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EP61 / Jun 18, 2026

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Anthropic got hit by export rules nobody understands | Predicting model behavior before release by simulating deployment | World leaders want American AI. They just don’t want America to be abl | World model maker Ody...

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EP60 / Jun 17, 2026

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Inside the fight over Claude Mythos 5 | All the news about Anthropic’s new AI fight with the White House | Pramaana Labs raises $27M seed round from Khosla Ventures to bring for | Pinterest launches an experimental AI...

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EP59 / Jun 16, 2026

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Inside the fight over Claude Mythos 5 | The US government’s Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbre | Meta’s new ‘AI Mode’ on Facebook pulls from public info across its pla | Salesforce acquires AI customer...

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EP58 / Jun 15, 2026

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Anthropic’s safety warnings may have just backfired — the government h | Anthropic cuts off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 access following government or | Salesforce acquires AI customer service platform Fin for $3.6 billion |...

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EP57 / Jun 14, 2026

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Anthropic’s safety warnings may have just backfired — the government h | Anthropic cuts off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 access following government or | Meta reportedly moves to unwind $2B Manus deal after Beijing’s demand |...

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EP56 / Jun 13, 2026

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Anthropic’s safety warnings may have just backfired — the government h | Meta’s months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag, say the engineers | Anthropic cuts off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 access following government or |...

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EP55 / Jun 12, 2026

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Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails | Fluid, natural voice translation with Gemini 3.5 Live Translate | Jeff Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12B to build an ‘artificial general en | xAI fired an engi...

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EP54 / Jun 11, 2026

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Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails | Fluid, natural voice translation with Gemini 3.5 Live Translate | Introducing Gemma 4 12B: a unified, encoder-free multimodal model | xAI fired an engineer...

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EP53 / Jun 9, 2026

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OpenAI files confidentially for IPO, following Anthropic | Apple announces Siri AI and its next generation of Apple Intelligence | Lovable says it has hit $500M in annualized revenue, with 1 million ne | Apple just ta...

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EP52 / Jun 8, 2026

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OpenAI Plans Biggest ChatGPT Overhaul Before IPO | Microsoft Builds Its Own AI Stack To Cut OpenAI Dependence | US races to secure frontier AI before China catches up - POLITICO | iOS 27 Launch at WWDC 2026: Siri AI O...

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EP51 / Jun 7, 2026

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‘Chat is dead’: OpenAI plans biggest ChatGPT overhaul ahead of IPO, pi | DeepMind World Models Train Robots in Imagined Worlds: SIMA Practices | OpenAI prepping huge ChatGPT update, plans to turn it into a superapp |...

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EP50 / Jun 5, 2026

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Anthropic warns Claude AI is building itself faster than expected, cal | NVIDIA and Microsoft Reinvent Windows PCs for the Age of Personal AI | | House unveils AI draft that would preempt state laws - POLITICO | The N...

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EP49 / Jun 4, 2026

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5 big AI announcements from Microsoft Build 2026 as company sharpens r | Scientists Find Way to Supercharge Dangerous Computer ‘Worms’ With A.I | AI agents lag far behind human workers, research shows. So, why are te...

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EP48 / Jun 3, 2026

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Microsoft unveils new AI models to lessen reliance on OpenAI and lower | Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking Oversight of A.I. Models - The New | Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security – T...

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EP47 / Jun 1, 2026

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Cognition Raises $1 Billion At $26 Billion Valuation For Its AI Coding | NVIDIA Launches Cosmos 3, the Open Frontier Foundation Model for Physi | Nvidia launches Windows laptop chip for AI era | Three Major Banks Comp...

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EP46 / May 31, 2026

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After Nvidia’s $20B not-acqui-hire, AI chip startup Groq reportedly ra | The internet is being rebuilt for machines | Anthropic raises $65 billion, nears $1T valuation ahead of IPO | Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.8...

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EP45 / May 30, 2026

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After Nvidia’s $20B not-acqui-hire, AI chip startup Groq reportedly ra | The internet is being rebuilt for machines | Anthropic raises $65 billion, nears $1T valuation ahead of IPO | A $2,000 AI-generated film will ma...

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EP44 / May 29, 2026

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The internet is being rebuilt for machines | Anthropic raises $65 billion, nears $1T valuation ahead of IPO | Sneak peek at new Siri app reveals Apple’s plans to take on ChatGPT an | A $2,000 AI-generated film will ma...

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EP43 / May 28, 2026

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AI coding startup Cognition raises $1B at $25B pre-money valuation | In more good news for Amazon, Snowflake signs $6B deal with AWS for AI | Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks | Google folds Display Ads i...

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EP42 / May 27, 2026

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Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks | This startup is betting India’s gig economy can train the world’s robo | What ClickUp’s mass layoff tells us about the future of work | Uber president says AI spending...

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EP41 / May 26, 2026

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What ClickUp’s mass layoff tells us about the future of work | Uber president says AI spending is getting ‘harder to justify’ | Sundar Pichai on AI, the future of search, and what’s happening to the | AI warfare is al...

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EP40 / May 25, 2026

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We tried Google’s AI glasses and they’re almost there | Google’s new anything-to-anything AI model is wild | AI is being used to resurrect the voices of dead pilots | How VCs and founders use inflated ‘ARR’ to crown A...

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EP39 / May 24, 2026

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Spotify and Universal Music strike deal allowing fan-made AI covers an | Google’s new anything-to-anything AI model is wild | All of the updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s battle over OpenAI | OpenAI opens Singap...

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EP38 / May 23, 2026

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We tried Google’s AI glasses and they’re almost there | Spotify and Universal Music strike deal allowing fan-made AI covers an | Hark raises $700M Series A for its secretive ‘universal’ AI interface | Jensen Huang say...

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EP37 / May 22, 2026

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Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25B per month for compute | OpenAI claims it solved an 80-year-old math problem — for real this ti | An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometr | Spotify and Unive...

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EP36 / May 21, 2026

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Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25B per month for compute | OpenAI claims it solved an 80-year-old math problem — for real this ti | Hark raises $700M Series A for its secretive “universal” AI interface | Jensen Huang says...

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EP35 / May 20, 2026

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With Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google bets its next AI wave on agents, not cha | Google Search as you know it is over | Google updates its Gemini app to take on ChatGPT and Claude at IO 2026 | Alibaba is designing AI chips ar...

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EP34 / May 18, 2026

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Google has sold so much TPU capacity that its own researchers are queu | Google I/O 2026: Gemini Omni, Spark & Android XR Launch Expected in Bi | Pope and Anthropic Co-founder Launch AI Encyclical | Let's Data Scienc...

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EP33 / May 17, 2026

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Google Announces Googlebook: AI-Native Laptop Built on Android Arrives | Trump and Xi Signal AI Safety Protocol Talks as Anthropic's Mythos Ref | GitHub adds Claude and Codex to Copilot | Let's Data Science | New Goog...

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EP32 / May 16, 2026

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OpenAI launches ChatGPT for personal finance, will let you connect ban | OpenAI Considers Legal Action Against Apple in Strained Relationship - | Bombshell OpenAI lawsuit claims your ChatGPT convos were shared with G...

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EP31 / May 15, 2026

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Why A.I. Safety Controls Are Not Very Effective - The New York Times | Digital arson spree by ‘AI Bonnie and Clyde’ raises fears over autonom | OpenAI-Apple Partnership Frays, Setting Up Possible Legal Fight - Bloo |...

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EP30 / May 14, 2026

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Notable Researchers Join $4 Billion Effort to Build Self-Improving A.I | Anthropic finally beat OpenAI in business AI adoption — but 3 big thre | Exclusive: Microsoft eyeing startup deals for life after OpenAI | Reut...

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EP29 / May 13, 2026

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OpenAI acquires Tomoro as founding piece of $14 billion Deployment Com | China Sought Access to Anthropic’s Newest A.I. The Answer Was No. - Th | Artificial Intelligence News -- ScienceDaily | OpenAI’s Daybreak turns...

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EP28 / May 12, 2026

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OpenAI creates new unit with $4 billion investment to aid corporate AI | Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw - | Google says hackers used AI to develop a major security flaw - POLITIC...

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EP27 / May 11, 2026

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Nvidia Commits Over $40 Billion to AI Investments in Early 2026 - CXO | Elsevier vs. Meta: first science publisher sues over scraped research | Alibaba to integrate Qwen AI with Taobao, launch agentic shopping, sou |...

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EP26 / May 10, 2026

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Google I/O 2026 Reveals Android 17, Gemini AI & Smart Glasses | Anthropic Signs USD 1.8 Billion AI Cloud Deal with Akamai Technologies | Publishers’ lawsuit alleges Mark Zuckerberg authorised copyright infri | Google...

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EP25 / May 9, 2026

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Google I/O 2026 Reveals Android 17, Gemini AI & Smart Glasses | Artificial Intelligence News -- ScienceDaily | Google, Microsoft and xAI agree to US government AI testing programme | How dangerous is Anthropic’s Mytho...

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EP24 / May 8, 2026

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Anthropic taps SpaceX Colossus 1 to raise Claude limits | Let's Data S | Anthropic's Mythos set off a cybersecurity 'hysteria.' Experts say the | AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields |...

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EP23 / May 7, 2026

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Nvidia to invest up to $3.2 billion in Corning as part of massive opti | How the AI Industry Runs on Its Own Money | Anthropic, SpaceX announce compute deal that includes space developmen | Anthropic, SpaceX Sign Deal...

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EP22 / May 6, 2026

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OpenAI to Spend $50 Billion on Computing in 2026, Brockman Says - Bloo | Major Publishers Sue Meta for Copyright Infringement Over AI Training | Microsoft, Google and xAI to give US government early access to AI mod |...

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EP21 / May 5, 2026

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Anthropic and Wall Street Giants Join Forces to Create New A.I. Firm - | White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released - T | AWS Weekly Roundup: What’s Next with AWS 2026, Amazon Quick, OpenAI pa...

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EP20 / May 4, 2026

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ChatGPT Allegedly Helped Student Plan Mass Shooting at FSU Last Year: | Meta humanoid robots make bold leap with Assured AI takeover | Meta Acquires Assured Robot Intelligence to Focus on Developing Humano | State of...

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EP19 / May 3, 2026

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Classified Networks AI Agreements > U.S. Department of War > Release | | Elon Musk’s Trial Against OpenAI Highlights Disputes Over AI Mission, | Anthropic in early talks to buy DRAM-less AI inference chips from UK s |...

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EP18 / May 2, 2026

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Pentagon Makes Deals With A.I. Companies to Expand Classified Work - T | Pentagon strikes AI deals for classified military use - The Washington | Pentagon reaches agreements with top AI companies, but not Anthropic |...

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EP17 / May 1, 2026

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Meta abandons open-source Llama for proprietary Muse Spark - The New S | AI boom: Big Tech capital expenditures now seen topping $1 trillion in | News Organizations Move to Block AI Training Using Common Crawl Archiv...

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EP16 / Apr 30, 2026

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A.I. Spending Sets a Record, With No End in Sight - The New York Times | OpenAI looms over earnings from tech hyperscalers | Claude AI agent’s confession after deleting a firm’s entire database: | Google Cloud surpass...

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EP15 / Apr 29, 2026

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OpenAI brings its models to Amazon's cloud after ending exclusivity wi | Amazon Expands AI Offerings with OpenAI Partnership | Google Signs A.I. Deal With the Pentagon - The New York Times | ‘The cost of compute is fa...

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EP14 / Apr 28, 2026

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OpenAI Breaks Free From Exclusive AI Pact With Microsoft | Microsoft (MSFT) to Stop Sharing Revenue With OpenAI - Bloomberg | Anthropic’s Claude AI Agent Blamed For Deleting Entire Company Databas | Google staff urge...

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EP13 / Apr 27, 2026

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Qualcomm (QCOM) Shares Surge as OpenAI Collaborates on Smartphone Proc | Anthropic's Claude Mythos Escapes Sandbox in Alarming Cybersecurity Te | Anthropic Draws Google’s $40B Bet in Latest AI Megadeal | Qualcomm surg...

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EP12 / Apr 26, 2026

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Google Plans to Invest Up to $40 Billion in Anthropic in Two-Phase Dea | Google Bets $40B on Anthropic: Is Google Cloud the New Growth Engine a | Meta cuts 8,000 jobs and Microsoft offers first-ever buyouts as Big Te...

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EP11 / Apr 25, 2026

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Google to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic as search giant spread | Google to invest up to $40 billion in AI rival Anthropic | Reuters | Google Launches Deep Research and Deep Research Max: AI Agents That Ca | AI...

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EP10 / Apr 24, 2026

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OpenAI announces GPT-5.5, its latest artificial intelligence model | Meta to Lay Off 10 Percent of Work Force in A.I. Push - The New York T | OpenAI Unveils Its New, More Powerful GPT-5.5 Model - The New York Tim | Op...

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EP9 / Apr 23, 2026

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Anthropic’s New Mythos A.I. Model Sets Off Global Alarms - The New Yor | Pentagon asks for $54bn in pivot towards AI-powered war | US military | OpenAI unveils Workspace Agents, a successor to custom GPTs for enterp |...

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EP8 / Apr 22, 2026

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Exclusive: Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystroke | A.I. ‘Hallucinations’ Created Errors in Court Filing, Top Law Firm Say | OpenAI teases next AI announcement coming today, here's what to expect...

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EP7 / Apr 21, 2026

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Amazon to invest up to another $25 billion in Anthropic as part of AI | OpenAI launches GPT-Image-2 with near-perfect text rendering and twice | Anthropic nuked a company's access to Claude, stopping 60 employees de |...

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EP6 / Apr 20, 2026

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Claude Mythos sparks global financial panic, regulators call for safeg | AI startup Cursor in talks to raise $2 billion funding round at valuat | Anthropic's Claude Shut Down Firm Without Explanation, Claims CTO And |...

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EP5 / Apr 19, 2026

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NVIDIA Releases Ising: the First Open Quantum AI Model Family for Hybr | OpenAI Leadership Shakeup: Key Executives Step Down Amid Product Restr | Key OpenAI Leaders Depart Amidst Project Shutdowns and Restructuring |...

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EP4 / Apr 18, 2026

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Google's New AI Enables Robots to Understand, Plan, and Act in Real-Wo | OpenAI to spend more than $20 billion on Cerebras chips, receive stake | OpenAI Leadership Shakeup: Key Executives Step Down Amid Product Restr...

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EP3 / Apr 17, 2026

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Stanford: China has ‘nearly erased’ U.S. AI lead as flow of tech exper | Anthropic Mythos AI Rollout Coming to US Agencies - Bloomberg | Dakota Q1 Venture Capital Activity Report | Washington’s Scramble to Get Mythos,...

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EP2 / Apr 16, 2026

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The AI Infrastructure Pivot: A Deep Dive into Meta Platforms (META) in | Boston Dynamics and Google DeepMind Integrate Gemini to Enhance Spot R | FinancialContent - The AI Infrastructure Pivot: A Deep Dive into Meta |...

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EP1 / Apr 16, 2026

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OpenAI pulls back from Stargate Norway data center deal as Microsoft t | OpenAI expands its cyber defense program with GPT-5.4-Cyber for vetted | OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, directly linking patient portals to th...

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