AGI - Advance, Grow, Innovate with AI · 2026-08-03 · 34 min
EPISODE DESCRIPTIONJulie caught the story Jason missed: Washington took equity in seven AI chip firms. Then ChatGPT deployed an app to his Mac from 20 minutes away. On this Weekly Blitz, Jason and co-host Julie Koehrer work through the CHIPS Act equity deal, the US-China open-source fight, why Riverside's paywalled MCP connector has Jason ready to build his own tool, and the new GPT-Live voice that turned his phone into a remote for his whole computer.ABOUT THIS EPISODEThis episode of the Weekly Blitz covers the US Commerce Department taking minority non-voting equity in seven AI chip and compute companies under the CHIPS Act, the debate over state capitalism and a post-abundance economy, the open-source rivalry between American AI labs and China, Anthropic's copyright settlement and its model-security disclosure, the build-versus-buy case for vibe coding your own software, and OpenAI's new GPT-Live voice mode that pairs a real-time voice model with a background reasoning model.
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