#215: Musk v. OpenAI Round 3, AI's Hot New Job, The AI Jobs Apocalypse Debate & The 2026 State of AI for Business Report

Three big stories define this week: the Musk v. OpenAI trial wraps with the jury advising but the judge deciding. Then: why did every major AI commentator publish the same argument in the same week that AI won't kill jobs? And: Forward Deployed Engineers: are they the future of enterprise AI adoption or just consultants with a better name?

Rapid fire covers the AI hate wave showing up across the country, Anthropic's two-scenario roadmap for the US-China AI race, cybersecurity threats that give organizations just three to five months before attackers catch up, and a full product update roundup including Anthropic's $950B valuation, the Gates Foundation partnership, and the launch of Recursive Superintelligence.

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 — Intro

00:03:46 — AI-Pulse Survey

00:06:27 — Musk v. OpenAI Round 3

00:12:13 — "Forward Deployed Engineers" Are AI's Hot New Job

00:30:17 — The AI Jobs Apocalypse Debate

00:48:49 — An AI Hate Wave Is Here

01:00:34 — Two Scenarios Could Unfold in the US-China AI Race

01:05:19 — AI Threats Have the US Government (and Labs) Worried

01:09:04 — The Rise of "Headless" Software

01:14:53 — Publicis Acquires LiveRamp

01:16:36 — How AI Is Changing the Way We Work (Second Brains, Apprenticeships, and More)

01:24:39 — AI Use Case Spotlight

01:29:30 — AI Product and Funding Updates

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