Anthropic, Amazon, and the Fable shutdown; AI-powered school arrives; World Cup tech

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Anthropic takes its most powerful models offline after a U.S. order, with Amazon CEO Andy Jassy reportedly contributing to the concerns that helped trigger it. We talk about what it was like to use one of those models, Claude Fable, while it was available, and dig into the Amazon-Anthropic dynamic.

Then we explain how agentic AI is upending Amazon’s “working backwards” tradition, as represented by one division inside the company that is using agents to create prototypes in some cases before going through the company’s traditional PRFAQ process.

Then, an AI-powered school is arriving soon in the Seattle area. Alpha School uses AI-driven software rather than chatbots to teach core academics, frees the rest of the day for hands-on projects, and is drawing both interest from Microsoft executives and skepticism from critics.

And finally, this week’s trivia question focuses on the sensor-packed World Cup ball.

With GeekWire co-founders John Cook and Todd Bishop; edited by Curt Milton.

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