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

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!

SpaceX finally opened the books, and the numbers are a lot

Yesterday in AI | Saturday, May 23, 2026 SpaceX finally opened the books, and the numbers are a lot The week ended with some of the biggest AI-adjacent financial moves we've seen. A filing that shows what Musk is actually building inside his empire. A chip company that just found an entirely new market to own. A tech giant making two completely contradictory moves in the same 24 hours. A Chinese model that ran for 35 straight hours without stopping. And the first sitting governor to officially declare AI job displacement a present-day emergency. The data behind that last one will stay with you. Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2606006/fan_mail/new] Remember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

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

Yesterday in AI | Friday, May 22, 2026 A leaked tape. A fired workforce. And a city that just put a 1-in-20 odds on an AI economic shockwave. A secret recording surfaced this week that reframes everything companies say about "productivity monitoring," and the person talking is one of the most powerful tech executives alive. Meanwhile, a general-purpose AI disproved something mathematicians have believed since 1946, verified by three of the world's top math minds. Then there's the AI company that just hit a financial milestone nobody expected this soon, a government report that assigned specific probability weights to the scenario where AI destroys millions of jobs, and a White House executive order that was almost signed, then wasn't. Six stories that all land differently than the headlines suggest. Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2606006/fan_mail/new] Remember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!