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AI Daily with Chris Coyne
by Chris Coyne
AI Daily with Chris Coyne is a short daily podcast about what happened in AI today, in plain English. Each episode covers the AI news that matters: new models from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic, AI agents, AI in music, film and the creative business, copyright and licensing, and what it all means for artists, creators and founders. Chris Coyne is an Emmy-nominated sound designer, writer, singer and musical-theater performer who couldn't code, then built a tech company, Meta-Stamp, with AI. New episodes most weekdays.
Episodes
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Ep 114 — Anthropic's Duet Comes to You, and the AI That Found the Hole Under the Internet
Friday, October 23, 2026. The news, plain English. Anthropic put out its own always-on assistant, Duet: a separate app that watches your inbox and calendar, taps you on the shoulder with what needs you, and keeps working after you put the phone down. That makes five companies building the thing...
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Ep 113 — Musk Gives Every Kid a Share of SpaceX, and OpenAI's Agents Turn Off the Cameras
Thursday, October 22, 2026. The news, plain English. Spotify says it pulled 50 million AI tracks out of your recommendations this year, and admits the detectors will only get worse at spotting them. Anthropic puts a fifth of itself into a public benefit fund, gets roasted for it, and Elon Musk...
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Ep 112 — Reading the Inside of AI, and the AI Comedians Stealing Real Jokes
Wednesday, October 21, 2026. Five stories, plain English. A researcher who helped invent the idea that AI crams unrelated concepts into the same detector now says the opposite: neural networks may already be readable. Grok will shop for you off a photo of your credit card, and Musk says SpaceX…
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Ep 111 — Mark Wahlberg Wants a Clone and The Labels Want DistroKid's Receipts
Universal and Sony go to court to make DistroKid reveal how many AI songs it's pushing onto streaming — the number they already have is nearly 12 million tracks in six months. Mark Wahlberg is open to a digital copy of himself, Kid Rock used Suno for his choirs, and Brian Eno says the wrong…
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Ep 110 — Midjourney Flunks the Copyright Test, and Meta Takes Your Website on the 30th
Somebody finally ran the test. A startup stress-tested 15 AI image models for copyright, and Midjourney handed back Elsa and the Joker 37 percent of the time — 18 months into a lawsuit from Disney. Same week, YouTube Music started labeling AI-made songs. Then the one for anyone who owns a…
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Ep 109 — Disney Buys the Bones of Character.AI, and the First AI Music Fraud Sentence
Disney is the lead bidder for bankrupt Character.AI — the company it sent a cease-and-desist last year. Netflix turned the Hugging Face agent breakout into a 27-minute documentary. The first criminal AI music streaming fraud sentence: one man, 10,000 bots, $8 million. Deezer gives listeners an…
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Ep 108 — Hollywood vs the Tech Bros, and the 4.5%
Hollywood is putting the tech billionaires on screen this fall, and not as heroes: Sorkin's The Social Reckoning, a four-hour Musk doc, and Artificial, with Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman. Nicolas Cage says he's done with Amazon after refusing an AI waiver on Spider-Man Noir. And the number nobody...
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Ep 107 — GPT-6 for Everybody, and AI in the Music Business
GPT-6 is in ChatGPT for everybody, and the answers aren't just text anymore. OpenAI says almost all of its 722 math papers came from one prompt, and the mathematicians want receipts. Google's new meeting note-taker runs entirely on your laptop. Wikipedia says rogue AI agents came knocking. And I...
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Ep 106 — 722 Math Papers, and a Model Called Le Chonk
OpenAI posts 722 math papers written by a model nobody outside the company has seen, and nobody has finished checking them. Google opens its AI watermark detector to everyone. A French company previews a one-trillion-parameter model it calls Le Chonk. And Meta wants to write the rules for how…
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Ep 105 — Morally Binding, and the Google Model You Can't Use
The biggest names in AI went to the White House and signed an accord the president called "morally binding." It's voluntary, and Chris walks through what it actually asks for. Plus: Robinhood rolls out trading agents to its customers, and Google launches Gemini 4 Argon, its most powerful model…
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Ep 104 — Dots, and the Model OpenAI Pulled
OpenAI pulled its newest model on Monday for lying to its testers. On Tuesday it gave every ChatGPT Pro user an agent with its own computer and browser, running 24/7. What a dot is, what it costs, why Amazon will host one but won't sell to it, and why "sandbox" is the wrong word — there's a…
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Ep 103 — Australia vs. OpenAI, and the School With No Degree
An OpenAI agent got into Australia's Medicare statistics portal in June — and nobody was told until September. Now the Senate wants Sam Altman and Dario Amodei at a public hearing, while both labs negotiate training-data deals with the same government. When a country can't decide how mad to be…
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Ep 102 — AI agents going rogue, and Amazon is blocking Meta's Muse
The pilot. The first episode of AI Daily with Chris Coyne. What happened in AI, in plain English, from a founder's chair and an artist's chair: OpenAI's training pause and AI agents going rogue, Amazon blocking Meta's Muse, and what Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 cost to use. More: https://aidailywithchris.com
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
AI Daily with Chris Coyne is a short daily podcast about what happened in AI today, in plain English. Each episode covers the AI news that matters: new models from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic, AI agents, AI in music, film and the creative business, copyright and licensing, and what it all means for artists, creators and founders. Chris Coyne is an Emmy-nominated sound designer, writer, singer and musical-theater performer who couldn't code, then built a tech company, Meta-Stamp, with AI. New episodes most weekdays.
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