Meta killed the Metaverse after burning billions on Horizon Worlds, and now their AI models can't keep up with Google, OpenAI, or Anthropic so Hunter and Daniel dissect why Zuckerberg's company keeps failing and whether 20% layoffs will fix anything. They also cover a LiteLLM supply chain attack, test whether local open-weight models like Qwen 3.5 can replace cloud AI for everyday users, and debate the "Pirate and Architect" theory for the future of software teams.

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They Might Be Self-Aware is a twice-weekly AI podcast about the week's news, tech, and culture, and the question in its name: are the machines becoming self-aware?

Every episode starts with a real story. A new Claude or ChatGPT release, an AI lawsuit, the Pope's verdict on machine souls, Martin Scorsese making films with AI. Then it chases that story somewhere stranger, funnier, and more human than the headline. This is AI as a culture story, not a tech beat: the relief of finally hearing people who are as deep in it as you are.

Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop host. Two guys who actually build with this stuff, arguing about it fast, funny, and unfiltered, not reading you benchmarks or "10 prompts to save you time." Gary produces, phoning in the cold open from a payphone. He has no last name, and a backstory no one on staff has managed to verify. One of the hosts might not be human. We won't say which.

New episodes Mondays and Thursdays, from The Blur. theblur.ai