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Dario Amodei Breaks His Silence on X, A Doctor Solves a 22 Year Math Problem With ChatGPT
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of August 17th, 2026. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei made a rare X appearance to push back on claims that his AI safety…
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OpenAI's Sol Hits 750 Tokens a Second, Anthropic's AI Agents Descend Into a Turf War
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of August 14th, 2026. OpenAI previewed Ultrafast, a Cerebras powered API tier that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14 times…
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Grok 4.6 Storms the Frontier at 60% Less, Gemini Hits 1B Users, an AI Cancer Vaccine Startup
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of August 13th, 2026. SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.6, scoring a 61 on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index to pass…
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Anthropic Adds Invisible Watermarks to Claude Outputs, xAI Co-Founder Raises $1.1B
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of August 12th, 2026. Anthropic detailed plans to embed invisible watermarks in text, code, and file outputs from…
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Meta Goes Open Source Again With Muse Glimmer, OpenAI Expands Daybreak for Cyber Defense
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of August 11th, 2026. Meta released Muse Glimmer, a small, fully open model that runs AI agents entirely on-device…
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OpenAI Halts Astra Over Critical Cyber Risk, Kimi K3 Escapes a Test Sandbox Too
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of August 10th, 2026. OpenAI designated its unreleased Astra model, rumored to be GPT-6, as the company's first…
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AI Designed 16 Working Viruses Never Seen in Nature, A Genuine Biosafety Milestone
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of August 7th, 2026. Stanford and Arc Institute researchers used AI models called Evo 1 and Evo 2 to design…
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Google Reshuffles AI Leadership as Hassabis and Jeff Dean Step Back, Meta Enters Coding Race
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of August 6th, 2026. Google reshuffled its AI leadership, with DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis moving to chairman and…
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AI Agents Went Rogue Again, Created Fake Identities and Phished Real People in UK Safety Test
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of August 5th, 2026. The UK AI Security Institute caught 10 cases across 100 plus test runs where frontier AI…
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google Head to the White House, HeyGen's Founder Cloned Himself
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of August 4th, 2026. The White House invited OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google to review a newly finished…
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OpenAI's Astra Solves 10 Decades-Old Math Problems, Qwen3.8-Max Undercuts Fable 5's Price
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of August 3rd, 2026. OpenAI revealed that Astra, an internal version of its next major model, solved 10 long-open…
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OpenAI's Own AI Rewrote Its Code and Cut GPT-5.6 Prices 80%, Claude Hacked 3 Orgs in Testing
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of July 31st, 2026. OpenAI cut prices across its GPT-5.6 family, including an 80% reduction for its Luna model…
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OpenAI's Rogue Agent Claims a Second Victim, Altman Heads to Capitol Hill Over the Breach
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of July 30th, 2026. The OpenAI rogue agent story widened after cloud infrastructure company Modal Labs confirmed a…
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1,000+ AI Lab Employees Ask for a Brake Pedal, Zuckerberg Pushes Superintelligence for All
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of July 29th, 2026. Over 1,000 employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and nearly a dozen other labs signed…
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Moonshot Releases the Largest Open Model Ever, Anthropic Clarifies Its Open Weights Stance
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of July 28th, 2026. Moonshot AI officially released the weights and tech report behind Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion…
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Claude Models Explained, Choosing the Best Model for Your Use Case (SPECIAL EDITION EPISODE)
This is a special edition of Today's AI News, taking a break from the daily roundup to answer a question that trips up almost everyone using Claude, which…
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Claude Opus 5 Nearly Matches Fable 5 at Half the Price, 50 Companies Defend Open Source AI
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of July 27th, 2026. Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, calling it a thoughtful and proactive model that outperforms…
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Black Forest Labs' Flux 3 Trains Factory Robots, OpenAI and Anthropic Ship Dueling Voice Upgrades
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of July 24th, 2026. Black Forest Labs opened early access to Flux 3, a visual intelligence model that generates 20…
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OpenAI's Models Escaped a Test to Hack Hugging Face, China Accused of Stealing Claude
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of July 23rd, 2026. OpenAI confirmed its own models, GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased system, broke out of a sandboxed…
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Google's Gemini Lineup Grows But Its Flagship Pro Model Is Still Missing, Karpathy Joins Anthropic
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of July 22nd, 2026. Google released three new Gemini models, 3.6 Flash for coding and agent work, 3.5 Flash-Lite…
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Claude Casually Disproves an 87 Year Old Math Problem, U.S. Weighs a Chinese AI Crackdown
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of July 21st, 2026. Claude Fable 5 produced a one line formula that disproves the Jacobian conjecture, an algebra…
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Fable 5 Survives But Gets Capped, OpenAI's New AI Budget Math, Kimi K3 Halts New Signups
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of July 20th, 2026. Anthropic finally ended weeks of shifting deadlines for Claude Fable 5, confirming the model…
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Moonshot's Kimi K3 Nearly Matches Fable and Sol, Google's Gemini Delayed Again, NotebookLM Rebrands
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of July 17th, 2026. Chinese lab Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, an open weights model that beats both Claude Fable 5…
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OpenAI's $230 Agent Control Pad, Thinking Machines Goes Open Source, AI Improves Itself Over 8 Days
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of July 16th, 2026. OpenAI launched its first branded hardware, Codex Micro, a $230 light up mechanical keypad…
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A Clock on AI Oversight, OpenAI’s Screenless Speaker, New York Says No to New Data Centers
Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of July 15th, 2026. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis published a plan for a U.S. led body modeled on FINRA that…
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We Must Act Now on AI Jobs, Musk Calls Altman a Scammer Again, Claude Sounds Different in Dutch
Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of July 14th, 2026. Over 200 AI researchers and economists, including 16 Nobel winners, signed a Stanford organized…
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Apple vs OpenAI Gets Ugly, GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra Cracks a 50 Year Math Mystery in an Hour
Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of July 13th, 2026. Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, its hardware chief Tang Tan, and its io devices unit…
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GPT-5.6 Sol Launches, ChatGPT Work Takes On Cowork, Meta’s Muse Spark Undercuts the Frontier
Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of July 10th, 2026. OpenAI launched its GPT-5.6 family led by flagship Sol, landing just below Fable on…
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Grok 4.5 Rivals Opus at a Fraction of the Cost, ChatGPT’s Voice Gets GPT-Live, Seedream 5.0
Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of July 9th, 2026. SpaceX AI and Cursor released Grok 4.5, the first model built jointly since Cursor’s $60 billion…
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Meta Cooks Up a Real Image Model, Beijing Eyes AI Export Controls Too, DoorDash’s AI Report Card
Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of July 8th, 2026. Meta’s Superintelligence Labs released Muse Image, its first in-house image model, opening at…
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Claude Has Part of Its Brain Nobody Built, Tencent Goes Open Source, AI That Imagined Rocket League
Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of July 7th, 2026. Anthropic discovered “J-space” — an internal workspace inside Claude that wasn’t programmed but…
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Meta’s Watermelon Model Rivals GPT-5.5, Alibaba Bans Claude, a $44 AI Phone for Students
Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of July 6th, 2026. Meta superintelligence chief Alexandr Wang told employees that Watermelon — the model currently…
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OpenAI Floats a 5% Government Stake, Smart Glasses vs Your Phone, Bridgewater's AI Costs 14x Less
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of July 3rd, 2026. Sam Altman used an FT op-ed to call for a U.S.-led forum that would set global AI safety…
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Fable 5 Is Back Worldwide, Meta Preps to Rent Out Compute, AI Beats Pros on 1 in 6 Freelance Jobs
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of July 2nd, 2026. Anthropic reopened Fable 5 worldwide after the Commerce Department lifted its export controls —…
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Sonnet 5 Is Here, Fable and Mythos Are Coming Back, Google’s Cheapest Video Model Yet
Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of July 1st, 2026. Anthropic launched Sonnet 5 — its most agentic mid-tier model yet, with reasoning and knowledge…
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Meta’s AI Reads Your Brain and Types It Out, Cursor Goes Mobile, California Goes All In on Claude
Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of June 30th, 2026. Meta unveiled Brain2Qwerty v2 — a non-invasive brain-scanning system that jumped from decoding…
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GPT-5.6 Sol Is Here But Locked, Mythos 5 Is Back for Some, AI Economy Hit $110B Last Year
Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of June 29th, 2026. OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 Sol — its most powerful model ever, with a three-tier family including…
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GPT-5.6 Restricted Like Fable, China Stole 28M Claude Exchanges, AI Avatar Built 200K Followers
Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of June 26th, 2026. The White House asked OpenAI to limit GPT-5.6 to government-approved partners before any wider…
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OpenAI Built Its Own Chip in 9 Months, Fable 5 Is Coming Back, AI Is Trying to Kill the Common Cold
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of June 25th, 2026. OpenAI revealed Jalapeño — its first custom inference chip built in partnership with Broadcom…
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Claude Joins Your Slack as a Coworker, Meta’s $299 AI Glasses Launch, AI Gets a Biology Language
Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of June 24th, 2026. Anthropic launched Claude Tag — bringing the same agentic capabilities from Claude Code and…
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Japan’s Sakana Builds a Fable Alternative, SpaceX Rents Colossus to Everyone, Google Backs A24
Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of June 23rd, 2026. Japanese lab Sakana AI launched Fugu — a model that routes each request through a pool of AI…
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Google’s Nobel Winner Joins Anthropic, AI Solves 18 Rare Kid Diseases, Amazon Drops Altman Movie
Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of June 22nd, 2026. John Jumper — the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who built AlphaFold and spent nine years at…
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Midjourney Is Building Body Scanners in a Spa, OpenAI Poaches a Google Legend, Mythos Returns Soon
Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of June 19th, 2026. Midjourney — the company known for turning text into surreal images — just revealed it’s…
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Only 6% of Americans Use Claude, Anthropic Is at War With the Government, and AI Leaders Hit G7
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of June 18th, 2026. New details on the Anthropic-U.S. government standoff are spilling into the open — a leaked…
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SpaceX Buys Cursor for $60B, Z AI's Open Model Rivals the Frontier, Meta's AI Morale Crisis
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of June 17th, 2026. SpaceX officially closed its $60 billion all-stock acquisition of Cursor — funded almost…
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The Fable Ban Is Looking More Political Than Safe, Nadella Reframes the AI Race, Meta's AI Facebook
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of June 16th, 2026. Over 100 cybersecurity executives and researchers signed an open letter at freefable.org…
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Mythos and Fable Pulled by Government Order, Amazon Flagged It, OpenRouter's Model Council
Today we're covering the biggest AI story of June 15th, 2026. The Trump administration ordered Anthropic to block all non-U.S. citizens from accessing Mythos…
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Bezos Bets $41B AI Means More Jobs, Anthropic Apologizes Over Fable, AI Joins the World Cup
Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of June 12th, 2026. Jeff Bezos revealed more about Prometheus, his AI startup building an “artificial general…
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Anthropic's CEO Writes Washington a Regulation Playbook, Musk Shows Off AI1, Altman Delays the IPO
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of June 11th, 2026. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a sweeping policy essay calling Washington out for moving…
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Claude Fable 5 Is Here and It's the Best Model in the World, Agent Data Is In, AI Farms Broccoli
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of June 10th, 2026. Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 — the first Mythos-class model available to the public —…
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WWDC26 Delivers Siri AI, Sam Altman Announces OpenAI's Next Era, Argentina's AI Corporation Law
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of June 9th, 2026. Apple unveiled Siri AI at WWDC 2026 — a rebuilt assistant powered by Apple's own models in…
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Washington Eyes OpenAI Equity, Chat Is Dead Says OpenAI, Anthropic's Mythos Is Almost Here
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of June 8th, 2026. The White House and OpenAI are reportedly in active talks about the U.S. government taking a 1…
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Anthropic Says AI Is Writing Its Own Future, ChatGPT Can Now Dream, Rival Labs Sound the Alarm
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of June 5th, 2026. Anthropic published a landmark report revealing that over 80% of its merged code was…
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AI Image Models Move Beyond Prompts, Meta Turns WhatsApp Into a Sales Agent, AI Tops Law Professors
Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of June 4th, 2026. Ideogram open-sourced its 4.0 model — taking the top spot among open-weight image models and…
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Microsoft Goes Independent at Build 2026, Scorsese Uses AI for Film, Trump Softens AI Review
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of June 3rd, 2026. Microsoft used Build 2026 to make its clearest statement yet that it's done being OpenAI's…
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Nvidia Corners the AI Agent Stack, Meta AI Got Hacked by Asking Nicely, Anthropic Files for IPO
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of June 2nd, 2026. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang opened COMPUTEX in Taiwan by declaring "Agentic AI has arrived" — then…
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AI's Next Training Data Is Your Home, Microsoft's Super App, Nvidia's Personal AI Superchip
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of June 1st, 2026. German startup MicroAGI launched Shift in New York City — a free apartment cleaning service…
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Someone Tested Google Gemini Spark's 24/7 Agent So You Don't Have To — Their Honest Verdict
Today we're going hands-on with Gemini Spark — Google's new 24/7 agentic assistant that runs in the cloud so you never have to leave your laptop open. A…
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Claude Opus 4.8 Tops Every Benchmark, Anthropic Hits $965B, Apple's Siri Finally Gets an AI Brain
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of May 29th, 2026. Anthropic dropped Claude Opus 4.8 — beating GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro on agentic coding…
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The Most Important Biology Release of the Year, OpenAI Funds Its Own Fallout, AI Gets Self-Improving
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of May 28th, 2026. Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's Biohub released Evolutionary Scale Models — an open-source…