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TWiT 1093: California Sober - Kimi K3, Qwen3.8, & China's Open-Weight AI Gambit

Explore episode Jul 20, 2026

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Satya Nadella's Warning: You're Paying With Your Business Secrets

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Satya Nadella posted a 'reverse information paradox' warning on X: when you pay for AI tokens, you're also paying with something more valuable — the business knowledge, correction patterns, and workflow signals you feed into the model. Alex Wilhelm digs into the nuance: even if labs honor their 'no training on your data' policies, the metadata around usage is rich enough to learn a great deal about any enterprise customer. Harper Reed notes the sharp irony that Microsoft — which built and owns GitHub Copilot, Azure AI, and co-invested in OpenAI — is the one raising the alarm. Alex coins 'SaaSpocalypse' to describe what happens when AI labs, growing horizontally and vertically, eventually eat the entire enterprise software stack. Leo notes the Pentagon runs Claude on private AWS infrastructure precisely to avoid this problem.

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