Claude cracked an 11-year-locked Bitcoin wallet by figuring out who its owner used to be. Bitcoin's one rule just got an asterisk. Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop break down how Anthropic's Claude narrowed an impossible seed-phrase search to bring back a wallet locked for eleven years, why that is not the same as breaking Bitcoin, and the eight coins Hunter mined at $12 each and stranded on a dead drive. The story sets up a harder question: how much of your financial life do you hand a model? OpenAI is wiring ChatGPT into Plaid to read your bank account, Sam Altman is trading $2 million in credits for equity in Y Combinator startups, and Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash draws benchmaxing accusations while Daniel argues the real future is local AI you run at home.

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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