A leaked tape. A fired workforce. And a city that just put a 1-in-20 odds on an AI economic shockwave.

When your AI has a brokerage account, nobody is ready for what comes next.

Yesterday in AI | Friday, May 29, 2026 When your AI has a brokerage account, nobody is ready for what comes next. Anthropic dropped Opus 4.8 yesterday, with benchmarks that beat GPT-5.5, and a research preview that lets it run hundreds of parallel sub-agents at once. AI agents now have wallets and can trade your stocks. IBM tested every major AI model on real enterprise IT work, and none of them cracked 50%. OpenAI put $250 million on the table for workers being displaced by the technology it's building. And two chip companies you've probably never thought about just hit $1 trillion each. Plus: what happens to academic research when 400 papers can be written in 12 hours. Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2606006/fan_mail/new] Remember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

Anthropic is about to score how well you prompt.

Yesterday in AI | Thursday, May 28, 2026 Anthropic is about to score how well you prompt. A feature spotted inside Claude's settings will scan your conversations, measure 11 behaviors, and return a personal AI fluency score. A well-funded lab just entered the space Anthropic has used to keep everyone else nervous. One enterprise giant is standing up a thousand-person engineering team built entirely around a single AI model. A biology database dropped this week that could change how drugs get discovered, if the claims hold up. And an acquisition that isn't even closed yet has already generated a lawyer memo. Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2606006/fan_mail/new] Remember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

AI is calling your debtors now and sometimes it's wrong about who owes what.

Yesterday in AI | Wednesday, May 27, 2026 AI is calling your debtors now and sometimes it's wrong about who owes what. From AI bots pursuing already-settled debts to an open-source decensoring tool with 13 million downloads, yesterday was a good day to ask who's actually in control here. We've also got McKinsey quietly restructuring partner pay because AI ate their billing model, a CEO cutting 22% of his workforce and replacing them with 3,000 agents, and Sam Altman in Sydney admitting the job apocalypse he helped start hasn't hit quite as hard as he feared. Plus a gray whale story that deserves more attention than it'll get. Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2606006/fan_mail/new] Remember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

The Pope just declared war on Silicon Valley's power grab and Anthropic's co-founder was in the room when he did it.

Yesterday in AI | Tuesday, May 26, 2026 The Pope just declared war on Silicon Valley's power grab and Anthropic's co-founder was in the room when he did it. In today's episode: a moral document from the Vatican is reshaping the AI governance debate in ways no lobbying campaign can counter. Colorado just tore up the most aggressive AI law in America — and what replaced it tells you something uncomfortable about where US regulation is heading. The AI model that spooked central banks and got Anthropic flagged as a Pentagon security risk is about to reach a much wider audience. AI-powered attacks have crossed from emerging threat to routine criminal operation, with a new technique most enterprise security teams haven't planned for. And China just moved to register every humanoid robot in the country — and the US has nothing like it. Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2606006/fan_mail/new] Remember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

Robots that work, AI that doesn't, a price war with geopolitical fine print, and the words tech billionaires are using to describe you.

Yesterday in AI — Weekend Recap | Monday, May 25, 2026 Robots that work, AI that doesn't, a price war with geopolitical fine print, and the words tech billionaires are using to describe you. This weekend delivered a head-snapping pair of stories from the physical world: humanoid robots sorting 250,000 warehouse packages without a single failure, and an AI tool pulled from 11,000 Starbucks locations because it couldn't tell milk from milk. Then there's what DeepSeek just made permanent, what Spotify is betting on that its own users don't seem to want, and a New York Times piece about the language Elon Musk, Andrej Karpathy, and Larry Ellison are using to describe human beings. That last one is worth your time. All of it on this weekend's Yesterday in AI. Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2606006/fan_mail/new] Remember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!