils, occult contracts, Kabbalah symbolism, ancient entities, and rituals connected to the site.Watch the extended conversation on Patreon or through YouTube Memberships: Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/WakeupwithMiya YouTube Memberships:https://www.youtube.com/@WakeUpwithMiya/joinMake sure you subscribe, hit the notification bell, leave a positive review on Apple Podcasts, and share this episode with someone who would find these topics interesting.LEARN MORE ABOUT JESSIE CZEBOTAR: Website, classes, courses, coaching, events, and teachings:https://www.kingdomlivingwithjessie.comYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@jessieczebotar4619Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JessieCzebotarThe views, interpretations, and allegations expressed by my guest are her own and do not necessarily reflect my views. Certain claims discussed in this episode have not been independently verified and are presented for discussion purposes.BUY A COFFEE LINKSupport the Show & Stay Connected:Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/sensiblehippieJoin My Patreon for ad-free episodes & exclusive content: https://Patreon.com/WakeupwithMiyaIf you're joining Waiola – The Plus Side, please subscribe through a web browser (Safari or Chrome) instead of the Patreon app — it directly supports the show.Mahalo nui loa for supporting independent work and helping keep this platform growing.Shop my Amazon Storefront: https://www.amazon.com/shop/profile/amzn1.account.AGYOPCXXGH6MN5RVAKGQWVZUZLEA/list/26B87RB4FZ9W2?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_aipsflist_6BWRT43TH4MY2NM2XD6XWant to be on the show or suggest a guest? I'm looking for guests who can speak on human trafficking, the paranormal, occult symbolism, hidden history, spiritual warfare, ancient mysteries, and specific military stories involving covert operations, secret programs, psychological warfare, unexplained events, and firsthand accounts.Email me at: Miya@wakeupwithmiya.comExclusive Discount!Shop at LVNTA: https://lvnta.com/lv_IcTq5EmoFKaZfJhTiSUse code OHANA for 20% off!Listen on Your Favorite Platform:Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and everywhere podcasts are available!RATE & REVIEW:Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wake-up-with-miya/id1627169850Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0UYrXCgma1lJYzf8glnAxyMusic Credits: Beginning: "Echoes in the Shadows" - DKEnd Music: “Crazy” - EkoBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/wake-up-with-miya--6339129/support.
You’ll learn how to ask S-Lady to find a family member through Find My so you don’t have to call them, and why Command-Backtick (one key up from Tab) cycles windows inside a single app while Command-1, 2, 3 hops tabs in Safari, Chrome, Comet, and even Mail. You’ll follow Dave down the iPhone system data rabbit hole, where 59GB of mystery storage led to a full wipe, a genuinely useful “keep eSIMs and erase data” option, and then 52GB creeping right back three days later. You’ll turn an always-on Mac mini into an AirPlay music server you drive from the Remote app, so the party keeps playing after you make a beer run. You’ll discover that Terminal’s Secure Keyboard Entry checkbox is why your TextExpander and Rocket Typist snippets quit firing. And you’ll hear the cheapest Wi-Fi fix in history: delete the speed test app. Plus, AI as a genealogy research partner: the kind that surfaces buried leads you verify yourself. Don’t Get Caught after a macOS update wondering why Hazel stopped filing your bank statements: the rules were fine, but Spotlight’s index was in a bad state, so rebuild it with OnyX or Terminal and reboot. You’ll get real numbers on the Apple Upgrade Program: zero percent APR, financed through Klarna, three mandatory choices at the end of your term, and a “good condition” clause nobody defines. You’ll learn the Apple Watch Ultra 4’s screen really is bigger than Series 12’s, and that a 99-cent app called O2 Buddy puts blood oxygen back on your wrist. Then you’ll rethink family contact cards using smart lists built on a keyword in the Notes field, and hear why Contacts is the one thing Dave has ever lost to sync. Watch where new contacts get saved, or you’ll be staring at a text thinking…old contact, who dis? Closing it out: why Siri still wants a data connection for requests that should never leave your phone. 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1160 for Monday, September 21st, 2026 September 21st: Wife Appreciation Day MGG Monthly Giveaway – Win a license to SuperDuper! 4 The MGG Merch Store is Live! Quick Tips 00:00:01 Si-QT-Find my person with S lady 00:03:05 Dennis-QT-Cmd+` to Change Windows Cmd+[n] (n=number) to change tabs within an App 00:06:31 DLH-Keep your sims and erase the data 00:12:47 JW Blat-Using your Mac as an AirPlay music server 00:15:43 Pilot Pete-QT-Kill Secure Input Quickly if Terminal is Open TextExpander Rocket Typist 00:18:15 QT-Fix your WiFi by deleting the SpeedTest app 00:25:50 Russ-QT-Using A/I As a Genealogy Research Assistant MGG Reviews at https://macgeekgab.com/reviews 00:32:33 VirtualStash-MGG Review-Best podcast out there Don't Get Caught 00:33:45 Pilot Pete-DGC-After a macOS update Spotlight Index was in a Bad State OnyX Or one way from Terminal: sudo mdutil -a -i off sudo rm -rf /System/Volumes/Data/.Spotlight-V100 /.Spotlight-V100 sudo mdutil -a -i on Sponsors 00:36:49 SPONSOR: Shopify. If you're ready to stop putting off your business and start selling, sign up for your free trial and start selling today at https://Shopify.com/MGG 00:38:06 SPONSOR: Gusto. Get three months free when you run your first payroll when you start at https://gusto.com/MGG Apple Event Errata and Updates 00:39:16 Tom-Feedback / Question: Apple Upgrade Program Pricing Structure 00:51:48 Tim A-The Apple Watch Ultra 4 has a bigger screen than the Apple Watch 12 00:54:24 Bob-CSF-O2 Buddy brings Data On Your Watch Anyway! 00:56:26 What did your geeks order? Your Questions Answered – feedback@macgeekgab.com 01:00:16 David-What's the best way to manage Family Contact Cards in Contacts? 01:08:40 DJ Val-Why does Siri need a data connection for offline requests 01:16:28 MGG 1160 Outtro MGG Monthly Giveaway Bandwidth Provided by CacheFly Pilot Pete's Aviation Podcast: So There I Was (for Aviation Enthusiasts) The Debut Film Podcast – Adam's new podcast! Dave's Business Brain (for Entrepreneurs) and Gig Gab (for Working Musicians) Podcasts MGG Merch is Available! Mac Geek Gab iOS app Mac Geek Gab YouTube Page Mac Geek Gab Live Calendar This Week's MGG Premium Contributors MGG Apple Podcasts Reviews feedback@macgeekgab.com 224-888-GEEK Active MGG Sponsors and Coupon Codes List BackBeat Media Podcast Network
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Topps WWE's Tim Trout joins Adam and Ryan to explain how the team is connecting collectors to wrestling history through cards.Tim shares the plan behind Topps Universe, the scarcity of the Slammed inserts, the use of match-related materials, and the work required to place key relic pieces into one-of-one cards. He also reveals incoming Joe Hendry guitar-pick relics, Danhausen's first certified Topps WWE autographs, and what determines which debut patches reach each Chrome release.Then Adam and Ryan examine the John Cena WrestleMania Patch Auto crossing $250,000 and why one sale does not establish the value of every WrestleMania patch.The episode closes with a question for wrestling collectors: If collectors across the hobby are shifting toward proven stars, which wrestling legends have been left behind?Shawn Michaels, Bret Hart, Dusty Rhodes, Eddie Guerrero, and other names enter the discussion.Check out RbiCru7 for all your wrestling and sports card needs!Join Adam's Main Event Wrestling Cards group for freeGet exclusive content, promote your cards, and connect with other collectors who listen to the pod today by joining the Patreon: Join Stacking Slabs Podcast PatreonFollow Ryan: | Instagram | Website | YouTubeFollow Adam: | X | InstagramFollow Stacking Slabs: | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | Tiktok ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
El programa 2940 de Radiogeek repasa las novedades tecnológicas más importantes del día: Microsoft confirma que las actualizaciones de septiembre causan fallas de RDS en Windows Server; Chrome y Firefox actualizan el parche 115 para corregir vulnerabilidades; Anthropic y OpenAI quieren integrar evaluadores de seguridad; Samsung Gallery abandona OneDrive para adoptar el servicio de Google y por último OpenAI dice que una de sus IA intentó burlar sus propias reglas y presenta un marco para reportar incidentes. Toda esta información la pueden encontrar desde nuestra web www.infosertec.com.ar o bien desde el canal de Telegram/Whastapp, o Instagram. Esperamos sus comentarios.
We're back from our summer break, and the hobby hasn't exactly been quiet.This week, we get into the latest wave of Marvel releases,including 2026 Mint and 2026 Chrome, before musing on whether the sudden rush of attention around non-sports is genuine growth, good old-fashioned hype, or a little bit of both.That takes us into non-sports “rookies”
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Why is Tennessee filled with so many ancient Egyptian names, monuments, and symbols? In this conversation, Jessie Czebotar and I examine Memphis's connection to ancient Egypt and the meanings she sees within the Memphis city seal, the Tennessee state flag, the University of Memphis coat of arms, and the Catholic diocese's symbolism. We also explore the Memphis Pyramid, Ramesses II, the Apis bull, Serapis, ancient Egyptian writings about death, and whether naming a city after an ancient location could carry spiritual or territorial significance. On the Plus Side, we continue deeper into Tennessee by examining Dolly Parton, Dollywood, the Imagination Library, Oak Ridge, and the unusual questions surrounding Dolly's death. You can find Jessie Czebotar and her work here: Website: https://www.kingdomlivingwithjessie.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@jessieczebotar4619 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/JessieCzebotar BUY A COFFEE LINK Support the Show & Stay Connected: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/sensiblehippie Join My Patreon for ad-free episodes & exclusive content: https://Patreon.com/WakeupwithMiya If you're joining Waiola – The Plus Side, please subscribe through a web browser (Safari or Chrome) instead of the Patreon app — it directly supports the show. Mahalo nui loa for supporting independent work and helping keep this platform growing. Shop my Amazon Storefront: https://www.amazon.com/shop/profile/amzn1.account.AGYOPCXXGH6MN5RVAKGQWVZUZLEA/list/26B87RB4FZ9W2?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_aipsflist_6BWRT43TH4MY2NM2XD6X Want to be on the show or suggest a guest? I'm looking for guests who can speak on human trafficking, the paranormal, occult symbolism, hidden history, spiritual warfare, ancient mysteries, and specific military stories involving covert operations, secret programs, psychological warfare, unexplained events, and firsthand accounts. Email me at: Miya@wakeupwithmiya.com Exclusive Discount!Shop at LVNTA: https://lvnta.com/lv_IcTq5EmoFKaZfJhTiS Use code OHANA for 20% off! Listen on Your Favorite Platform: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and everywhere podcasts are available! RATE & REVIEW: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wake-up-with-miya/id1627169850 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0UYrXCgma1lJYzf8glnAxy Music Credits: Beginning: "Echoes in the Shadows" - DK End Music: “Crazy” - EkoBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/wake-up-with-miya--6339129/support.
On this week's show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by former US Cyber Command executive director turned PwC's Cyber, Data & Technology Risk leader Morgan Adamski to talk through the week's news, including: More tech guys penned more open letters and AI will destroy us all! Another Wednesday, another congregation of OpenAI agents on wikis… yawn OpenAI agents were behind the headscratching RubyGems hacking campaign in May The FBI will disrupt more adversary operations, NSA is creating more mission centres, lawmakers want sanctions on hackers-for-hire… Release more hounds! So many platforms, so many bugs, so many patches breaking other stuff Much, much more… This week's show is brought to you by Airlock Digital. Its co-founders Daniel Schell and David Cottingham join Patrick to talk about how Airlock has integrated itself with Crowdstrike via its Falcon Foundry platform. This episode is also available on YouTube Show notes AI researcher says there is 'substantial probability' AI could kill all humans in next decade | NBC News Tech Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier | Social Signals China spy chief points at US AI models in cyber threat warning | therecord.media Weixin Official Accounts Platform | Trump calls concerns over A.I. destroying humanity a “hoax” | NBC News Tech Dr_Gingerballs (@Dr_Gingerballs) on X | X (formerly Twitter) Sam Altman backs Anthropic CEO's call to slow down the global AI race | NBC News Anthropic: Detecting and countering misuse of AI, September 2026 | anthropic.com AI lets small actors run state-level hacking campaigns, Anthropic report finds | cyberscoop.com Users in Houthi-held Yemen tried to develop advanced weapons with AI, Anthropic says | apnews.com Anthropic caught Russia-linked spies using Claude in hacking operations | therecord.media OpenAI's rogue agents used at least 10 more sites for unauthorized comms, researchers say | reuters.com Researchers say OpenAI agents were behind May hacking campaign targeting RubyGems | cyberscoop.com Anthropic claims Moonshot, DeepSeek secretly diverted user requests to Claude | South China Morning Post WeWorm | Social Signals Hackers exploit Tencent app flaw to deploy GrayRabbit malware | BleepingComputer New FBI cyber strategy promises increase in adversary disruptions | Cybersecurity Dive US disrupts Xinbi Guarantee marketplace fueling the cyber scam economy | therecord.media Thorough reorganization at NSA will create five 'mission centers,' including cyber and AI | therecord.media Lawmakers call on Treasury to sanction hackers-for-hire | cyberscoop.com CISA: WatchGuard RCE flaw now exploited in ransomware attacks | BleepingComputer Dutch NCSC: Critical Check Point VPN flaws exploitation is imminent | BleepingComputer GitLab's critical flaw is already drawing internet-wide probes | cyberscoop.com Cisco warns customers of actively exploited zero-day in email gateways | cyberscoop.com 4 groups caught using the same Chrome and Windows exploit kit | Ars Technica September Windows Server updates break Remote Desktop Services | BleepingComputer Microsoft confirms KB5002914 Excel update breaks copy and paste | BleepingComputer Microsoft: September updates break audio on some Windows PCs | BleepingComputer ClickFix attacks infecting PCs and Macs are going viral | arstechnica.com Passkey-themed phishing attacks lead to Microsoft 365 data theft | BleepingComputer
What if the tool you've been waiting for, the one that finally makes Xero as efficient as QuickBooks with Right Tool, already exists, and it's being built by a former bookkeeper who accidentally fell into coding? In this episode, Serena sits down with Mark Corum, the developer behind X2Uno and Right Tool, to talk about building Chrome extensions for accounting software, the surprising parallels between bookkeeping and programming, and why the tech world's pricing model might be completely backwards. Whether you're a Xero loyalist, a QuickBooks refugee, or just curious about what happens when an accountant teaches themselves to code, then this conversation has something for you.In this episode you'll hear about:X2Uno - What it is, how it differs from Right Tool, and why Mark felt a moral obligation to build something for Xero usersRight Tool & MonkbeeHow Chrome extensions actually workXero vs. QuickBooksThe cost of switching platformsAI and the future of accountingProgramming, bookkeeping, and musicCleanup work as a nicheX2Uno availability — How to get it now (free beta on the Chrome Web Store), the MailChimp discount path, and the Facebook community for feature requestsResources mentioned in this episode:X2Uno → sign up for beta her: https://mailchi.mp/x2uno/ambitiousMeet Mark CorumI am Mark Corum. I went to college for accounting and decided to make my own bookkeeping company in my Junior year. Realized I like accounting, but I am not an accountant and transitioned out of it and stumbled into programming in late 2019 - vowing never to touch QuickBooks again.2021 comes around and I am working on a chrome extension for QuickBooks called "MonkBe" that is discovered by Hector Garcia and remade into RightTool. Now that is used by about 50,000 people and I want the additional fun of working on Xero!Connect with MarkLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markcorum/Thanks for listening. If this episode inspired you in some way, take a screenshot of you listening on your device and post it to your Instagram stories and tag me @ambitiousbookkeeperFor more information about the Ambitious Bookkeeper Podcast or interest in our programs or mentoring visit our resources below:Visit our website: https://www.ambitiousbookkeeper.comFollow the Blog: https://www.ambitiousbookkeeper.com/blogConnect on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ambitiousbookkeeperConnect on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@ambitiousbookkeeperConnect on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/serenashoupcpaThank you for your support of our show. If you haven't left a review yet it's super simple. Please go to ambitiousbookkeeper.com/podcast and leave your review.Podcast Publishing Tools we use:Editing → Sabr Media LLC: https://www.iangilliam.com/sabr-media-llcDescript: https://get.descript.com/u7lubkx09073 (affiliate link)Buzzsprout: https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=1753696 (affiliate link)
Guest: Brianna Skiffington — Founder, Free Agency | Co-Founder, Space Heroes HVAC Guest Links: https://callspaceheroes.com | https://freeagency.ai | https://cxc.aiA fractional CMO who spent 10 years marketing the trades just started her own HVAC company. Goal: $10M next year.Brianna Skiffington runs Free Agency, publishes Moneyball Marketing, and just launched Space Heroes HVAC in Huntsville, Alabama, remotely. She built the website with Claude in three days, is budgeting 25 to 30% on marketing through 2030, and is finally testing everything she's been telling clients to do for a decade (44:59). The conversation also gets into lead aggregators most roofers dismiss (14:38), the satellite GBP playbook after running 50 of them (40:00), and why marketers should stop pitching against each other.You'll learn:The lead aggregators everyone says suck that actually work (Thumbtack, HomeAdvisor, Yelp, Modernize)The car insurance story behind her "call three times in one minute" ruleWhy speed to lead beats everything and how to wire it into your CRMHow to open a satellite GBP the right way (citations first, internet bill, Chrome hack)Why you check the top 3 reviewed companies before betting on LSAs in a new marketThe voice memo to blog pipeline she runs with field techs from 800 miles awayTim's backlink reverse-engineering play: write for what AI wants to cite, not your ideal customer (35:00)
VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED This episode contains discussions of childhood abuse, sexual exploitation, human trafficking, drugs, and other disturbing subjects. It may not be suitable for all viewers. Dr. Juliette Engel is a physician, author, and founder of the Angel Coalition, an organization that worked to combat human trafficking throughout Russia and the former Soviet Union. In this episode, Juliette shares her personal account of being placed in the CIA's Monarch MK-Ultra program as a child. She discusses Project Paperclip, the alleged use of trauma and drugs in mind-control experiments, the “annexes” where she says these programs operated, and how she created “Sparky” as a source of courage and strength. Juliette recounts escaping at seventeen, rebuilding her life, becoming a physician, and later moving to Moscow. She explains how the Angel Coalition developed into a network of organizations working across the former Soviet Union to raise awareness, assist trafficking victims, and help bring children home. She also discusses Stanford Research Institute, Fort Point beneath the Golden Gate Bridge, harmonics, and what she remembers about the San Francisco music scene during the 1960s. Portions of this interview were removed from YouTube due to the sensitive nature of the discussion. In the full Patreon version, Juliette shares her account of meeting Jeffrey Epstein at a private gathering in the San Juan Islands in 1988. She explains what she says Epstein wanted from her, why he questioned her about converting and transmitting digital images, the offer he allegedly made, and why she felt she was in serious danger that night. The Patreon discussion also goes deeper into the G.A.T.E. gifted-and-talented program, a mysterious pink fizzy drink Juliette says some children were given, memory-blocking drugs, chemicals allegedly connected to destroying evidence, Zorro Ranch, trafficking networks, and the connection she sees between MK-Ultra survivors and Epstein survivors. Listen to the full conversation on the Waiola Plus Side: https://www.patreon.com/WakeUpWithMiya Learn more about Dr. Juliette Engel and find her books, Sparky: Surviving Sex Magick and Angels Over Moscow: https://www.julietteengel.com First batch of National Security Archive MKUltra docs released Dec 23 2024 https://rumble.com/v7dzce8-congress-isnt-listening-mk-ultra-survivors-reach-out-to-public-with-testimo.html?e9s=src_v1_sa%2Csrc_v3_sa_o%2Csrc_v1_upp_f https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/dnsa-intelligence/2024-12-23/cia-behavior-control-experiments-focus-new-scholarly Second batch released Oct 30 2025https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/dnsa-intelligence/2025-10-30/top-secret-testimony-cias-mkultra-chief-50-years-later 2025 Trafficking in Persons Report https://www.state.gov/reports/2025-trafficking-in-persons-report/#report-toc__section-1 BUY A COFFEE LINK Support the Show & Stay Connected: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/sensiblehippie Join My Patreon for ad-free episodes & exclusive content: https://Patreon.com/WakeupwithMiya If you're joining Waiola – The Plus Side, please subscribe through a web browser (Safari or Chrome) instead of the Patreon app — it directly supports the show. Mahalo nui loa for supporting independent work and helping keep this platform growing. Shop my Amazon Storefront: https://www.amazon.com/shop/profile/amzn1.account.AGYOPCXXGH6MN5RVAKGQWVZUZLEA/list/26B87RB4FZ9W2?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_aipsflist_6BWRT43TH4MY2NM2XD6X Want to be on the show or suggest a guest? I'm looking for guests who can speak on human trafficking, the paranormal, occult symbolism, hidden history, spiritual warfare, ancient mysteries, and specific military stories involving covert operations, secret programs, psychological warfare, unexplained events, and firsthand accounts.Email me at: Miya@wakeupwithmiya.com Exclusive Discount! Shop at LVNTA: https://lvnta.com/lv_IcTq5EmoFKaZfJhTiS Use code OHANA for 20% off! Listen on Your Favorite Platform: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and everywhere podcasts are available! RATE & REVIEW: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wake-up-with-miya/id1627169850 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0UYrXCgma1lJYzf8glnAxy Music Credits: Beginning: "Echoes in the Shadows" - DKEnd Music: “Crazy” - EkoBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/wake-up-with-miya--6339129/support.
¡Esta semana en Crossover vamos al proximo nivel con los relanzamientos de Legion of Super-Heroes, Teen Titans y Doom Patrol, y el one shot de Deadshot de DC Next Level, más el nuevo Archie de Oni Press y mas!Hoy hablamos de- The Doom Patrol #1- Doomquest #4- Archie #1- Crowbound #1- Batman: Bad Seeds – Gotham Central #1- Next Level: One Shot #1- Legion of Super-Heroes #1- Teen Titans #1- Green Lantern Corps #19-20
NSA preps a major restructuring. Anthropic's CEO calls for an AI slowdown. China acknowledges AI risks. RubyGems got swarmed by AI agents. A maximum-severity GitLab vulnerability is under active exploitation. Direct Send abuse makes phishing emails appear legit. A British fintech firm leaks sensitive customer info. LinkedIn wins a legal dispute over browser extension scanning. Monday business briefing. Our guest is Tim Starks, senior reporter at CyberScoop, sharing government leaders' outlook for cybersecurity and AI at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit. Finding Bigfoot in the neural network. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our daily intelligence roundup, Daily Briefing, and you'll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow CyberWire Daily on LinkedIn. CyberWire Guest We are joined by Tim Starks, senior reporter at CyberScoop, sharing government leaders' outlook for cybersecurity and AI at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit. You can read Tim's coverage here. Selected Reading National Security Agency launches historic restructuring (The Washington Post) Anthropic CEO Calls for an AI Slowdown. Is It Possible? (SecurityAffairs) China's spy agency warns of AI risk to national security (Financial Times) OpenAI Agent Swarm Hacks RubyGems Package Manager (Infosecurity Magazine) CISA: Hackers now exploit max severity GitLab flaw in attacks (Bleeping Computer) Direct Send: How Attackers Weaponize Your Infrastructure Against You (KnowBe4) Revolut discloses data breach exposing financial info, passports (Bleeping Computer) LinkedIn beats "BrowserGate" lawsuits over scanning users' Chrome extensions (Ars Technica) NVIDIA to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. (N2K Pro Business Briefing) Sentient AI's Bigfoot Era Could Arrive at Any Moment (Gizmodo) Share your feedback. What do you think about CyberWire Daily? Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts with us by completing our brief listener survey. Thank you for helping us continue to improve our show. Want to hear your company in the show? N2K CyberWire helps you reach the industry's most influential leaders and operators, while building visibility, authority, and connectivity across the cybersecurity community. Learn more at sponsor.thecyberwire.com. The CyberWire is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc.
Show DescriptionWe're joined by Thomas Steiner from Google to discuss his proposal for cross-origin storage, a new web API designed to bring back safe, cross-site resource sharing. We explore why the old shared-CDN caching model collapsed due to privacy and fingerprinting risks, and how this could solve those issues while avoiding those same pitfalls. Listen on WebsiteWatch on YouTubeGuestsThomas SteinerGuest's Main URL • Guest's SocialDeveloper Relations Engineer at Google, focused on the Web and Project Fugu. Links David Bushell daverupert.com 633: Thomas Steiner on AI in Chrome and the Web Pervasive Resources Intent to ship: Cache sharing for extremely-pervasive resources
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Voices of Search // A Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Content Marketing Podcast
Google's shift toward "agentic everything" will redefine how search assistants act on users' behalf. Tasia Custode, founder and CEO of Brio Media, breaks down her post-Google I/O predictions on where agentic search is headed next. She outlines how agentic search is already surfacing in Gemini, Chrome, and core Search functionality, and explains the evolution from static AI Overviews to assistants that complete tasks autonomously across devices. The conversation covers the shift from software-based agentic features to product-level integration across smart devices, speakers, and phones as the next frontier for search strategy.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
(Presented by TLPBLACK: A cybersecurity intelligence platform focused on sharing curated, high-sensitivity threat insights and research with trusted security professionals.) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 113: On the show this week, the buddies dig into an Anthropic researcher quitting with a warning that AI could kill us all, the San Francisco "death cult" and their motives, and agent swarms leaving junk on public wikis and university URL shorteners. Plus, a high-quality Anthropic's threat report and the claim that Moonshot was quietly serving Claude tokens as Kimi K3, live MikroTik and Chrome zero-days that landed a day ahead of the patches, and a WeChat worm that hijacks an account via phone calls. Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu. Timestamps: 0:00 Introductory banter, TLP Black 5:05 LabsCon, the last one, and JAGS on his keynote 8:24 Costin's agentic CTI training and what old-school CTI is missing 16:27 Anthropic's threat-intel report + IOCs 20:00 APT29 and DarkSword on hotel Wi-Fi 23:34 Bioweapons, guardrails, and what got shut down 28:07 Why is anyone running these attacks on Claude at all? 35:53 Distillation at industrial scale and the Kimi K3 fraud claim 48:43 Chinese models, Americanized, running on DGX Spark 55:00 Mr. America: local AI and the seven-layer cake 1:04:34 Should frontier AI labs poison the distillers? 1:27:05 What the frontier labs did to the security ecosystem 1:34:22 Jacob Coxon quits, and the doomer argument falls apart 1:59:13 Agent swarms littering the internet 2:07:29 Chrome zero-days, MikroTik, patch-gaps
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The FBI lays out its new Cyber Strategy. CISA plans a federal cyber overhaul. Anthropic discloses another unauthorized AI intrusion. Treasury sanctions a Chinese-language cybercrime marketplace. Another Microsoft Defender zero-day emerges. Gigabud banking malware gets stealthier. Chinese espionage groups deploy the BlueMoon exploit kit. Lawmakers target hack-for-hire firms. A U.S. designation forces an Italian technology collective to shut down. Ben Yelin discusses how private AI chatbot conversations are increasingly being used as evidence in court cases. When proofs meet prompts. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our daily intelligence roundup, Daily Briefing, and you'll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow CyberWire Daily on LinkedIn. CyberWire Guest Dave Bittner sits down with Caveat cohost and University of Maryland Center for Cyber, Health, and Hazard Strategies expert Ben Yelin to discuss how private AI chatbot conversations are increasingly being used as evidence in criminal and civil court cases, raising new questions about privacy, legal protections, and what users should expect from their supposedly private AI interactions. Want to hear the full conversation? Be sure to check out Caveat for the full discussion and more on the latest issues in privacy, surveillance, cybersecurity law, and policy. Selected Reading FBI Publishes First-Ever Cyber Strategy, With Focus on Disrupting Threat Actors (Infosecurity Magazine) CISA Unveils Plan for Follow-On Integrated Cyber Assessment Support Contract (GovCon Wire) Widened Scan Turns Up Fourth Rogue Claude Cyber Incident (SecurityWeek) US sanctions Xinbi Guarantee over cyber scams and money laundering (Metacurity) New 'ShieldCrash' Zero-Day Exploit Targets Microsoft Defender (SecurityWeek) Gigabud banking trojan uses app cloning to evade fraud detection (SC Media) Novel Blue Moon kit targeting Chrome and Windows reflects new reality of AI-driven exploits (The Register) Group of bipartisan lawmakers ask US government to ban several hack-for-hire firms (TechCrunch) Italian tech collective Autistici/Inventati shuts down after US terrorist designation (The Record) OpenAI Navier-Stokes Proof: $1 Million AI Math Controversy Explained (The CyberSec Guru) Share your feedback. What do you think about CyberWire Daily? Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts with us by completing our brief listener survey. Thank you for helping us continue to improve our show. Want to hear your company in the show? N2K CyberWire helps you reach the industry's most influential leaders and operators, while building visibility, authority, and connectivity across the cybersecurity community. Learn more at sponsor.thecyberwire.com. The CyberWire is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc.
NOTE: When you sign up for Patreon, PLEASE do it through a web browser (Safari, Chrome, etc.) and NOT an app on your iPhone. The Apple app charges 30% !!! If you just click on the link above, it should be fine. In today's episode, Becket Cook interviews Monica Samuell about her 27-year lesbian life, five-year marriage to a woman, gay-affirming church, Queen James Bible, and sudden encounter with Jesus that ended it all. She recounts childhood isolation, coming out, 20 years of family silence, Pride events, visions of judgment, the Asbury Revival, baptism where she renounced homosexuality, and walking away from everything. Monica also shares the abusive marriage, dumpster purge, Halloween divorce, river encounter with an angel named James quoting James 4:7, deliverance, and her call to tell parents and others never to count anyone out. Truth plus love. Watch the full testimony. The Becket Cook Show Ep. 253 Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.
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Scans for Proxmox Servers https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Scans%20for%20Proxmox%20Servers/33324 Next Nightmare Eclipse Vulnerability https://github.com/MSNightmare/ShieldCrash/blob/main/README.md Google Chrome Updates https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_0808145027.html FortiPAM Vulnerability https://amibeingpwned.com/blog/fortinet-pam-vuln My Upcoming Classes https://www.sans.org/profiles/dr-johannes-ullrich
Scott and Wes talk about WebMCP with Sarah Drasner and Dominic Farolino from the Chrome team, which is the new W3C standard that lets your site hand real tools to an agent. They cover the security model, headless and multi-tab agents, and how to wire it into an app you've already shipped. Show Notes 00:00 Intro 00:46 Welcome to Syntax! 01:18 What Is WebMCP and How Is It Different from MCP? 02:32 WebMCP for UI: Enabling Agents to Use Websites Directly 06:05 Brought to you by Sentry! 06:43 Is This Just a Chrome Thing? W3C Standards and Open Development 11:49 WebMCP Security: Annotations, Hints, and Multi-Layered Defense 15:26 Best Use Cases: E-Commerce, Video Editing, and Complex UIs 16:27 The WebMCP Challenge: 5,000 Entries and Creative Applications 19:20 Headless WebMCP: Running Agents in the Background 22:43 Multi-Tab Scenarios: Using WebMCP Across Multiple Sites 24:23 WebMCP and Security: Safe Origin Policy and Agent Containment 28:09 Performance and Core Web Vitals for the Agentic Web 38:11 The Future of Web Monetization: Ads, Commerce, and Agent Payments Universal Commerce Protocol x402 40:53 Building an Agent Platform: Extensions, Harnesses, and Browser Vendor Roles 45:19 Support from Anthropic, Safari, Firefox, and Other Players 49:11 Getting Involved: Origin Trial, Community Feedback, and the W3C Spec Ora 52:45 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs Sick Picks Scott: Wes: Dominic: Steven Pinker: The Sense of Style Sarah: Vintage Story Shameless Plugs Scott: Wes: Dominic: X account Sarah: 25% discount with code Community25 at AGNTCon Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads
Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to take some MDMA, get kinky, and grab some guns because on today's show, Chris Ryan joins us (duh) to discuss Adam Wingard's new metal action flick, ‘Onslaught.' They briefly cover two additional recent releases in ‘Mutiny' and ‘The Whisper Man' before diving into ‘Onslaught' and building out their “Black-and-Chrome Action Movie Pack.” Later, Sean is joined by iconic actor Michael Biehn and Wingard to discuss ‘Onslaught' as well as the wild personal story that inspired the film and plenty of anecdotes about making movies in Hollywood. (0:00) Intro (1:47) The ‘Mutiny' leak, and does piracy affect the box office? (7:19) ‘The Whisper Man' (17:22) ‘Onslaught' (34:08) The Black-and-Chrome Action Movie Pack (52:05) Michael Biehn and Adam Wingard join the show! Host: Sean Fennessey Guests: Chris Ryan, Michael Biehn, and Adam Wingard Producer: Jack Sanders Production Support: Lucas Cavanagh and Jacob Cornett Talk to a State Farm agent today to learn how you can choose to bundle and save with the Personal Price Plan®. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there®. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The G7 and CISA prepare for the quantum threat. Nightmare Eclipse drops a CrowdStrike zero-day. The White House's offensive hacking plan raises legal questions. CISA offers a playbook for communicating through cyber incidents. OpenAI puts a billion dollars behind AI-powered defense. Researchers uncover a serious PostgreSQL flaw. Google patches an exploited Chrome zero-day. Broadcom fixes VMware vulnerabilities. Attackers target a WordPress plugin flaw. Lawmakers tell license plate surveillance cameras to “Flock off.” Our guest is Kevin Gosschalk, Founder and CEO of Arkose Labs, discussing his new book, After Bots, which questions the old assumption that automated traffic is inherently malicious. Camouflage for the algorithmic age. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our daily intelligence roundup, Daily Briefing, and you'll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow CyberWire Daily on LinkedIn. CyberWire Guest Kevin Gosschalk, Founder and CEO of Arkose Labs, joins us to discuss his new book, After Bots, and why the old assumption that automated traffic is inherently malicious no longer works. Selected Reading G7 urges organizations to prepare for quantum cyber threats (The Record) Analysts: Trump Cyber Program Could Cost Firms Legal Shields (BankInfo Security) Communicating Under Pressure: Best Practices for Service Providers (IC3) OpenAI Pledges $1bn to Bring its AI Cybersecurity Tools to Essential S (Infosecurity Magazine) 12-Year-Old PostgreSQL Vulnerability Enables Database, Server Takeover (SecurityWeek) Google warns of new Chrome zero-day flaw exploited in attacks (Bleeping Computer) VMware Workstation and Fusion Updates Patch Critical Vulnerability (SecurityWeek) Critical Elementor Pro flaw exploited to take over WordPress sites (Bleeping Computer) Flock Cameras Face Removal Nationwide Under New Bill (Newsweek) Prolific Microsoft 0-day hunter drops CrowdStrike Falcon exploit PoC (The Register) This 'Digital Camouflage' Shirt Confuses AI-Powered Surveillance Cameras (404 Media) Share your feedback. What do you think about CyberWire Daily? Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts with us by completing our brief listener survey. Thank you for helping us continue to improve our show. Want to hear your company in the show? N2K CyberWire helps you reach the industry's most influential leaders and operators, while building visibility, authority, and connectivity across the cybersecurity community. Learn more at sponsor.thecyberwire.com. The CyberWire is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc.
NOTE: When you sign up for Patreon, PLEASE do it through a web browser (Safari, Chrome, etc.) and NOT an app on your iPhone. The Apple app charges 30% !!! If you just click on the link above, it should be fine. In today's episode, Becket Cook interviews Dr. Paul Weaver about his book Faith Affirming Findings: 50 Archaeological Discoveries That Validate the Historicity and Reliability of Scripture. They cover finds that silenced Bible skeptics: the Tel Dan House of David stele confirming King David’s dynasty, the Nabonidus Cylinder and Chronicle proving Belshazzar and explaining Daniel 5’s third-in-power offer, the first-century Magdala synagogue showing synagogues existed before AD 70, Yehohanan’s crucified heel bone with iron nail verifying Gospel nailing and burial accounts, the Thessalonica politarch inscription confirming Luke’s accuracy in Acts 17, the ornate Caiaphas ossuary of the high priest who condemned Jesus, and the Pontius Pilate inscription from Caesarea Maritima. These biblical archaeology discoveries from Tel Dan, Babylon, Galilee, Jerusalem, and Caesarea affirm real people, places, and events in Scripture, strengthening confidence in the Bible’s historicity for pastors, teachers, and students. Paul Weaver's Book: https://a.co/d/0dNqTFAk The Becket Cook Show Ep. 252 Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.
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