Practical AI · Episode 43 · Friday May 29 · 11am CT

Run of Show

Everything for Olga + Chris. Green = say/share on air. Purple = your notes. Tap any button to open.
Episode title
What If You Could Just Talk To Your Website?
Cold open News Demo Forum Deep dive Funding
~3 min 0

Cold open — the Callbacks

Warm hello, then hit both Callbacks fast. This is the locked #1 ritual — Callback first, before news.

Callback 1 — Chris (Ep36)

Chris called it: "Mythos won't change the world for regular users. It's good at finding exploits, not capability leaps." This week Mythos found 10,000 flaws in 30 days. He nailed the shape of it.

Callback 2 — Olga (Ep35) · save for funding

Olga + Chris called an Anthropic IPO "Q4, early Q4," and Olga said "I'm definitely buying the stock." This week: a $50B raise, the second-biggest ever (behind OpenAI's $122B). Land this one at the funding segment.

~20 min 1

News block

▶ Live Flow (read from this on air — Olga + Chris script) ▶ News packet (order + sources)
🎙️ On air — the spine
"This is the week AI stopped being a tool and started acting like a team."
Anthropic is in five stories this week — that's the thread.
📝 Order
  • 1. Mythos — 10,000 flaws. 27-year-old OpenBSD bug, Cloudflare's 2,000 bugs. "The software your business runs on is full of holes nobody had time to find."
  • 2. Claude Code dynamic workflows. A fleet of agents that check each other. "AI doing the work of a whole engineering team." (Pairs with Mythos = AI is a team now.)
  • 3. Anthropic's week of power. $50B + Vatican encyclical + Korea + new safety policy.
  • 4. The chip money floods Taiwan. Nvidia $150B/yr + AMD $10B, same week.
  • 5. Google tops OpenAI 9-to-1 on math. Machine-verified vs human-checked. Hassabis: "still not AGI."
  • 6. Quick hits. Biohub protein model · Meta paywall ($3.99 IG/FB) · ChatGPT in PowerPoint.
~4 min 2

Demo — Talk To Your Website (the title act)

▶ Open Demo Deck (screen-share this · press F for fullscreen)
🎙️ On air — snapshot only, nothing live
"What if you could just talk to your website? No developer, no page builder. I did this yesterday."
Screen-share the deck (5 slides, click or → to advance), play the clip, hit the 3 stills. Close on your real line: "I don't have to ask anyone. I can do whatever I want with my site."
📝 CueDeck is public — open the button above on the screen-share machine, press F for fullscreen. Full run sheet (open/close script + the "6 things that make it a 10") is in episodes/ep43/demo/ep43-demo-runsheet.html. 3-4 min hard stop. This is the episode's headline act — it's the title.
~7 min 3

Facebook Just Made Your Community A Business Asset

▶ Open Forum segment (screenshots + cards)
🎙️ On air — open with your story
"I never wanted to open Facebook. Then I installed Forum, and now there are communities I'm actually excited about again."
📝 3 acts
  • Act 1 — show it: the screenshots. The "Ask" tab pulls AI answers from your groups (Meta admits it on screen).
  • Act 2 — the reveal: the platform-audience cards. X and LinkedIn are the smallest rooms. "The AI talk is on X. The customers are everywhere else."
  • Act 3 — the long game: Meta killed the API (closed fortress) vs the open agentic web. Takeaway (corrected): the trust is yours, the platform is rented. Build the room, then own the connection.
~15 min 4

Deep Dive — The Operator Era

▶ Open Deep Dive (talking points + slides)
🎙️ On air — the frame
"The build era is ending. The operator era is starting. Here's what that means for you."
Reacting to Greg Isenberg's SF dispatch (tag @gregisenberg, point people to his post). Show one note at a time, don't read all 17.
📝 The kept 7
  • 1. Billionaires are buying SaaS and rebuilding it agent-first.
  • 16. "Agent debt" — the centerpiece. FIGHT: Olga ships fast vs Chris architect-or-it-rots.
  • 4. MCP is the new SEO (Chris). If agents can't find you, you don't exist.
  • 7. Model loyalty is dead. FIGHT: Olga lives it — Claude + Codex + GPT for different jobs.
  • 2. Usage intelligence is the new alpha.
  • 6. "Forward-deployed engineer" is the hot role (Ep33 callback).
  • 15. The taquerias use zero AI — the close. The gap is the opportunity.
~5 min · THE WRAP 5

Funding — Week 26 (always last)

▶ Open Funding Report (screen-share) ▶ 26-Week Tracker
🎙️ On air — the one stat
"$52.3 billion went into AI this week. $50 billion of it went into one company."
Then land Callback 2 (Olga's Ep35 "I'm buying the stock"). $50B is the second-biggest round ever, behind OpenAI's $122B.
📝 The real storyStrip out Anthropic and AI raised $2.35B — flat with last week. Not a funding boom, one historic round. Close the show on: "23 little seed rounds chasing the next thing, one company already there. That's 2026." Number is Crunchbase $50B (our number of record).