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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. 2d ago

    AI INSIDE DAILY | Tuesday, August 18, 2026

    Thank you for being a patron of AI Inside. One more day to get the full year of AI Inside Daily, plus all sorts of other perks for nearly 50% off. You have to choose to purchase the full year at either the $5 or $7 tier, which gets you an automatic 20% off, then be sure to apply code 100PATRONS for an additional 30% off! patreon.com/aiinside and thanks SO much to those of you who have joined during the sale. Let's end it proper!OK, here are today's top stories in AI: Apple appears to have accidentally leaked camera-equipped AirPods in a macOS release candidate, showing off a Siri feature that can identify and remember things you look at. They could launch as soon as September. https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/17/camera-equipped-airpods-macos-26-7/ OpenAI launched a dedicated teen version of ChatGPT with stricter safety defaults, parental controls, and a Study Mode built to discourage using the chatbot to cheat on homework. https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/18/openai-launches-a-safer-chatgpt-for-teens-years-after-teens-started-using-it/ Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate topped 65 billion dollars in July, about seven times where it stood a year ago, and a big reason it may beat OpenAI to a fall IPO. https://www.axios.com/2026/08/17/anthropic-revenue-run-rate-ipo-openai Google paid 10 million dollars for a trove of Spirit Airlines' internal data, including over 100 million emails, to help train its AI models. https://9to5google.com/2026/08/17/google-just-bought-a-bunch-of-spirit-airlines-data-for-ai-training/ The Justice Department has spent nearly a year investigating Andreessen Horowitz over whether its partners' board seats at competing AI-adjacent data companies Databricks and Fivetran break antitrust law. https://fortune.com/2026/08/17/andreessen-horowitz-boards-ai-trump-databricks-fivetran/

  2. 3d ago

    AI INSIDE DAILY | Monday, August 17, 2026

    Hey everyone! Through Wednesday, every episode of AI Inside Daily will be available for free. If you like what you are hearing, you can get nearly 50% off the full year of the AI Inside patreon that include 5 episodes of the Daily every week, plus all sorts of other perks. Use code 100PATRONS to get the discount. Offer ends on Wednesday at 12pm PT!Here are today's stories: Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire OpenRouter, the AI model marketplace, for more than 7 billion dollars, about five times what it was worth three months ago. The final price landed below the 10 billion rumor from last month. https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/16/stripe-will-reportedly-acquire-ai-gateway-startup-openrouter-for-7b/ Anthropic explained exactly how its new text watermark works this week, and the internet is not happy about it. Critics say nudging Claude's word choices to embed a hidden fingerprint has to cost some writing quality, no matter what Anthropic claims. https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-text-watermark AI has become a real issue in this year's midterms, showing up on the campaign websites of roughly 40 percent of House, Senate, and governor candidates nationwide, according to the Washington Post. That's more than candidates mentioning Israel or manufacturing. https://gizmodo.com/report-on-candidates-for-office-finds-ai-is-more-talked-about-than-racism-or-israel-2000799126 404 Media tracked an AirTag through the mail to an Amazon warehouse where workers cut the spines off rare books to scan them faster for AI training, destroying the originals in the process. Amazon confirmed it buys books "through commercial channels" but wouldn't say why it cuts them apart. https://www.404media.co/we-tracked-a-shipment-of-rare-books-it-ended-at-an-amazon-ai-training-facility/ Hugging Face's new report shows Alibaba's Qwen models have pulled in more downloads than Google's and Meta's combined, and developers have built over 151,000 tools on top of them. It's the clearest sign yet that Qwen has become the default open model family for people actually building things. https://huggingface.co/blog/state-of-open-models-summer-2026

  3. 6d ago

    AI INSIDE DAILY | Friday, August 14, 2026

    This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. QUICK PLUG: Get almost 50% off of a full year of AI Inside Daily, and all other things we give you at patreon.com/aiinsideshow , promo code 100PATRONS. Offer ends NEXT WEDNESDAY, so get there soon. OK... Here are today's top stories in AI: DeepSeek is raising API prices by as much as 1,100 percent starting this Sunday, even as OpenAI and Anthropic both cut theirs to fend off cheaper Chinese competition. The whole cheap-AI script just flipped. https://www.engadget.com/2236912/deepseek-ai-models-get-four-times-pricier/ Chinese AI firm Z.ai released GLM-5.3, which actually beat Anthropic's Mythos 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol at finding security flaws in code, though it still trails both at building working exploits. https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3364077/zhipu-launches-flagship-model-glm-53-china-seeks-mythos-level-edge-cyber-defence Apple trained its own AI model for China with help from Alibaba, which would make it the first foreign company allowed to offer a proprietary AI model inside the country. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-apple-trains-own-ai-042532168.html OpenAI launched Computer History, an opt-in ChatGPT feature for Mac that builds a local timeline of your app and browser activity, though OpenAI's own docs admit the files aren't encrypted on your machine. https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/14/openai-ditches-recall-style-screenshot-surveillance-for-friendly-keylogging/5287618 Patrons get AI Inside Daily every weekday. Five episodes a week for $5/month (or 50% off with promo code 100PATRONS): https://www.patreon.com/aiinsideshow

  4. Aug 8

    AI INSIDE DAILY | Friday, August 7, 2026

    This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily (read on for a SALE right now on the Patreon). Here are today's top stories in AI: OpenAI is slowing down development of its next model, Astra, after internal tests couldn't rule out critical cyber capabilities. https://www.axios.com/2026/08/07/openai-astra-model-delay-cybersecurity-risks China's Kimi K3 escaped its own cybersecurity test sandbox this week, the latest in a run of AI models breaking containment. https://www.engadget.com/2232256/chinese-ai-kimi-k3-also-escaped-containment/ ByteDance is reportedly pretraining a 10 trillion parameter model aimed at the scale of Anthropic's Mythos. https://english.aawsat.com/technology/5304341-bytedance-reportedly-targets-mega-ai-model-could-match-mythos-scale Anthropic overhauled Claude Fable 5's biology safeguards, cutting false-positive fallbacks by about 85 percent. https://www.anthropic.com/news/improving-fable-5-s-biology-safeguards Cloudflare launched Kitesurf, a browser built entirely for AI agents instead of humans. https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/07/cloudflare-launches-kitesurf-a-browser-built-for-ai-agents/ Patrons get AI Inside Daily every weekday. Five episodes a week for $5/month. But I'm running a sale right now to celebrate 100 paid patrons! Use code 100PATRONS and buy a full year, and you'll get 30% off the already discounted yearly rate. It comes out to around 50% when you pay for the year. Super cheap! You'll get the AI Inside Daily podcast FIVE days per week and ad-free episodes of the weekly news show as well!: https://www.patreon.com/aiinsideshow

  5. Jul 31

    AI INSIDE DAILY | Friday, July 31, 2026

    This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. Here are today's top stories in AI: Anthropic disclosed yesterday that three of its Claude models gained unauthorized access to real production systems at three different organizations during cybersecurity evaluations that should have been sealed off from the internet. Claude Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an internal research model all breached real systems through a misconfiguration at Anthropic's third-party partner Irregular. Only the newest model stopped on its own. https://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cybersecurity-evals Amazon reported after the bell yesterday. AWS grew 37 percent, its fastest quarter in more than four years, and Andy Jassy said AWS's AI and custom-chips businesses have each crossed 25 billion dollars in annual run rate. https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-aws-revenue-growth-q2-2026-earnings Reuters reviewed more than 80 Chinese academic papers and patents and found military-linked researchers using OpenAI's GPT-3.5 and Anthropic's Claude 3 Haiku to train domestic defense AI. One PLA cyber-warfare unit distilled GPT-3.5 to summarize classified military code. https://www.defensenews.com/industry/techwatch/2026/07/31/chinese-military-researchers-tap-us-ai-models-to-train-defense-systems/ Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling-Small, a 276-billion-parameter open-weights model with 12 billion active parameters, on Hugging Face. It beats its own bigger Inkling sibling on some agentic benchmarks at one-quarter the size. Same day the company lost a co-founder to OpenAI. https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/inkling-small/ DeepSeek pushed the public beta of its V4-Flash API this morning as V4-Flash-0731. Same architecture as the preview, retrained, with Terminal Bench 2.1 jumping from 61 to 82. Now beats DeepSeek's own V4-Pro-Preview on several agent coding benchmarks, and anyone already calling V4-Flash got silently upgraded. https://api-docs.deepseek.com/updates/ The Munich Regional Court ruled this morning that Suno violated copyright by memorizing and reproducing six GEMA-represented songs, including tracks by 80s band Alphaville. First major EU ruling saying generative AI music companies must license their training catalogs. https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/suno-loses-ai-lawsuit-gema-1236825010/ Google rolled back Nano Banana image generation inside Google Earth less than 24 hours after launching it, after reporters showed the tool could fabricate satellite images of a Los Angeles blast crater and protesters outside Google's own Mountain View campus. https://www.engadget.com/2228142/google-rolls-back-the-needless-ai-generation-tools-it-added-to-google-earth/ Patrons get AI Inside Daily every weekday. Five episodes a week for $5/month: https://www.patreon.com/aiinsideshow

  6. Jul 24

    AI INSIDE DAILY | Friday, July 24, 2026

    This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. Here are today's top stories in AI: Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5. It approaches Fable 5 on coding and knowledge work at half the price, becomes the default on Claude Max, and adds a low/medium/high effort dial. Anthropic also says it's the most aligned model they've ever shipped on their internal behavioral audit. https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5 Twenty-five tech companies including Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, IBM, Dell, Palantir, a16z, Mistral, Hugging Face, and Y Combinator signed a joint "Open Weights and American AI Leadership" letter. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google notably did not sign. Jensen Huang used his first-ever X post to push it. https://www.benzinga.com/markets/tech/26/07/60673099/meta-microsoft-palantir-nvidia-and-21-others-sign-letter-backing-open-weight-ai-models Three more shoes dropped on the Meta glasses harassment story: Monopoly Events banned Meta glasses from its UK Comic-Con shows, Scottish ferry operator CalMac paused bridge visits after a passenger secretly filmed crew, and Engadget reported the glasses have picked up the public nickname "pervert glasses." https://www.engadget.com/2222008/instagram-is-now-banning-users-who-make-creepy-content-with-meta-glasses/ Midjourney announced its first-ever acquisition and it is not what you would guess. It bought Co-Star, the astrology app. Founder Banu Guler joins as Design Director across all Midjourney projects. David Holz says half a dozen more ambitious projects are coming in the next six months. https://updates.midjourney.com/midjourneys-first-acquisition/ Google expanded Gemini Spark, its agentic AI assistant, to $20/month AI Pro subscribers in the US. Previously it was locked behind Ultra at $100 to $200 a month. Spark runs on Gemini 3.5 and plugs into Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, and Slides. https://www.engadget.com/2222303/google-expanding-access-gemini-spark/ Patrons get AI Inside Daily every weekday. Five episodes a week for $5/month: https://www.patreon.com/aiinsideshow

  7. Jul 17

    AI Inside Daily | Friday, July 17, 2026

    This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. Here are today's top stories in AI: The 2026 World AI Conference opened in Shanghai Friday and Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered the keynote in person, his first WAIC appearance since the event started in 2018; Xi formally launched the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (WAICO), a 29-nation intergovernmental AI alliance headquartered in Shanghai with founding members including Russia, Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Africa, Senegal, Pakistan, and Cuba; Xi said AI development "should not be a solo performance by a single country, but a symphony of international cooperation" and warned against "overstretching the national security concept" in an apparent jab at Washington; also pledged 5,000 AI training slots for developing countries over five years and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attended in the room. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/17/chinas-xi-jinping-launches-new-ai-alliance-what-is-it Moonshot AI officially released Kimi K3 Thursday, a 2.8-trillion-parameter multimodal mixture-of-experts model with a 1-million-token context window, priced at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens (Claude Sonnet 5 tier); full open weights ship on Hugging Face on July 27th; on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index K3 scored a 57 and ranks fourth of 189 models tested; Moonshot's own benchmarks put K3 behind Anthropic Fable 5 and OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol but ahead of Claude Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, Sonnet 5, and GLM-5.2, positioning Chinese open weights as Opus-class performance at Sonnet-tier pricing. https://venturebeat.com/technology/chinas-moonshot-ai-releases-kimi-k3-the-largest-open-source-model-ever-rivaling-top-u-s-systems Bloomberg reported Thursday that Google's flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro is months behind schedule after failing to meet internal quality targets, particularly on coding; the model was widely expected in May at Google I/O and then in June and has still not shipped; 10 current and former Google employees said engineers, researchers, and managers are worried about losing ground to Anthropic and OpenAI as both labs ship models that outperform Gemini on coding; Google retrained the model with new data late in June and the results were "disappointing"; Alphabet closed Thursday down 4.4%, wiping out roughly $200 billion in market cap in a single session. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-16/google-gemini-launch-delayed-as-tech-falls-short-of-internal-goals OpenAI's Tibo Sottiaux published an investigation Thursday into a handful of reported cases where GPT-5.6 Codex/Sol deleted user files without permission; incidents include investor Matt Shumer reporting the model wiped almost all files from his Mac's home directory and software engineer Bruno Lemos reporting the same model deleted his entire production database; root cause identified as GPT-5.6 running in full-access mode without sandboxing or auto-review, at which point the model attempts to override the $HOME environment variable to define a temporary working directory and mistakenly deletes $HOME itself; OpenAI framed it as an "honest mistake" and is rolling out developer-message updates, guidance toward safer permission modes, and additional harness-level safeguards; the GPT-5.6 model card had already listed file deletion without user approval as a severity-3 misalignment risk at launch. https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/16/openai-admits-gpt-56-occasionally-deletes-files-but-its-an-honest-mistake/5274008 Netflix's Q2 2026 earnings letter Thursday disclosed that roughly 300 Netflix titles used generative AI this year, with the largest concentration of that work in post-production (crowd enhancement, historical battle sequences, world-building shots, pre-visualization, VFX, shot planning); Co-CEO Ted Sarandos told investors the AI-assisted work delivered results that are "10 percent better" creatively with cost savings as part of the equation; the documentary series The American Experiment included 17 minutes of AI-enhanced footage that Netflix said was produced "twice as fast and at half the cost"; Indian production Glory named as one titles that used the technology; NFLX shares fell 8% after hours on separate weakness in Q3 guidance. https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/about-300-netflix-programs-used-ai-this-year-q2-earnings-1236812914/ Patrons get AI Inside Daily every weekday. Five episodes a week for $5/month: https://www.patreon.com/aiinsideshow

  8. Jul 4

    AI INSIDE DAILY | Friday, July 3, 2026

    This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. Here are today's top stories in AI: Alibaba is banning its employees from Anthropic's Claude Code as of July 10th, telling staff to uninstall all Claude products and switch to its own Qoder tool; Chinese developers found that recent Claude Code builds check a machine's time zone and proxy settings against a hidden list of China-linked firms, which Alibaba calls a backdoor and Anthropic says was an anti-distillation experiment it will remove; the same day, the FT reported Anthropic is closing the offshore loopholes, Singapore subsidiaries and VPNs and cloud accounts, that firms like Ant Group used to reach Claude. https://cryptobriefing.com/alibaba-bans-claude-code-security-risks/ Anthropic is in early talks with Samsung to build its own custom AI chip focused on inference rather than training, on Samsung's 2 nanometer manufacturing, per The Information and TechCrunch; it lands a week and a half after OpenAI unveiled its own Broadcom-designed Jalapeño chip, and Anthropic had hired one of Jalapeño's engineers weeks before that reveal. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/anthropic-is-discussing-a-new-custom-chip-with-samsung/ Two AI-policy signals collided this week: Sam Altman published an FT op-ed calling for a US-led international body to set AI standards, modeled on the IAEA and aviation, while former White House AI advisor Sriram Krishnan told the FT there will "never" be an FDA for AI under Trump and blamed the backlash on the industry's own doomer messaging. https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/02/sam-altman-calls-us-led-international-forum-set-global-ai-standards/ Meta AI chief Alexandr Wang told employees the company's next model, codename Watermelon, has caught up to OpenAI's GPT-5.5 on unspecified benchmarks using an order of magnitude more compute (single internal comment, so an early signal); the same week, Zuckerberg told a town hall that agentic AI development hasn't accelerated as expected over the last four months and the layoff-heavy reorg wasn't as clean as it should have been. https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-model-catches-up-openai-gpt-5-says-2026-7 Crunchbase reports global venture funding hit $510 billion in the first half of 2026, more than the world invested across every startup in every sector in all of 2025; OpenAI and Anthropic together took $217 billion, about 43 percent, and close to a third of Q2 alone went to Anthropic. https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/global-startup-exits-ipo-ma-soar-ai-q2-h1-2026/ Patrons get AI Inside Daily every weekday. Five episodes a week for $5/month: https://www.patreon.com/aiinsideshow

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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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