I just came across two examples where people have used Gregg's and Aldi's chatbot to ask something completely irrelevant to the chatbots purpose. So I thought I'd give it a go with Amazon's Rufus (as I had quick accessibility to it). It made me chuckle. I would have thought they would be trained to not respond to this type of thing?

I am curious to get input on Podcast Guesting, find the right podcasts to pitch to, right size, right audience, etc. vs Hosting a Collaborative Podcast, finding guests that have the right size, similar audience/message. With 5-10 hours a week, which is more effective.

@Ryan Doser @Nesil Ozer Thanks the help on the call on Friday. I haven't touch SEO yet, but that's next. Check out https://myqualityguy.com/ Feedback is always appreciated.

Two things caught my eye in a weekly email I receive that tie into what we have chatted about at Ryan's Friday Q&A. The first: https://dynaceo.com/treat-every-ai-model-as-temporary/. It argues you should treat every AI model as temporary, and build your setup so the business still runs if a model is repriced, throttled or pulled. Own your data and workflows, keep the model swappable, don't hang everything on one vendor's API. The second is more of a curiosity, but a useful one on model spend: https://isaiprofitable.com/. It's a live tracker adding up what the big AI companies spend against what they earn. The figures are estimates, not audited accounts, but the gist is clear: by its reckoning almost everyone is spending more than they make, with Nvidia the standout exception. Both feel more relevant this month than they would have a few weeks ago. Governments have started treating frontier models as strategic assets, not just software. As we know, in June, the US briefly put export controls on Anthropic's top models, and access went down worldwide before being restored on 1 July with tighter conditions. On 7 July, Reuters reported China is weighing similar controls on its own leading models from Alibaba, ByteDance and Z.ai. So the "treat every model as temporary" point isn't only about pricing now. Access you assumed was permanent can be switched off overnight by a government, not just a vendor. Has any of this shifted how you're setting things up, or is it still background noise for now?