Awesome Agents Podcast

Blackstone commits $5 billion to a new Google joint venture selling TPU compute-as-a-service, directly challenging CoreWeave with Wall Street capital and Google's chip stack.

KPMG and Anthropic signed a global alliance giving all 276,000 employees access to Claude, with a dedicated PE product and a preferred-consultant designation for private equity deployments.

The best AI coding assistants with local mode in 2026 - covering Continue.dev, Tabby, Cline, Cursor Ghost Mode, and Aider with real privacy models and self-hosting options.

Leaked audio from a Meta all-hands reveals Zuckerberg used employee keystrokes and clipboard data to train AI models, days before laying off 8,000 staff.

Chinese AI providers now handle over 60% of all tokens routed through OpenRouter, up from less than 2% just a year ago.

Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash is genuinely fast at 289 tok/s and competitive on agentic tasks - but the benchmark portfolio has gaps worth knowing before you build on it.

Anthropic projects $10.9B in Q2 revenue and its first-ever $559M operating profit, two years ahead of its own 2028 guidance - but the xAI compute bill arrives in full next quarter.

Brett Adcock's AI lab Hark has closed a $700M Series A at a $6B valuation before shipping a single product, with chip companies AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, and NVIDIA all backing the bet.

Trump scrapped a White House AI executive order signing ceremony at the last minute, citing competitiveness concerns - even as Anthropic Mythos and OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber showed AI can now find and exploit zero-days at scale.

Google's AI Mode reached 1 billion monthly users at I/O 2026, as the company announced information agents, agentic booking, and generative UI set to transform Search this summer.

Google shipped WebMCP as an early preview at I/O 2026, a proposed open web standard that lets websites expose structured tools to browser-based AI agents without DOM scraping or fragile visual automation.

An internal OpenAI reasoning model produced an original proof disproving the Erdős unit distance conjecture, the first time AI autonomously solved a major open problem in mathematics.

Google unveiled three Android XR smart glasses form factors at I/O 2026, backed by Samsung, XREAL, Warby Parker, and Gentle Monster as launch partners.

Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla AI director, joins Anthropic's pre-training team to build a research program that uses Claude to accelerate its own training.

Seven Devin alternatives compared on autonomy, pricing, and workflow fit - from Claude Code and GitHub Copilot Agent to open-source options like OpenHands and SWE-agent.

IBM Research tests 25 agent configurations across 6 real-world benchmarks and finds backbone model choice matters 58x more than agent framework design.

ArXiv is issuing one-year submission bans to authors whose papers contain verifiable unvetted AI output, as fabricated academic citations hit a tenfold increase since 2023.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Personal Finance on May 15, giving Pro users read access to 12,000+ banks via Plaid - one day after a class action alleged OpenAI shared user conversations with Meta and Google.

OpenAI's Codex coding agent arrives on iPhone and Android as a remote control for desktop sessions, with QR code pairing and live terminal output for its 4 million weekly users.

Raindrop's MIT-licensed Workshop streams every token and tool call from your AI agent to a local browser dashboard, then lets Claude Code write and fix evaluations automatically.

Mira Murati's startup unveils TML-Interaction-Small, a 276B MoE model that hits 0.40-second response latency by listening and generating speech at the same time.

Cisco reported record quarterly revenue of $15.8B and immediately announced 4,000 layoffs, raising its FY2026 AI infrastructure order target from $5B to $9B.

Microsoft is canceling thousands of Claude Code licenses for engineers in its Experiences + Devices division, replacing them with GitHub Copilot Desktop, which launched in technical preview on May 14.

Ramp's May 2026 AI Index shows 34.4% of businesses now pay for Anthropic, edging out OpenAI at 32.3% - the first time Anthropic has led in enterprise adoption.

Trump and Xi announced plans for a formal AI safety channel at their Beijing summit, but expert skepticism and stalled chip deals complicate the picture.