Episode Details

The US government gave Anthropic a 90-minute ultimatum to fix an unfixable problem, and when the clock ran out, two major AI models vanished from the internet entirely — including access for users worldwide. The incident is already sending shockwaves through international markets, with foreign companies quietly signing backup deals with non-US AI providers. Meanwhile, OpenAI is making aggressive talent and policy moves ahead of its IPO, snapping up a Transformer co-inventor and a Trump administration insider — even as a key executive quietly slips out the back door. AI inference startup Baseten is closing in on a $1.5 billion funding round, Amazon wants to sell its custom AI chips to the world, and the federal government just gave AI data centers a fast lane to the power grid. A paralyzed ALS patient has become the first true 'power user' of a brain-computer interface after nearly three years with the implant. And in the most unexpected pivot of the week, Midjourney — the AI art generator — just revealed a full-body ultrasound scanner and plans to open a spa in San Francisco where you can walk in and get scanned. A new Pew poll finds two-thirds of Americans think AI is moving too fast, and today's news suggests they may have a point.

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