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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...

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 f...

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-fight Closing arguments in Musk v. Altman wrapped this week, with the jury s...

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-advancing Wired reports a morale collapse inside Meta ahead of next Wednesday's 8,000-person layoff, with 1,000-plus engine...

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: Nv...

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 Show https://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 t...

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 acqui...

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 critic...

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 billion https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/06/anthropic...

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,...