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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!

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!