14 Aug 2026Grok 4.6 | Fraude 30u30 | Lovable & Higgsfield Founders Join | Solar Eclipse
Josh Shih: The Corgi Cafe, Viral Marketing & Insurance
Josh Shih of Corgi joins to explain the new Corgi Cafe in Shoreditch, London — a 24/7 workspace for builders run by the AI insurance-infrastructure company, which drew over 1,200 signups and around 600 attendees at opening. He describes the team painting and building it themselves, working with the council, drink partnerships with brands like ElevenLabs, and why a permanent, trust-building space works as top-of-funnel for an insurance business. He also details Corgi's internal 'Yappers' impressions leaderboard, the company's bias toward experimental marketing stunts, and the upcoming UK and EU insurance rollout. The segment closes with the hosts reporting that their 'incident investigation' at the cafe turned up nothing.
Fabian Hedin: Lovable's $400M Series C at $13.3B
Fresh off Lovable's $400 million raise at a $13.3 billion valuation, co-founder and CTO Fabian Hedin details the round — Menlo returning, plus the EU Innovation Council's Scale Up Europe Fund managed by EQT — and recounts the year and two failed launches before the product took off. He explains word-of-mouth growth, enterprise adoption with over two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies having employees on the platform, the router that breaks each message into hundreds of LLM calls across frontier, open-weight and in-house models, and plans to help users not just build but run and grow entire companies. The segment closes with post-interview banter, a Hex sponsor read, and a preview of the upcoming guests (CodeRabbit, Unframe, Higgsfield).
Demis Hassabis' AI Oversight Push & Google DeepMind Shake-Up
Reacting to a Wall Street Journal report that Demis Hassabis discussed forming an independent AI safety oversight body — likened to the International Atomic Energy Agency — with officials and other lab leaders before relinquishing the DeepMind CEO role. The hosts debate whether he was pushed out amid Google's commercialization push versus his safety-first research focus, Sergey Brin rallying resources for recursive learning, compute constraints and DeepMind morale, and who should hold the keys to AGI.
McDonald's 515-Page Customer Data Dossier
After an ElevenLabs sponsor read, the hosts cover a Wired story in which a journalist requested his McDonald's loyalty-program data and received a 515-page file, sparking debate about how the company aggregates purchase data for predictive models. The hosts argue it is a standard opt-in exchange for personalization, compare their own eerily well-targeted ads (a Cinelli bike, a trading platform), and discuss privacy norms around large-company loyalty programs.