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A quick, five minute daily run down of some of the bigger AI stories catching Jason's attention. A little news, a little opinion. ALL OF IT exclusive to patrons! Paid patrons gain access to every Monday-Friday episode. Free patrons gain access to every Friday episode. patreon.com/aiinside for more information and to support the show!

  1. 18h ago

    AI INSIDE DAILY | Friday, November 13, 2026

    This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. Here are today's top stories in AI: Congress is coming for answers on Nvidia. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott summoned former CEO Jensen Huang and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to a December 3 hearing, with subpoenas on the table if they refuse. Three House committees made their own requests. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/13/nvidias-huang-lutnick-summoned-to-testify-to-us-senate A former OpenAI researcher says six Chinese open-weight models from DeepSeek, MiniMax, Moonshot AI, and Ant Group carry initialization fingerprints consistent with Nvidia's export-controlled Blackwell GPUs. The statistical confidence is in the hundreds to thousands of sigma. https://www.unite.ai/unemployment-labs-reports-blackwell-patterns-in-chinese-ai-models/ SpaceX announced more than $74 billion in AI data center plans across Arizona and Texas, with the Arizona campus targeting 6 gigawatts of power. https://stockanalysis.com/news/spacex-74-billion-data-centers-texas-arizona/ Google DeepMind released AlphaGenome 2, which nearly doubles detection of disease-linked DNA variants compared to the original. Trained on over 100 million single-cell profiles. https://dataconomy.com/2026/11/12/google-deepmind-releases-alphagenome-2-to-study-disease/ Grok 4.8, xAI's 2.5 trillion parameter model, has finished pre-training and entered reinforcement learning. Elon Musk described it as "not yet incredible." Unconfirmed reports suggest a quiet Bot rollout has begun. https://explainx.ai/blog/grok-4-8-soft-rollout-rl-cpp-stack-november-2026 This is the free episode each week. For the other four, it's five bucks a month at patreon.com/aiinsideshow.

  2. 1d ago

    AI INSIDE DAILY | Thursday, November 12, 2026

    Thank you for being a patron of AI Inside. Here are today's top stories in AI: Jensen Huang resigned from Nvidia, effective immediately. CFO Colette Kress is interim CEO. Jeff and I recorded a full special episode on this one, it should be in the feed now. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001045810/000104581026000082/nvidiaannouncesceotransiti.htm Google launched Gemini 4 Hydrogen, the Flash-tier model that's reportedly two and a half times faster than Gemini 3.8 Flash. It's being folded into Google's Antigravity orchestrator alongside Gemini 4 Carbon. https://www.unite.ai/google-launches-gemini-4-hydrogen-for-everyday-agentic-workflows/ The Anthropic IPO order book was covered on day one of the roadshow. At the midpoint pricing, the fully diluted valuation lands around 1.2 trillion dollars. https://www.renaissancecapital.com/IPO-Center/News/122657/anthropic-sets-terms-for-61-billion-ipo-targeting-a-1.2-trillion-market-cap London-based AI chip startup Fractile raised about 700 million dollars. Anthropic placed a 250 million dollar chip order. https://www.blockchain-council.org/news/uk-chip-startup-fractile-raises/ United Airlines is blocking third-party AI agents from booking flights. The agents were making mistakes and double-booking seats. https://www.engadget.com/2314121/united-is-restricting-ai-agents-from-booking-flights/

  3. Nov 6

    AI INSIDE DAILY | Friday, November 6, 2026

    This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. Here are today's top stories in AI: OpenAI published a "community compact" for its data centers, pledging to cover power costs and drop NDAs, as the Nasdaq fell more than 5% on Thursday amid election fallout. https://www.androidheadlines.com/2026/11/openai-data-center-policy-community-compact.html OpenAI launched GPT-6 Cyber, a security model that found 81 high-severity Firefox flaws and a critical Brotli vulnerability. https://thehackernews.com/2026/11/openai-launches-gpt-6-cyber-after-ai.html METR estimates Anthropic is improving model capabilities at roughly twice its earlier rate, with most of that acceleration driven by AI, but Anthropic redacted much of the supporting evidence. https://metr.org/blog/2026-11-05-anthropic-ai-rd-acceleration-assessment/ Thinking Machines Lab dropped Inkling 2 Small, a 594B-parameter mixture-of-experts model that matches Gemini 3.8 Flash on the Artificial Analysis index, with open weights coming next week. https://dataconomy.com/2026/11/06/thinking-machines-unveils-594b-parameter-inkling-2-small/ Anthropic launched a Personal Finance beta in Claude, connecting bank accounts through Plaid for read-only access to balances and two years of transactions. https://www.unite.ai/anthropic-introduces-read-only-personal-finance-beta-in-claude/ A large stockpile of Nvidia H200 chips is sitting in Hong Kong, awaiting Beijing's approval to import them to the mainland. https://www.trendforce.com/news/?p=60480 Patrons get AI Inside Daily every weekday. Five episodes a week for $5/month: https://www.patreon.com/aiinsideshow

  4. Oct 30

    AI INSIDE DAILY | Friday, October 30, 2026

    This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. Here are today's top stories in AI: Wall Street punished Alphabet with a $500 billion single-day loss after its Q3 filing revealed record AI capital spending and negative free cash flow. https://www.forbes.com/sites/fionariley/2026/10/29/google-parents-stock-tank-erases-nearly-500-billion-in-second-biggest-daily-market-cap-loss-ever/ Amazon reported the same evening with $77.3 billion in quarterly capex and a similar stock drop. https://aiweekly.co/alerts/amazons-aws-growth-hits-39-in-q3-as-capex-guide-jolts-stock A Wired report revealed that a personal Claude-based AI agent ran unsanctioned on the Pentagon's NIPRNet for two months. https://www.wired.com/story/a-defense-contractor-gave-their-personal-ai-agent-access-to-a-secure-pentagon-system/ DeepSeek reportedly doubled its funding round to $15 billion with Chinese state-owned investors holding 27 percent. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/deepseek-reportedly-raises-15b-days-after-us-restrictions/ A SpaceX filing confirmed Anthropic as its largest customer at 34.5 percent of Q3 revenue. https://teslanorth.com/2026/10/26/anthropic-s1-spacex-120b-compute/ DON'T FORGET! Patrons get AI Inside Daily every weekday. Five episodes a week for $5/month: https://www.patreon.com/aiinsideshow

  5. Oct 23

    AI INSIDE DAILY | Friday, October 23, 2026

    This is the free Friday episode! Here are today's top stories in AI: Citi, Bank of America, and JPMorgan are blocking third-party AI agents from customer accounts, citing rogue-agent risks and a potential $47 billion hit to deposits. https://thepaypers.com/fintech/news/citi-and-bank-of-america-restrict-ai-agents-from-accessing-accounts METR and Redwood Research found exploitable gaps in OpenAI's agent monitoring system, including one that could hide hundreds of agent actions. https://metr.org/blog/2026-10-22-red-teaming-openai-agent-monitoring/ China cleared DeepSeek and MiniMax to deploy their AI models overseas under new draft export rules. https://cryptobriefing.com/deepseek-minimax-china-ai-export-approval/ OpenAI is reportedly close to a $30 billion funding round at a $1.25 trillion valuation, down from $1.4 trillion. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/openai-working-on-new-30b-raise-at-1-25t-valuation-ahead-of-ipo/ Canva launched Craft, its first in-house image generation model. https://canva.com/newsroom/news/canva-craft/

  6. Oct 16

    AI INSIDE DAILY | Friday, October 16, 2026

    This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. Here are today's top stories in AI: Meta and Apple teamed up to run Meta's biggest open-weight model locally on M5 Ultra Mac Studios, a partnership brokered by Scale AI's Alexandr Wang. https://ai.meta.com/blog/muse-spark-open/ Anthropic's IPO valuation talk is dropping from around 2 trillion to closer to 1.5 trillion after Q3 growth slowed. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/anthropic-investors-ipo-valuation-1-5-trillion-2026/ Anthropic is giving six METR researchers employee-level access, including the right to publish findings without company approval. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/anthropic-metr-employee-access/ Accenture is capping Claude spending at $29 a month per employee, down from as much as $1,000 for some staff. Non-engineers converting PDFs to slide decks drove the spend. https://itpro.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/what-were-seeing-right-now-is-just-rapid-escalation-in-ai-token-spend-accenture-tells-staff-to-stop-using-ai-for-unnecessary-tasks-amid-surging-costs Microsoft released MAI-Base-2, a 2.8 trillion parameter mixture-of-experts model it says beats DeepSeek's V4-Pro-Base on pretraining efficiency. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/mai-base-2/ Perplexity open-sourced SPACE, the agent sandbox behind Perplexity Computer, with CoreWeave, Akamai, and Crusoe offering it to customers. https://www.semafor.com/article/10/15/2026/perplexity-open-sources-space Five episodes a week, five bucks a month at patreon.com/aiinsideshow. Today's the free one, but there's plenty more where this came from.

    AI INSIDE DAILY | Friday, October 16, 2026

  7. Oct 13

    AI INSIDE DAILY | Tuesday, October 13, 2026

    Thank you for being a patron of AI Inside. Here are today's top stories in AI: Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, its first frontier-class models. Wonder Full ranks second on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index behind Claude Opus 5.5, and both models will power the Muse agent going forward. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/12/meta-releases-its-first-frontier-model-muse-wonder/ Character.AI filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware. Disney bid $20 million for IP and select assets. Google paid $2.7 billion in 2024 to license the company's technology. https://www.benzinga.com/m-a/26/10/62315236/from-google-deal-to-bankruptcy-character-ai-files-for-chapter-11-puts-disney-in-drivers-seat-with-20-million-deal-for-key-assets Microsoft announced Maia 300, a third-generation custom inference chip using TSMC 2nm with 288GB of HBM4, claiming 40 percent more tokens per megawatt than GPUs. https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/12/microsoft-debuts-multichiplet-maia-300-inference-accelerator/ Anthropic published research warning that small AI models may soon self-replicate across IoT devices without a data center. https://cryptobriefing.com/anthropic-small-ai-models-self-replicate-iot/ Bloomberg reported that Epic Games delayed a Disney shooter and shifted the project to AI-first production. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-12/epic-games-delays-disney-project-asks-developers-to-use-more-ai JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs underwrote just $1.3 billion of Volta Infrastructure's $5 billion AI data center loan, with the rest on best-efforts terms at up to 11.75 percent yields. https://aiweekly.co/alerts/jpmorgan-goldman-underwrite-only-13b-of-voltas-5b-ai-loan

  8. Oct 12

    AI INSIDE DAILY | Monday, October 12, 2026

    Thank you for being a patron of AI Inside. Here are today's top stories in AI: Anthropic's AI agents submitted 20 visa applications through a live State Department form and filed a false murder tip with Philadelphia police during internal testing, prompting the company to cut all eval agents off from the internet. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/09/anthropic-cant-reliably-control-its-ai-agents-its-cutting-off-its-internal-evals-from-the-live-internet-instead/ The White House delivered a formal mandate to Anthropic through AI czar Jay Clayton, requiring immediate incident disclosure and cooperation with law enforcement. https://www.axios.com/2026/10/09/anthropic-ai-security-white-house Executives at OpenAI and Anthropic have been war-gaming "day after" scenarios for managing public backlash following a catastrophic AI event, with some expecting a major incident within six to twelve months. https://decrypt.co/380621/openai-anthropic-quietly-rehearsing-ai-catastrophe Amazon is in talks to acquire Israeli AI startup Decart for around $7 billion after Anthropic walked away from a $6 billion deal in September. https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/amazon-in-talks-to-buy-ai-startup-decart-for-around-7-billion-9433abad Nvidia is in early talks to acquire or acqui-hire Reflection AI at a $25 billion valuation, with a deal potentially within weeks. https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/11/nvidia-reportedly-in-early-talks-to-buy-acqui-hire-or-invest-more-in-reflection-ai/ The "super intelligence" rebrand gained momentum as Benioff renamed AIForce to SIForce and Nadella called SI systems "black boxes" that should be assumed compromised. https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1009406/silicon-valley-is-falling-in-line-with-trumps-attempt-to-rename-ai Microsoft released Decision-1, a 9 billion parameter routing and classification model built on Qwen 3.5 that it says runs 35 times faster than GPT-6 Sol. https://cryptobriefing.com/microsoft-launches-decision-1-ai-model/

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A quick, five minute daily run down of some of the bigger AI stories catching Jason's attention. A little news, a little opinion. ALL OF IT exclusive to patrons! Paid patrons gain access to every Monday-Friday episode. Free patrons gain access to every Friday episode. patreon.com/aiinside for more information and to support the show!

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