"Just because you're using a ton of AI doesn't mean you're producing good things." - @AlexFinn

Anthropic filed to go public. The layoff wave keeps rolling. Data centers are getting protested in middle America. And a single GPU now burns more power than ever, with energy about to become AI's hard ceiling.

This week, we covered these topics and more with: - Naveen Rao (@NaveenGRao), building brain-inspired analog chips to crash the cost of compute at @unconvAI. - Alex Finn (@AlexFinn), building an AI agent for everyone at Henry Intelligent Machines (@HenryForAll).

7 moments worth your time: 0:00 Welcome back to This Week in AI 1:23 The AI cost panic: real, or just token maxing? 8:19 Surgeons vs. shotguns: how to actually use AI 17:16 How energy overtook chips as the cost of compute 20:13 The energy wall nobody is pricing in 24:31 AI's PR problem & the data center backlash 29:17 Data center taxes & the politics of AI upside 36:33 The Anthropic IPO & if the guests would buy

They join @alex on This Week in AI Episode 16, out now. @Jason