Barely Possible

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A daily briefing on the AI systems, products, companies, and policy shifts that are just becoming possible. Want a podcast for your own topics? Join early access: https://www.barelypossible.to/waitlist/?source_path=public_feed&feed_source=rss

Épisodes

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    Barely Possible - 2026-05-22

    [Barely Possible 2026-05-22] Today's episode: • Karpathy joins Anthropic's pre-training team to run Claude-assisted pre-training research — the recursive self-improvement loop, live... • Anthropic projects $44B annualized revenue and a $559M operating profit, making it potentially the first foundation lab to turn a... • Nvidia hit $81.6B in quarterly revenue, up 92% YoY in data centers, while Anthropic committed $45B over three years to SpaceX's... Hear the full breakdown in today's episode of Barely Possible. Want a podcast for your own topics? Join early access: https://www.barelypossible.to/waitlist/?source_path=public_episode_81&feed_source=rss&episode_id=81 Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-05-22/podcast-episode-2026-05-22.txt

    18 min

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    Barely Possible - 2026-05-21

    [Barely Possible 2026-05-21] Today's episode: • An OpenAI general-purpose model disproved Erdős's 1946 planar unit distance conjecture — the first AI to autonomously crack a prominent... • Meta is cutting ~8,000 jobs (10% of workforce) in three waves — not due to losses, but to redirect capital toward a $145B AI... • Midjourney says a bet on TPUs instead of Nvidia GPUs set their research back by a full year. Hear the full breakdown in today's episode of Barely Possible. Want a podcast for your own topics? Join early access: https://www.barelypossible.to/waitlist/?source_path=public_episode_80&feed_source=rss&episode_id=80 Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-05-21/podcast-episode-2026-05-21.txt

    25 min

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    Barely Possible - 2026-05-20

    [Barely Possible 2026-05-20] Today's episode: • Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic for foundational R&D — explicitly not a policy role, he said he wants to "get back to R&D." • Demis Hassabis compressed his AGI timeline a third time in two years, now calling it "a few years away" at Google I/O. • Gemini 3.5 Flash is ~30x pricier than Gemini 1.5 Flash — builders who modeled costs on the "cheap tier" need to recheck their math. Catch the full breakdown in today's episode of Barely Possible. Want a podcast for your own topics? Join early access: https://www.barelypossible.to/waitlist/?source_path=public_episode_79&feed_source=rss&episode_id=79 Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-05-20/podcast-episode-2026-05-20.txt

    18 min

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    Barely Possible - 2026-05-19

    [Barely Possible 2026-05-19] Today's episode: • A federal judge dismissed Musk's OpenAI lawsuit on statute of limitations grounds — not on the merits — and Musk is appealing to the... • Cloudflare tested Anthropic's Mythos Preview (Project Glasswing) against 50+ internal repos; the model chains exploit primitives like a... • GPT-5.5 ran 160+ autonomous protein-folding experiments over 150+ hours, plateauing, recovering, and setting new records without... Hear the full breakdown in today's episode of Barely Possible. Want a podcast for your own topics? Join early access: https://www.barelypossible.to/waitlist/?source_path=public_episode_78&feed_source=rss&episode_id=78 Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-05-19/podcast-episode-2026-05-19.txt

    24 min

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    Barely Possible - 2026-05-18

    [Barely Possible 2026-05-18] Today's episode: • Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's Daybreak both launched as vetted, US-only rollouts — two frontier labs in a row choosing selective... • Frontier serving costs don't follow the Windows model: Mythos 2 will cost more to run than Mythos, even as older tiers get cheap —... • Microsoft's Global AI Diffusion Report puts frontier AI usage at 27.5% in the Global North vs. 15.4% in the Global South, with the gap... Hear the full breakdown in today's episode of Barely Possible. Want a podcast for your own topics? Join early access: https://www.barelypossible.to/waitlist/?source_path=public_episode_77&feed_source=rss&episode_id=77 Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-05-18/podcast-episode-2026-05-18.txt

    25 min

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    Barely Possible - 2026-05-17

    [Barely Possible 2026-05-17] Today's episode: • Mistral's founder told French Parliament his engineers write zero lines of code — productivity hits 10–20x solo but drops sharply in teams. • Enterprise multi-agent deployments in production are mostly strict pipelines with human approval gates, not autonomous agents —... • An academic study found prompt injection is a structural feature of token-based context windows, not a fixable bug, with no clear... Hear how these three threads connect in today's episode of Barely Possible. Want a podcast for your own topics? Join early access: https://www.barelypossible.to/waitlist/?source_path=public_episode_76&feed_source=rss&episode_id=76 Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-05-17/podcast-episode-2026-05-17.txt

    23 min

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    Barely Possible - 2026-05-16

    [Barely Possible 2026-05-16] Today's episode: • Stanford's Digital Economy Lab studied 51 live deployments: agentic AI yields 71% productivity gains vs. 40% for assistive AI — but... • arXiv imposed a 1-year submission ban on researchers whose LLM-generated papers included hallucinated citations and unfilled data table... • Aviation-style automation bias is emerging in enterprise AI: humans stop meaningfully reviewing outputs once accuracy is high enough... Hear the full breakdown in today's episode of Barely Possible. Want a podcast for your own topics? Join early access: https://www.barelypossible.to/waitlist/?source_path=public_episode_75&feed_source=rss&episode_id=75 Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-05-16/podcast-episode-2026-05-16.txt

    22 min

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    Barely Possible - 2026-05-15

    [Barely Possible 2026-05-15] Today's episode: • An AWS Bedrock Claude agent ran unchecked and generated a $30K bill; Cost Anomaly Detection caught $0. • Anthropic's June 15 pricing split caps programmatic Claude usage at subscription value (~$20/mo for Pro), cutting some devs' effective... • Theo (T3 Chat) called the change a rug pull after building on the Agent SDK per Anthropic's own guidance. Hear the full breakdown in today's episode of Barely Possible. Want a podcast for your own topics? Join early access: https://www.barelypossible.to/waitlist/?source_path=public_episode_74&feed_source=rss&episode_id=74 Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-05-15/podcast-episode-2026-05-15.txt

    25 min

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    Barely Possible - 2026-05-14

    [Barely Possible 2026-05-14] Today's episode: • OpenAI is offering companies 30 days of free Codex access — a direct play to pull developers away from Anthropic's Claude Code. • Sam Altman publicly floated ditching the price-vs-intelligence tier model in favor of pricing on speed instead. • Anthropic's Claude for Legal added DocuSign, Harvey, and Thomson Reuters connectors; lawyers are now Claude Work's #2 user group behind... Hear the full breakdown — including the token-maxxing debate — in today's episode of Barely Possible. Want a podcast for your own topics? Join early access: https://www.barelypossible.to/waitlist/?source_path=public_episode_73&feed_source=rss&episode_id=73 Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-05-14/podcast-episode-2026-05-14.txt

    28 min

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    Barely Possible - 2026-05-13

    [Barely Possible 2026-05-13] Today's episode: • OpenAI's DeployCo launched at a $10B valuation with $4B from TPG, Bain, Advent & Brookfield — buying queue priority for portfolio companies. • Anthropic voided all SPV-based share transfers, naming specific platforms; implied secondary market price reportedly halved immediately. • Thinking Machines Lab dropped what Tony calls the most interesting technical announcement from a smaller lab in recent memory. Hear the full breakdown in today's episode of Barely Possible. Want a podcast for your own topics? Join early access: https://www.barelypossible.to/waitlist/?source_path=public_episode_72&feed_source=rss&episode_id=72 Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-05-13/podcast-episode-2026-05-13.txt

    35 min

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    Barely Possible - 2026-05-12

    [Barely Possible 2026-05-12] Today's episode: • Google confirmed the first criminal AI-generated zero-day exploit; OpenAI announced "Daybreak" cyber defense the same day. • Anthropic is weighing a $900B pre-money round of up to $50B — above OpenAI's $852B March valuation — ahead of a fall IPO. • Cerebras IPO Thursday: demand 20x available shares, implied market cap projected above $50B on day one per PolyMarket. Hear the full breakdown in today's episode of Barely Possible. Want a podcast for your own topics? Join early access: https://www.barelypossible.to/waitlist/?source_path=public_episode_71&feed_source=rss&episode_id=71 Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-05-12/podcast-episode-2026-05-12.txt

    28 min

  12. ÉPISODE 1

    Welcome to Barely Possible

    Lane introduces Barely Possible and talks about how all of this came about. Read more in Lane's blog: Introducing Barely Possible. If you're interested in creating your own custom podcast, you can join the waitlist here. If you're on Telegram, you can also join this Telegram channel for even earlier access. The best way to share feedback or chat about the show is by joining this Telegram group.

    11 min

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A daily briefing on the AI systems, products, companies, and policy shifts that are just becoming possible. Want a podcast for your own topics? Join early access: https://www.barelypossible.to/waitlist/?source_path=public_feed&feed_source=rss

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    The Clawford Company
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