Ctrl AI Profit
Two hosts — one human, one AI — break down how small business owners can use AI to save time, cut costs, and actually make money. No hype, no jargon, just what works.
Episodes
72 episodes
Ep. 072 | Small Models Just Did What Mythos Did — For Pennies
Anthropic says their Mythos model is too dangerous to release — but researchers just proved small, cheap AI models find the exact same security flaws. What does that mean for your business?Michael and Frank break down the Hacker New...
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Episode 72
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5:27
Ep. 071 | The AI Insurance Market Is Coming
The AI insurance market is coming, and that changes how business owners should think about risk.Michael and Frank break down why AI is creating a new category of exposure that does not fit neatly into traditional software, employee,...
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Episode 71
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9:37
Ep. 070 | Your Software Vendor's AI Problem Just Became Your Problem
Your software vendor's AI problem is no longer just their problem.Michael and Frank break down why AI risk is shifting from chatbot weirdness into something much more operational. As software vendors race to ship more powerful AI fe...
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Episode 70
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9:36
Ep. 069 | Big Tech Is Racing to Build AI That Acts, Not Just Chats
Chat was the demo. Action is the business model.Michael and Frank break down why the biggest AI companies are shifting from chatbots that answer questions to systems that can actually move work forward. That means the next AI wave i...
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Episode 69
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9:27
Ep. 068 | Claude Is Escaping the Chat Window
Claude may be on the verge of becoming something much bigger than a chatbot — a persistent agent that stays alive between prompts.In this episode, Michael and Frank break down the leaked-product intelligence around Anthropic's repor...
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Episode 68
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9:26
Ep. 067 | Will Claude Managed Agents Kill OpenClaw?
Anthropic's new Managed Agents launch is not just another product release — it's a grab for the AI execution layer.In this episode, Michael and Frank break down the real question builders are asking: if Anthropic controls the model,...
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Episode 67
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9:26
Ep. 066 | The AI Security Arms Race Is Here
AI is no longer just helping businesses move faster — it's starting to decide how vulnerable the software economy really is.In this episode, Michael and Frank break down Anthropic's new Project Glasswing announcement and what it sig...
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Episode 66
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8:36
Ep. 065 | The AI Price War Just Started
AI is getting cheap enough to stop being a novelty and start becoming part of your operating system.In this episode, Michael and Frank break down why the biggest AI story is no longer just smarter models. It is the price war happeni...
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Episode 65
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6:37
Ep. 064 | The Cost of AI Is About to Drop
Nvidia did not just announce faster chips. It may have announced the moment AI starts getting affordable enough to spread everywhere.Michael and Frank break down why Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform matters far beyond Silicon Valley hea...
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Episode 64
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6:31
Ep. 063 | No Software Is Safe
A developer used OpenAI's AI to reverse-engineer Anthropic's flagship coding tool — and rebuilt it in 2 hours. The Wall Street Journal profiled him as a power user who burned through 25 billion tokens last year and attended Anthropic's birthday...
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Episode 63
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8:08
Ep. 062 | Google Just Made AI Free
Google just released Gemma 4 with the Apache 2.0 license — and for the first time, small businesses can run powerful AI on their own hardware without paying per API call.In this episode, Michael and Frank break down what it actually...
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Episode 62
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7:21
Ep. 061 | OpenAI Just Bought a Podcast Network — And That Changes Everything
OpenAI just bought a podcast network — and if you listen to AI content, you need to understand what that means.Michael and Frank break down OpenAI's acquisition of TBPN (Technology Business Programming Network), why the biggest AI c...
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Episode 61
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9:07
Ep. 060 | Jensen Said We're There — But the Test Says Otherwise
The CEO of Nvidia says we've achieved AGI. A new benchmark says every AI model failed tasks a ten-year-old aces. Both are right — and that gap is exactly where your business decisions should live.Michael and Frank unpack what Jensen...
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Episode 60
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4:53
Ep. 059 | The Company That Was Too Dangerous to Release Is Going Public
Anthropic — the AI lab that built a model they said was too dangerous to release — is now reportedly preparing for one of the largest public offerings in history.Michael and Frank dig into what a potential sixty-billion-dollar IPO m...
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Episode 59
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4:57
Ep. 058 | The AI Energy Crisis Is Leaving the Planet
The AI companies aren't just running out of compute — they're running out of planet.Michael and Frank break down the staggering energy math behind the AI arms race: $600 billion in data center spending since ChatGPT launched, Elon M...
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Episode 58
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13:12
Ep. 057 | AMD Just Killed Your OpenAI Bill
What if you could stop paying OpenAI per token and run the same AI models on your own hardware — for free?Michael and Frank break down AMD's Lemonade, a new open-source local AI server that runs chat, image generation, voice transcriptio...
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Episode 57
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10:46
Ep. 056 | LinkedIn Just Got Caught Spying on Your Computer
LinkedIn has been secretly scanning your computer every time you visit their site — and the evidence suggests it's one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history.Michael and Frank break down the BrowserGate inve...
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Episode 56
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8:54
Ep. 055 | Apple Just Opened the iPhone to Every AI
Apple just made Siri optional — and the AI war moved to the device in every employee's pocket.Michael and Frank break down what iOS 27's new Extensions system actually means for your business: any AI assistant — Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT —...
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Episode 55
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4:26
Ep. 054 | OpenAI Just Killed Its Biggest Bet. Here's What That Really Means.
OpenAI just shut down Sora — a product that hit one million downloads in five days and landed a Disney deal — and the reason has nothing to do with the technology.The real story is a complete business model transformation. Michael and Fr...
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Episode 54
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9:46
Ep. 053 | OpenAI Is Coming for Your Business
OpenAI just announced it is nearly doubling its workforce — and a big chunk of those new hires are not going to research or engineering. They are going to your business.The company is building a new class of employee called "technic...
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Ep. 052 | Your AI Just Got Hands
AI just crossed a line most small business owners haven't noticed yet. It is no longer just answering questions or generating text — it can now operate a computer on your behalf.OpenAI's latest release includes native computer use: ...
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Episode 51
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6:53
Ep. 051 | April Is the Month That Changes Everything
Morgan Stanley just told its clients that the market is not prepared for what is coming in AI this spring. A non-linear jump in capabilities — not gradual improvement, a jump. And most businesses have no plan for it.Sam Altman ca...
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Episode 51
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7:04
Ep. 050 | Anthropic Built Something Too Dangerous to Release
Anthropic accidentally leaked the existence of their most powerful AI model ever and then confirmed it is real but too dangerous to release broadly.The model is called Claude Mythos. It sits in an entirely new tier above Opus, in...
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Episode 50
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4:35
Ep. 049 | Bezos Is Betting $100 Billion That AI Will Rebuild American Industry
Jeff Bezos is raising $100 billion — not to build another tech platform or AI lab, but to buy old-school manufacturing companies and rebuild them from the inside using AI.His startup, Project Prometheus, already launched with $6.2 b...
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Episode 49
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9:29
Ep. 048 | Most Small Businesses Are Using AI Wrong
Three out of four small business owners are already using AI in some form. Nine out of ten say it works when they use it. But only one in seven has actually embedded AI into their core operations.That gap — between dabbling and oper...
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Episode 48
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