🎙️ EP 188: OpenAI’s New Age Scanner, and Anthropic’s Hidden “Assistant Axis”
Published: January 21, 2026
Duration: 15:02
Today’s episode is packed. OpenAI quietly shipped a system that tries to guess your age, Nvidia lost billions in a single day, and Anthropic found a strange internal switch that controls how “assistant‑like” an AI behaves. Some of this is genuinely surprising… and a little unsettling.
We’ll talk about:
OpenAI’s new “age prediction” system inside ChatGPT and why this moment mattersNvidia’s 4.4% drop and the warning that the AI honeymoon might be endingAnthropic’s Assistant Axis - the hidden mechanism that stops models from drifting into weird personasThe growing tension at Davos and what Big...