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AI First Pod — 162 episodes

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Tesla Just Capped Employee AI Spending at $200 a Week. The Enterprise Token Reckoning Is Here.

2

The UN Just Opened Its First Global AI Governance Summit. Here's What It Can and Can't Do.

3

The Pentagon Emails Are Public. They Reveal Why Anthropic Really Got Pulled Offline.

4

57,000 Jobs Added in June. AI Is Named. And the White House Is Writing Voluntary Standards.

5

Amazon Reported the Fable 5 Jailbreak. But Every Other Model Could Do It Too.

6

Fable 5 Is Coming Back Tomorrow. Here's Exactly What's Changed.

7

GPT-5.6 Just Scored 91.9% on the Coding Benchmark. And June 2026 Is Over.

8

Mythos Is Partially Back. Fable 5 Is Still Offline. And We Still Don't Have a Framework.

9

The Government's AI Clearinghouse Is Due in 4 Days. There's Been No Announcement. Here's What to Watch.

10

A Senate Hearing Revealed Why Fable 5 Was Really Pulled. The Answer Is More Alarming Than Anyone Said.

11

Google Lost 4 AlphaFold Researchers to Anthropic in 6 Days. The Market Wiped $270 Billion.

12

OpenAI Just Entered the Chip Business. Meet Jalapeño — and Why It Changes the Economics of AI.

13

Oracle Just Put AI Job Cuts in an SEC Filing. That's a Legal First — and a Warning for Every HR Team.

14

Fable 5 Just Moved Behind a Paywall. Anthropic Hasn't Said a Word About the Six Lost Days.

15

The Man Who Invented the Transformer Just Joined OpenAI. Google Paid $2.7B to Keep Him. It Lasted 22 Months.

16

Bots Now Outnumber Humans on the Web. Cloudflare's CEO Didn't See It Coming This Fast.

17

Why the Government Really Pulled Fable 5. The SK Telecom Story Explains It.

18

The Fable 5 Shutdown Is Accelerating America's AI Competitors. Here's the Damage Report.

19

The UK and EU Just Called the Fable 5 Shutdown a Sovereignty Wake-Up Call. They're Right.

20

Anthropic Says Amazon Engineers Produced the Jailbreak That Got Fable 5 Shut Down.

21

The US Government Just Pulled Anthropic's Best AI Model Offline. Here's the Full Story.

22

Colorado Delayed Its AI Law, the EU Didn't, and a Leaked OpenAI Spec Points to a Pre-IPO Model Launch.

23

A Chinese AI Lab Just Called Its New Model "Recursive Self-Improvement." That's a Big Deal.

24

Trump and Bernie Sanders Both Think the Government Should Own AI Companies. Here's Why That Matters.

25

SPCX Is Trading Right Now. But Tomorrow's MSCI Inclusion Matters More Than Today's Open.

26

SpaceX Prices Tonight. And a $60 Billion Acquisition Closes 30 Days After Trading Starts.

27

SPCX Is Trading Right Now. Here's the Bull Case, the Bear Case, and What Index Inclusion Could Mean.

28

Apple Finally Fixed Siri. Here's What Siri AI Actually Does — and What It Doesn't.

29

Apple's Rebuilt Siri Is on Stage Right Now. Here's Why This Keynote Is Tim Cook's Most Important.

30

Congress Just Dropped a 269-Page AI Bill That Would Freeze Every State Law for 3 Years

31

The SpaceX Roadshow Is Live. Morningstar Says It's Worth Half the Ask. Here's What Investors Need to Know.

32

Microsoft Just Declared AI Independence From OpenAI. Seven Models. No OpenAI Data. A Tenth of the Cost.

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The SpaceX IPO Roadshow Is Live. Here's What Investors Are Actually Buying.

34

Microsoft Just Cut the OpenAI Cord. GitHub Copilot Gets Its Own AI Model by August.

35

Microsoft Build Is Live Today. Here's What's at Stake — and Why Developers Are Watching Closely.

36

Anthropic Just Bought the Developer Tool OpenAI and Google Depended On — Then Shut It Down.

37

Amazon Built a $20 Billion Chip Empire. Almost Nobody Is Talking About It.

38

Claude Opus 4.8 Is Out. The Benchmark Numbers Aren't the Story.

39

Three of the Big Four Are Now Running on Claude. Here's Why That's a Bigger Deal Than It Sounds.

40

AI Found 10,000 Critical Software Bugs in One Month. Patches Can't Keep Up.

41

China Just Put Its Top AI Researchers Under Travel Restrictions.

42

Apple's New Siri Runs on Google Gemini. WWDC Is June 8th. Here's What's Coming.

43

Anthropic Just Became the World's Most Valuable AI Company. Here's What That Means.

44

AI Just Solved an 80-Year Math Problem. And Then Things Got Stranger.

45

SpaceX Just Revealed Anthropic Pays Them $1.25 Billion Every Single Month

46

Musk Lost in Under Two Hours. The OpenAI Case Is Over — For Now.

47

The White House Just Blinked on AI Regulation. Here's What the Draft Executive Order Actually Says.

48

Google Just Rebuilt the Search Box for the First Time in 25 Years. Here's What That Means.

49

Google I/O Is Today. Here's What Google Has to Prove — and Why It's Not Easy.

50

OpenAI Just Hired McKinsey and Bain to Fund Their Own Replacement. Here's Why.

51

Anthropic Says 2026 Is America's Last Chance to Win the AI Race. Here's Why That Matters.

52

A 48-Person Company Just Dropped to 30 Employees in Four Months. AI Did It.

53

Cerebras Is Now a Public Company. Here's What the Market Is Actually Betting On.

54

Google Just Stopped the First AI-Generated Cyberattack. Here's What That Means

55

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

56

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

57

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

58

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

59

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

60

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

61

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

62

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

63

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

64

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

65

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

66

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

67

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

68

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

69

Microsoft and OpenAI Just Changed the Rules — Hours Before Earnings

70

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

71

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

72

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

73

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

74

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

75

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

76

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

77

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

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

79

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

80

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

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

82

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

90

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

91

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

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

93

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

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

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

96

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

97

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

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

99

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

101

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

102

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

113

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

114

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

116

Strawberry Reasoning Leap + Edge Multimodal & AI Infrastructure Funding Shift

117

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

118

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

119

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

120

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

121

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

123

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

124

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

125

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

126

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

127

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

128

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

129

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

130

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

131

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

132

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

133

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

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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

137

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

138

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

139

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

140

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

141

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

142

AI Agents, Global AI Summit & Code Innovation

143

AI in Healthcare, Enterprise Agents & Consumer AI Updates

144

Claude Opus 4.6, Global AI Weeks & Rising Enterprise Impact

145

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

146

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

147

AI Spending Shockwaves, Competitive Model Releases & Global AI Week

148

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

149

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

150

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

151

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

152

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

153

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

154

AI Compliance Automation, Infrastructure Push & Security Risks

155

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

156

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

157

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

158

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

159

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

160

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

161

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

162

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