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Ashley Coffey & Daniel Hill | AI Technology News
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Stay informed with AI News You Should Know About, your weekly briefing on the latest AI news and AI technology trends. Join hosts Ashley Coffey & Daniel Hill as they explore key AI headlines, breakthroughs, and the business impact of AI, helping you stay ahead in the ever-evolving tech landscape in 15 minutes or less.

  1. 3d ago

    WWDC 2026, Apple’s Siri Rebuild, Anthropic’s Employment Plan & Google’s AI Price War-AI News

    AI news this week: WWDC 2026 puts Apple back in the AI conversation with a complete rebuild of Siri, expanded AI integrations, and new choices for AI models across the Apple ecosystem. Meanwhile, Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5, a powerful new AI model with major implications for cybersecurity and enterprise AI, while also releasing contingency plans for a future where AI-driven unemployment could reach 25%. Plus, Google escalates the AI pricing war by cutting subscription costs and expanding access to its AI tools.  Your AI headlines, business technology trends, and tech news briefing—in under 15 minutes.  Tired of the boring tech news and AI headlines littering your feed? Listen to get the latest AI insights in less than the time it takes to choose what you’re going to watch next on Netflix. Key AI topics this week:  • WWDC 2026 highlights, Apple’s rebuilt Siri, and the future of Apple AI  • Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5 and advances AI-powered cybersecurity research  • AI employment impact and Anthropic’s planning for potential workforce disruption  • Google lowers AI subscription pricing as competition intensifies across enterprise AI  • The growing AI pricing war and what it means for businesses adopting AI tools    Links: At WWDC 2026 this week, Apple unveiled Siri AI, a complete rebuild of its voice assistant powered by a custom Google Gemini model. (TechCrunch) Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5, a model that tops benchmarks in coding, vision, knowledge work, and scientific research. (Anthropic Blog) Anthropic Has a Concept of a Plan if Unemployment Hits 25% (Gizmodo) Google just fired a warning shot in the AI subscription price wars (TechCrunch)     Connect with Ashley: Instagram Threads LinkedIn   Connect with Daniel: Instagram YouTube Threads   Leave a Review on Apple Podcasts!   Stay curious, stay informed, and stay hydrated! See you next week with more pivotal AI insights. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    15 min

  2. Jun 5

    AI News: AI Regulations, OpenAI + Oracle Stargate Infrastructure & DuckDuckGo's AI-Free Move

    AI news this week: A NY court rules AI-generated documents aren't protected by attorney-client privilege, while OpenAI and Oracle break ground on a $10B Stargate data center while ai datacenters continue to spark debate across the U.S. Plus, GitHub Copilot's skyrocketing costs and DuckDuckGo's no-AI surge. Your AI headlines, regulation updates, and tech news briefing—in under 15 minutes. Key AI topics this week: AI legal rulings and attorney-client privilege in NY Major AI infrastructure investments and economic impact from OpenAI and Oracle Rising costs and usage billing for AI tools as GitHub CoPilot costs skyrocket Consumer trust and shift in AI search engine preferences as DuckDuckGo launches a no-AI search Tired of the boring tech news and ai headlines littering your feed? Listen to get your ai news roundup in less than the time it takes to choose what you're going to watch next on Netflix. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    16 min

  3. May 29

    Trump’s Last-Minute Pull On U.S. AI Executive Order, Anthropic’s Billion-Dollar Valuation, Robinhood’s AI Trading, and Spotify Fan-Made Music Deals

    Your AI news briefing for May 29: Trump reverses course on U.S. AI regulation, Anthropic hits almost a billion-dollar valuation, and Robinhood rolls out Agentic AI trading — plus Spotify wants fan-made music deals to reshape creator rights. Your weekly digest on how policy, technology, and innovation are colliding. Stay informed in 15 minutes or less.   Links: Trump cancels AI executive order signing last minute due to innovation concerns.. (NPR) Draft: Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security (Politico) Anthropic Funding Round to Top $30B: $900B Valuation Would Surpass OpenAI as Most Valuable AI Startup (Tech Times) Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks (TechCrunch) Spotify and Universal Music strike deal allowing fan-made AI covers and remixes (TechCrunch) Connect with Ashley: Instagram Threads LinkedIn   Connect with Daniel: Instagram YouTube Threads   Leave a Review on Apple Podcasts!   Stay curious, stay informed, and stay hydrated! See you next week with more pivotal AI insights. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    16 min

  4. May 22

    Google Launches Gemini 3.5 at I/O, OpenAI Co-Founder Joins Anthropic: AI News

    Get the latest AI headlines and tech news this week in under 15 minutes! Ashley & Daniel break down Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash launch—4x faster than ChatGPT, OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joining Anthropic, and Clouted’s innovative approach to making short videos viral. Plus, why you might want to rethink mentioning AI in your 2026 commencement speech.   This episode delivers essential insights into AI innovation, talent shifts, and what these rapid developments mean for your business. Stay informed on the cutting edge of AI and tech trends with this authentic breakdown of the week’s biggest AI stories.   Links: Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash at I/O 2026, four times the speed of competing models like ChatGPT (Google Blog) OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pre-training team, stating “the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative.”(TechCrunch) Clouted wants to take the guesswork out of making short videos go viral (TechCrunch) If you’re giving a commencement speech in 2026, maybe don’t mention AI (TechCrunch) Connect with Ashley: Instagram Threads LinkedIn   Connect with Daniel: Instagram YouTube Threads   Leave a Review on Apple Podcasts!   Stay curious, stay informed, and stay hydrated! See you next week with more pivotal AI insights. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    17 min

  5. May 15

    AI Datacenters in Focus: Community Backlash and AI News Insights

    Stay ahead in AI news with a detailed look at how AI data centers are transforming communities, government security testing, and the cutting-edge mini data centers coming to your home.  This week on the show we’ll be talking about: Community Backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan (Guardian) Microsoft, Google and xAI will let the government test their AI models before launch (CNN) Data centers are coming for rural America (The Verge) The newest AI boom pitch: Host a mini data center at your home (ArsTechnica) YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/DipKNRqRLOw  Stay informed with "AI News You Should Know About" for smart insights and real-world impacts of AI innovation.  Chapters 00:00 Introduction to AI and Data Centers 00:55 Community Backlash Against Data Centers in Utah 07:00 Government Testing of AI Models  12:11 Data Centers in Rural America 15:11 Innovative Home Data Centers   Subscribe + Follow to be notified when new episodes go live.   Follow Ashley Coffey on Instagram Follow Daniel Hill on Instagram  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    17 min

  6. May 8

    OpenAI's GPT 5.5 Instant and an AI Agent Purposely Destroyed Production Data

    Most AI models get better by adding more data, but GPT 5.5 Instant proves that less can be more—delivering 53% fewer hallucinations, more concise responses, and sharper accuracy. The big question: are we moving toward smarter, safer AI, or just faster responses that sound right? This week we talk about Anthropic's rate limits, an AI agent that destroyed production data on purpose, and Spotify's plan to support AI generated personal audio podcasts.   Links: OpenAI’s new GPT-5.5 Instant is now ChatGPT’s default, cutting hallucinations 52% and pulling memory from past chats and Gmail. (OpenAI Blog) Anthropic doubled Claude Pro, Max, and Team rate limits and removed peak-hour caps after locking in 300MW of SpaceX’s Colossus 1 GPUs. (Y-Combinator) An AI Agent Just Destroyed Our Production Data. It Confessed in Writing. (Twitter) Spotify wants to become the home for AI-generated personal audio (TechCrunch) Connect with Ashley: Instagram Threads LinkedIn   Connect with Daniel: Instagram YouTube Threads   Leave a Review on Apple Podcasts!   Stay curious, stay informed, and stay hydrated! See you next week with more pivotal AI insights.   Links: OpenAI’s new GPT-5.5 Instant is now ChatGPT’s default, cutting hallucinations 52% and pulling memory from past chats and Gmail. (OpenAI Blog) Anthropic doubled Claude Pro, Max, and Team rate limits and removed peak-hour caps after locking in 300MW of SpaceX’s Colossus 1 GPUs. (Y-Combinator) An AI Agent Just Destroyed Our Production Data. It Confessed in Writing. (Twitter) Spotify wants to become the home for AI-generated personal audio (TechCrunch) Connect with Ashley: Instagram Threads LinkedIn   Connect with Daniel: Instagram YouTube Threads   Leave a Review on Apple Podcasts!   Stay curious, stay informed, and stay hydrated! See you next week with more pivotal AI insights. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    13 min

  7. Apr 30

    Taylor Swift Files to Trademark Her Voice and Likeness and Google Gemini can generate PDF, Word and Excel Files

    This episode covers the latest AI innovations including Anthropic's integration of Claude into creative apps, Google's new file generation capabilities, OpenAI's potential new phone, and Taylor Swift's AI trademark filings. Stay informed on how AI is transforming creative tools, mobile tech, and celebrity rights.   Anthropic plugged Claude into 9 creative apps including Photoshop, Blender, Ableton, and Fusion, letting you 3D model and edit scenes by prompt. (Anthropic Blog) Google Gemini can now generate full PDF, Word, Excel, Slides, and LaTeX files directly in chat, killing the copy-paste-into-blank-template loop. (Google Blog) OpenAI could be making a phone with AI agents replacing apps (TechCrunch) Taylor Swift Files to Trademark Her Voice and Likeness, Apparently to Protect Against AI Misuse (Variety)     Chapters   00:00 Introduction to AI News Highlights 00:58 Anthropic's Claude Integration in Creative Apps 03:36 Google Gemini's Document Generation Capabilities 05:37 OpenAI's Potential Smartphone with AI Agents 09:36 Taylor Swift's Trademark for Voice and Likeness     Connect with Ashley: Instagram Threads LinkedIn   Connect with Daniel: Instagram YouTube Threads   Leave a Review on Apple Podcasts!   Stay curious, stay informed, and stay hydrated! See you next week with more pivotal AI insights. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    15 min

  8. Apr 24

    ChatGPT Images 2.0 from OpenAI is Released and SpaceX Attempts to Purchase Cursor

    This week, we reveal how OpenAI's new ChatGPT Images 2.0 is transforming creative workflows with 2K resolution, native reasoning, and four times the image fidelity, while highlighting the pressing risks of AI vulnerabilities—like the 27-year-old bug uncovered by Anthropic’s Mythos that could crash critical systems.   Links: OpenAI launched ChatGPT Images 2.0 with native reasoning, 2K resolution, ~99% text accuracy, and up to 8 consistent images per prompt. (OpenAI Blog) SpaceX struck a $60B option to acquire AI coding startup Cursor later this year, or spend $10B on a Colossus supercomputer collaboration. (Yahoo Finance) Anthropic’s Mythos autonomously uncovered vulnerabilities that survived 27 years of human review. (Venturebeat) Bond, a new social media platform, wants to use AI to help you kick your doomscrolling habit (TechCrunch) Connect with Ashley: Instagram Threads LinkedIn   Connect with Daniel: Instagram YouTube Threads   Leave a Review on Apple Podcasts!   Stay curious, stay informed, and stay hydrated! See you next week with more pivotal AI insights. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    18 min
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