AI with Kyle

Kyle Balmer

AI With Kyle – Daily AI News With Zero Hype, Zero BS AI With Kyle is the daily podcast for people who want to understand artificial intelligence without hype, without jargon, and without getting lost in marketing nonsense. Every day, Kyle breaks down the biggest AI news, model releases, research updates, leaks, lawsuits, policy moves, and industry shifts - fast, clear, and brutally honest. If you're tired of exaggerated claims, clickbait headlines, or breathless “AGI tomorrow” predictions, this show gives you what actually matters in AI right now. Every episode covers: Major AI model releases and upgrades (OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Meta, xAI, Mistral) Real benchmarks, real performance, and how new models actually behave The business story behind AI: funding rounds, strategy changes, earnings, and power plays Research explained plainly - world models, multimodality, reinforcement learning, generative video, synthetic data Practical impacts for creators, entrepreneurs, and businesses Regulation, AI safety, copyright cases, and everything changing the landscape Tech industry shifts happening under the surface This show is perfect for: Founders and entrepreneurs Creators and educators Business leaders following AI strategy Anyone who wants signal, not noise What you get here: Straight explanations Clear context No hype No fluffy futurism Just the important stuff AI changes daily. This podcast helps you keep up - not by guessing about the future, but by understanding the present. Subscribe if you want calm, honest, daily AI coverage you can actually trust.

  1. 1 day ago

    204: What do you ask the smartest AI in the world? (but you only get one shot)

    Get AI-Ready with Kyle’s 5-Day Challenge: https://aiwithkyle.com/join Subscribe and turn on notifications to catch the next live stream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChlLglbHDASnoGkbjDeHnQg Summary:  Fable 5 is back on the normal Claude subscription, but only for a few days, and then it vanishes behind a genuinely eye-watering price. Which puts you in an odd spot: the smartest AI in the world is sitting in your app, and you have roughly one prompt a day to use it. So the question stops being what it can do, and becomes what on earth you should ask it. This video is my answer, built around one idea: treat it less like a chatbot and more like the Oracle of Delphi. I walk through the method I have been using all week. Leave the mundane jobs to the cheaper models. Use one of those cheaper models to help you draft the question first, then hand the finished thing to Fable 5 in a single fully specced shot, with a safety net so it never has to come back and ask. And the questions worth your one shot are the uncomfortable ones. Where am I wasting my time. What am I avoiding. What would embarrass me if someone sharp studied my work for an hour. Big model, big questions. It turns out the hard part was never the AI. —— Time Stamps —— 00:00 Fable Is Back: You Have Until July 7th 01:33 Fable Will Be the New Normal 02:07 Two Mistakes People Are Making With Fable 03:23 The Right Mindset: Big Model, Big Problems 04:49 Use a Dumber AI to Write Your Fable Prompts 06:34 Usage Limits & the One-Prompt Strategy 07:45 How I Use Fable: Brutal Self-Challenge Questions 09:26 The Real Skill: Asking Better Questions 10:45 Time-Sensitive: Why $20 Is Worth It Right Now 12:05 Your Homework This Weekend 13:04 Resources & Wrap-Up — Useful Resources —— Find everything else at https://aiwithkyle.com/

    14 min
  2. 2 days ago

    203: Open Source AI Explained

    Get AI-Ready with Kyle’s 5-Day Challenge: https://aiwithkyle.com/join Subscribe and turn on notifications to catch the next live stream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChlLglbHDASnoGkbjDeHnQg Summary:  Everyone's suddenly an expert on open source AI, and almost nobody's using the term correctly. I break down what open weights actually means, why it's not the same as open source and definitely not the same as free, and why your laptop has zero chance of running a 753 billion parameter model no matter how many browser tabs you close first. I walk through Hugging Face, show you what's actually inside these model files, and explain the real difference between downloading a model and being able to run one. If you've heard people throw around GLM, DeepSeek or Qwen and nodded along without having a clue what any of it means, this sorts it out in non tech speak. —— Time Stamps —— 0:00 Open Source vs Open Weight AI: Why It Matters 0:40 The Open Source Price War: Why Anthropic & OpenAI Are Scared 1:49 Claude Sonnet 5 vs GLM 5.2: Anthropic's IPO Nightmare 3:15 What Open Source Actually Means (It's Not Free) 4:48 Open Weights vs Open Source: The Taxi, Car & Kit Car Analogy 7:08 How to Download AI Models: Hugging Face Walkthrough 8:06 Inside GLM 5.2: Licenses, Safetensors & 753 Billion Parameters 10:32 Running AI Models Locally: Hardware Requirements & Quantization 11:55 American vs Chinese Open Source Models: Who's Left in the Game 13:34 Open Source AI Rankings: The Top Models Are All Chinese 14:57 Trillion-Dollar IPOs vs China's Undercut Strategy 17:58 Cost Per Intelligence: $2.75 vs 50 Cents Per Task 20:39 The AI Triage System: Which Model for Which Task 23:06 Newsletter, Webinar & How to Get Paid Teaching AI — Useful Resources —— Find everything else at https://aiwithkyle.com/

    25 min
  3. 4 days ago

    202: Will You Get Access to the Best AI? (ChatGPT 5.6 BANNED)

    Get AI-Ready with Kyle’s 5-Day Challenge: https://aiwithkyle.com/join Subscribe and turn on notifications to catch the next live stream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChlLglbHDASnoGkbjDeHnQg Summary:  I want to talk about something that's been bothering me for weeks now. GPT 5.6 just landed, and it's not coming to you or me. It's going straight to a vetted list approved by the US government, the same thing that happened to Claude Mythos and Fable not long before it. In this one I break down what's actually in the GPT 5.6 release, how Sol and Terra compare to Mythos on the benchmarks that matter, and why the real question in 2026 isn't whether a model is smart anymore. Every model is smart now. The question is whether you're allowed to use it. Then I get into what to actually do about it. I cover open source alternatives like GLM and Gemma, why running a model locally on your own machine has gone from a nerdy side project to a genuinely sensible backup plan, and how to start spreading your dependence across more than one provider before the next lockdown happens. If you run a business on any of these tools, this is the part you really shouldn't skip. —— Time Stamps —— 0:00 Why I'm Disillusioned With AI for the First Time 0:51 AI Lockdowns: Fable Banned & GPT-5.6 Restricted 2:52 Meet GPT-5.6: Sol, Terra & Luna Model Family 4:16 Too Dangerous to Release: The US Government Steps In 5:44 The Benchmarks: Just as Powerful, Far More Efficient 8:39 The Real Threat: Bioweapons & Hacking Banks 9:10 The Permission Era: A New Digital Divide 10:11 The Fix: Open Weights & Open Source 10:48 Chinese Open Source Models: GLM 5.2 Max 11:41 Run Powerful AI Locally on Your Own Machine 13:12 Dario Amodei's Crusade Against Open Source 13:56 How to Set Up Local Models on Your Devices 14:27 Don't Depend on One Model (or One Country) 15:53 The New Question: Do You Even Have Access? 16:51 IPO Fallout & Final Thoughts — Useful Resources —— Find everything else at https://aiwithkyle.com/

    18 min
  4. 24 Jun

    201: The Complete Guide to Building an AI Second Brain

    Get AI-Ready with Kyle’s 5-Day Challenge: https://aiwithkyle.com/join Subscribe and turn on notifications to catch the next live stream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChlLglbHDASnoGkbjDeHnQg Summary:  Today I'm tackling the problem nearly everyone using AI seriously eventually hits: your tools don't talk to each other. ChatGPT on your phone has no idea what Claude Code did on your desktop, and Codex on your laptop is working blind to both. I walk through how to build a vendor agnostic AI vault, a shared brain made of simple markdown files that any tool can read, so your context stops getting lost between apps. I show you how to get an AI to interview you and build the entire folder structure for you, no technical setup required, and where GitHub and Obsidian actually fit into the picture (hint: Obsidian is for you, not the AI). If you've seen those gorgeous Obsidian graph diagrams floating around and felt like you were missing something, this clears it up. I explain why the vault, not Obsidian, is the actual brain, why GitHub is the smartest way to sync it across devices, and how to keep growing the system over time so it gets more useful the more you use it. Whether you're juggling client projects, personal life admin or a dozen half finished side builds, this gives every AI tool you use the same source of truth. —— Time Stamps —— 0:00 The Problem: Your AI Tools Don't Share Memory 0:36 The Obsidian Vault Hype, Explained Simply 1:30 Why Your AI Context Is Scattered in 2026 2:39 What Is a Markdown File? 4:17 How Obsidian Works and Why the Vault Matters More 5:33 Structuring Your Vault: Personal, Business, Projects 6:35 Let the AI Interview You to Build It 7:14 README, AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md Explained 9:13 Use Claude Code or Codex: The Interview Prompt 10:02 Pro Tip: Use a Microphone and Just Talk 10:38 Make It a GitHub Repo for a Durable Vault 11:47 Recap: Obsidian Is Optional, Start Now 12:27 Wrap-Up and Free Newsletter — Useful Resources —— Find everything else at https://aiwithkyle.com/

    13 min
  5. 17 Jun

    200: Fable 5 BANNED: If You're Not American, Sorry.

    Get AI-Ready with Kyle’s 5-Day Challenge: https://aiwithkyle.com/join Subscribe and turn on notifications to catch the next live stream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChlLglbHDASnoGkbjDeHnQg Summary:  The most advanced AI model ever released to the public, Anthropic's Fable 5, was pulled from shelves roughly 48 hours after launch. Not by Anthropic. By the US government, citing national security and export control concerns. The ban applies to all foreign nationals, meaning non-US citizens are locked out entirely. I went through the full timeline on the live: the jailbreak, the Amazon angle, David Sacks' government-side narrative, and why Dario Amodei arguably talked his own model into a ban by spending months telling everyone it was a weapon. The more interesting question though isn't whether we get Fable back. It's what this reveals about the structure underneath all of it. You don't own your AI access. It's rented land. A government or a boardroom decision and it's gone, sometimes with 90 minutes' notice. In this one I get into what that actually means practically: local models, open source alternatives, the geopolitical chess game between the US and China, and the one skill that matters regardless of which model you're using.  —— Time Stamps —— 0:00 Fable & Mythos Banned: What Happened and Why It Matters 0:51 Background: Fable vs Mythos, Project Glasswing & the "Super Weapon" 2:58 Why People Fell in Love With Fable 5 (Expert Reactions) 7:10 The Ban Timeline: Launch, Backlash & the 90-Minute Export Order 9:52 What Triggered the Ban? Speculation & the Enforcement Problem 11:29 The David Sacks Narrative: The Government's Side of the Story 13:50 Pliny Jailbreaks Fable 5 15:15 Anthropic vs the Administration: The Standoff 17:38 The Foreign National Rule & the Digital ID Threat 20:09 Why You Should Learn Local & Open-Source Models (LM Studio Guide) 24:34 Think Bigger: The Real Skill as AI Keeps Improving 25:42 Big Open Questions: China, the IPO & AI Geopolitics 29:00 Newsletter & Webinar: Get Paid to Teach AI — Useful Resources —— Find everything else at https://aiwithkyle.com/

    32 min
  6. 15 Jun

    199: Claude Fable 5 & Mythos: The Most Powerful AI Model Ever Built

    Hand big work to AI without getting burned (Free Guide): https://aiwithkyle.com/mini/fable-commissioning Get AI-Ready with Kyle’s 5-Day Challenge: https://aiwithkyle.com/join Subscribe and turn on notifications to catch the next live stream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChlLglbHDASnoGkbjDeHnQg Summary:  Claude Fable 5 and Mythos are here, and they've quietly split the AI world in two. In this episode I break down exactly what these models are, why most people are only getting Fable and not Mythos, and what the June 22nd deadline actually means for your access. The hierarchy has shifted: it no longer goes Opus, Sonnet, Haiku. There's a new tier above all of that, and it costs significantly more than your current subscription.The uncomfortable truth is that $200 a month now puts you in the lower class of AI user. The models capable of genuinely transformative work are heading toward pay-per-use pricing at roughly $40 an hour, and only businesses with serious cash flow will run them at scale. I cover what this bifurcation means practically, who it affects, and how to get the most out of Fable while you still have free access.  —— Time Stamps —— 0:00 This Week in AI: Mythos, Fable 5 & the IPO News 1:20 First Impressions: Why Fable 5 Feels Like a Step Change 3:13 Prompting vs. Commissioning: A New Way to Work With AI 4:55 The Backstory: "Most Dangerous Model," Glasswing & the IPO 6:13 The New Model Hierarchy: Where Fable Fits 7:00 Safeguards: Why Biomedical Researchers Got Cut Off 7:50 Ethan Mollick's Isochronic Map: What Fable Can Really Do 9:02 AI as a $40-an-Hour Employee & the Impact on Jobs 10:37 The Black Box Problem & Distillation Attacks 11:56 Is Fable Overkill? When Not to Use It 12:38 Solving Big Problems: The Youth Unemployment Case Study 13:42 The June 22nd Cutoff & the AI Wealth Divide 16:15 Controversies: Gatekeeping, Jailbreaks & Transparency 17:42 AI for the People or the Elites? OpenAI's Opening 18:50 Wrap-Up & Free Newsletter — Useful Resources —— Find everything else at https://aiwithkyle.com/

    19 min
  7. 8 Jun

    198: AI SEO: How to Show Up in ChatGPT & AI Overviews

    Get AI-Ready with Kyle’s 5-Day Challenge: https://aiwithkyle.com/join Subscribe and turn on notifications to catch the next live stream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChlLglbHDASnoGkbjDeHnQg Summary:  AI search is eating into Google and if your business isn't showing up inside ChatGPT, Claude, or Google's AI Overviews, you're already behind. In this video I go through what Ahrefs found across 1 billion data points and 14 studies: which content formats actually get cited by AI, why schema markup does essentially nothing, and why YouTube turns out to be the single strongest signal for AI brand visibility. Yes, really. Practical stuff only. Blog listicles, homepage rewrites, reviews, directories, podcasts, and a YouTube strategy most businesses are completely sleeping on. Nobody's even agreed on a name for this yet (GEO? AEO? LLM SEO?) but the playbook is simpler than you'd think. —— Time Stamps —— 0:00 Intro: How to Be Discoverable Inside AI 01:07 What Do We Even Call It? AI SEO vs GEO vs AEO 1:39 AI Still Looks for Real Evidence Across Surfaces 2:59 Blog Listicles: ChatGPT's #1 Cited Content Format 3:40 Chatbots vs Google AI Overviews Explained 5:34 Wikipedia & the Sources Marketers Can't Control 6:35 The Hidden Discovery Layer: Zero Google Visibility 7:46 Retrieved vs Cited: ChatGPT's 50% Citation Gap 8:27 Off-Site Signals: Reviews, Podcasts & Directories 9:22 Why YouTube Is the #1 Signal for AI Visibility 10:43 How AI Overviews Are Killing Your Website Clicks 12:28 Comparison Pages & Why Schema Markup Is a Waste 14:36 Stop Tricking the Algorithm — Just Be Useful 15:19 The Practical AI Visibility Checklist 16:17 Wrap-Up & Free Resources — Useful Resources —— Find everything else at https://aiwithkyle.com/

    17 min

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AI With Kyle – Daily AI News With Zero Hype, Zero BS AI With Kyle is the daily podcast for people who want to understand artificial intelligence without hype, without jargon, and without getting lost in marketing nonsense. Every day, Kyle breaks down the biggest AI news, model releases, research updates, leaks, lawsuits, policy moves, and industry shifts - fast, clear, and brutally honest. If you're tired of exaggerated claims, clickbait headlines, or breathless “AGI tomorrow” predictions, this show gives you what actually matters in AI right now. Every episode covers: Major AI model releases and upgrades (OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Meta, xAI, Mistral) Real benchmarks, real performance, and how new models actually behave The business story behind AI: funding rounds, strategy changes, earnings, and power plays Research explained plainly - world models, multimodality, reinforcement learning, generative video, synthetic data Practical impacts for creators, entrepreneurs, and businesses Regulation, AI safety, copyright cases, and everything changing the landscape Tech industry shifts happening under the surface This show is perfect for: Founders and entrepreneurs Creators and educators Business leaders following AI strategy Anyone who wants signal, not noise What you get here: Straight explanations Clear context No hype No fluffy futurism Just the important stuff AI changes daily. This podcast helps you keep up - not by guessing about the future, but by understanding the present. Subscribe if you want calm, honest, daily AI coverage you can actually trust.

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