Billion Dollar Chips and Free AI - AI Vaults: NotebookLM's Deep Dive | Lyssna här

This week, the hosts break down Anthropic's move to design its own chips, with job postings paying up to $485,000, and what it means that every frontier lab now wants custom silicon. They cover the EU's first enforced AI Act rules, which require AI systems to disclose they are AI, and OpenAI's decision to remove chat limits for free ChatGPT users. Also in the conversation: OpenSEO, an open-source alternative to Ahrefs, and a prompting technique that gets honest critique out of an agreeable chatbot.

What's Covered

* Anthropic builds an in-house chip design team

* The EU AI Act's transparency rules take effect, with fines up to 15 million euros

* ChatGPT's free tier loses its limits on GPT-5.6 Luna

* Anthropic's $10 billion compute deal with Volta Infra

* Leadership changes at Google DeepMind and the founding of Discovery Loop

* OpenSEO, an open-source, self-hostable SEO suite that plugs into AI agents

* A prompt that gets a chatbot to critique your writing honestly

Sources

* TechCrunch: Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team

* Al Jazeera: What came into force with the EU's AI Act this week, and what didn't

* Help Net Security: OpenAI ships GPT-5.6 Sol and Luna, removes ChatGPT free limits