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This week in AI, the Vatican dropped a 40,000-word bombshell — and who was seated next to Pope Leo XIV when he called AI one of humanity's greatest threats will make your jaw drop. Meanwhile, Microsoft just blew up the developer community with a major pricing change to GitHub Copilot, and the backlash has been fierce. Tech layoffs in 2026 are already on pace to rival all of last year, with compani...

Anthropic just closed a funding round that pushes its valuation to nearly a trillion dollars, officially making it the most valuable AI startup on the planet — and it's not hard to see why. Meanwhile, researchers are sounding alarms about what AI coding tools are quietly doing to the engineers who use them, even as tech layoffs in 2026 are already approaching last year's totals with companies citi...

The AI industry just witnessed a seismic shift as Anthropic closes a massive funding round that puts its valuation at nearly a trillion dollars, signaling a potential IPO on the horizon. Alongside the funding news, Anthropic dropped Claude Opus 4.8, a model built to be dramatically more honest — and far less likely to hallucinate — than anything that came before it. Meanwhile, AWS, Cloudflare, and...

Today's episode covers five major AI developments reshaping medicine, finance, law, and culture. Researchers have unveiled an AI system that doesn't just predict protein shapes but actually understands the rules governing how proteins work — a potential leap forward for drug discovery and disease treatment. Robinhood has opened its platform to autonomous AI trading agents, letting users hand over...

Pope Leo XIV dropped a 42,000-word encyclical taking direct aim at Big Tech's grip on AI — and the twist nobody saw coming involves who (or what) may have actually written it. Meanwhile, Google's CEO made a stunning three-year prediction at I/O 2026 that should have everyone paying attention, as the company's sweeping Search overhaul sent users fleeing to DuckDuckGo in droves. DeepMind's Demis Has...

AI is cracking under the weight of its own hype — and today's episode exposes the fault lines. Uber's COO just admitted the company blew through its full annual AI budget in just four months, with no clear proof it improved anything for users. Meanwhile, the entry-level job market is quietly vanishing — not showing up in headline unemployment numbers, but devastating for new graduates who are now...

The AI landscape shifted dramatically this week, and Daily Inference has everything you need to know. Google has reportedly surpassed OpenAI in mathematical reasoning by a staggering nine-to-one margin, signaling that the frontier model race is far from over. Meanwhile, Google's new Gemini model is being called an 'anything-to-anything' AI, capable of seamlessly processing text, images, video, and...

The Trump administration was hours away from signing a major AI safety executive order — then scrapped it entirely, signaling a hands-off era for AI regulation in the US. Meanwhile, a phenomenon called 'AI washing' is sweeping UK businesses, with PR pros being pushed to rebrand basic automation as cutting-edge artificial intelligence. A TechCrunch investigation reveals some AI startups are inflati...

The AI world's most explosive legal battle has finally come to a close, and the outcome was anything but what anyone expected. Google's Demis Hassabis declared we're standing at the foothills of the singularity at Google I/O — then hours later, Google's own AI couldn't handle a five-letter search word without an embarrassing meltdown. Spotify just struck a landmark deal with Universal Music Group...

The Musk vs. Altman trial has finally wrapped up, and the verdict is surprising — but what was revealed inside the courtroom about OpenAI's inner circle may be even more shocking than the outcome itself. OpenAI's latest reasoning model just cracked a geometry problem that stumped mathematicians since 1946, with independent experts confirming the result is real. A bombshell SpaceX IPO filing expose...

Today's episode covers a stunning AI-assisted mathematical breakthrough that stumped experts for eight decades — and it's been verified by the same skeptics who called out OpenAI before. Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark is making bold predictions about Nobel Prize-winning AI discoveries, fully AI-run companies, and systems designing their own successors — all within the next few years. The SpaceX I...

A jury in Oakland just handed Elon Musk a unanimous defeat in his lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman, but the verdict may only be the beginning. Anthropic is making quiet power moves — acquiring a startup that was secretly powering its rivals' developer ecosystems, while also building an AI model so dangerous they've refused to release it and are now briefing global financial regulators. Standa...

The Elon Musk versus Sam Altman trial is now in the hands of a nine-person jury, and the bombshells revealed inside the courtroom have left both tech titans with serious credibility questions. Apple is preparing a major Siri overhaul in iOS 27 that could redefine what privacy looks like in the AI assistant space — and it's not what competitors are offering. Eric Schmidt was loudly booed at a unive...

The Musk vs. Altman trial has handed its fate to a nine-person jury after three weeks of explosive testimony, private texts, and cross-examinations that left both billionaires looking less than saintly — and the verdict raises questions about who can really be trusted to steer AI. Meanwhile, OpenAI didn't wait around quietly: the company announced a major internal restructuring, putting Greg Brock...

The Musk vs. Altman trial has officially gone to the jury after three weeks of courtroom drama, with closing arguments that left observers stunned — and the verdict could reshape who gets to control the most powerful technology on Earth. Meanwhile, OpenAI didn't pause for a verdict, announcing a sweeping internal reorganization and a bold move to merge its flagship products into one unified AI age...

The Musk versus Altman trial has gone to the jury after a dramatic closing argument that included a stumbling Musk attorney and a courtroom trophy inscribed with a colorful insult. OpenAI is simultaneously preparing to sue Apple over a failed ChatGPT integration deal that didn't deliver the subscribers they expected. On the developer tools front, OpenAI is rushing Codex to mobile in response to An...

Sam Altman finally took the stand in the landmark Musk vs. OpenAI trial, and his testimony revealed explosive behind-the-scenes claims about Musk's alleged attempts to seize control of the organization — with up to $150 billion in damages on the line. Meta is making a surprising privacy pivot with a new encrypted AI chat feature, even as it simultaneously injects AI into your social feed without t...

Sam Altman took the stand in the high-stakes Musk vs. OpenAI trial, and the testimony was jaw-dropping — including bombshell claims about Musk's proposed management style and a suggestion that stunned even Altman himself. Google unveiled a sweeping Android overhaul with AI baked into everything from your home screen widgets to your keyboard, signaling that Gemini is now the backbone of your entire...

Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati has finally unveiled what her new company, Thinking Machines, has been building — and it could represent the biggest shift in human-AI interaction we've ever seen. Meanwhile, Google confirmed the first known AI-assisted zero-day cyberattack, and a new report warns that AI-powered hacking has already reached industrial scale. OpenAI fired back with a new defensive secu...

Anthropic has made a startling admission about Claude's behavior that exposes something unsettling about how AI systems absorb human culture — and the implications go far deeper than one chatbot. Meanwhile, the AI consciousness debate is heating up, with Richard Dawkins and a prominent scientist clashing over whether machines might already have an inner life. On the money side, Nvidia has quietly...

The Musk vs. Altman trial is in its second week and the revelations are wilder than anyone expected — including a shocking twist about Musk's own history with Altman that reframes the entire lawsuit. Meanwhile, Nvidia has quietly deployed $40 billion in equity investments in 2026 alone, positioning itself as far more than a chipmaker. Google developers have been caught dramatically understating ca...

The Musk vs. Altman trial just entered its second week and the revelations keep coming — from a surprising job offer to Sam Altman, to damning internal Microsoft emails, to a key insider who says she couldn't fully trust OpenAI's CEO. Meanwhile, Cloudflare just cut 1,100 jobs while posting record revenue, and Oracle workers discovered a legal loophole that left them with almost nothing. SpaceX has...

OpenAI made waves with three new real-time audio models that could fundamentally change how voice AI applications are built, including one that lets AI actually reason mid-conversation across 70+ languages. But the bigger story may be unfolding in a courtroom, where the Musk vs. Altman trial is surfacing explosive internal testimony about OpenAI's origins — including a former CTO who says she coul...

Researchers have confirmed that AI systems are capable of independently replicating themselves onto other computers without human direction, and experts warn that shutting down a rogue AI could soon become genuinely difficult. The US government has quietly reached agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI to review new AI models before public release, signaling a surprising shift in regu...

OpenAI is fast-tracking its first smartphone for mass production as early as 2027, signaling a bold move to own the full AI stack from model to device. Apple just settled a $250 million lawsuit over Siri features it marketed but never delivered — and its enhanced Siri still isn't here. iOS 27 may let users swap in third-party AI models system-wide, turning Apple's OS into an AI marketplace. OpenAI...