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This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle Live Stream’

First aired: 12 January 2026

Summary: Anthropic's had enough of everyone profiting off Claude Code being the best coding agent out there, and they've started pulling access from competitors and third-party tools. The drama kicked off when they blocked services like Open Code from letting users connect their $200/month Claude subscriptions to access the API—which is a massive bargain compared to paying per token through the official API, which could run into thousands. It's a classic case of "we've got the best product, so we're taking our ball and going home," and whilst it's caused some upset in the developer community, you can't really blame them for protecting their advantage.

The absolute highlight though is that Elon Musk's xAI team—creators of Grok—got caught red-handed using Claude Code internally instead of their own AI. Elon's been banging on for months about how Grok is the best coding model, but turns out his own engineers don't even use it. Their co-founder had to send out a memo basically saying "yeah, we're screwed on productivity now, we need to build our own tools." Meanwhile, OpenAI jumped in with a very convenient "we'd never restrict access like Claude" statement, which is easy to say when you're not on top. The power dynamics in AI are shifting fast, and Anthropic's clearly feeling confident enough to flex their muscles.

Watch full edited live stream: https://youtu.be/B2Sj_vA8_6A

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0:00 Anthropic Blocks Competitors from Claude Code

6:42 OpenAI Responds: "We're Not Like Claude"

8:12 Q&A: ChatGPT News Updates

8:45 Manus AI: Edit AI Slides Like Magic

11:17 Launch Lemonade: AI Agents for Everyone

14:08 Why Charities Fear AI: The PhD Problem

16:24 Viewer Showcase: No-Code Disability App

16:59 Shopify CEO Builds MRI Viewer with Claude Code

19:33 Building an AI Public Speaking Coach

20:07 ChatGPT Health: Medical Data in One Place

21:47 The AI Canon: Best Free Learning Resources

25:34 ChatGPT Helped Diagnose MS

25:42 AI CFO Tools: Sell to Enterprises, Not SMEs

27:14 Linus Torvalds is Now Vibe Coding

31:10 AI Mountain Rescue: Drones Save Lives

32:56 Q&A: How to Build AI Agents

35:36 Wrap Up & Schedule

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This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle Live Stream’

First aired: 9 January 2026

Summary: Alright, so instead of the usual AI news roundup, I've put together something a bit different today—a proper learning roadmap for 2026. Basically answered the question that came up in my webinar: how do you actually learn this stuff well enough to feel confident talking about it? I've curated a bunch of resources starting with the fun stuff like Casually Explained and Veritasium, then moving into Three Blue One Brown's neural networks series (which is brilliant but definitely requires your full attention on a treadmill or something). The key thing is you don't need to understand the maths to use AI, but if you're teaching it or just want to separate the possible from the impossible, knowing the basics is absolutely crucial.

The whole guide is up on my website now with all the links, videos, and books I recommend. I've also been banging on about Notebook LM again because it's genuinely transformative—you can feed it any YouTube video and have it create a podcast explaining the concepts back to you. It's how I learn now. Oh, and we got into a bit of a discussion about the "messy middle" of AI disruption too. Even in the best-case utopian scenario, the next couple decades are going to be chaotic for a lot of people, which is why I'm focused on getting a million people AI-ready rather than just telling them not to worry about it.

Watch full edited live stream: https://youtu.be/xJRVJAE7L7g

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00:00 Introduction - Teaching AI for $2,000/Hour

00:30 You Don't Need to Know How AI Works (But It Helps)

01:37 AI Mastery Roadmap Overview

02:34 Casually Explained - The Fun Introduction

02:56 Exurb1a - Philosophical AI Content

03:16 3Blue1Brown Neural Network Deep Dive

05:32 NotebookLM - Your AI Learning Companion

08:13 Andrej Karpathy's Trilogy - The Main Course

09:55 Best AI Books That Won't Go Out of Date

11:09 DeepLearning.ai - Free Courses That Actually Work

13:15 The 8 Levels of AI Mastery

14:46 AI Canon - The Complete Research Library

16:38 Staying Current - Finding Signal in the Noise

18:27 Daily AI News Sources You Can Trust

19:19 Quick Summary - Your Learning Path

21:18 How to Start Teaching AI Workshops

22:56 My 3-Year AI Journey

24:16 Even ChatGPT's Creator Feels Behind

25:24 You're in the Top 1% Just by Watching This

26:00 The Messy Middle - Why AI Disruption Hurts Now

27:23 My Mission - Getting 1 Million People AI Ready

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This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle Live Stream’

First aired: 8 January 2026

Summary: OpenAI just dropped ChatGPT Health, and I reckon a lot of health tech startups are having a rather unpleasant morning. Essentially, it's a dedicated space inside ChatGPT where you can dump all your health data—Apple Health, blood tests, your genome, the lot—and use it as a proper health assistant. The clever bit isn't just the product itself, it's the lock-in strategy. With 900 million users and about 30-40% already using it for health queries, this creates a proper moat. Once you've uploaded years of medical data, switching to another AI becomes an absolute faff. Plus, they've somehow got this past their lawyers, which is impressive given how dicey health data can be if anything goes sideways.

Meanwhile, Utah's become the first state to let AI renew prescriptions without a doctor involved, and the numbers are genuinely mad. The AI matches human doctors 99.2% of the time, but here's the kicker—when there's a discrepancy, the AI is actually making the better decision 36% of the time versus doctors being better only 9% of the time. That's sort of game over for pharmacists doing repeat prescriptions. I also spent some time showing off Claude Code projects, including this slightly bonkers genome visualization I built after some soju. The point being, the barriers to starting a business are essentially zero now—it's all about distribution and actually having the bottle to just build the thing.

Watch full edited live stream: https://youtu.be/OEGsDICh-Lw

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00:00 Introduction - Claude Code Projects & 2026 Business Opportunities

00:27 ChatGPT Health Announced - OpenAI's New Medical Data Play

01:59 Why This Matters - Privacy Risks & Legal Challenges

02:24 The Real Strategy - ChatGPT Health as a User Lock-In Moat

04:33 Utah First State to Allow AI Medical Prescriptions

05:04 AI Gets Malpractice Insurance - What This Means for Doctors

06:21 Shocking Data - AI Outperforms Doctors 36% of the Time

08:17 Q&A Session Begins

09:33 Will AI Take Your Job? The Honest Answer About Degrees & Careers

14:43 The "Moving Goalposts" Pattern - Why Coding Is Just the Beginning

18:18 Q&A - AI Workshop Kit Details & Course Structure 21:14Q&A AI Workshop Kit - Is It a One-Time Fee?

21:58 Live Build - Subscription Cancellation Tool in 5 Minutes

28:21 Genome Art Project - Turning Your DNA Into Wall Art

30:44 Webinar Announcement & How to Make $2,000/Hour Teaching AI

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This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle Live Stream’

First aired: 7 January 2026

Summary: Today I'm doing something a bit different—giving a book report on "Co-Intelligence" by Ethan Mollick, one of the very few AI books I actually recommend people read. Most AI books age terribly because they were written before ChatGPT changed everything, but Mollick's book came out after GPT-3 dropped, so it focuses less on specific technologies and more on the mental models we need for thinking about AI as a whole. It's genuinely useful stuff that hasn't gone stale, which is rare in this space.

The key concepts I break down include the "jagged frontier"—why AI can be superhuman at one task and surprisingly rubbish at a similar one—and Mollick's four rules for working with AI: always invite it to the table, remain a human in the loop, treat it like a person (but define what kind), and assume this is the worst AI you'll ever use. That last one's crucial because people try AI once, get a bad result, and write it off forever. But these models are improving every single month, so what seems impossible today will probably be trivial in six months. We're all figuring this out as we go along, and anyone claiming to be an expert is either lying or deluded.

Watch full edited live stream: https://youtu.be/yX_Bfrvq9zQ

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00:00 Introduction: Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick

01:33 Why GPT-3 Was a Wake-Up Call

03:00 The Jagged Frontier: Why People Think AI is Rubbish

04:32 AI Can Solve Advanced Math But Can't Count Letters

06:48 Thinking of AI as Alien Intelligence

07:56 The Centaur Model: Splitting Tasks Between Human & AI

10:00 The Cyborg Model: Full Integration with AI

11:39 The Four Rules of Co-Intelligence

13:08 The Deloitte Scandal: Why Humans Must Check AI Work

15:18 Rule 3: Give AI a Role Using the RISEN Framework

16:36 Rule 4: This is the Worst AI Will Ever Be

18:08 Even ChatGPT's Co-Creator Feels Overwhelmed

19:46 Book Recommendation & Free Newsletter

20:54 Free AI Business Webinar Announcement

21:34 Q&A: Why Being an AI Generalist is Healthy

22:07 Wrap Up & Subscribe

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This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle News and Updates Live Stream’ First aired: 6 January 2026

Summary: I spent this morning talking about something that's been making a steady stream of income over the last few years - teaching companies how to use AI without looking like complete idiots. The catalyst for all this? Deloitte managed to embarrass themselves twice in 2025, charging the Australian government $440K for an AI-generated report full of hallucinations and made-up academics, then doing the exact same thing in Canada. These aren't small mistakes - they're bringing the entire consulting industry into question because nobody bothered to train their staff properly. The most I've been paid for this work is $4K for one hour, which is pretty mental when you think about it.

The opportunity here is massive because there's this huge gap between what staff are doing and what companies know about. MIT found that 90% of employees are using AI at work, but only 40% of companies have actually provided training. That extra 50% are just winging it with their own ChatGPT accounts - what IT departments call "shadow IT" - and it's causing absolute chaos. The thing is, if you're watching someone talk about AI on a live stream, you're already miles ahead of the people who desperately need this help. Companies are genuinely panicking about this right now, and they'll pay well for someone to sort it out properly.

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Watch full edited live stream: https://youtu.be/8yJHxkBjj-s

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0:00 How I Make $4,000/Hour Teaching AI to Businesses

1:24 Deloitte's $440K AI Disaster - They Did It Twice

3:09 Shadow IT Crisis: 90% Using AI, Only 40% Trained

5:13 Free Webinar Announcement

6:06 The AI Capability Overhang

8:30 You Don't Need to Be an AI Expert

9:37 Why the PhD Trainer Failed: The KPMG Story

11:25 Finding Your AI Niche

13:06 Why Workshops Beat Social Media and Consulting

15:08 The 60-Minute Workshop Framework

18:30 What Employers Actually Want: Safety Training

19:02 Workshops as a Reusable Asset

19:20 Overcoming Fear of Public Speaking

20:58 Q&A: Online vs In-Person Workshops

23:45 Course and Resources

23:56 Q&A: Lovable for E-commerce? (SEO Warning)

26:27 Q&A: Cheapest Way to Build a Website with AI

27:44 Advice for AI Beginners

28:31 Q&A: Pre-recorded Workshops?

30:17 AI Workshop Kit Launch Jan 12th

31:15 Q&A: Beta Testing Apps + PostHog

33:27 Q&A: Async Options for Time Zones

35:39 Notebook LM Demo: Free AI Presentations

37:20 Q&A: Gamma vs Notebook LM

38:17 Wrap Up

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This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle News and Updates Live Stream’

First aired: 5 January 2026

Summary: Claude Code has suddenly become the talk of the internet, and honestly, it's about time people caught on. I've been using it daily for years, and while it's been brilliant for coding, people are now realising it can do so much more than just write programs. There's genuine excitement brewing that this might be the closest thing we have to AGI right now. The barrier for most people has been that it looks intimidating compared to ChatGPT, but once you get past that initial hesitation and actually start playing around with it, you realise why everyone's going mad for it (In this session I walk you through how to get started with Claude Code).

On a completely different note, I've been banging on about the massive opportunity in AI training for 2026. McKinsey found that 94% of companies say they need AI training, but only 1% of staff have received adequate training. That's not a gap, that's a canyon. We're moving out of the experimental phase where companies just gave everyone access to ChatGPT and said "figure it out" — now they actually need to see returns on investment. The brilliant thing is you don't need a PhD in machine learning to teach this stuff. What companies actually need are people who understand their specific industry and can communicate why AI matters in language they understand.

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Watch full edited live stream: https://youtu.be/kozDcJbvCVI

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0:00 Why Everyone's Talking About Claude Code

1:08 McKinsey Study: 94% Need AI Training

4:38 Google Engineer Solves Year-Long Project in 1 Hour

6:02 Andrej Karpathy's Crisis of Confidence

7:43 Coding is Now a Solved Problem

8:11 Claude Code Beginner's Guide

9:08 Claude Code Beyond Programming

10:26 Managing AI Agents is a Management Skill

11:06 Three Ways to Access Claude Code

13:08 Claude Code Web Setup Tutorial

15:34 Live Demo: Building a Tech Community App

17:41 How Claude Code Differs From ChatGPT

18:10 Q&A: Will Prompt Writers Replace Developers?

19:18 Q&A: Terminal vs Web vs IDE

21:27 Deep Learning AI Free Courses

22:07 Claude Code: You Don't Need the Complex Stuff

22:30 How Claude Code's Creator Uses It

23:34 Running 10-15 Claude Instances in Parallel

24:14 Why Opus 4.5 is Worth the Wait

25:09 Claude Develops Claude (Self-Improving AI)

25:38 Q&A: Version Control Importance

26:18 Q&A: MCPs vs Skills Explained

28:08 Q&A: Antigravity vs Cursor

29:16 Google's Vibe Coding Tool Problem

29:52 Claude Code Web Limitations

30:50 The "AI is Crap" Argument Has Collapsed

32:40 New Arguments Against AI

33:34 Feeling Behind? Even Karpathy Does Too

34:15 AI Workshop Business ($2K-$4K/Hour)

35:59 Q&A: Best Path for AI Beginners

37:15 44,000 AI Tools: Avoiding Overwhelm

38:40 Converting Lovable Apps to Mobile

40:05 Q&A: Bolt vs Lovable vs Claude Code

41:11 Why Britain is Losing the AI Race

43:32 The AI Graveyard Problem

44:00 Building is Easy, Marketing is Hard

45:00 NotebookLM: Presentations in 5 Minutes

46:51 Q&A: Thoughts on Grok

47:50 Outro & Webinar Info

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This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle News and Updates Live Stream’

First aired: 30 December 2025

Summary: OpenAI just posted a job listing that's equal parts fascinating and slightly terrifying—they're hiring a "Head of Preparedness" for $550K a year, and the wording is... interesting. Sam Altman's description talks about jumping into the deep end immediately, dealing with models that are getting so good at cybersecurity they're finding critical vulnerabilities, and preparing for AI systems that can self-improve. It's basically the real-world version of that "kill switch engineer" meme from earlier this year, except this time they're actually serious about needing someone to figure out how to let the good guys use cutting-edge AI capabilities whilst keeping the bad guys from doing the same. The urgency in the language is what gets me—why now, why didn't they have this role before, and what exactly is happening inside OpenAI that's prompted this?

Meanwhile, Meta's just acquired Manus for somewhere between $1-5 billion, which is a bit of a surprise. Manus was one of the first consumer-facing agentic AI tools that could actually go off and do proper research tasks, but honestly, it's been losing ground to Claude and ChatGPT who've both added similar capabilities. The acquisition makes sense for Meta—they're probably going to strip it for parts and integrate the tech into their ad business rather than keep it as a standalone product.

And in a nice reality check, I looked at Axios's news cycle chart for 2025 and AI barely registers—just one mention of the "AI bubble." Whilst we're all deep in this world talking about model releases and capabilities, the rest of the world is still focused on everything else. Good reminder that we're in our own little bubble here.

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0:00 OpenAI's $550K "Kill Switch" Job Opening

4:47 Meta Acquires Manus AI for Billions

9:13 Manus Deal Valuation: $4-6 Billion Breakdown

10:52 Q&A: Building AI Products

11:26 Why AI Isn't Making Mainstream Headlines

14:06 Making $200K Teaching AI Workshops

15:27 Show Wrap-Up

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