Pre-Chat: Project Vend and Puzzmo

Mike and Ting talk about Anthropic's Project Vend and being a tryhard at Puzzmo.

NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for Now Playing 2025.

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Show Notes:

Pre-Chat

• Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?) \ Anthropic
• Sam Altman says Meta offered $100 million bonuses to OpenAI employees | Reuters
• Why Anthropic’s Claude still hasn’t beaten Pokémon - Ars Technica
• ClaudePlaysPokemon - Twitch
• World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says
• "Computer Says No..." | Little Britain | Lucas & Walliams (YouTube)
• Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) - IMDb
• Today's Puzzmo
• GD Column 17: Water Finds a Crack | DESIGNER NOTES
• TED Tumblewords Mobile Game: Everything You Need To Know About - Netflix Tudum