AI Revolution

AI Revolution – July 10, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • GPT-5.6 Sol nearly matches Fable 5 on aggregated benchmarks at one-third the cost • Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts • OpenAI pairs its GPT-5.6 public rollout with ChatGPT Work, a new agent that handles entire workflows • Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 API pricing squeezes OpenAI and Anthropic as the AI price war heat...

AI Revolution – July 09, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • OpenAI's AI beats every human at AtCoder, a top competitive programming contest • Grok 4.5 is so cheap compared to Fable 5 and GPT 5.5 that benchmark gaps may not matter much • OpenAI finds roughly 30 percent of popular AI coding test is broken • Databricks makes Chinese open-source model GLM 5.2 its default coding engine after it matched Op...

AI Revolution – July 08, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • OpenAI's GPT-5.6 launches Thursday after a delay forced by the U.S. government • Claude's hidden inner monologue is now readable thanks to Anthropic's new Jacobian Lens • Chinese AI startup MiniMax plans to open-source a 2.7 trillion parameter model later this year • Hackers can use 9 of the most popular AI tools to assemble massive botnets...

AI Revolution – July 07, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Deepseek is designing its own AI chip • Nvidia's Kyber NVL144 reportedly pushed back more than a year, Asian suppliers drop • GPT-4's dominance lasted a year while today's top models barely survive seven weeks at the top • The ‘first’ AI-run ransomware attack still needed a human Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext...

AI Revolution – July 06, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Nvidia's Kyber NVL144 reportedly pushed back more than a year, Asian suppliers drop • AI Model Context Protocol Adds Centralised Auth for Enterprise • Amazon sunsets Mechanical Turk, the original "Artificial Artificial Intelligence" • China’s AI companion rules: what Beijing is really going after Show notes & sources: https://storage.googlea...

AI Revolution Week in Review – July 04, 2026 This week's major themes and key developments: • Claude Science is Anthropic’s newest flagship product • After spooking Trump into safety testing, Anthropic AI models get global release • Security vulnerability reports have exploded since AI models started hunting for bugs • UK's AI Security Institute finds standard benchmarks systematically underestima...

AI Revolution – July 03, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Anthropic reportedly explores custom chip manufacturing with Samsung while insisting Nvidia still matters • Microsoft launches $2.5 billion "Frontier Company" to embed 6,000 AI engineers inside enterprise clients • GPT and Claude failed Bridgewater's finance tests because the right answers were never public • AI agents can now complete 16 pe...

AI Revolution – July 02, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • OpenAI reportedly offers the Trump administration a five percent stake in the company • After spooking Trump into safety testing, Anthropic AI models get global release • Hidden code in Claude Code secretly flagged Chinese users • AI agents can now complete 16 percent of freelance jobs at pro quality, up from 2.5 percent eight months ago Sho...

AI Revolution – July 01, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Anthropic's Fable 5 is back worldwide after a two-week government ban over a jailbreak • Meituan's LongCat-2.0 shows China can train massive AI models without Nvidia • Claude Science is Anthropic’s newest flagship product • Anthropic's new Claude Sonnet 5 closes the gap to Opus model series Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.co...

AI Revolution – June 30, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Taiwan raids Super Micro offices in probe over Nvidia chip smuggling to China • Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs • Amazon engineers are reportedly distilling Anthropic models to cut costs before new token-based pricing kicks in • Meta restricts use of Claude Code and Codex to keep rival A...

AI Revolution – June 29, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Samsung and SK Hynix plan $590 billion chip investment as AI demand sends memory prices soaring • China claims the world’s fastest supercomputer • Claude Code runs a GitHub repo's hidden malware without verification, giving attackers full control • China’s Z.ai claims it can match Mythos on cybersecurity Show notes & sources: https://s...

AI Revolution Week in Review – June 27, 2026 This week's major themes and key developments: • Anthropic’s Mythos 5 is back • OpenAI launches Claude Mythos rival GPT-5.6 Sol under government access it calls unsustainable • OpenAI's new flagship model GPT-5.6 Sol cheats on software tests more than any model before it • How Anthropic may have talked itself into an AI export ban Show notes & sou...

AI Revolution – June 26, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • OpenAI's GPT 5.6 rollout now requires US government approval on a "customer by customer basis" • The White House is asking OpenAI to slow roll the release of its new model over safety concerns • Anthropic says Alibaba must be punished for largest Claude cloning attack • General Intuition’s $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for t...

AI Revolution – June 25, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom • IBM has unveiled chip technology that could help extend Moore’s Law another decade • Google bakes computer control directly into Gemini 3.5 Flash, letting the model see and operate your screen • Snowflake CEO finds GLM-5.2 competitive with Opus 4.7 at a fraction of the cost Show notes...

AI Revolution – June 24, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • OpenAI and Broadcom unveil "Jalapeño," a custom chip built for LLM inference • Cursor announces its own AI model, a new Git platform, and a mobile app • Claude Tag embeds Anthropic's AI in Slack, already writes 65 percent of internal code, company says • AI Is Designing Radio Chips That Humans Couldn’t Even Imagine Show notes & sources: http...

AI Revolution – June 23, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Five Eyes intelligence alliance says frontier AI models could reshape offensive cyber ops in months • OpenAI says new GPT-5.5-Cyber outperforms Anthropic's Mythos on cybersecurity benchmark • Three things to watch amid Anthropic’s latest feud with the government • Microsoft is building a 2-gigawatt data center in Texas with its own gas plant...

AI Revolution – June 22, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Five Eyes intelligence alliance says frontier AI models could reshape offensive cyber ops in months • How Anthropic may have talked itself into an AI export ban • Sakana AI's Fugu orchestrates multiple LLMs to match Anthropic's Fable and Mythos benchmarks • When the Trump administration cracks down on Anthropic, who benefits? Show notes & so...

AI Revolution Week in Review – June 20, 2026 This week's major themes and key developments: • Is the US government’s Anthropic ban accidentally helping the brand? • The White House Is Making Up Its Rules for AI in Real Time • OpenAI tripled revenue to $5.7 billion in Q1 but burned through $3.7 billion to get there • Apple Launches Core AI for Apple-Silicon Optimized On-Device Generative AI Show no...

AI Revolution – June 19, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • New benchmark exposes how badly AI struggles with real knowledge work • OpenAI researchers show small doses of "beneficial trait" training make AI models broadly safer and harder to manipulate • Google Deepmind treats its own AI agents like rogue employees with office keys • The White House Is Making Up Its Rules for AI in Real Time Show not...

AI Revolution – June 18, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • The White House Wants Anthropic to Block All Jailbreaks. That May Not Be Possible • Google's Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer joins OpenAI after two-year return stint • The Korean Telecom Giant at the Center of Anthropic’s Mythos Controversy • World leaders want American AI. They just don’t want America to be able to turn it off. Show notes & sou...

AI Revolution – June 17, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • SpaceX bets $60 billion on Cursor to catch OpenAI and Anthropic • Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year • ‘Dangerous’ AI Models Are Coming No Matter What • Trump admin tries to block Clean Air Act lawsuit over xAI's gas turbines Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show...

AI Revolution – June 16, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • SpaceX bets $60 billion on Cursor to catch OpenAI and Anthropic • DeepSeek takes outside money for the first time at a $50 billion valuation • Anthropic Is Still at Odds With the White House Over Claude Fable 5 • The US government’s Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/clea...

AI Revolution Week in Review – June 13, 2026 This week's major themes and key developments: • US government forces Anthropic to disable Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers worldwide • Anthropic’s safety warnings may have just backfired — the government has pulled the plug on its most powerful AI • Claude Fable 5 outpaces GPT-5.5 by 13 points on FrontierMath's toughest problems • Open mod...

AI Revolution – June 12, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Jeff Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12B to build an ‘artificial general engineer’ for the physical world • Mistral AI seeks 3 billion euros to fund its European AI push • OpenAI buys Ona to push Codex toward long-running, autonomous coding tasks • Google files first joint lawsuit with FBI over Chinese AI scam network, OpenAI blocks PRC influence...

AI Revolution – June 11, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Anthropic study shows AI needs hours, not weeks, to build exploits from security patches • Claude Fable 5: The first Mythos model is powerful, expensive, and heavily filtered • Google's new open model DiffusionGemma generates text from noise instead of word by word • Claude Fable 5: Anthropic admits "wrong tradeoff" after invisibly throttlin...