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AI First Pod — 108 episodes

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Trump and Xi Are Meeting Right Now. Here's What Matters for AI.

2

The AI Chip IPO Everyone Wants a Piece Of — Cerebras Prices Tomorrow

3

Four Chinese Labs. Twelve Days. Frontier-Level AI at a Third of the Price.

4

OpenAI's Mystery Device Is a Smart Speaker With a Camera. Here's What That Actually Means

5

Anthropic Is About to Become the World's Most Valuable AI Company. Here's What That Means.

6

OpenAI's Former CTO Just Testified That Sam Altman "Created Chaos." Here's What That Means

7

A Secret AI Download, a Friendliness Trade-Off, and a Power Grid Under Strain. Your Wednesday Briefing

8

Anthropic Goes All-In on Wall Street — and Hammers Financial Data Stocks

9

Google's Earnings Were the Best of the Season. Here's Why That Matters.

10

$145 Billion. The AI Spending Race Has No Finish Line in Sight.

11

OpenAI's Trillion-Dollar IPO Race — And Why Anthropic Is Closing the Gap

12

Your AI Chats Aren't Private. A Federal Judge Just Made That Official.

13

The Most Important Week in AI So Far in 2026 — A Friday Recap

14

AI Had to Show Its Work Last Night. Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon Delivered.

15

Microsoft and OpenAI Just Changed the Rules — Hours Before Earnings

16

DeepSeek V4 Just Changed the Open-Source AI Game — And It Wasn't Built on Nvidia

17

Google's $40 Billion Bet on Anthropic — And the AI Workforce Reckoning Begins

18

OpenAI's "Spud" Dethrones Claude — The AI Race Resets Again

19

Anthropic AI Cyber Defense Breakthrough + CrowdStrike Agentic Patching & 47% Breach Reduction

20

DeepMind AI Solid-State Battery Breakthrough + QuantumScape Tests & Tesla Next-Gen Partnership

21

DeepMind AI Precision Farming + John Deere Autonomous Tractors & FAO Smallholder Toolkit

22

xAI Autonomous Space AI + ESA Traffic Center & 31% Cheaper Space Missions

23

DeepMind AI Quantum Simulator + IBM Error Correction & 5–7 Year Superconductor Acceleration

24

DeepMind Ultra-Fast Climate AI + EU Carbon Dashboard & IPCC Sea-Level Breakthrough

25

Anthropic Claude Agent 2.0 + Google Gemini Agents & Gartner 60% Knowledge Worker Forecast

26

Figure AI Humanoids in Manufacturing + Amazon Robotic Scaling & Embodied AI $5T Forecast

27

Adobe AI Creative Collaborators + Midjourney Agentic Tools & 42% Creator Productivity Boost

28

AI Revives Endangered Languages + UNESCO Heritage Initiative & Microsoft Tribal Partnership

29

DeepMind AI for Poaching Detection + Wildlife Guardian Platform & Coral Reef Protection

30

DeepMind AI Urban Simulator + Singapore City Twin & Smart Grid Optimization

31

AI for Personalized Nutrition Breakthrough + Lancet Diabetes Study & Global Dietary Dataset

32

DeepMind AI for Disaster Prediction + UN Humanitarian Alliance & WHO Outbreak Warning

33

AI Drug Discovery Breakthrough + Insilico Phase 2 Success & 31% Better Cancer Detection

34

JPMorgan AI Risk Breakthrough + Goldman Trading Agent & $2B Visa Fraud Prevention

35

70% of Large Law Firms Now Use AI + Harvey AI $3B Valuation & UK Government Pilot

36

AI Learning Tools Reach 1.8 Billion Students + Duolingo Adaptive Tutor & OECD Equity Warning

37

Waymo Hits 50 Million Autonomous Miles + Cruise Weather Update & NHTSA Safety Data

38

AI Mental Health Companions Surge to 45 Million Users + FDA Clearance & Lancet Warning

39

DeepMind AI for Scientific Discovery + SciAgent Platform & IBM Life Sciences Tools

40

AI Adoption Surges Among Small Businesses + Shopify Tools & OECD Productivity Gains

41

Adobe Firefly Video Launch + Hollywood AI Agreement & 60% Game Devs Using AI

42

Siri Goes Agentic + Samsung Hits 200M Voice AI Users & Voice Companions for Seniors

43

Neuromorphic Chip Breakthrough + Tesla Optimus Update & Global AI Divide Warning

44

Figure AI Humanoid Pilots Launch + Amazon Digit Order & AI-Assisted Surgery Breakthrough

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Hugging Face Hits 1.2 Million Models + Llama 4 Maverick & EU AI Transparency Rules

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Hugging Face Hits 1.2 Million Models + Llama 4 Maverick & EU AI Transparency Rules

47

o3-pro for Everyone + Claude 4 Sonnet & $4B Healthcare Agentic Deal

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NVIDIA Vera CPU Launch + GM Robotics Deal & Modular AI Factories

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NVIDIA Vera CPU Launch + GM Robotics Deal & Modular AI Factories

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Grok-3.5 Launch + Mistral Multilingual Gains & $2.5B Enterprise Agentic Deal

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NVIDIA Vera CPU Launch + GM Robotics Deal & Modular AI Factories

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NVIDIA Vera CPU Launch + GM Robotics Deal & Modular AI Factories

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Grok-3.5 Launch + Mistral Multilingual Gains & $2.5B Enterprise Agentic Deal

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NVIDIA Vera CPU Launch + GM Robotics Deal & Modular AI Factories

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Grok-3.5 Launch + Mistral Multilingual Gains & $2.5B Enterprise Agentic Deal

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Grok-3.5 Launch + Mistral Multilingual Gains & $2.5B Enterprise Agentic Deal

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ChatGPT Uninstalls Surge 295% After Pentagon Deal + Stripe's AI Cost Monetization

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Grok-3.5 Drops + Mistral Multilingual Leap & $8–9T Agentic GDP Forecast

59

NVIDIA Cosmos: Hyper-Realistic AI Simulation + $100B Microsoft Cloud Push

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AI Avatars Are Coming to Meetings, Creative AI Agents Rise, and the $14B Infrastructure Race

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o3-mini for Everyone + Claude 3.7 Agentic Leap & $7T GDP Forecast

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Strawberry Reasoning Leap + Edge Multimodal & AI Infrastructure Funding Shift

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Grok-3 Drops + Mistral's Multilingual Leap & $1B Agentic Enterprise Deal

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LeCun Redefines AGI as SAI + Cursor's Custom Agentic Coding Leap

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Anthropic Branded "Supply-Chain Risk" + Vows Court Fight vs. Pentagon

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"Agentic Slop" Backlash Grows + DeepMind's Swarm Oversight Breakthrough

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Investors Done With AI Wrappers + Claude Tops App Store Amid Pentagon Fight

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ChatGPT Uninstalls Surge 295% After Pentagon Deal + Stripe's AI Cost Monetization

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London's Biggest Anti-AI Protest + Claude Outage Hits Thousands

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Investors Done With AI Wrappers + Claude Tops App Store Amid Pentagon Fight

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ChatGPT Hits 900M Weekly Users + OpenAI's Pentagon Classified Deal

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Anthropic Rejects Pentagon Demand + 12% of Teens Use AI for Emotional Support

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Agentic AI Hits Enterprise & Phones: $3M Trace + Samsung S26 "Truly Agentic"

74

GPT-5.3-Codex Drops: 25% Faster Agentic Coding + Vision-Only Self-Driving Leap

75

First Prompt-Free Agentic Security Suite + CrowdStrike: AI Attacks Hit 29-Min Breakouts

76

Sam Altman: AI Water Concerns Are "Fake" + Framework for Real Human-AI Impact

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Agentic AI Rewards Context-Switchers + Microsoft Rejects "AI Slop"

78

"Slow This Thing Down": Sanders Warns on AI Jobs + South Korea's AI Boom

79

India AI Summit Ends with $270B Boom + US Agent Standards Launch

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OpenAI Locks In 100 MW in India + Reliance's $110B AI Bet

81

India AI Summit Heats Up: Microsoft's $50B Pledge + Apple's AI Glasses Push

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From Personal Agents to Massive Data Centers: Today's Global AI Moves

83

India's AI Summit Ignites: Global Leaders Converge + Anthropic's Name Clash

84

AI Cracks Physics: OpenAI's Breakthrough + China's Video Revolution

85

AI Regulation Tightens, Open-Source Surges & Healthcare Models Advance

86

AI Policy, Developer Shifts, UN Panel & AI in Music and Workflows

87

AI's Global Policy Push, Pentagon AI Use & Breakthrough Models

88

AI Agents, Global AI Summit & Code Innovation

89

AI in Healthcare, Enterprise Agents & Consumer AI Updates

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Claude Opus 4.6, Global AI Weeks & Rising Enterprise Impact

91

Code, Agents & Enterprise AI: New Models and Real-World Adoption

92

AI at the Super Bowl, $650B AI Race & Middle East AI Momentum

93

AI Spending Shockwaves, Competitive Model Releases & Global AI Week

94

AI Agents, Stock Turmoil & AI's Next Real-World Frontier

95

Google's AI Investment Surge, AI Governance Shifts & Frontier Model Progress

96

From AI Agents to Data Rights: The Next Stress Test for Artificial Intelligence

97

Open Models, Rising Regulation, and Where AI Is Headed Next

98

Open-Source AI Risks, Next-Gen Chips, Agentic Tools & Skills Gap Challenges

99

Google's AI Browser Moves, Meta's Reset, Social AI Swarms, and the Cisco AI Summit

100

AI Compliance Automation, Infrastructure Push & Security Risks

101

The Quiet AI Shift: Infrastructure, Open Models, and the Productivity Reality

102

Apple's AI Audio Bet, Space-Based AI Data Centers, and the Global Chip Power Shift

103

AI Regulation, Open Weather Models, Workplace Productivity, and Finance

104

AI in Everyday Life: Courts, Siri, Gaming, and the Pushback Against Automation

105

AI Trust and Safety: From Breakthroughs to Real-World Impact

106

Nuclear Power, AI Infrastructure, and the Widening Global AI Gap

107

AI Stability: Regulation, Infrastructure, and the Rise of AI Agents

108

AI Economics: The Real Limits of Scale, Chips, and Cost