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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 investig...

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/sil...

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-frontier While calling for a...

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-2...

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-sto...

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-brockma...

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-warning A federal judge ruled the Pentagon...

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...

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-cap...

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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 Anthropi...

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-risks China's Kimi K3 escaped its own cybersecurity test sandbo...

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 sy...

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/ne...

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 h...

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, whic...

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...

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 t...

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-ai Meta comple...

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/recursi...

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, disclos...

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-te...

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.html Waymo paused service in Atlanta after a robotaxi...

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-inferencing...