This Week in AI

This week, AI's biggest story wasn't a new model. It was everything underneath it. Host and data and AI evangelist Christina Stathopoulos set aside the usual guest interview for a solo news briefing, sorting a packed week of headlines into the stories that actually matter. On the docket: A hardware race that's shifted from parameters to atoms and watts, with announcements from IBM on i...

This week, Matt Palmer, head of developer experience at Conductor, joined host and Intelligence Briefing founder Andreas Welsch to work through the week's biggest stories: what the export restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos Preview mean for architecture decisions, why AI agents are making developers more exhausted rather than less, and what Sakana AI's new Fugu system offers...

In this episode of This Week in AI, host Ksenia Se, founder of Turing Post, took us through three stories that may look unrelated but all point to the same shift: AI is moving out of conversation and into the operational infrastructure where real work happens. Ksenia began with SpaceX's $60 billion acquisition of Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, asking, “Is Cursor trying to become the new...

This week John Lindquist, cofounder of egghead.io, joined host and CS Dojo founder YK Sugi to break down the week's biggest AI news and make the case for a smarter way to build with agents. The pair covered Claude Fable 5's brief but impressive run and the government-ordered shutdown that followed as well as Uber burning its entire 2026 AI budget by April, mostly on Claude Code and Cursor....

Recommendation systems quietly drive some of the most consequential numbers in tech—35% of Amazon's revenue, 75% of what Netflix surfaces, the entire logic of TikTok's feed. But as ex-Microsoft engineer and RecoMind founder Miguel Fierro explained to host Christina Stathopoulos on this week’s episode, most companies are nowhere near the state of the art, and the gap is widening. Miguel bro...

This week, host Andreas Welsch brought together Maya Mikhailov, cofounder and CEO of Savvi AI, and Doug Shannon, generative AI and intelligent automation leader, to cover four developments shaping how organizations build with and buy into AI: OpenAI’s push into personal finance, the role of metacognition in AI-assisted technical work, the growing backlash against token-based productivity metrics,...

This week, host Eric Freeman and John Berryman, founder of Arcturus Labs, coauthor of Prompt Engineering for LLMs and an early production engineer on GitHub Copilot, cover the week's biggest AI developments: Anthropic's decision to restrict its Mythos model after it identified critical security flaws, the White House's possible pivot to FDA-style AI review, and the staggering compute deals reshapi...