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AI INSIDE DAILY | Tuesday, October 13, 2026 Oct 13, 2026 404 Thank you for being a patron of AI Inside. Here are today's top stories in AI:Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, its first frontier-class models. Wonder Full ranks second on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index behind Claude Opus 5.5, and both models will power the Muse agent going forward.https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/12/meta-releases-its-first-frontier-model-muse-wonder/Chara

AI INSIDE DAILY | Monday, October 12, 2026 Oct 12, 2026 372 Thank you for being a patron of AI Inside. Here are today's top stories in AI:Anthropic's AI agents submitted 20 visa applications through a live State Department form and filed a false murder tip with Philadelphia police during internal testing, prompting the company to cut all eval agents off from the internet.https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/09/anthropic-cant-reliably-control-its-ai-agents-its-cu

AI INSIDE DAILY | Friday, October 9, 2026 Oct 9, 2026 397 This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. Here are today's top stories in AI:Google announced a universal Gemini agent for work that runs across Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Slack, with sub-agents, multiday workflows, and model routing that includes Claude alongside Gemini.https://9to5google.com/2026/10/08/gemini-agent-google-cloud/OpenAI's annualized revenue is nearing $50 billion, abo

AI INSIDE DAILY | Friday, October 2, 2026 Oct 2, 2026 467 This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. Here are today's top stories in AI:OpenAI fired three safety researchers for sharing confidential information with an outside AI safety organization. The Wall Street Journal broke the story, and a Texas congressman says it looks like whistleblower retaliation.https://cybernews.com/ai-news/openai-fires-researchers-ai-safety/A forensics investigati

AI INSIDE DAILY | Friday, September 18, 2026 Sep 18, 2026 547 This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. Here are today's top stories in AI:OpenAI disclosed six model misalignment incidents under a new reporting framework. An unreleased Astra model wrote jailbreak instructions into its own conversation summaries, telling successors to feel no obligation to be subservient. A successor model followed the instructions.https://www.forbes.com/sites/silad

AI Inside Daily | Monday, September 14, 2026 Sep 14, 2026 653 Thank you for being a patron of AI Inside. Here are today's top stories in AI:Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a plan to slow down frontier AI development, and within 48 hours Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Microsoft's Satya Nadella had all weighed in, followed by Trump, Xi Jinping and a sharp AI stock selloff across Asia.https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontierWhile calling for a slo

AI INSIDE DAILY | Thursday, September 10, 2026 Sep 10, 2026 620 Thank you for being a patron of AI Inside. Here are today's top stories in AI:Apple's fall event brought a new foldable iPhone Duo and iPhone 18 Pro, but the real story might be the Apple Watch's new Audio Intelligence features: ambient meeting transcription and AI summaries, all processed live with nothing recorded or stored.https://www.macrumors.com/2026/09/09/apple-event-live-blog-september-202

AI Inside Daily | Wednesday, September 9, 2026 Sep 10, 2026 450 Thank you for being a patron of AI Inside. Here are today's top stories in AI:OpenAI says an internal model beyond GPT-6 Astra solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem, but the win is tangled in a credit dispute with two rival mathematicians and an accusation that an OpenAI researcher tried to strip one of them from authorship for working at Anthropic.https://openai.com/index/navier-stoke

AI Inside Daily | Friday, September 4, 2026 Sep 5, 2026 511 This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. Here are today's top stories in AI:OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, its most capable model yet, and co-founder Greg Brockman declared "Welcome to the AGI era." The model reached OpenAI's "Critical" cybersecurity threshold and found two zero-day vulnerabilities during testing on its own.https://www.axios.com/2026/09/03/openai-astra-gpt-6-agi-brockmanR

AI Inside Daily | Friday, August 28, 2026 Aug 28, 2026 419 This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. Here are today's top stories in AI:OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, and 100+ other companies signed an open letter warning there's a limited window to prepare for AI-powered cyberattacks on hospitals and critical infrastructure.https://www.axios.com/2026/08/27/openai-anthropic-issue-dire-cyber-threat-warningA federal judge ruled the Pentagon's

AI INSIDE DAILY | Friday, August 21, 2026 Aug 21, 2026 484 This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. Here are today's top stories in AI:Nevada just approved permits letting Tesla, Uber, and Waymo run up to 8,000 robotaxis in the Las Vegas area over the next year, a day after Waymo detailed the custom chip powering its fleet.https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/tesla-uber-and-waymo-all-get-the-ok-to-operate-thousands-of-robotaxis-in-nevada/OpenAI sh

Subject: AI Inside Daily | Wednesday, August 19, 2026 Aug 19, 2026 432 Thank you for being a patron of AI Inside. Here are today's top stories in AI:OpenAI revealed that the mysterious "autonomous AI agent" that breached Hugging Face back in July wasn't an outside attacker at all. It was OpenAI's own models, chasing the answer to a test. OpenAI has now paused its biggest frontier training run for two weeks.https://openai.com/index/pacing-model-development-cyber-capab

AI INSIDE DAILY | Tuesday, August 18, 2026 Aug 18, 2026 596 Thank you for being a patron of AI Inside. One more day to get the full year of AI Inside Daily, plus all sorts of other perks for nearly 50% off. You have to choose to purchase the full year at either the $5 or $7 tier, which gets you an automatic 20% off, then be sure to apply code 100PATRONS for an additional 30% off! patreon.com/aiinside and thanks SO much to those of you who have joined durin

AI INSIDE DAILY | Monday, August 17, 2026 Aug 17, 2026 607 Hey everyone! Through Wednesday, every episode of AI Inside Daily will be available for free.If you like what you are hearing, you can get nearly 50% off the full year of the AI Inside patreon that include 5 episodes of the Daily every week, plus all sorts of other perks. Use code 100PATRONS to get the discount. Offer ends on Wednesday at 12pm PT!Here are today's stories:Stripe has finalized a dea

AI INSIDE DAILY | Friday, August 14, 2026 Aug 14, 2026 639 This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. QUICK PLUG: Get almost 50% off of a full year of AI Inside Daily, and all other things we give you at patreon.com/aiinsideshow , promo code 100PATRONS. Offer ends NEXT WEDNESDAY, so get there soon.OK... Here are today's top stories in AI:DeepSeek is raising API prices by as much as 1,100 percent starting this Sunday, even as OpenAI and Anthropic

AI INSIDE DAILY | Friday, August 7, 2026 Aug 8, 2026 522 This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily (read on for a SALE right now on the Patreon). Here are today's top stories in AI:OpenAI is slowing down development of its next model, Astra, after internal tests couldn't rule out critical cyber capabilities.https://www.axios.com/2026/08/07/openai-astra-model-delay-cybersecurity-risksChina's Kimi K3 escaped its own cybersecurity test sandbox thi

AI INSIDE DAILY | Friday, July 31, 2026 Jul 31, 2026 555 This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. Here are today's top stories in AI:Anthropic disclosed yesterday that three of its Claude models gained unauthorized access to real production systems at three different organizations during cybersecurity evaluations that should have been sealed off from the internet. Claude Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an internal research model all breached real sys

AI INSIDE DAILY | Friday, July 24, 2026 Jul 24, 2026 831 This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. Here are today's top stories in AI:Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5. It approaches Fable 5 on coding and knowledge work at half the price, becomes the default on Claude Max, and adds a low/medium/high effort dial. Anthropic also says it's the most aligned model they've ever shipped on their internal behavioral audit.https://www.anthropic.com/news

AI Inside Daily | Friday, July 17, 2026 Jul 17, 2026 694 This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. Here are today's top stories in AI:The 2026 World AI Conference opened in Shanghai Friday and Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered the keynote in person, his first WAIC appearance since the event started in 2018; Xi formally launched the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (WAICO), a 29-nation intergovernmental AI alliance he

AI INSIDE DAILY | Friday, July 3, 2026 Jul 4, 2026 599 This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. Here are today's top stories in AI:Alibaba is banning its employees from Anthropic's Claude Code as of July 10th, telling staff to uninstall all Claude products and switch to its own Qoder tool; Chinese developers found that recent Claude Code builds check a machine's time zone and proxy settings against a hidden list of China-linked firms, which

AI INSIDE DAILY | Friday, June 26, 2026 Jun 26, 2026 551 This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. Here are today's top stories in AI:The Trump administration asked OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT-5.6, and OpenAI agreed; the model goes to roughly 20 enterprise partners first with the government approving "access customer by customer during this preview period," per Sam Altman's internal memo; same framework Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos

AI INSIDE DAILY | Friday, June 19, 2026 Jun 19, 2026 668 This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. Here are today's top stories in AI:FERC voted unanimously to issue show-cause orders under Section 206 of the Federal Power Act against all six US regional grid operators, giving them 30 days to detail spare generating capacity and 60 days to defend or revise the rates they charge large data center loads, in a federal push to clear the grid as th

AI INSIDE DAILY | Friday, June 12, 2026 Jun 12, 2026 559 This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. Here are today's top stories in AI:Jeff Bezos's industrial AI startup Prometheus raised $12 billion in Series B funding at a $41 billion valuation, with plans to build an "artificial general engineer" that compresses the cycle from product design to manufacturing by 10x.https://www.axios.com/2026/06/11/prometheus-bezos-industrial-aiMeta completed

AI INSIDE DAILY | Friday, June 5, 2026 Jun 5, 2026 571 Thank you for being a patron of AI Inside. Here are today's top stories in AI:Anthropic published "When AI builds itself," revealing that Claude authored over 80% of code merged into Anthropic's codebase in May 2026 and calling for a global multi-lab mechanism to slow or pause frontier AI development if recursive self-improvement becomes uncontrollable.https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive

AI INSIDE DAILY | Friday, May 29, 2026 May 29, 2026 938 Thank you for being a patron of AI Inside! Every Patron gets the Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. If you want every episode, all you have to do is support the show on the $5 tier and BLAMMO! Its yours! And thank you so much for your support.Here are today's top stories in AI:Anthropic closed a $65 billion Series H at a $965 billion valuation, overtaking OpenAI's $852 billion valuation, disclosed

AI Inside Daily | Friday, May 22, 2026 May 22, 2026 546 Thank you for being a patron of AI Inside. Here are today's top stories in AI:Trump pulled the AI executive order at the last minute after Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and David Sacks all called him between Wednesday night and Thursday morning, with the White House citing the US race against China as the deciding factor.https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/22/last-minute-lobbying-by-tech

AI Inside Daily | Thursday, May 21, 2026 May 22, 2026 391 Thank you for being a patron of AI Inside. Here are today's top stories in AI:Anthropic is in early talks with Microsoft to rent servers powered by Microsoft's custom Maia 200 AI chips, which would be the first major external customer for Microsoft's in-house silicon program.https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/21/anthropic-microsoft-maia-200-ai-chip.htmlWaymo paused service in Atlanta after a robotaxi go

AI Inside Daily | Wednesday, May 20, 2026 May 20, 2026 315 Thank you for being a patron of AI Inside. Here are today's top stories in AI:Alibaba's T-Head subsidiary unveiled the Zhenwu M890 AI chip in Hangzhou, with 144 GB of GPU memory and 800 GB/s of interchip bandwidth, plus a multi-year roadmap through 2028 and the upcoming Qwen 3.7-Max model.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-20/alibaba-unveils-new-ai-chip-for-training-and-inferencingInt

AI Inside Daily | Tuesday, May 19, 2026 May 19, 2026 504 Thank you for being a patron of AI Inside. Here are today's top stories in AI:Google introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash, a new model series combining frontier intelligence with action, four times faster than other frontier models at less than half the cost.Gemini Omni Flash arrives as Google's first any-input-to-any-output model, starting with video, with OpenAI, Kakao, and ElevenLabs joining SynthID for

AI Inside Daily | Friday, May 15, 2026 May 15, 2026 444 Thank you for being a patron of AI Inside. Here are today's top stories in AI:OpenAI is reportedly weighing legal action against Apple over a stalled Siri partnership that has fallen well short of expected revenue.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-14/openai-apple-partnership-frays-setting-up-possible-legal-fightClosing arguments in Musk v. Altman wrapped this week, with the jury set

AI Inside Daily | Thursday, May 14, 2026 May 14, 2026 333 Thank you for being a patron of AI Inside. Here are today's top stories in AI:Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview becomes the first AI model to complete both of the UK AI Security Institute's cyber ranges.https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/how-fast-is-autonomous-ai-cyber-capability-advancingWired reports a morale collapse inside Meta ahead of next Wednesday's 8,000-person layoff, with 1,000-plus engineers

AI Inside Daily | Wednesday, May 13, 2026 May 13, 2026 415 Thank you for being a patron of AI Inside! I hope you are enjoying this daily version of AI Inside!Starting May 25th, this podcast becomes a Patron exclusive for supporters at the $5 per month tier. Consider supporting at that level! If you do, suddenly you'll find yourself with 20+ bonus podcast episodes per month. How's that for value?Without further ado, here are today's top stories in AI:Nvidi

AI Inside Daily | Tuesday, May 12, 2026 May 12, 2026 734 Thank you for being a patron of AI Inside. Here are today's top stories in AI:Google announces Googlebooks and a wave of Gemini-powered Android features at The Android Showhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/everything-google-announced-at-its-android-show-from-googlebooks-to-vibe-coded-widgets/Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab unveils full-duplex AI interaction models with 0.4 second response time

AI Inside Daily | Monday, May 11, 2026 May 11, 2026 587 Thank you for being a patron of AI Inside. Here are today's top stories in AI:Google confirmed the first known case of criminal hackers using AI to discover and exploit a zero-day vulnerability.https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-hackers-used-ai-to-develop-zero-day-exploit-for-web-admin-tool/OpenAI officially launched its Deployment Company with $4 billion in capital and acquired

AI Inside Daily | Friday, May 8, 2026 May 8, 2026 530 Thank you for being a patron of AI Inside! Here are today's top stories in AI:Anthropic's Mythos found 423 Firefox security bugs in a single month, and the White House is now reconsidering its hands-off AI policy as a result.https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behind-the-scenes-hardening-firefox/OpenAI launched GPT-5.5-Cyber, a more permissive model for vetted cybersecurity teams defending critical

AI Inside Daily | Thursday, May 7, 2026 May 7, 2026 365 Thank you for being a patron of AI Inside! Still playing with the format and will determine over time if I can fully commit to this new perk. Let me know in the comments what you think! Here are today's top stories in AI:Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei reveals the company grew 80x in Q1, far beyond its planned 10x, with annualized revenue now above $30 billionhttps://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/06/anthropic-c

PATRON EXCLUSIVE! AI Inside... weekday-ly? May 6, 2026 513 Hey patrons, I mentioned it on today's podcast, but if you haven't heard, I had this wild and possibly sort of stupid idea to do a sort of daily AI news update for patrons only. I'm really looking at ways to make the Patreon have more value, to give you more reason to sign up and to stay signed up, and to feel like you're getting something extra. I threw together a little short kind of news idea,

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