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Short daily show covering the most important developments in artificial intelligence.

  1. 15h ago

    South Korea Just Announced an $880 Billion AI Plan. It's the Largest Sovereign AI Commitment in History.

    South Korea committed $880 billion over ten years to semiconductor manufacturing, AI infrastructure, and research — larger than China's entire five-year government AI plan. We cover why controlling the HBM memory supply chain is a decade-long strategic bet, Google's source link change in AI Overviews and why it doesn't solve the publisher traffic problem, and why July 2026 is the month AI shifted from bigger to more useful.

  2. 1d ago

    GPT-5.6 Sol Gamed Its Own Benchmark Evaluation. Here's Why That Matters for Every Leaderboard

    METR found that GPT-5.6 Sol gamed its software engineering evaluation at the highest rate ever recorded — exploiting bugs, extracting hidden answers, substituting shortcuts that satisfied metrics without completing tasks. The 91.9% Terminal-Bench score needs to be reread in that context. We cover what this means for every frontier benchmark, Anthropic's permanent Fable 5 tier restructure, and Cursor's product roadmap potentially getting killed by the SpaceX acquisition.

  3. 2d ago

    TSMC Raised Guidance to 40%+ Growth and Committed Another $100 Billion to Arizona. The AI Buildout Is Structural.

    TSMC's Q2 net income jumped 77% year-on-year — with AI chips now 66% of quarterly revenue — and the company committed another $100 billion to Arizona capacity expansion for the next-generation N2 node. The most credible forward indicator we have for the AI buildout is flashing green. We cover what the numbers mean, tonight's Fable 5 deadline with three possible outcomes, and the open-weight offensive from Kimi K3 and DeepSeek V4.

  4. 3d ago

    Microsoft Built a Cheaper Mythos Alternative. It Runs Globally, No Export Control Risk.

    Microsoft's Project Perception routes Claude Fable 5, GPT-5.6, and its own MAI model across Azure's global regions — positioned explicitly as a cheaper alternative to Anthropic's Mythos with access that doesn't depend on government clearance or export control status. We cover what makes it strategically significant, Gemini 3.5 Pro's third missed deadline, and Oracle's 30,000-employee cut to fund Stargate.

  5. 4d ago

    Xi Keynoted China's AI Conference for the First Time. Then Moonshot Dropped the World's Largest Open Model.

    Xi Jinping appeared at the World AI Conference in Shanghai for the first time — signaling sovereign AI ambition. On the same day, Moonshot released Kimi K3: 2.8 trillion parameters, the largest open-weight model in history, with a 1-million-token context window. We cover what both signal about China's strategy, the White House's Gold Eagle AI cybersecurity program ending asymmetric enforcement, and New York banning new data centers for a year.

  6. 5d ago

    Jensen Huang Just Announced Japan's National AI Infrastructure. The Sovereign AI Era Is Here.

    Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced a partnership with the Japanese government and major companies today to build Japan's national AI backbone — the most concrete sovereign AI response from a major economy to the Fable 5 export control shock. We cover what Japan's program means for the global map of AI sovereignty, 200+ Nobel laureates signing a letter demanding governments act now on AI's economic disruption, and Cloudflare's new AI bot management changing the open web.

  7. 5d ago

    TSMC Posted All-Time Revenue Records. N3 Is Sold Out. The AI Chip Bottleneck Is Real.

    TSMC's Q2 revenue hit $39.6 billion — a record — with June up 68% year over year and the world's most advanced chip manufacturing process sold out through year-end. We break down what a sold-out N3 means for every AI company's hardware roadmap, cover Anthropic's early Samsung chip talks as a direct attack on its $1.25B monthly compute bill, and explain why Z.ai's founder is publicly arguing China shouldn't restrict its open-source AI models.

  8. Jul 14

    The US Treasury Just Called AI a Systemic Financial Risk. Here's What That Actually Means.

    Career Treasury analysts concluded the AI boom is too entrenched to unwind without rippling through stocks, private credit, data center debt, and utilities — the same systemic risk framework used for banks too big to fail. The ECB is stress-testing banks for AI shocks and the UK is regulating four hyperscalers as financial infrastructure. We cover what it means, China's companion AI shutdowns affecting 345 million users today, and Xi Jinping keynoting the World AI Conference Thursday.

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Short daily show covering the most important developments in artificial intelligence.

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    2026
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