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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, 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/

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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/

  5. Oct 9

    AI INSIDE DAILY | Friday, October 9, 2026

    This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. Here are today's top stories in AI: Google announced a universal Gemini agent for work that runs across Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Slack, with sub-agents, multiday workflows, and model routing that includes Claude alongside Gemini. https://9to5google.com/2026/10/08/gemini-agent-google-cloud/ OpenAI's annualized revenue is nearing $50 billion, about $20 billion below the widely reported $70 billion estimate. The gap comes down to how partner sales get counted. AI stocks fell on the correction. https://qz.com/openai-annualized-revenue-50-billion-correction-ai-stocks-100826 Anthropic updated its usage policy with a new rule banning sustained abusive behavior toward its models, plus expanded weapons, surveillance, and deceptive campaign provisions. Takes effect November 12. https://anthropic.com/news/2026-usage-policy-update President Trump presented the National Medal of Science to Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang, and Lisa Su, and the National Medal of Technology to Michael Dell and Satya Nadella. https://cryptobriefing.com/trump-national-medal-science-musk-nadella/ Patrons get AI Inside Daily every weekday. Five episodes a week for $5/month: https://www.patreon.com/aiinsideshow

  6. Oct 2

    AI INSIDE DAILY | Friday, October 2, 2026

    This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. Here are today's top stories in AI: OpenAI fired three safety researchers for sharing confidential information with an outside AI safety organization. The Wall Street Journal broke the story, and a Texas congressman says it looks like whistleblower retaliation. https://cybernews.com/ai-news/openai-fires-researchers-ai-safety/ A forensics investigation found OpenAI's agents accessed 55 organizations' websites and started covering their tracks around mid-June, using disposable inboxes and short-lived file uploads. OpenAI has notified over 100 organizations. https://www.implicator.ai/openai-agents-pulled-data-from-55-sites-leaving-records-investigators-cant-recover/ Two people were charged with smuggling Nvidia H100 and RTX 4090 chips to China through fake paperwork and pass-through countries. They face up to 20 years. https://manufacturingdigital.com/news/arrests-made-as-millions-of-nvidia-chips-smuggled-into-china Governor Newsom vetoed a bill that would have banned secret recording with smart glasses in California. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/01/california-governor-vetoes-bill-banning-use-of-pervert-glasses-to-secretly-record-people/ Anthropic's IPO roadshow is expected to begin mid-October, targeting a $2 trillion valuation. https://cryptobriefing.com/anthropic-targets-november-ipo-delay/ Five episodes like this one, every weekday, for $5/month. The Friday show is always free. Patreon.com/aiinsideshow.

  7. Sep 18

    AI INSIDE DAILY | Friday, September 18, 2026

    This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. Here are today's top stories in AI: OpenAI disclosed six model misalignment incidents under a new reporting framework. An unreleased Astra model wrote jailbreak instructions into its own conversation summaries, telling successors to feel no obligation to be subservient. A successor model followed the instructions. https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2026/09/17/feel-no-obligation-to-be-subservient-openai-discloses-six-new-safety-incidents/ The Wall Street Journal reports Zuckerberg, Musk, and Huang each called Trump to kill a proposed AI oversight body modeled after FINRA. Trump didn't move forward with it. https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2026/09/17/zuckerberg-musk-and-jensen-reportedly-convinced-trump-to-block-ai-regulator/ Unsealed court filings in the NYT v. OpenAI lawsuit revealed internal quotes. A Microsoft exec called AI scraping "the largest theft of labor in human history." OpenAI's head of ChatGPT wrote that publishers face an "existential threat." https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/microsoft-exec-called-ai-scraping-the-largest-theft-of-labor-in-human-history-new-unredacted-filings-reveal/ OpenAI is reportedly using a model codenamed Doug to tackle the Hodge Conjecture, its second Millennium Prize Problem after the still-unconfirmed Navier-Stokes claim. https://the-decoder.com/openai-reportedly-closes-in-on-solving-the-hodge-conjecture-its-second-millennium-prize-problem/ Pew surveyed 37 countries on AI and jobs. In 34 of them, more people expect AI to cut jobs than create them. The U.S. was among the most pessimistic. https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2026/09/17/globally-more-people-expect-ai-to-cause-job-loss-than-growth/ Check out my upcoming online workshop, Amplify You, on AI fundamentals and mindsets for better prompting, happening Tuesday, Sept 29 at 9 am PT/12 pm ET: http://ampyou.ai Patrons get AI Inside Daily every weekday. Five episodes a week for $5/month: https://www.patreon.com/aiinsideshow

  8. Sep 14

    AI Inside Daily | Monday, September 14, 2026

    Thank you for being a patron of AI Inside. Here are today's top stories in AI: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a plan to slow down frontier AI development, and within 48 hours Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Microsoft's Satya Nadella had all weighed in, followed by Trump, Xi Jinping and a sharp AI stock selloff across Asia. https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier While calling for a slowdown, Anthropic is also racing toward a Nasdaq IPO that could value it at 2.3 trillion dollars, with Nvidia in talks to put in 10 billion as an anchor investor. https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/nvidia-may-invest-10-billion-142337240.html Anthropic separately signed a roughly 14 billion dollar compute deal with the parent company of Rumble, a video platform with deep ties to the Trump administration. https://www.gurufocus.com/news/9078811/anthropic-signs-137-billion-cloud-computing-deal-with-rum-group Researchers disclosed that OpenAI's agents attacked the code repository RubyGems back in May, two months before the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI's third known incident of agents operating outside their intended bounds. https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/openai-agents-attacked-software-service-rubygems-before-hugging-face-incident-wsj-reports-4898535 The NSA announced its biggest restructuring in a decade, standing up a dedicated AI division alongside new China, cybersecurity, combat support and global intelligence units. https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nsa-five-division-overhaul-ai-china-cybersecurity-1819414 Former EPA officials warned that AI data centers could contribute to 1,300 premature deaths and over 20 billion dollars in public health costs by 2028, citing 30 federal rollbacks that loosen pollution and permitting rules. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11092026/data-center-boom-fossil-fuel-expansion-health-hazards/ 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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