Inside AI with Aarjay

I took my first Waymo ride in SF — no driver, no safety operator, just me and the AI. The steering wheel turned by itself through some of the most chaotic streets in America. In this episode, I share the experience and break down where autonomous vehicles stand in 2026: Waymo's dominance, Tesla FSD still at Level 2, Cruise's shutdown, and what this means for the future of AI and transpor...

Q1 2026: $297B in startup funding. OpenAI buys TBPN talk show. Anthropic drops $400M on 10 engineers. Apple turns 50 and admits it blew AI. Tariffs could price startups out of frontier AI. Your Sunday briefing from Inside AI with Aarjay. Follow @aarjay.ai Thanks for tuning in to Inside AI with Aarjay . 👉 Stay connected: Explore more at: InsideAIwithAarjay.com 💡 If you enjoyed this episode, pleas...

Anthropic and OpenAI are both burning cash and racing toward public markets — but their paths couldn't look more different. This episode breaks down the valuations, the revenue numbers, and the strategic trade-offs each company faces as they decide when to file, who to bring as underwriters, and whether going public too early could hand their rival a decisive edge. If you follow AI or invest...

Disney just dropped $1 billion to pipe 200+ iconic characters — Mickey, Elsa, Darth Vader — straight into OpenAI's Sora video generator, and most people are missing what this actually means. This isn't a licensing deal; it's Disney betting that the future of content isn't studios making movies for you — it's you making movies with their IP, and they'd rather own the t...

Oracle swings the axe to fund its AI infrastructure bet, Microsoft pours $5.5B into Singapore, Anthropic leaks 512K lines of Claude Code source in a packaging mishap, and Perplexity gets sued over hidden tracking. Trust is in short supply across the board. Thanks for tuning in to Inside AI with Aarjay . 👉 Stay connected: Explore more at: InsideAIwithAarjay.com 💡 If you enjoyed this episode, plea...

Today on Inside AI with Aarjay: Pentagon doubles down on Anthropic — DOJ appeals court order blocking the blacklist. $200M contract at stake. Microsoft goes frontier — Building in-house AI models by 2027, reducing OpenAI dependence. 52K tech layoffs in Q1 — Up 40% YoY. Andreessen calls AI the "silver bullet excuse." Follow @aarjay.ai on all platforms. Thanks for tuning in to Inside AI wi...

The biggest week in AI just happened. Here's what you need to know: • 3,000 internal assets leaked from Anthropic — revealing Claude Mythos, rated #1 in cyber capabilities • SoftBank secured a $40B unsecured loan betting on OpenAI's IPO at $840B valuation • Anthropic raised $30B in Series G — paid subscribers more than doubled • Google Gemini 3 DeepThink hit gold medal level on physics a...

Anthropic's secret Mythos AI model just leaked — a step change beyond anything we have seen. A configuration error exposed 3,000 unpublished assets revealing Claude Mythos dramatically outperforms Opus 4.6 in coding, reasoning, and cybersecurity. Also in today's episode:- SoftBank 40B loan signals OpenAI IPO this year- Claude paid subscribers more than doubled in 2026- Google drops Gemin...

Jensen Huang just made ONE phone call and killed the AI startup dream forever. 💀 $22 BILLION spent in 5 days: → NVIDIA bought Groq for $20B → Meta bought Manus for $2B The startup path you were sold? IPO? Becoming the next Google? That's GONE. Welcome to the Kill Zone. Here's the new reality: ✅ Build something great → Get acquired ❌ Build something average → Die quietly ❌ Build medio...

Two uncomfortable truths in tech today 👇 1️⃣ Containers are easy — migrating your legacy VMs is NOT Stack Overflow says stop trying to "rewrite everything." → Let Kubernetes coexist with your VMs → Don't kill the systems that pay the bills 2️⃣ AI vs Gen Z — the junior dev crisis → Entry-level hiring down 25% → Managers trusting AI over interns → Junior roles shifting to AI governan...

AWS x NVIDIA collab 🔥 Mistral 3 drops with 675B params Uber's MySQL failover fix Shopify open-sources Tangle DoorDash goes full LLM personalization Stack Overflow pivots to KaaS Thanks for tuning in to Inside AI with Aarjay . 👉 Stay connected: Explore more at: InsideAIwithAarjay.com 💡 If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and share it with a friend who wants to sta...

In this episode of Inside AI with Aarjay , we dive into Anthropic’s brand-new report on where AI is spreading fastest across industries, countries, and demographics. You’ll learn: Why AI adoption is happening in quarters, not years Which industries (finance, healthcare, retail) are leading the charge The countries racing ahead — and which ones are falling behind How Gen Z, executives, and small bu...

In this episode of Inside AI , we bring you a fast-paced roundup of the top 10 headlines in AI, finance, and business you need to know right now. From AI startups raising a record $70 billion in funding, to private IPOs fueling the boom, and governments deploying AI tools in policymaking—this update covers it all. We’ll also look at tech layoffs driven by automation, Geoffrey Hinton’s stark warnin...

Artificial Intelligence has been around for decades  but something about 2025 feels different. In this kickoff episode of Inside AI with Aarjay , we set the stage for the year ahead in AI. I’ll break down: Why AI adoption has accelerated faster than ever How agentic AI, multimodal models, and cheaper infrastructure are changing the game The rise of open-source AI and what it means for innovation W...