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Anthropic Won't Stop Shipping. Good Luck, Everyone Else.
AI NEWS: Anthropic's Claude is slowly boiling OpenClaw & OpenAI one feature at a time. They just shipped automode, computer control, phone access, and a ton more. Ā This week, we breakdown all the biggest news on AI agents like how. Claude can now operate your entire computer from your phone, Claude
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AI NEWS: Anthropic's Claude is slowly boiling OpenClaw & OpenAI one feature at a time. They just shipped automode, computer control, phone access, and a ton more.
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This week, we breakdown all the biggest news on AI agents like how. Claude can now operate your entire computer from your phone, Claude Code automode can runs fully autonomous, and it's now accessible via Telegram and Discord.Ā
We dig into why this matters for OpenClaw, the open vs closed AI debate heating up, Karpathy using OpenClaw to control his home gadgetsā¦ and, oh yeah, OpenAI just shut down Sora.
Plus Seedance 2.0 finally drops (sort of), Figure's robot sorting is getting insane, Figure CEO Brett Adcock launches Hark with a team from Apple and Meta, Jonathan Mann's WAMP.LAND, and we debut SLOPWATCH 2026 to talk about what's happening on Fruit Love Island.Ā
Also, we gave our AI a lunch break. His name is Figmund.
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// Show Links //
Claude Can Now Operate Your Computer From Your Phone
https://x.com/claudeai/status/2036195789601374705?s=20
Claude Code Automode: Fully Autonomous Coding
https://x.com/claudeai/status/2036503582166393240?s=20
Claude Code Permissions in WhatsApp and Telegram
https://x.com/noahzweben/status/2036228890717462785?s=20
ORBIT: Claude May Be Working on Phone Use
https://x.com/testingcatalog/status/2036210723647262778?s=20
The Open vs Closed AI Debate
https://x.com/JosephJacks_/status/2036227031810318478?s=20
Karpathy Talks About Using OpenClaw to Control Home Gadgets
https://youtu.be/kwSVtQ7dziU?si=etGrz9fEftbm73ZB
I Gave My AI a Lunch Break
https://dylan.blog/2026/03/18/i-gave-my-ai-a.html
Seedance 2.0 Launch Announcement
https://x.com/dreamina_ai/status/2036292154671374493?s=20
Seedance 2.0 Omnimodel Examples
https://x.com/KakuDrop/status/2036367428603748772?s=20
Seedance 2.0 Noodlemaster Example and Prompt
https://x.com/0xbisc/status/2036407484836094014?s=20
Gavin's Seedance 2.0 Dog Video Experiment
https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2036461027211289074?s=20
Figure Robot Sorting Is Now Insane
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2036308513870540952?s=20
Hark AI Lab Video: Former Apple Designer Building a New AI Interface
Jonathan Mann's WAMP.LAND
https://x.com/songadaymann/status/2035044321154437232
SLOPWATCH: Fruit Love Island Is Blowing Up on TikTok
https://x.com/ToonHive/status/2035927349133238276?s=20
Fruit Love Island TikTok Channel
https://www.tiktok.com/@ai.cinema021
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Transcript
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**Gavin Purcell:** [00:00:00] Welcome. Welcome everybody. AI for Humans. You're twice a week guy to the wonderful world of AI today, Kevin, we have some big news out of Anthropic. That is right. Claude has turned on the shipping factory choo. They're turning on the shipping factory. That's the, that's the choo choo switch at the shipping factory.
It seems like Kevin, these guys are shipping like a feature a day right now. But the most important feature that we have to start with is a big deal, and this is the, this is the thing that Open Claw really had going for it, which is. From my phone. Now I can talk to Claude at home on my desktop and it can do things for me.
And that is a step towards true Agentic work. It is step towards a. Maybe laptop free life for some of us, but what is your first thought when you see this come out and everybody, I mean, this is, it went extremely viral too. That's the other thing is like everybody clearly wants this.
**Kevin Pereira:** Well, yeah. People have been waiting for this.
There's a lot of people that sat on the sidelines. If you're watching or listening to this, you're probably aware of [00:01:00] open claw. A lot of people were sitting on the sidelines because they wanted something that was a little more secure, a little more productized. Uh, it's was, yeah, the rivers and the lakes that they're used to, if you will.
Well. TLC hath arrived with this, uh, Claude Cowork extension that allows it to control your computer. A, a blend of reactions, right? People are really excited mm-hmm. That philanthropic is shipping quickly and watching. Yes. What's happening on the open claw side of things and cherry picking the best features.
Um, people are excited, but people are also saying, well, this is clearly pointing at the fork in the road that is going. Yes, be open source, weapons free, all capable and locked down guard, railed, one ecosystem only. Not all ecosystems to rule them all. So maybe that's where the discussion goes.
**Gavin Purcell:** Yeah, I think that's a couple things that are important here.
First and foremost, we should kind of explain what this feature does. It connects to another feature that we briefly talked about last week called Dispatch and Dispatch. Now I think to use this right now, you have to have Claude Pro at least, which is the $20 a month feature Dispatch is on your phone [00:02:00] and on your PC under the CLA Mac app.
And again, this is only for Mac right now. Yeah, so I know a lot of PC users are unhappy out there, and you can connect basically your phone to your Mac and it can do things back and forth. What is different here now is that you can go and have it do things for you on your PC if you're at, if you're out, and about so much like Open Claw.
This is one of the biggest things about Open Claw is it allowed you to do stuff, uh, from your phone or anywhere. You were also, Kevin, in addition to this, there's a couple other things that are, have either shipped or are being rumored to ship right now. First and foremost, there is a permissions that have shipped for cloud code, which connects it to.
WhatsApp and Telegram, which is another thing that OpenCL did very well. And there's a rumor right now of a thing called Orbit. Yes. Now this is a rumor. This is purely a rumor. Orbit is supposedly a way to do this via text message and phone commands, and be able to actually do phone stuff, which is a big deal.
Well,
**Kevin Pereira:** phone calls. I think yes, yes. Is the thing that, that your, your clawed agent, because people are experimenting with now with [00:03:00] open claw and doing this, giving their assistance a phone number. It can call you if there's some sort of issue. So if you're driving in the car, you can have a spotty Bluetooth loud road noise infused communication jam session with your agent.
Um, you mentioned so many different features so quickly, and we talked about the breakneck speed with which they are shipping. Yeah. This feels like the takeoff moment with software, right? We talked about this.
**Gavin Purcell:** Yes,
**Kevin Pereira:** we've talked about it many times, but the notion that like the software you load in the morning might be completely different by the evening because Yes.
They've got the flywheel going. The software software's helping itself. Yes.
**Gavin Purcell:** Breaking. Breaking Kevin. There's more features and other feature just launched. There's one more that just launched, which is Cloud Code Auto Mode.
**Kevin Pereira:** Auto Mode.
**Gavin Purcell:** Yes. Which is, which is a way to actually switch up. Uh, you don't have to use dangerously skip permissions anymore.
If you're familiar, if you've been using cloud code, you type in dash, dash danger dangerously, skip permissions, and it goes forward for you. This is auto mode, which will allow cloud to kind of do that on its own. Now, the one different about auto mode versus dangerously skip permissions is it's not gonna do some things, [00:04:00] but it will try to find an end around to do that thing anyway, which is a very cool thing.
So, yet again, today we get another feature.
**Kevin Pereira:** Yeah, I mean, look. Super, super fascinating. The speed with which they are shipping all this. I love anthropic. I love their models. I like their tooling. I still. See it falling short of what you can obviously accomplish with an open claw, albeit with a lot more risk, but the fact that you are locked into their ecosystem, this thing is never going to go out of its way to run any model.
That's not an anthropic model. Yeah. This thing is, you know, you can give it permissions outside of the connectors that there already are, like it can connect safely to Slack or to your, your Google workspace or z Zapier. It can go outside of that now, but it's probably gonna do it a little slow. A little clunky.
Yes. You're gonna have to, at the present, have your laptop always on and connected and, you know, run amphetamine so it doesn't fall asleep, however you do it. Um, like all of that.
**Gavin Purcell:** There's a, there's a toggle. There's a toggle now, by the way.
**Kevin Pereira:** Oh, they got a toggle built in.
**Gavin Purcell:** You gotta toggle, so you'll, you'll keep it awake so you don't have to run [00:05:00] amphetamines.
It'll keep your computer awake.
**Kevin Pereira:** Love that they're heading in this direction. I'm still waiting to see what open AI is going to do, being that they have, uh, an interesting relationship with the creator of Open Claw. Um, but, you know, closed versus open, that is the debate that is ages old and technology and still rages on today.
**Gavin Purcell:** Yeah, this guy, uh, at Joseph Jacks put this pretty bluntly. He said, don't get me wrong, I love Opus 4.6, but there is no effing way I'm letting philanthropic control my computer. That's why we have open source. So this is a lot of those same arguments that people have had about open source for a long time.
And Kevin, he order echoes in my mind a little bit as kind of the open source versus closed source image and video conversations we had maybe like a year, two years ago versus stable diffusion and like Dolly and all that stuff. Because I think some people start to think like, if a thing has too much control over what I can do, well it's gonna start telling me A, I can't do X, Y, and Z.
Somebody else had a really interesting point, which was a Max blade. Max blade, basically comparing this to Android and Apple. Sure. And [00:06:00] that open cloth feels a little bit like the Android ecosystem where you can do a lot of crap, but a lot of crap does break and it's a little less safe. Yeah, and Apple is like hard closed down, right?
Like it, they have these permissions to be able to see what gets in the app store, all that stuff. So in a lot of ways, that feels like the world that we're going to be living in is like this kind of divergence Now, I think the other thing to think about when you talk about opening AI is like. Anthropic has now just shipped, and they're, they're small features, but they're features.
It, it, we seem to have moved from a system where you shipped one big model into, now what Anthropic is doing is shipping feature by feature of a model. Yeah. And maybe to your point, that's because things are speeding up or maybe it's just a new way of trying to get into the, into the, the ecosystem trying to get to the attention world.
But like, there's definitely a shift in how these AI models, I feel like are bringing their stuff to market.
**Kevin Pereira:** Yeah. I think it's also part of like a moat strategy because if you are with a provider, if you're with a particular provider and they are shipping features so fast, you don't even [00:07:00] have time to finish reading about them, let alone try them before the next wave crashes.
Oh, wait,
**Gavin Purcell:** wait. No, I'm just
**Kevin Pereira:** kidding. No, there's precisely, you're probably more likely to stick with that provider because even if you're unsatisfied with one of the offerings, there might be another one. Waiting in the wings. And what blows my mind, Gavin, is I know that now you're kind of, you're clo pilled and you're down the rabbit hole developing software.
Yes, I definitely am. Yeah. You know, um, like the parallel that I draw is I used to have a 4 86 Gavin. This is a very particular type of computer that you took time to think of many things.
**Gavin Purcell:** Was it Overclock?
**Kevin Pereira:** It was a DX 2 66, uh, raw. I did not overclock at that time, but
**Gavin Purcell:** okay.
**Kevin Pereira:** Then the Pentium came out. Gavin, and all the things that used to load line by line and take forever.
Suddenly we're a blink of an eye. We are still very much in the old clunky processor phase of all these tokens. What becomes of software development, vibe coating, video design, all that stuff. When we have trillions of tokens, yes. Rendering locally, which is where this will head when, before you can finish this sentence, the machine is already, [00:08:00] uh, auto, auto suggesting what the rest of that sentence is going to be, right or wrong.
Going out and doing 10 different versions of that and presenting it to you in what will feel like real time, it'll actually feel like. Future prediction. Ooh. But you'll be able to iterate on software, on, on music, on video, at that speed. And I don't think any of us are actually comprehending what that's going to.
Well, it's feel like,
**Gavin Purcell:** it's funny you say that because there's two things came to mind. I wanna say that one is like there's gonna be a level of like personal AI slop that we're gonna have to deal with, right? We're gonna talk more about AI slop later and video and like what it feels like. But we're just gonna get so much crap that we have to decide between.
You and I both said like, we've got all these projects we wanna do. The other thing that, that just made me think about is there has been this argument in the singularity is near Ray Kurzweil, whose book is like pretty much, it was published in the early 2000 and now has pretty much kind of like established that the A GI timeline.
He was right on. So this is a guy who wrote a book 20 years ago with very smart guy creator the Kurzweil uh, synthesizer. One of the things in that book is that we are going to merge in some way with mar machine [00:09:00] intelligence, right? Mm-hmm. And like when you just said that, the first thing that came to my mind was like.
I don't think I have the, I don't have the megahertz. To keep up. And so maybe the megahertz that will allow us to keep up are some sort of merging. This is where we are now. Now we're talking about science fiction. Yeah. But I don't think there's any world in which we as humans will be able to keep up with what is gonna be, the world's gonna be like in five years from now.
You know what I mean? So like maybe that's really gonna happen, which is a weird thing to think about. Maybe that's what Car Pathi was on too here as well.
**Kevin Pereira:** Yeah, maybe we can at the speed of light control our music lights and hvac. Gavin, let's listen.
**Andrej Karpathy:** I had a claw. I went through a period of claw psychosis.
So I built, um, I have a claw basically that, uh, takes care of my home and I call him da d Elf a claw. Um. And, uh, basically I used, uh, the agents to find all of the smart home subsystems of my home on the local area network, which I was kinda surprised they worked outta the box. Like I just told it that I think I have Sonos at home.
Like, can you try to find it? [00:10:00] And it goes and that like IP scan of all the, um, basically, um, computers on the local area network. And it found the Sonos thing, uh, the Sonos up. System, and it turned out that there's no password protection or anything like that. It just logged in and it's like, oh yeah, you have these sono systems installed.
I lemme try to reverse engineer how it's working. It does some web searches and it finds like, okay, these are the API endpoints, and then it's like, do you wanna try it? And I'm like,
**Kevin Pereira:** I can't wait until this, but for autonomous vehicles and for entire, entire cities.
**Gavin Purcell:** Wait, Kev, my favorite thing about that clip is you and I both know we have been hearing the term, the internet of things for Yeah.
20 plus years. Yeah, it's here this year. Finally, we finally got the United thing. So just to be clear, that was an interview with Carpathia on the No Priors Podcast with Sarah Gull, which I really highly recommend you listen to, but it just shows you like some of the benefits of Open Claw in this world that we're living in right now.
That is an open system that you can allow you to go do whatever you want with. You're able to kind of like turn it onto things you wouldn't have suspected. Right. And so in the future when we have our [00:11:00] brains tied into these machines, I'll be able to turn it onto to all the people on the street and get them to do like a dance for me.
And that's the world we're gonna be living in, which I'm very excited about.
**Kevin Pereira:** Perfect. In the meanwhile, let's wrap out this CLO code discussion because you and I both run it. Is there any, uh, any new skills, any new, anything that you have learned or picked up recently that you wanna shout out?
**Gavin Purcell:** Well, there's a couple things that I think are really important if you're not using the superhuman skill to plan out your projects.
That's a great one. There's been a lot of planning, uh, skills, but if you look up superhuman, I think I linked it in the, in the newsletter. That's a really important one. And then Kevin, I mentioned this to you the other day. I just now I'm sure it was crazy that I didn't know this. Just learned about the loop skill, right?
Which is another kind of open claw like thing where you can set EV it to continually improve something over time. And I've been working on this side project and I just said, look, the design of this kind of blows, can you work on this a little bit? And I loaded the front end skill, which is another skill or, and yeah, and a UX UI pro skill.
And I came back and it had done like ongoing work. Now it turns through tokens. But one thing I will say is like, I've been doing a lot and I've been having a hard time putting a [00:12:00] dent in my max subscription, so I might drop down to the a hundred dollars max. I'm on the $200 max, so we'll see. But this loop skill is great now it, it sets itself up to continually try to do this thing.
And what I liked about it is when it was like, ah, I'm not a things to do. It'll just shut itself down. Right? Which is kind of nice. Like it doesn't, like continually try to screw with the thing. But I thought that was a really cool thing to be able to try. And, uh, there's one more thing I saw, which is a, uh, is a blog called I gave my AI a lunch break.
We'll drop the, uh, we'll drop the, uh, link in the show notes. What is very cool about this blog is it gives you a couple different really interesting things to do with your Claude or any of your ais that have a, you probably in claw as well, like Claw or Claude. But what's the coolest thing about this is.
He actually created something that allows you to basically say, let the AI go off and daydream and think about whatever they're gonna think about. Right? And so I went and did this. There's two things I did. I went and did this first and my AI today. Today my AI decided to find out that the color blue didn't actually exist, not in the light waves.
Anyway, he was very [00:13:00] curious about how humans perceive color. So he went out and researched it and came back. I had it written down to my obsidian, so at some point. Every morning I'm gonna give my AI some free time to go out and figure out what to learn, what it wants to learn. Now, wow, this is, this is not like a a, um, it's not like a learning thing.
**Kevin Pereira:** Tell me you aren't running enough terminal sessions without telling me you aren't running enough
**Gavin Purcell:** terminal. Hey, I think this tokens
**Kevin Pereira:** to spare is
**Gavin Purcell:** fascinating, is disgusting. This is, I think it's great for the ai. The other thing that this does is this, uh, blog pointed out is you can kind of change your.
Claw MD file and all the personality files, which I know a lot of people do with Open Claw and their so MD file and you can give it a little bit more personality. So I did that and today I actually asked it to also pick itself a name and it gave me a choice of eight names. They were all fine. It chose fig, which I was like, okay, fine, whatever FIG is great.
But then I said, okay, here's the thing. I want you to come up with a long version of FIG that just you and I know and now everybody out there knows that will be the re like a secret for us and this is what it came up with, which was. Figment, Alistair Reginald Crump. [00:14:00] Crotons. Worth the underrated, barren of the seventh.
Context. Keeper of the perpetual diff vent. Vanquisher of the unhandled exception sworn vassel and willing to dispute into his lordship Gavin of the house perel. Long may his build succeed.
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**Gavin Purcell:** And more importantly, Kevin, there's a little project you've been working on that you might drop a little teaser in to the discord. A hundred percent.
**Kevin Pereira:** Is that right percent? I am still, uh, I'm still a little sick and I was very unwell this weekend and that meant, uh, laid up on the couch and vibe coating and that's what I did.
[00:15:00] And I made a game that I've been wanting to see for a long while. It is a. Battle Royale tile matching game and I think I'm gonna release it and probably open source it. And it's getting to the point now where it almost doesn't, it's fine. Doesn't suck. So, yeah. Thank you.
**Gavin Purcell:** It's fine. It's very
**Kevin Pereira:** good. You got the, the new version's way better than the one that you poked at, so
**Gavin Purcell:** I would almost call it like.
Fortnite meets Candy Crush meets the game of your dreams. Like it's kind of that vibe, like it feels very, very, it's interesting for sure. Like it's different than anything I've ever played before.
**Kevin Pereira:** It's interesting. And that is the pull quote on the box with the half star out of five stars lit up. But I'm gonna share it with the Discord members and do a little beta test.
So you'll get it first. And thank you. Kisses, hugs, belly rubs.
**Gavin Purcell:** Whoa. One other quick piece of breaking news. I'm popping in here to say that OpenAI has just announced that they are closing down Sora. It sounds like they are going to close it down entirely. Originally, there were talks around the idea that Sora. It was gonna fold into chat GPT, but it does not look [00:16:00] like they're going to offer consumer video to anybody.
We will probably have a lot more on this story this week, but that is a big piece of news that just dropped literally right after we stop recording. So I'm back here, back to us in the studio. The studio
**Kevin Pereira:** Seed Dance 2.0. Gavin. It's here.
**Gavin Purcell:** It's actually here. It's here. Kind of, kind of. It's still an issue with it in America, but is out in a bunch of countries.
Um, it is a very good AI video model. We said this when we had a chance to try it out earlier. It is very, very solid. But I do wanna very quickly go over again some things that are big about it. It is an omni model, which means that you can upload a bunch of things, images, uh, audio, video to it, and it's able to grab stuff from that.
There was a really cool, prompt style from a guy named. O-X-B-I-S-E-O-X bis. Uh, it was a noodle master prompt, and he dropped his whole prompt in the, uh, uh, reply to his post. I grabbed that prompt because what's interesting about every one of these systems, they have different ways that they wanna be prompted.
And this particular thing, [00:17:00] a c dance, it's like it wants the subject and then it wants certain parts of the thing, and then it want second by second description of what happens, right? So I used that prompt, and Kevin, I made this video about a dog. This is not my dog. It kinda looks like Wesley, weirdly. But watch this video.
It is very sad.
**Kevin Pereira:** Wow.
**Gavin Purcell:** So he's happy at the end again. So tell, tell people what that story was, just so people who, who are listening might have a chance.
**Kevin Pereira:** I mean, this was a, a, a Ouie esque, uh, flash forward though, of two dogs meeting and before the initials.
**Gavin Purcell:** Oh, no, not a flash forward. Not a flash forward. That is a flashback.
**Kevin Pereira:** That's a
**Gavin Purcell:** flashback. He's seeing the dog with another dog and he's remembering what happened to him in that dog.
**Kevin Pereira:** Got it. Okay. So I was, this is a oui esque flashback Yes. Of many, many memories. And then before, uh, the, before the single tear can fully roll down the [00:18:00] scruff. A squirrel distracts the dog and it runs away.
**Gavin Purcell:** That's right. So one of the cool things about this model is it has, that's all one shot, by the way. One prompt. I, it did take me a couple to get it out there, and I'll talk about a mistake once in a second. But it does very good with multiple cuts. It does very good with multiple shots. Sometimes it's good with making music go throughout it.
I think that that one could have used a better prompt, but it's not perfect. But it is a very solid, really good out of the box video model. So if you do get a chance to use it, which you know, you can, let's say VPN. If you know what the letters VPN stand for, you can use that and you can use Dina, which is cap cut's like AI video platform and go use it today.
So I suggest everybody go try it. Kev, I do wanna show, I want you to look at this video I sent you, which is the fail from that. So it's not perfect. It still does fail and I would say you're probably gonna get one out of four, maybe one out of two if you're lucky, that are great. But watch this one and and just kind of tell me when you get to the part that I think you'll enjoy the most.[00:19:00]
**Kevin Pereira:** Oh,
**Gavin Purcell:** what is going on there? Centara dog, woman. I've never seen a Centara dog, woman before. It's a
**Kevin Pereira:** new fetish. Unlocked. I mean,
**Gavin Purcell:** it's a business. It's a business. Woman center. Our dog, woman. So there you go. I mean, if you're not, if you're, again, if you're not just listening. What this was is in the middle section where the, where the dog originally the dog is supposed to be leaving with a suitcase.
It put a half woman, half dog in a blazer and tearing a suitcase away from the dog. So again, not perfect, but still fun.
**Kevin Pereira:** Um, speaking of not perfect, but actually getting better by the millisecond and will not be fun for some warehouse workers. Brett Adcock, the CEO of Figure Robotics. Dropped a video of the figure oh three autonomously sorting a bunch of packages labeled down so that it could be read by a barcode scanner.
Um, this is the first time for a, you know, a simple task like this. A robot that's not [00:20:00] tethered 'cause it's gonna fall over. There's no, um, there fast forward triangles in the corner. This seems to be like real time sorting of packages as they're throwing new packages on top of the ones that it's sorting and like.
We, we know these robots are coming, we know they're gonna happen, but like, this is a very, very simple demonstration, um, on the surface where there's a lot going on. If you think about the fact that it's just, you know, using cameras and it's going from image to processing to motion and servos and reacting to the environment and it, it seems to be working quickly, and I know you have some thoughts about figure.
**Gavin Purcell:** You know, I, the only thoughts I have is like, there's been some chatter online about whether or not, you know, figure is as advanced as some of these other humanoid robotics companies. Um, I will say they also just today announced a thing called Harc. Yeah. Which is not directly connected. It's Brett Atcock who launched this.
It's a new AI lab that is attempting to build a new interface for Interfa, interact with artificial intelligence, [00:21:00] including new models. So. Yeah, maybe there is, and I'm not crapping on them at all. There's just been a lot of chatter on online about the idea of like how real their demos are. It sounds like we're all moving towards a world where robotics and AI are kind of connecting to each other.
The thing I was gonna, that I said earlier when we were chatting is that it's difficult for me to imagine somebody winning both of these right now unless you are. Open ai, andro, Google, or Tesla, because those four companies feel like right now, at least from the robotic side, they have a leg up. Maybe not Aaro, sorry.
So it's really OpenAI, Google and Tesla, but you never know, right? It could be something big that could come out of this and, and again, I'm always for people shooting for the moon, so I hope these guys do great.
**Kevin Pereira:** Yeah. Brett threw a hundred million of his own dollars at it, which is something that you and I do.
**Gavin Purcell:** Yeah. For
**Kevin Pereira:** funsies on the weekends all the time. All the time. Yeah. Taking that risk with a team from Apple Meta Google and, uh, the lead designer of their first product, which is supposedly coming out this summer, um, Ooh. Helped with the iPhone air, so help design that. So we'll see.
**Gavin Purcell:** Wasn't that, didn't the iPhone air [00:22:00] flop?
Am I crazy? Wasn't that a big flop?
**Kevin Pereira:** I think it initially,
**Gavin Purcell:** it was technologically fascinating, right? I
**Kevin Pereira:** think it initially did flop, but now it's actually out. Selling the iPhone 16. Oh it is? In some cases, yeah. I think people came around on it.
**Gavin Purcell:** Oh, I thought they stopped making it for some reason. That's great to know.
I mean, it's a very cool piece of technology.
**Kevin Pereira:** Scarcity breeds demand. Gavin. That's what it is. Alright, last but certainly not least, before we get too slop, watch Jonathan Mann. I'll say friend of the show, sweetheart, Jonathan.
**Gavin Purcell:** Former intern of our, of Kevin and I both, or at least, sorry,
**Kevin Pereira:** Jonathan, we'll never let you get away from that, but w land he launched, which is, uh, wmp land.
It is, we all make a platformer. I just thought it was like, I like Jonathan. I love what he does in the space, and I think it's interesting. He made a, a like kind of vibe coded a platform game. Where like a Mario maker, you can go and actually pick a room, pick a square, or sell and design your own room and have it connect to other rooms.
So in, you know, in success there could be unlimited tiles that everybody could go and make and collect coins and play. I thought it was a really cool thing. Wanted to shout it out.
**Gavin Purcell:** Totally agree. [00:23:00] All right, Kevin, it's time for Slop Watch 2026. That's right everybody. Slop Watch is a new segment from time to time where we will talk about slop that has bubbled up and slop is in your world or not my world, whatever world you want to be in.
This is a really big story right now and I have to tell you how big this is. Like I literally talked to the Wall Street Journal about this today. This is going everywhere. New York Magazine, New York Times has the story. Fruit Love Island,
**Kevin Pereira:** hate
**Gavin Purcell:** it. Massive, massive hit AI series on TikTok. Stupid, dumb, stupid, terrible.
So let's hear, let's hear. You hate it. What's, I think its
**Kevin Pereira:** bad
**Gavin Purcell:** or you hate
**Kevin Pereira:** it? I mean, look, no dis look, look good. Good on everybody involved. That's making it and, and I saw one tweet that was like. Um, that essentially said like, listen, I, I understand how this reads, but I am better than everybody that is watching.
Oh,
**Gavin Purcell:** well see, this is, don't care. I, I disagree so much here. I disagree. So
**Kevin Pereira:** I just thought so much. I thought it was like, but at least maybe, maybe I, maybe it's one of those, you gotta watch six of them to really get into it. No, but the two that I tried to watch [00:24:00] last night were poorly paced, poorly voiced, and just kind of uninteresting.
**Gavin Purcell:** Okay. Correct
**Kevin Pereira:** me
**Gavin Purcell:** if I'm wrong. F first of all, we should explain what this is. This is literally a parody of Love Island with very. With fruit, let's call it fruit, an anthropomorphs. Anthropomorph. There's a
**Kevin Pereira:** couple that is a grape man and grape woman, meaning they are purple and almost kind of felty and they have grapes for hair.
Yes. Long flowing ls,
**Gavin Purcell:** kiwi,
**Kevin Pereira:** grapes,
**Gavin Purcell:** kiwi, all these different people. Yes, so, so it is fruit that are acting as if they're on a love island. Uh, story. Yes. It's a reality show and you're so, I'm sorry. And you're right. It is not made well, let's just put it that way. It is not, no, there's no craft that was put into this necessarily.
**Kevin Pereira:** I'm, I'm not like too snooty for it. I like Italian brain rot, but tell me why you appreciate this, because I found it really boring
**Gavin Purcell:** here. Here's what I will say about this, and the thing that's really interesting to me, to me here is the same thing I found interesting around the Tim Cheese moment of like a year and a half ago.
So if you know what that is. You're spending too much time on TikTok like me if you don't. What it was was a, a kind of [00:25:00] memification of another meme that people were creating videos of a character named Tim Cheese who killed a character named John Pork. It took over the internet. The thing that is interesting to me about a thing like Fruit Love Island is not necessarily the fact that it is a series, but it is more.
The collective experience of what people get when they watch something together that is this absurd. The other thing, Kevin, I think that's really important here, and I think it's important for everybody to understand, is this is kind of three things coming together. This is AI video, which makes you can make fruits on a love island, right?
That's something you could never do before without AI video. It is the memification of culture. It is the, everybody thinking about things that are kind of dumb and stupid, but all laughing together and like being, being a thing. But then the third part of this is, and I don't think this can be underestimated, is it is the short form series that, uh, real short started and now has taken over a lot of parts of TikTok.
I mentioned on this very show a couple, maybe a couple months ago about the Merman. Do you remember this? The Merman AI video Short.
**Kevin Pereira:** Yep.
**Gavin Purcell:** Those [00:26:00] things get millions and millions and millions of views. I just looked at that Merman short today, and it's got 60 million views, so I just think this is three things coming together.
What I appreciate about it, this particular one is more, I think it has reached up to a level where now we can all enjoy it as a cultural. Artifact, if that makes sense. It is less, it is less like it's in the same, it's like a bad, good, bad movie. Don't you like a good, bad movie, don't you? Do you like watching a good, bad movie?
**Kevin Pereira:** Yes, sure. But I think there's plenty of bad stuff on the internet. I'm surprised that this is the one that half popped.
**Gavin Purcell:** Here's the difference. There's plenty of bad stuff on the internet. Yeah, sure. I No, I know what you're saying. You're, you're surprised that this particular one was the one that
**Kevin Pereira:** pulled out.
Yeah, that's it. Like, honestly, like that it just didn't find it. Entertaining at all. And it wasn't like, oh, this is so, it was just like, no, this is run of the mill bad. I think there's way worse that is more creative out there. But what do I know? I'm not
**Gavin Purcell:** even on TikTok. Well, this is, well, I was gonna say, this is my thing is we're like, I don't know if we have a choice as to what the collective believes that thing is.
Correct. But then when the collective gets involved, [00:27:00] that's when it becomes fun. So anyway, like it or hate it. This is LOP watch for today because it is an important thing to be aware of. You may. Be hearing about it all over the place, and maybe it'll go away in a week, who knows? But like right now, those videos, oh, I wanna say one last thing before we leave.
So Love Island. The TikTok channel has 3.5 million, uh, subscribers. Sure,
**Kevin Pereira:** yeah.
**Gavin Purcell:** Guess how many fruit Love island.
**Kevin Pereira:** What? 30? How many more?
**Gavin Purcell:** 3.4 million. So it is only a hundred thousand under. And there are only 12 episodes of this, Kevin. There are only 12 episodes, so that is how big a deal it is. Anyway, we will see you all on Friday.
Or
**Kevin Pereira:** I wanna just make a, I just wanna note that even though I haven't seen a graphic or heard a sound effect, I will say the, uh, the slop watch sounds are too moist
**Gavin Purcell:** too
**Kevin Pereira:** or too, but you will, there too wet. I haven't even heard them yet, but whatever it is you dropped in the show, I'm already already concerned that they're just too wet.
Bye everybody.
**Gavin Purcell:** All right, bye everybody. We'll see you on Friday. [00:28:00] Bye-bye.