AI With Friends S2E11: Teen AI Companions, Claude's Usage Limits, and OpenAI's 2.5 Billion Daily Prompts 🤖

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This episode covers the rise of AI companions among teenagers, Claude's controversial usage limitations, and OpenAI's massive infrastructure scaling to handle billions of daily requests.

**Key Topics:**
• 72% of US teens have tried AI companions - the shift from tools to lifestyle integration
• Grok's controversial anime companions and the ethics of AI relationships for teens
• Claude Code's secret usage limits frustrating developers and enterprise users
• OpenAI's 2.5 billion prompts per day - up from 1 billion in December
• OpenAI's plan to acquire 1 million GPUs including Google TPUs and NVIDIA alternatives
• Meta refuses to sign EU AI Act alongside Microsoft and Google - regulatory pushback
• Amazon's new S3 Vector storage promising 90% cost savings for vector workloads
• AWS Bedrock Agent Core for enterprise agentic AI workflows

We discuss the psychology of teenagers using AI for personal conversations rather than homework, the dangerous game companies play when limiting successful products, and the infrastructure arms race driving AI development.

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