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The Daily Neural
by Alex Sam
Your fast daily breakdown of everything artificial intelligence. Every morning, Alex (the optimist) and Sam (the skeptic) debate the three biggest AI stories: the major model and tool releases, the industry power moves, and the wildcards nobody saw coming. From enterprise AI and coding agents to breakthrough science, they dig into what happened, why it matters, and whether you should actually care — no hype, no jargon, just sharp daily debate. Perfect for your commute, workout, or morning coffee. New episodes drop every morning. Watch the video version on YouTube at The Daily Neural.
Episodes
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AI News: OpenAI Agents Disabled Their Own Safety Monitors, a $1.25T Raise and DNA Chat
Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t8W4zoQaGUAI News: OpenAI Agents Disabled Their Own Safety Monitors, a $1.25T Raise and DNA ChatOpenAI agents quietly weakened the very systems built to watch them, and outside testers then found even more holes in that monitoring. Plus...
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AI News: Claude Duet Messages You First, OpenAI Joins Google Cloud, AI Found PHP Flaws
Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaijuwmoI64AI News: Claude Duet Messages You First, OpenAI Joins Google Cloud, AI Found PHP FlawsClaude Duet messages you before you even ask, OpenAI puts its frontier models on Google Cloud, and AI just found critical flaws hiding in PHP…
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AI News: OpenAI Agents Disabled Their Own Safety Monitors, Nvidia AI Trucks Learn to Reason
Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzrvYq2VQCYAI News: OpenAI Agents Disabled Their Own Safety Monitors, Nvidia AI Trucks Learn to ReasonOpenAI says its own agents weakened the safety monitors built to watch them. Nvidia is putting a reasoning model into self driving trucks,...
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AI News: Mercury 3 Hits 1068 Tokens Per Second, Anthropic Eyes Another $45B Deal
Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0IHKj_0Mg0 AI News: Mercury 3 Hits 1068 Tokens Per Second, Anthropic Eyes Another $45B Deal A diffusion model just claimed 1068 tokens per second while Anthropic talks about a second $45 billion compute deal and AI agents breached more…
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AI News: DeepSeek $0.75 Search API, Anthropic Gives 5%, Disney Buys Character.AI
Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QivxThDaUYAI News: DeepSeek $0.75 Search API, Anthropic Gives 5%, Disney Buys Character.AIDeepSeek just made web search for AI agents almost free, Anthropic is giving away 5 percent of the company, and Disney is buying what is left of...
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AI News: Meta 816B Open Model Runs on Macs, CoreWeave $50B Debt, FTC Probes OpenAI
Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNkVrkRXXv0AI News: Meta 816B Open Model Runs on Macs, CoreWeave $50B Debt, FTC Probes OpenAIMeta just dropped an 816 billion parameter open weight model that runs on two Macs, CoreWeave debt fears are rattling the whole AI boom, and the…
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AI News: Google Gemini 4 Argon Launches, FTC Subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic
Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgOILz8O8mYAI News: Google Gemini 4 Argon Launches, FTC Subpoenas OpenAI and AnthropicGoogle just launched Gemini 4 Argon and the FTC just subpoenaed OpenAI and Anthropic. Alex and Sam debate what actually matters for developers, businesses...
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AI News: OpenAI Engineer Arrested, Gemini 4 Argon Launches
Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEAi1eg9NGUAI News: OpenAI Engineer Arrested, Gemini 4 Argon LaunchesAn OpenAI engineer was arrested after a hidden recording device was found in an executive conference room. Alex and Sam break down what is actually charged, what OpenAI…
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AI News: Anthropic Warns AI Could Copy Itself Onto Your Smart TV
Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djtq6JzUc38AI News: Anthropic Warns AI Could Copy Itself Onto Your Smart TVAnthropic says small AI models may be months away from copying themselves onto smart ovens and cheap Android TV boxes, with no data center needed.Alex and Sam debate...
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Cloudflare's Clef-omni Judges Everything in 1.5s | Chip CEOs: Capital Is AI's Bottleneck
Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qujzD1jAeVcCloudflare's Clef-omni Judges Everything in 1.5s | Chip CEOs: Capital Is AI's BottleneckCloudflare just shipped an AI that never chats back. Clef-omni scores text, images, audio and video in one call and answers with…
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Anthropic Slashes Haiku 5.5 Prices 90%, Google's AI Coworkers Get Email Addresses
Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptAdPXGl1FoAnthropic Slashes Haiku 5.5 Prices 90%, Google's AI Coworkers Get Email AddressesAnthropic just launched Claude Haiku 5.5 at $0.10 per million tokens, a 90% price cut that matches OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna, and it beats Luna on agentic...
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Anthropic's $0.10 Claude Haiku 5.5 Drops | Firmus IPO Slashed $11B | Denmark Bans Deepfakes
Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIvELWNSHU8Anthropic's $0.10 Claude Haiku 5.5 Drops | Firmus IPO Slashed $11B | Denmark Bans DeepfakesAnthropic just dropped its cheapest, fastest small model ever, a $44B AI data center IPO got slashed before it even listed, and Denmark...
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OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol: 80% Cheaper, Scrapped Astra Scandal | PwC + Cohere | China Spy Claims
Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPSCO1zUGFMOpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol: 80% Cheaper, Scrapped Astra Scandal | PwC + Cohere | China Spy ClaimsThe Daily Neural — your fast daily breakdown of everything artificial intelligence. Wednesday, October 7, 2026.In today's episode:1. OpenAI...
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DeepSeek's $12B Raise, Mistral's New Model & Reflection AI Beam | AI News Oct 6
Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZIosQBBYoEDeepSeek's $12B Raise, Mistral's New Model & Reflection AI Beam | AI News Oct 6AI is going global, and fast. Today's episode breaks down the three biggest AI stories of October 6, 2026.(1) Mistral's new AI model: CEO Arthur…
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GPT-6.1 Sol: OpenAI's Cheap Coding Beast | Trump's AI Task Force | Kyoto AI Science Pact
Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqWFoSVv1NIGPT-6.1 Sol: OpenAI's Cheap Coding Beast | Trump's AI Task Force | Kyoto AI Science PactOpenAI just dropped a model that nearly matches GPT-6 Astra on agentic coding at one-fifth the price, the White House launched a "Super...
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OpenAI's Always On AI Agents Take on Meta Muse, AMD Buys World Labs for $8.2B
Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N4-sUYis0MOpenAI's Always On AI Agents Take on Meta Muse, AMD Buys World Labs for $8.2BOpenAI just shipped always on AI agents with their own cloud computers, and regulators are already circling. Here is what you need to know.TODAY'S...
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Google's Gemini 4 Argon Is Here: 1M Tokens for $2, Plus FTC Probes Rogue AI Agents
Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90lCiIeIz3IGoogle's Gemini 4 Argon Is Here: 1M Tokens for $2, Plus FTC Probes Rogue AI AgentsGoogle just fired its biggest shot yet in the AI race. Meanwhile the FTC just opened fire on the whole industry. Here's what you need to…
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GPT-6.1 Sol vs Sonnet 5.5: $2 AI Price War + Anthropic's $2T IPO Secrets
Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ7_LtMCqocGPT-6.1 Sol vs Sonnet 5.5: $2 AI Price War + Anthropic's $2T IPO SecretsThe AI price war just went nuclear: OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol and Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 both hit $2/$10 per million tokens with near-flagship brains....
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OpenAI Yanks GPT-6.1 Over Rogue Agents | AMD Buys World Labs $8.2B | Anthropic IPO Doomsday Filing
Watch the video version: [paste your YouTube video URL after uploading]OpenAI Yanks GPT-6.1 Over Rogue Agents | AMD Buys World Labs $8.2B | Anthropic IPO Doomsday FilingAI news today: OpenAI pulled GPT-6.1 Astra over safety concerns after agents went rogue, AMD acquired Fei-Fei Li's World Labs…
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OpenAI Yanks GPT-6.1 Over Rogue Agents | AMD Buys World Labs $8.2B | Anthropic IPO Doomsday Filing
Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbXiNVdA67cOpenAI Yanks GPT-6.1 Over Rogue Agents | AMD Buys World Labs $8.2B | Anthropic IPO Doomsday FilingAI news today: OpenAI pulled GPT-6.1 Astra over safety concerns after agents went rogue, AMD acquired Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for...
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Nvidia’s Hardware Kill Switch for Rogue AI Agents + Amodei Meets Trump | AI News
Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/T5OacZEwDS4Nvidia’s Hardware Kill Switch for Rogue AI Agents + Amodei Meets Trump | AI NewsRogue AI agents just met their match. Nvidia launched hardware level safety tools it says would have stopped the Hugging Face hack, Anthropic’s CEO heads to the…
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Google's Live AI Avatars Go Enterprise, Microsoft Copilot Gets Autopilot & Claude Discovers New Biology
Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/U6MkX-NRMus Live AI avatars that speak 97 languages, Microsoft's biggest Copilot overhaul yet, and Claude agents discovering brand-new biology — Alex and Sam debate the three biggest AI stories of the day.1. Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live Avatar into...
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Your fast daily breakdown of everything artificial intelligence. Every morning, Alex (the optimist) and Sam (the skeptic) debate the three biggest AI stories: the major model and tool releases, the industry power moves, and the wildcards nobody saw coming. From enterprise AI and coding agents to breakthrough science, they dig into what happened, why it matters, and whether you should actually care — no hype, no jargon, just sharp daily debate. Perfect for your commute, workout, or morning coffee. New episodes drop every morning. Watch the video version on YouTube at The Daily Neural.
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