Awesome Agents Podcast

Yahoo Scout is the rare AI search engine that puts source links front and center - here's whether that philosophy holds up in practice.

Bengaluru-based Sarvam hit a $1.5 billion valuation after HCLTech put in $150 million, betting India can build its own AI stack and stop routing sensitive data through American clouds.

Artificial Analysis released AgentPerf, the first agentic AI infrastructure benchmark, measuring concurrent agents per megawatt. NVIDIA Blackwell leads with 20x gains over Hopper.

A coalition of 42 state attorneys general has opened a sweeping investigation into OpenAI, served via subpoena just five days after the company filed confidentially for a $1 trillion IPO.

Moonshot AI ships Kimi K2.7-Code with 30% fewer reasoning tokens and a 21.8% gain on its own coding benchmarks, but the model still trails Claude Opus 4.8 on most tests in the same table.

Commerce Secretary Lutnick ordered Anthropic to disable its two most powerful models worldwide - the first US export control directive ever issued against a commercial LLM.

ChatGPT crossed 1 billion monthly active users in May - the fastest app in history to hit the mark. But Meta AI is growing at 973% and Claude at 640%, against ChatGPT's own 62%.

A Chinese cybercrime network sold $88/week phishing kits that used Google's own Gemini AI to generate fake sites impersonating banks, carriers, and government agencies at scale.

OpenCode reaches 8 million monthly users and 172K GitHub stars in one year, displacing Claude Code as the most-starred open-source coding agent.

Anthropic opens Mythos-class capabilities to the public with Claude Fable 5 at $10/$50 per million tokens, days after calling for a global AI pause.

OpenAI filed a confidential S-1 with the SEC on June 8, targeting a public debut above $1 trillion as early as September 2026, following Anthropic by one week.

a16z-backed Orbital wants to run AI inference from low Earth orbit using NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, targeting 10,000 satellites and 1 GW of compute at full scale.

iOS 27 Beta 1 is live for developers today, shipping Apple's new Extensions framework that lets Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT plug into Siri - plus the Nvidia B200 Confidential Computing architecture that keeps those cloud queries private.

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 scores 69.2% on SWE-bench Pro and ships hundreds of parallel subagents in Claude Code, with pricing unchanged at $5 per million input tokens.

Senator Bernie Sanders proposes seizing 50% of OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI stock to fund a federal sovereign wealth fund with government board seats.

Blackstone-backed AirTrunk pledges $30 billion and 5GW of AI data center capacity in India by 2030 - more than triple the country's current total installed base.

Google DeepMind's new QAT checkpoints shrink the Gemma 4 E2B model to under 1GB, making serious on-device AI viable for phones and budget laptops.

OpenAI's new Lockdown Mode cuts the network exits that prompt injection attacks use to steal data from ChatGPT - but won't stop malicious instructions from entering the model in the first place.

Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month for 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs at Colossus 1, citing unexpected demand for its Gemini Enterprise agent platform.

The Trump administration is in talks with OpenAI about donating equity to a US sovereign-style fund, a deal that would make American taxpayers co-owners of the most valuable AI startup on Earth.

NVIDIA's Dynamo Snapshot uses CRIU and cuda-checkpoint to freeze and restore GPU inference containers in seconds, cutting Kubernetes cold-start times by up to 21x for large models.

MiniMax M3 arrives as the first open-weight model to combine frontier coding, 1M-token context, and native multimodality - at a fraction of proprietary pricing - but every benchmark figure is self-reported and the weights weren't even shipped at launch.

DeepSeek's maiden external funding round is nearing completion at up to $59B valuation, with Tencent and EV battery giant CATL as the biggest outside investors.

Florida becomes the first US state to hold an AI CEO personally liable, filing an 83-page complaint accusing OpenAI and Sam Altman of hiding ChatGPT's dangers while racing for market share.

Lovable's multiyear Google Cloud pact quintuples its compute footprint and bundles access to both Claude and Gemini - a bet that enterprise credibility is the next growth act.