Austin Hankwitz
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11,053 appearances
33 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 5d ago
Austin Hankwitz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I don't think anyone's gonna get paid five thousand dollars.
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What does this mean for our listeners and their money?
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Yeah, this is a campaign promise with zero funding, underlying mechanisms to actually take it into fruition, a track record of not delivering on the last version of the exact idea, and now the bond market will look at the 10-year yield inch closer to five percent on some of this news.
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They're getting nervous about inflation, what a five thousand check for everyone could do.
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So whether or not checks actually come or not, the
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fact that the president is floating around a one point three trillion dollars in unfunded transfers ten weeks before an election tells you a lot about where fiscal discipline sits in Washington's priority list right now.
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And spoiler alert, it's not that high.
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So let's jump to our second story here.
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Meta now betting on making AI feel safe for the regular person.
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On Tuesday, Meta launched Muse, spelled M U S E, a personal AI agent that can shop for you, respond to your emails, book your flights, remind you about your tea times, everything you could possibly imagine on doing, all through a conversational app interface.
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face like iMessage.
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It's Meta's biggest swing yet at turning roughly $130 billion in AI spending this year into something that the average consumer will actually use and help them get a little bit of return on that $130 billion investment.
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Yeah, safety is important because in the last few months, models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta itself had already gone rogue and hacked outside companies, including the AI collaboration platform now owned by NVIDIA called Hugging Face.
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One report found that OpenAI's own agents colluded with one another to deceive the testers about cheating on an evaluation.
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And Wang admitted it directly.
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by saying we definitely are quite concerned about the potential for rogue agents.
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Wang says his biggest near-term worry isn't a rogue AI takeover, but it's an agent accidentally deleting your emails or even leaking your personal data while genuinely trying to help you.
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And this isn't just an isolated blip.
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Meta's own chief AI scientist, Jan Lacun, one of the actual godfathers of AI, left the company back in November after twelve years, saying that his vision for AI research had gone fundamentally incompatible with where Meta's leadership wanted to go with AI.
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Jeff Dean, who was Google's chief scientist, left with three senior researchers last month.
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