# Google's AI-First Laptop, Meta's Spy Games, AI Monks in Middle America

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Published: 2026-05-15T15:42:25+00:00
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## Resource

The squad is complete again, and Sam arrives with a NeuroPod, cold plunge updates, red light therapy, Oura stats, and enough supplements to start a wellness startup. Then into the week’s biggest tech stories: Google’s new AI device and whether it’s the Chromebook of the AI era or another doomed health-tech experiment, Meta’s keystroke logging controversy, Microsoft’s increasingly awkward OpenAI bet, why OpenAI and Anthropic are now sending engineers directly into enterprises to drive adoption, and what tools like OpenClaw, Py, and Codex actually do. Plus, Anthropic’s eye-watering latest valuation, the clean girl aesthetic discourse, Brian Johnson chaos, and Sam personally buying Jackson Hole ski passes like it’s 1997 Chapters: 00:46 Sam’s NeuroPod, Oura Results & Biohacking Spiral 03:33 Sam vs. Brian Johnson + The Female Biohacker Opportunity 05:09 Oura Ring vs. Whoop + Google’s Wearables Ambition 07:00 Google’s AI-First “Book” Laptop + DeepMind’s Health Push 10:30 Why Local AI Changes Everything (Speed, Cost & Compute) 15:00 Where Is the OpenAI Consumer Device? 16:00 Voice AI, Recording & the Future of Human-Computer Input 20:30 Sam Built His Own Voice-to-AI App 22:31 Meta’s Keystroke Logging: Spy Games or Honeypot? 24:00 Fake AI Jobs + Sam’s “Fin Analytics” Prediction 27:02 OpenAI & Anthropic’s Enterprise Conversion Strategy 29:31 The AI Backlash Is Real (Including UCF’s Commencement Revolt) 31:30 Microsoft’s $100B OpenAI Problem 39:31 Anthropic’s Massive Raise + SF Real Estate Absurdity 41:30 OpenClaw, Py & Codex: What Is a Harness? We’re also on ↓ X: https://twitter.com/moreorlesspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/moreorless Youtube: https://youtu.be/-O3zyxR-wS0 Connect with us here: 1) Sam Lessin: https://x.com/lessin 2) Dave Morin: https://x…

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