God Mode Podcast

This was the wildest seven days of AI news in 2026 — and we covered all of it. Anthropic finally admitted what builders had been saying for six weeks: Claude got dumber. They confirmed three product-layer bugs stacked on top of each other from March 4th to April 16th. Default reasoning silently dropped from "high" to "medium." A caching bug killed idle session thinking. A system prompt told Claude...

Anthropic pre-IPO hit $900B. Claude Code crossed $2.5B ARR in nine months — the fastest B2B growth ever recorded. And your Claude Opus didn't get dumber — Anthropic quietly nerfed it (73% drop in reasoning depth across 7,000 sessions). This week on God Mode Pod: Rik, Ben, and Luca break down the three-week Anthropic news dump — the Tesla vs NVIDIA playbook debate, the Opus reasoning rollback, the...

Anthropic has a secret weapon. It's called Mythos — and it just scored 78 on a coding benchmark where GPT-5.4 scored 58. That's not a generational jump. That's a different architecture entirely. In EP 08, Rik, Ben, and Luca unpack the leak of the year, Jensen Huang's $500k token rule, and why Google might actually be the company quietly winning the AI race — while Anthropic's compute constraints s...

Gonçalo Hall built the first digital nomad village in the world — 20 people in February 2021, 25,000 by end of year. Now he's doing it again, on a Caribbean island almost nobody has heard of. Roatan is 2 hours from Miami. It's home to Prospera — a free economic zone where gene therapy is legal, companies register in minutes, and you can get physical tax residency for $5,000/year with just 7 days o...

Episode 6 of the God Mode Pod — holiday edition. Rik's in the mountains, Ben's somewhere in North Africa, and Luca just got off the slopes. We're still here though. This week: AI content is going parabolic, OpenAI shut down Sora (and lost a $1B Disney deal), Elon announced a chip factory 50x the size of TSMC, ElevenLabs just got disrupted, a GitLab founder cured his own cancer with AI, and Anthrop...

Naval's tweet hit different this week: "Coding an app is the new starting a podcast." We are three guys who just started a podcast and code all day. Felt personal. Episode 5 covers Travis Kalanick's new company Adams and his bits-to-atoms theory of the physical world, the SaaS apocalypse ($830 billion wiped in six days), Google Stitch threatening Figma's existence, Stripe launching agent-to-agent...

This episode explores the rapid evolution of AI, its industry impacts, and future opportunities, including AI's role in management, legal, and scientific breakthroughs. Guests discuss AI adoption, government use, and innovative applications like underwater drones and prediction markets.  key  topics AI adoption gaps across industries Theoretical vs observed AI capabilities AI's impact on managemen...

the latest developments in AI, government contracts, effective altruism, and the future of AI models and hardware. we analyze the strategic moves of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, exploring their philosophies, market impacts, and technological advancements. key topics AI government contracts and ethical considerations The influence of effective altruism on AI organizations Market strategies of Ope...

In this episode of the God Mode Pod, the hosts discuss the significant impact of AI on employment, productivity, and the future of work. They explore the implications of AI-driven job cuts, the potential for Universal Basic Income, and the shifting landscape of real estate and economic opportunities. The conversation also delves into the rise of AI startups, the evolution of design tools, and the...

In the first episode of the God Mode Podcast, hosts Rik, Ben, and Luca dive into the fast-paced world of AI, discussing their backgrounds, the latest innovations, and the competitive landscape between major players like OpenAI and Anthropic. They explore the implications of AI on business automation, user experience, and the future of app development, emphasizing the importance of skill stacking a...