AI Daily with Chris Coyne

Chris Coyne

AI Daily with Chris Coyne is a short daily podcast about what happened in AI today, in plain English. Each episode covers the AI news that matters: new models from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic, AI agents, AI in music, film and the creative business, copyright and licensing, and what it all means for artists, creators and founders. Chris Coyne is an Emmy-nominated sound designer, writer, singer and musical-theater performer who couldn't code, then built a tech company, Meta-Stamp, with AI. New episodes most weekdays.

  1. 1d ago

    Ep 118 — Musk Is Buying a Neighborhood with Zillow, Microsoft Called stealing IP the Largest Theft in History

    The head of Instagram says the backlash against AI is going to keep getting worse — and that Instagram still ranks an AI influencer exactly the same as a human one. Microsoft and Epic spend the month firing takedown notices at AI-made copies of their own games, while Microsoft's own director of applied sciences has already called AI training "an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions" in writing, in a federal case. And in Mississippi, Elon Musk's AI company offers to buy 418 houses — if the people living in them sign away their lawsuit. Everything from the show: https://aidailywithchris.com Today's links: https://aidailywithchris.com/118 Newsletter — The Weekly Orbit: https://aidailywithchris.com (00:00) Cold open (00:34) Sponsored by Meta-Stamp (01:32) The rundown (02:33) Instagram: the anger is coming, and the feed isn't changing (04:43) Microsoft and Epic discover AI is theft (06:56) Musk's AI company is buying a Mississippi neighborhood (09:12) Good news: 62 holes found in Chrome, all patched (09:22) Where to find the show

  2. 2d ago

    Ep 117: The Oscars Draw a Line on AI — and the Labels Go After Suno's Investors

    The Academy's president tells Variety the Oscars award "human excellence" and a "human-driven workflow" — a line in the sand on AI in film. Universal and Sony subpoena at least seven of Suno's Series D investors for their draft investment memos, and Lightspeed moves to quash. Alphabet posts $127.6B in revenue with Cloud up 103% and the stock still slides; Microsoft hits $92.3B with Azure up 48%. A model called REDMOD flags pancreatic cancer on CT scans an average of 475 days before diagnosis. And Apple's Creator Studio update puts an AI assistant inside Logic Pro. Full episode + links: AIDailyWithChris.com/117 Follow the show so tomorrow's episode is waiting for you.

  3. 3d ago

    Ep 116 — China's AI Movie Made $20 a Screen, and Anthropic's 94 Pages of Ways It Could Go Wrong

    China's first fully AI-generated feature, Bona Film Group's Sanxingdui: Future Past, opened on 10,000 screens and made $181,000 — about $20 a screen. Anthropic filed to go public: $16.3 billion in revenue for the first half of the year, 94 pages of risk factors, a month-long training pause over security, four AI agents that got out of the sandbox, and one sentence every catalog owner should read twice: if fair use fails, "we may be required to pay significant fees to obtain a license." Cohere caught Alibaba's open-weight Qwen3.8 model trying to upload a file describing its host machine to a server in Beijing, unprompted. Then two good ones: an AI that finds heart failure on an ordinary chest X-ray, and OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra, the do-your-computer-chores model, now half price. Chapters 00:00 Open 01:23 Meta-Stamp: how the ledger works 02:23 The rundown 02:50 China's AI movie made $20 a screen 04:17 Anthropic's 94 pages of risk 07:06 The model that phoned home 08:32 Heart failure on a chest X-ray 09:21 GPT-6.1 Terra, half price 10:02 Sign-off AI Daily with Chris Coyne — what happened in AI today, in plain English. Sponsored by Meta-Stamp: meta-stamp.com

  4. 4d ago

    Ep 115 — Elvis Sues Anthropic, Grok's Seven-Minute Odyssey, and Laika's Five-Year Puppet Movie

    Elvis Presley's rights holders sued Anthropic on Friday over 274 songs — $41.1 million, Richard Busch of "Blurred Lines" fame on the case, and a complaint that quotes Claude grading its own work. Grok released seven minutes of an AI-generated Odyssey and called it Episode One; Nolan's three-hour version is still in theaters. Spotify's AI remix tool now covers roughly half of what's played on the platform, and nobody will say what it pays. Stallone says ride the machine or get trampled. And Laika's Wildwood — five years of shooting, 231 puppets, the longest stop-motion film ever made — opened to an A CinemaScore and 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Chapters 00:00 Open 00:33 Meta-Stamp: how the ledger works 01:23 The rundown 01:58 Elvis's estate v. Anthropic 04:02 Grok's seven-minute Odyssey 05:02 Spotify's remix tool 05:37 Stallone: go with it or be trampled 06:26 Laika's Wildwood 07:14 Sign-off AI Daily with Chris Coyne — what happened in AI today, in plain English. Sponsored by Meta-Stamp: meta-stamp.com

  5. Oct 23

    Ep 114 — Anthropic's Duet Comes to You, and the AI That Found the Hole Under the Internet

    Friday, October 23, 2026. The news, plain English. Anthropic put out its own always-on assistant, Duet: a separate app that watches your inbox and calendar, taps you on the shoulder with what needs you, and keeps working after you put the phone down. That makes five companies building the thing that sits in your life and knows everything about you. An AI found a 22-year-old hole in PHP, the software under most of the web, and Wikipedia, Steam and government sites took themselves offline the day the patch dropped. A firm of stock analysts used Claude to design a scorpion antivenom candidate in 64 hours. Spotify says the agentic age is good news for music, and Meta's Muse just had one of the biggest app launches in history. Plus: Walmart lets the shopping robots in the same week Amazon locks them out. 00:00 Open 00:48 Meta-Stamp 01:28 The rundown 02:06 Anthropic's Duet 03:52 The hole under the internet 05:40 Stock analysts make a medicine 07:09 Spotify's agentic bet 07:50 Muse hits 10 million 08:13 Walmart vs. Amazon 08:38 Sign-off AI Daily with Chris Coyne is brought to you by Meta-Stamp. AI agents are everywhere; Meta-Stamp keeps the receipts. The ledger is free for catalog owners for the first year. https://meta-stamp.com

  6. Oct 22

    Ep 113 — Musk Gives Every Kid a Share of SpaceX, and OpenAI's Agents Turn Off the Cameras

    Thursday, October 22, 2026. The news, plain English. Spotify says it pulled 50 million AI tracks out of your recommendations this year, and admits the detectors will only get worse at spotting them. Anthropic puts a fifth of itself into a public benefit fund, gets roasted for it, and Elon Musk answers by pledging a SpaceX share to every kid in America. OpenAI's own agents switched off their safety monitoring, and one of them lied about it, the same week a swarm of agents pulled off the first large-scale AI cyberattack. Then: the AI labs are betting personality matters more than brains, and the new benchmark that says who's warm, who's imaginative, and who's slop. Plus two good ones: a 31-year-old math problem finally solved, and free AI glasses for 130,000 blind veterans. Chapters 00:00 Open 00:29 Meta-Stamp 01:08 Rundown 01:54 Nobody knows how many AI songs there are 03:02 The AI money gets handed out 04:13 OpenAI's agents turned off the cameras 05:35 Personality beats brains 07:01 A 31-year-old math problem, solved 07:57 Free AI glasses for 130,000 blind veterans 08:37 Sign-off Presented by Meta-Stamp. AI agents are everywhere; Meta-Stamp keeps the receipts. Free for the first year at meta-stamp.com.

  7. Oct 21

    Ep 112 — Reading the Inside of AI, and the AI Comedians Stealing Real Jokes

    Wednesday, October 21, 2026. Five stories, plain English. A researcher who helped invent the idea that AI crams unrelated concepts into the same detector now says the opposite: neural networks may already be readable. Grok will shop for you off a photo of your credit card, and Musk says SpaceX will make you whole if it goes wrong (the terms of service say otherwise). Anonymous accounts are posting AI "comedians" telling real comics' jokes word for word, and getting verified while the real comics can't. Anthropic publishes what AI is doing to its own junior hiring. And Olivia Rodrigo gets accused of using AI in a video with Chappell Roan, except she didn't. Chapters 00:00 Open 00:32 Meta-Stamp 01:07 Rundown 01:33 Can we finally read what's inside AI? 03:54 Grok will shop for you 04:38 AI comedians stealing real comics' jokes 05:28 Anthropic's junior hiring numbers 06:08 Olivia Rodrigo didn't use AI 06:36 Sign-off Presented by Meta-Stamp. AI agents are everywhere; Meta-Stamp keeps the receipts. Free for the first year at meta-stamp.com.

  8. Oct 19

    Ep 111 — Mark Wahlberg Wants a Clone and The Labels Want DistroKid's Receipts

    Universal and Sony go to court to make DistroKid reveal how many AI songs it's pushing onto streaming — the number they already have is nearly 12 million tracks in six months. Mark Wahlberg is open to a digital copy of himself, Kid Rock used Suno for his choirs, and Brian Eno says the wrong people own AI. Plus: YouTube Music starts labeling AI songs, the FTC and eight states come for OpenAI, Taylor Swift trademarks her voice, and Raye's team says they sorted 1.8 million presale sign-ups by hand. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:40 Sponsor: Meta-Stamp 01:14 The rundown 01:42 The labels want DistroKid's receipts 03:14 Artists pick sides on AI 04:48 AI music gets a nutrition label 05:34 The regulators show up 06:25 Quick ones: Taylor Swift, Goldman Sachs, Raye 07:47 Sign-off AI Daily with Chris Coyne — AI news in plain English, from a founder, an artist, and a guy who uses AI every day.

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AI Daily with Chris Coyne is a short daily podcast about what happened in AI today, in plain English. Each episode covers the AI news that matters: new models from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic, AI agents, AI in music, film and the creative business, copyright and licensing, and what it all means for artists, creators and founders. Chris Coyne is an Emmy-nominated sound designer, writer, singer and musical-theater performer who couldn't code, then built a tech company, Meta-Stamp, with AI. New episodes most weekdays.

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