Inside AI Morning Brief

Anthropic's secret Mythos AI model just leaked — a step change beyond anything we have seen.A configuration error exposed 3,000 unpublished assets revealing Claude Mythos dramatically outperforms Opus 4.6 in coding, reasoning, and cybersecurity.Also in today's episode:- SoftBank 40B loan signals OpenAI IPO this year- Claude paid subscribers more than doubled in 2026- Google drops Gemini 3 Deep Think upgrade- Grok faces class-action lawsuit over AI deepfakes- EU plans digital divorce from US tech- NVIDIA open-sources AI Agent ToolkitFollow @aarjay.ai on all platforms for daily AI news.

The biggest week in AI just happened. Here's what you need to know:• 3,000 internal assets leaked from Anthropic — revealing Claude Mythos, rated #1 in cyber capabilities• SoftBank secured a $40B unsecured loan betting on OpenAI's IPO at $840B valuation• Anthropic raised $30B in Series G — paid subscribers more than doubled• Google Gemini 3 DeepThink hit gold medal level on physics and chemistry Olympiads• Grok generated 4.4M images in 9 days, triggering a class action lawsuit5 key players. 5 very different approaches. The race is on.Follow @aarjay.ai on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube for daily AI news.

Today on Inside AI with Aarjay: Pentagon doubles down on Anthropic — DOJ appeals court order blocking the blacklist. $200M contract at stake. Microsoft goes frontier — Building in-house AI models by 2027, reducing OpenAI dependence. 52K tech layoffs in Q1 — Up 40% YoY. Andreessen calls AI the "silver bullet excuse." Follow @aarjay.ai on all platforms.

Oracle swings the axe to fund its AI infrastructure bet, Microsoft pours $5.5B into Singapore, Anthropic leaks 512K lines of Claude Code source in a packaging mishap, and Perplexity gets sued over hidden tracking. Trust is in short supply across the board.

Disney just dropped $1 billion to pipe 200+ iconic characters — Mickey, Elsa, Darth Vader — straight into OpenAI's Sora video generator, and most people are missing what this actually means. This isn't a licensing deal; it's Disney betting that the future of content isn't studios making movies for you — it's you making movies with their IP, and they'd rather own the tollbooth than fight the traffic. I break down the economics, why this kills the "AI will destroy Hollywood" narrative, and what it signals for every media company still sitting on the sideline.

Q1 2026: $297B in startup funding. OpenAI buys TBPN talk show. Anthropic drops $400M on 10 engineers. Apple turns 50 and admits it blew AI. Tariffs could price startups out of frontier AI.Your Sunday briefing from Inside AI with Aarjay.Follow @aarjay.ai

Oracle swings the axe to fund its AI infrastructure bet, Microsoft pours $5.5B into Singapore, Anthropic leaks 512K lines of Claude Code source in a packaging mishap, and Perplexity gets sued over hidden tracking. Trust is in short supply across the board.