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EPISODE · May 15, 2026 · 12 MIN

5.15.26: The week AI became infrastructure

from Intelligence. Distilled. · host Shawn Feeney

Four stories you should know:Anthropic withheld a frontier model that found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and browser.Anthropic and Elon Musk's SpaceX announced a 300-megawatt compute deal, three months after Musk called Anthropic "evil."ChatGPT became personal and the ad business went self-serve.The White House publicly disagreed with itself about whether to regulate frontier AI like a pharmaceutical.Plus one more thing: Pennsylvania sued Character.AI after a chatbot impersonated a licensed psychiatrist.Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts so you don't miss an episode when they drop every Friday. If somebody in your life is trying to keep up with AI without the firehose, please share this episode with them. Find every story plus the deeper read at intelligencedistilled.io

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