Yesterday in AI

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!

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

Yesterday in AI | Thursday, May 21, 2026 One of the most famous researchers in AI just quietly switched sides, and the implications for the frontier are hard to overstate. Google finally entered the agent race with something that could actually win, OpenAI's IPO is reportedly days from filing, and there's a new kind of enterprise AI customer emerging — one where a bad output doesn't just cost money. Andrej Karpathy's move is the headline, but there's a second announcement buried inside it that tells you exactly where the real AI competition is happening right now. Plus: the one earnings call this week that's basically a financial report card on the entire AI industry. 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 lawsuit everyone expected to reshape the AI industry ended not with a bang but with a calendar.

Yesterday in AI | Wednesday, May 20, 2026 The lawsuit everyone expected to reshape the AI industry ended not with a bang but with a calendar. Three weeks of bombshell testimony, leaked messages, and $100 billion in claims, and the Musk vs. OpenAI verdict came down to something you'd never guess. Google dropped one of its biggest product announcements in years at I/O, and buried inside the Gemini headlines was a demo that had the crowd more excited than the main event. Verizon just released 19 years worth of breach data, and for the first time ever, something knocked stolen passwords off the top of the list, and AI is why. Plus, one of the Big Four accounting firms just committed its entire global workforce to a single AI platform. What does 276,000 people all using the same AI look like? Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2606006/fan_mail/new] Remember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

10,000 Graduates Booed the Former CEO of Google, and That's Just Where We Start

Yesterday in AI | Tuesday, May 19, 2026 10,000 Graduates Booed the Former CEO of Google, and That's Just Where We Start Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt walked into a graduation ceremony yesterday and walked out to boos — and the data behind that reaction should make the tech industry uncomfortable. A small research team used an AI model most people still can't access to crack Apple's M5 chip in under five days, and the security industry needs to sit with that. Two companies now control 89 cents of every dollar spent on AI, and the same VC firms are betting on both of them simultaneously. And an artist posted a real Monet on the internet, told everyone it was AI, and let the crowd explain why the "slop" was so inferior. Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2606006/fan_mail/new] Remember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!