Chips, Checks, and Changing Jobs with Christina Stathopoulos

This week, AI's biggest story wasn't a new model. It was everything underneath it. Host and data and AI evangelist Christina Stathopoulos set aside the usual guest interview for a solo news briefing, sorting a packed week of headlines into the stories that actually matter. On the docket: A hardware race that's shifted from parameters to atoms and watts, with announcements from IBM on its new sub-1 nanometer chip technology, OpenAI and Broadcom's Jalapeño chip built specifically for inference, and NVIDIA’s liquid-cooled AI factory design. The widening reach of government oversight into frontier AI, from Anthropic's restored access to Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 to OpenAI's proposed 5% equity stake for the US government. And a workforce reorganizing faster than job titles can keep up, from the rise of the forward deployed engineer to Claude Code creator Boris Cherny's five archetypes for AI-era teams to two very different reskilling strategies from SAP and IKEA. Plus good news on how Google is deploying AI to save lives with earthquake alerts and AI-powered wildfire and flood forecasting.