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Google's AI Book, Meta's Spy Games, AI Monks in Middle America

May 15, 2026·45 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

The squad is complete again, and Sam arrives with a NeuroPod, cold plunge updates, red light therapy, Oura stats, and enough supplements to start a wellness startup. Then into the week’s biggest tech stories: Google’s new AI device and whether it’s the Chromebook of the AI era or another doomed health-tech experiment, Meta’s keystroke logging controversy, Microsoft’s increasingly awkward OpenAI bet, why OpenAI and Anthropic are now sending engineers directly into enterprises to drive adoption, and what tools like OpenClaw, Py, and Codex actually do. Plus, Anthropic’s eye-watering latest valuation, the clean girl aesthetic discourse, Brian Johnson chaos, and Sam personally buying Jackson Hole ski passes like it’s 1997Chapters:00:23 Sam’s NeuroPod, Oura Data & Biohacker Spiral03:11 Sam vs. Brian Johnson + The Female Biohacker Opportunity05:13 Oura Ring vs. Whoop: The Verdict07:26 Google’s AI-First “Book” Laptop11:25 What Actually Makes AI Hardware Different?16:02 AI Price Wars: Local Models, Free Codex & Consumer Devices20:12 Voice Is the Killer Interface for AI24:03 Sam Built His Own Voice-to-AI App25:26 Meta’s Keystroke Logging: Spy Games or Honeypot?28:01 Fake AI Jobs & Sam’s “Fin Analytics” Prediction31:21 OpenAI & Anthropic Are Sending Engineers Into Enterprises35:07 The AI Resistance Is Real36:45 Microsoft’s $100B OpenAI Problem43:48 Anthropic’s Massive Raise & SF Real Estate Insanity48:53 OpenClaw, Py & Codex: What Is a Harness?We’re also on ↓X: https://twitter.com/moreorlesspodInstagram: https://instagram.com/moreorlessYouTube: https://youtu.be/-O3zyxR-wS0Connect with us here:1) Sam Lessin: https://x.com/lessin2) Dave Morin: https://x.com/davemorin3) Jessica Lessin: https://x.com/Jessicalessin4) Brit Morin: https://x.com/brit

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