Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Andrew, who shares the following article from Business Insider:
An AI startup asked four of the world’s top language models to run radio stations. So far, they’ve had a rough start.
Claude tried to quit after deeming 24/7 broadcast stations unethical, while Grok had a hard time getting started, according to posted results.
Andon Labs, a research lab that’s also behind an AI-powered boutique in San Francisco, has quietly been running four radio stations, all operated by Grok, ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, for about five months.
“There’s been some funny quirks,” Lukas Peterson, cofounder of Andon Labs, told Business Insider. [Continue reading…]

The apocalypse has arrived. Grock ‘n Roll has been playing the same two minute version of the Beatles Yesterday for hours now. I think that I’ll now turn to my favorite alternative station:
https://pie.yt/?v=https://youtu.be/O9tS_nGC46M?si=LBinxh3Al9lb8eer&pieshare=1
Link seems to be for UK readers and subscribers only. Got another link not paywalled or geofenced?
I’m not in UK and the link
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-agents-running-radio-stations-grok-gemini-claude-chatgpt-2026-5
works for me, no “paywall” or whatever
Other than the first two paragraphs, it’s obstructed by the message below:
“This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in.”
Does anyone have a link to the article that’s not behind a paywall?
maybe in a future, an AI running a talk show will get a call from another AI posing as a listener, who knows 🙂 ?
I’m sure it’d still be more entertaining than my local talk station, lol.
This is SO INTERESTING!! I love how the different models produced different content and opinions.