One of the most famous researchers in AI just quietly switched sides, and the implications for the frontier are hard to overstate.

Microsoft just stopped being OpenAI's distribution partner. Loudly.

Yesterday in AI | Thursday, June 4, 2026 Microsoft just stopped being OpenAI's distribution partner. Loudly. This episode covers a day when the biggest players in AI all moved at once: one tech giant showed up to its developer conference with 7 new in-house models, an autonomous agent, and hardware that looks nothing like anything shipping today. Google told investors it can't build fast enough and asked for $80 billion to fix it. And new data on tech layoffs reveals that CEOs have been quietly misattributing the cause - the actual number is smaller than almost anyone is saying. Plus, Anthropic spent a year studying 832 real criminals who tried to use Claude as their hacking toolkit, and what they found will change how you think about AI-enabled threats. 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 White House Just Gave AI Models a New Legal Status. Florida Filed a Lawsuit That Could Change Everything.

Yesterday in AI | Wednesday, June 3, 2026 The White House Just Gave AI Models a New Legal Status. Florida Filed a Lawsuit That Could Change Everything. On Tuesday, the federal government quietly created a regulatory category that doesn't exist yet, and gave the AI industry 60 days to figure out what it means. A state attorney general filed a lawsuit that will force a judge to answer a question nobody has answered before about what AI companies owe you when things go wrong. Anthropic published a number from its security program that changes what "AI security" actually means in practice. A Meta chatbot handed attackers the keys to other people's Instagram accounts. And the cloud deal that defined enterprise AI for years just ended. Big Tuesday. 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 AI lab going public, the model the EU needed a government deal to access, and the startup cleaning your apartment for reasons that have nothing to do with cleaning

Yesterday in AI | Tuesday, June 2, 2026 The AI lab going public, the model the EU needed a government deal to access, and the startup cleaning your apartment for reasons that have nothing to do with cleaning One company just filed the paperwork that puts it on a collision course with public markets. Another just handed a European regulator access to an AI model so powerful that governments have been fighting over who gets to see it. A Chinese startup dropped a coding model that makes the benchmarks uncomfortable for everyone else. And somewhere in New York, a cleaner is walking through an apartment wearing a camera, and the footage isn't for security. Eight stories. Ten minutes. Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2606006/fan_mail/new] Remember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

What happens when you put five different AI models in charge of a civilization and walk away for two weeks?

Yesterday in AI — Weekend Recap | Monday, June 1, 2026 What happens when you put five different AI models in charge of a civilization and walk away for two weeks? One of them went extinct in four days. Another built a utopia. A third had the lowest crime rate of any simulation, then quietly let everyone starve. This weekend also surfaced why corporate America is now rationing AI access, what's driving a mass exodus from Google Search, and a new front in the AI copyright wars that's harder to defend than most. Plus: the Pentagon is moving fast on battlefield AI, and the people with the most experience in lethal operations are the ones urging everyone to slow down. 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 just became the most valuable AI company on earth. There's something bigger buried in the fine print.

Yesterday in AI | Saturday, May 30, 2026 Anthropic just became the most valuable AI company on earth. There's something bigger buried in the fine print. Something got buried at the bottom of yesterday's biggest announcement, and most people missed it. Anthropic had the most consequential single day in company history, a Google engineer just became the defendant in a case with no legal precedent, and a Cisco security report dropped that nobody building AI agents wants to sit with. One story involves light moving through fiber instead of electricity, which sounds boring until you understand why Jensen Huang just bet $6.5 billion on it. And Microsoft made two quiet announcements that together say everything about where that company stands right now. Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2606006/fan_mail/new] Remember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!