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Short Fuse

Short Fuse

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Technology and socio-economic big bets

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Episodes
  • Backpeddling! Pope! Quantum!

    Backpeddling! Pope! Quantum!
    May 29 2026
    Sam Altman woke up, put on his red velour dressing gown, and decided your job is safe after all. Duncan and Ollie get into the great AI climbdown, the Pope's beef with the machines, and the growing public urge to take a hammer to a data centre.

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    31 mins
  • Zeitgeist

    Zeitgeist
    May 19 2026
    In this episode, Duncan and Ollie explore the concept of the zeitgeist, analyzing various perspectives from AI models and their own insights. They discuss societal trust, technological change, cultural shifts, and potential future scenarios, offering a deep and humorous look at the mood of our times.

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    34 mins
  • Musk Sues Open AI, Mythos Locked, Meta Layoffs, Tokenomics, More Robots

    Musk Sues Open AI, Mythos Locked, Meta Layoffs, Tokenomics, More Robots
    Apr 30 2026

    Musk is suing OpenAI, Anthropic is keeping Mythos locked behind Project Glasswing, and the age of subsidised AI is ending. We're back after a break to work through the news that piled up.

    Duncan and Ollie cover the OpenAI lawsuit and what discovery might surface, why Mythos staying behind closed doors is as much an economics story as a safety one, the Opus 4.7 pricing sleight of hand, Meta's keystroke logging and latest round of layoffs, the missing AI productivity gains, and humanoid robots at CES vs Hannover Messe.


    00:00 Welcome Back and Podcast Overview

    00:47 Elon Musk vs OpenAI: The Lawsuit

    03:39 The Future of AI and OpenAI's Challenges

    07:05 Consumer Preferences in AI: Anthropic vs OpenAI

    08:35 Meta's AI Strategy and Workforce Concerns

    10:30 Mythos and Cybersecurity: The Cost of AI Models

    14:53 The Economics of AI: Subsidies and Costs

    20:04 Humanoid Robots: CES vs Hannover Messe



    Short Fuse is a podcast about emerging tech, human behaviour, and cultural movements. Hosts take long and short positions on the stories that matter and defend their reasoning.

    Visit shortfuseresearch.com for written analysis, the discovery tracker, and bespoke research.

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    28 mins
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