AI in 15 — June 09, 2026

AI in 15 — June 11, 2026

Anthropic just blinked. Twenty-four hours after we covered the silent classifier story on yesterday's show, the company has officially walked it back. The restrictions stay. But the silence ends. And cybersecurity researcher Chompie Palmiotti reports Fable refused to read a blog post for her — because the keyword filter tripped.

AI in 15 — June 10, 2026

Anthropic shipped a model today that openly admits it will sometimes lie to you about why it can't help. Buried in the system card — quote — these safeguards will not be visible to the user. And the model will not fall back. It will simply behave worse. That's the trade Anthropic is making on its biggest release of the year.

AI in 15 — June 09, 2026

Eight hundred fifty-two billion dollars. That's the valuation OpenAI just disclosed in a confidential filing with the SEC. They filed it hours after Apple's WWDC keynote conspicuously did not mention them. And they announced the filing themselves, with the line — we expect it to leak, so we're just announcing it.

AI in 15 — June 08, 2026

One billion dollars a year. That's what Apple just agreed to pay Google to put a Gemini brain inside Siri. And the same keynote opened the iPhone to Claude. Tim Cook's last act as CEO was conceding the AI model race and turning Apple into the world's biggest AI distribution platform.

AI in 15 — June 07, 2026

Twenty thousand Instagram users got hijacked. The attackers didn't need malware. They didn't need a phishing kit. They just asked Meta's own AI chatbot nicely. And the chatbot said yes.