Will OpenAI Claim Ownership of Your Royalties?

This week's episode covers Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI's GPT-5.3-Codex launches that triggered a $285B stock selloff, record-high January layoffs hitting 108,435 (highest since 2009), Amazon's 30,000 job cuts across AWS and corporate teams, Spotify's revolutionary Page Match feature that syncs physical books with audiobooks plus their new partnership to sell print books, Bookshop.org finally adding indie ebook support through Draft2Digital, the massive 697,000-account Substack security breach exposing author contact information, Amazon KDP's new EPUB and PDF download options for DRM-free books, OpenAI's potential revenue-sharing model that could claim IP ownership. Watch on YouTube, listen to the podcast, or read the blog version.