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  1. 1d ago

    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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Jun 26

    AI INSIDE DAILY | Friday, June 26, 2026

    This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. Here are today's top stories in AI: The Trump administration asked OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT-5.6, and OpenAI agreed; the model goes to roughly 20 enterprise partners first with the government approving "access customer by customer during this preview period," per Sam Altman's internal memo; same framework Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 hit, except this time it's pre-launch and consensual. https://www.axios.com/2026/06/25/trump-administration-openai-gpt-model-release The New York Times reports OpenAI is leaning toward delaying its IPO to 2027, with Altman holding firm on a trillion-dollar valuation and CFO Sarah Friar pushing for more time; the news triggered an AI-stock selloff with SoftBank down about 12 percent, SK Hynix down about 10 percent, and Kioxia down 12 percent. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/technology/openai-ipo-artificial-intelligence.html The Financial Times reports Meta is moving content moderation off humans onto its own Muse Spark AI; about half of moderation requests are now AI, and the target is more than 90 percent on certain content types by year-end, with employees warning the rollout is too fast and shadow-banning harmless content. https://cryptobriefing.com/meta-ai-content-moderation-replaces-human-reviews/ General Intuition came out of stealth with a 320 million dollar Series A at a 2.3 billion dollar valuation, led by Khosla Ventures with Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, and General Catalyst in; the thesis is that action-labeled gameplay clips from Medal are the most underrated training data in robotics, and the same model can play Fortnite or run a quadrupedal robot. https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/general-intuitions-2-3b-bet-that-video-games-can-train-ai-agents-for-the-real-world/ Patrons get AI Inside Daily every weekday. Five episodes a week for $5/month: https://www.patreon.com/aiinsideshow

  5. Jun 19

    AI INSIDE DAILY | Friday, June 19, 2026

    This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. Here are today's top stories in AI: FERC voted unanimously to issue show-cause orders under Section 206 of the Federal Power Act against all six US regional grid operators, giving them 30 days to detail spare generating capacity and 60 days to defend or revise the rates they charge large data center loads, in a federal push to clear the grid as the bottleneck on AI buildout. https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/ai-data-centers-just-got-a-government-mandated-fast-lane-to-the-grid/ The Wall Street Journal reports Google is putting a $3.2 billion financial guarantee behind the Lake Mariner data center in upstate New York, plus $7 billion for an Anthropic site near Baton Rouge and $1.4 billion in Colorado City, Texas, running Nvidia's circular-financing playbook to grow demand for Google's own TPUs. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-is-using-nvidias-playbook-to-build-a-rival-ai-chip-business-1eac86f9 Amazon MGM dropped Luca Guadagnino's nearly finished "Artificial," about Sam Altman and the 2023 OpenAI board ouster, with Variety and the Hollywood Reporter noting the studio's $50 billion February deal to expand OpenAI's use of AWS as the obvious context for the move. https://variety.com/2026/film/global/luca-guadagnino-sam-altman-movie-artificial-dropped-amazon-1236785830/ The Commerce Department told ASML it is concerned one of the company's export-restricted EUV lithography machines may have ended up in China, with Lutnick reportedly raising the issue in meetings going back to April and ASML firmly denying any system is there. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-19/us-tells-asml-it-s-concerned-china-may-have-top-chip-tool Nobel laureate John Jumper, who led the AlphaFold team at Google DeepMind, announced he is leaving for Anthropic after nearly nine years, the second top DeepMind departure in 48 hours after Gemini co-lead and Transformer co-author Noam Shazeer left for OpenAI on Wednesday. https://the-decoder.com/google-deepmind-loses-another-top-ai-researcher-as-nobel-laureate-john-jumper-leaves-for-anthropic/ Snap is spinning its generative AI video team out into a separate company called Dotmo, focused on AI video for gaming and interactive entertainment, in exchange for a large equity stake and a license to its tech, citing the cost of running that work in-house. https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/snap-spins-off-ai-video-team-into-new-company-dotmo-due-to-costs/ Patrons get AI Inside Daily every weekday. Five episodes a week for $5/month: https://www.patreon.com/aiinsideshow

  6. Jun 12

    AI INSIDE DAILY | Friday, June 12, 2026

    This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. Here are today's top stories in AI: Jeff Bezos's industrial AI startup Prometheus raised $12 billion in Series B funding at a $41 billion valuation, with plans to build an "artificial general engineer" that compresses the cycle from product design to manufacturing by 10x. https://www.axios.com/2026/06/11/prometheus-bezos-industrial-ai Meta completed an operational split from Manus after China's NDRC ordered the $2 billion acquisition unwound, severing data access and instructing employees to migrate off Manus tools. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-11/meta-severs-manus-data-access-after-china-orders-buyout-unwound Microsoft blocked its own employees from using Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 over new data retention terms that keep prompts for 30 days, even as external customers can still access the model through GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Foundry. https://www.theverge.com/report/947575/microsoft-claude-fable-5-restricted-internally DoorDash launched Ask DoorDash, an AI chatbot that lets users order food and groceries with text prompts and photos, with early data showing carts ran 35% higher in value and completed five times faster than standard orders. https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/11/doordashs-new-ai-chatbot-lets-you-order-with-prompts-and-photos/ SpaceX began trading on Nasdaq under ticker SPCX at $135 per share, raising roughly $75 billion at a $1.75 trillion valuation in the largest IPO in recorded history, with 30% retail allocation and Musk retaining 42% equity and 85% voting control through dual-class shares. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/12/spacex-ipo-spcx-live-updates.html Patrons get AI Inside Daily every weekday. Five episodes a week for $5/month: https://www.patreon.com/aiinsideshow

  7. Jun 5

    AI INSIDE DAILY | Friday, June 5, 2026

    Thank you for being a patron of AI Inside. Here are today's top stories in AI: Anthropic published "When AI builds itself," revealing that Claude authored over 80% of code merged into Anthropic's codebase in May 2026 and calling for a global multi-lab mechanism to slow or pause frontier AI development if recursive self-improvement becomes uncontrollable. https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement Wired found code for an unreleased face-recognition system called "NameTag" buried in Meta AI app updates throughout 2026, designed for Meta's smart glasses, with an internal memo showing Meta considered launching it when civil society pushback would be distracted. https://www.wired.com/story/meta-nametag-facial-recognition-smart-glasses/ The Financial Times reported that Anthropic has embedded around six forward-deployed engineers inside the NSA to help deploy its Mythos model for offensive cyber operations, even as Anthropic remains in litigation with the Pentagon. https://www.ft.com/content/anthropic-nsa-mythos-offensive-cyber Mark Gurman's WWDC 2026 preview says Apple will unveil an overhauled Siri with a standalone app, improved image generation, and iOS 27 and macOS 27 reliability improvements when the developer conference opens Monday, June 8. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-05/wwdc-2026-preview-ios-27-siri-ai-features-macos-27-more-apple-will-announce University of Cambridge researchers and spinout DIOSynVax announced the first human trial of a vaccine with a key component designed entirely by AI, targeting the whole Sarbeco coronavirus family rather than a single strain, with 39 healthy volunteers showing no significant side effects. https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/new-universal-vaccine-technology-could-protect-us-from-future-virus-outbreaks AI Inside Daily goes out every weekday, exclusively to Patreon supporters. A free account gets you every Friday episode. $5/month gets you all five, Monday through Friday. Thank you for supporting the show! Its means EVERYTHING.

  8. May 29

    AI INSIDE DAILY | Friday, May 29, 2026

    Thank you for being a patron of AI Inside! Every Patron gets the Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. If you want every episode, all you have to do is support the show on the $5 tier and BLAMMO! Its yours! And thank you so much for your support. Here are today's top stories in AI: Anthropic closed a $65 billion Series H at a $965 billion valuation, overtaking OpenAI's $852 billion valuation, disclosed a $47 billion monthly revenue run rate, and said Mythos-class models will be available to all customers in the coming weeks. https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-65b-series-h Amazon shut down its internal AI usage leaderboard KiroRank after employees began "tokenmaxxing," running meaningless AI tasks to inflate scores, and Meta scrapped its own version Claudeonomics, where 85,000 employees consumed 60 trillion tokens in 30 days at an estimated $9 billion cost. https://the-decoder.com/amazon-kills-internal-ai-leaderboard-after-employees-gamed-it-with-pointless-tasks/ Fortune published an exclusive today that Microsoft is building a super app to unify GitHub Copilot, Copilot chat, Copilot Cowork, and a new agentic tool called Autopilot into a single product, led by EVP of Copilot Jacob Andreou, targeting a launch by end of summer. https://fortune.com/2026/05/29/microsoft-working-on-super-app/ OpenAI launched Rosalind Biodefense today, offering its GPT-Rosalind life sciences AI model free to trusted developers for pandemic preparedness work, with partners including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, and CEPI, after briefing the White House. https://openai.com/index/strengthening-societal-resilience-with-rosalind-biodefense/ ElevenLabs launched Dubbing v2 today, which it says preserves the original speaker's emotion, tone, and pacing across 90+ languages by working from the original audio rather than a transcript, with voice cloning, automatic speaker separation, and no manual steps required. https://elevenlabs.io/dubbing-studio AI startup Shift launched a free home cleaning service in New York City today, where workers wear hat-mounted cameras to collect first-person training data for household robots, with footage anonymized before licensing. https://www.androidauthority.com/shift-clean-house-free-record-video-ai-training-3672527/

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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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