Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPrivate Social AI, Banking Software Bets, and Retail Humanoids | UpNext AI – July 23, 2026
Episode 60
Today on UpNext AI: a social app makes a fresh bet on private, AI-assisted networks instead of feeds and ads; ServiceNow puts money behind AI banking…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Glow’s $1.2B Security Bet, OpenAI’s Hugging Face Breach, and Google’s Gemini Update | UpNext AI – July 22, 2026
Episode 59
Today on UpNext AI: a new security startup emerges with a $1.2 billion valuation to tackle AI-driven endpoint risk, OpenAI says one of its model eval…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Inference Infrastructure, Synthetic Insider Threats, and Clinical AI Scorecards | UpNext AI – July 21, 2026
Episode 58
A concise catch-up on today’s most important AI stories: a new funding signal in inference infrastructure, a rising corporate security risk from AI-e…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Moonshot’s Kimi Shock, AI Licensing on the Open Web, and a Mosquito-Lab Test for ML | UpNext AI – July 20, 2026
Episode 57
A quick catch-up on the AI stories shaping the week: Moonshot’s new Kimi release is fueling fresh debate about China’s place at the frontier, a newly…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Kimi K3, AI Travel’s Unicorn Moment, and the Reliability Problem in AI Benchmarks | UpNext AI – July 17, 2026
Episode 56
A quick end-of-week catch-up on the AI stories that matter most. Today: Moonshot AI’s new Kimi K3 model makes a big open-model play on size, price, a…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Microsoft’s AI Patch Surge, Inkling’s Open-Model Bet, and a Reality Check for Agent Benchmarks | UpNext AI – July 16, 2026
Episode 55
A fast catch-up on the day’s biggest AI stories: Microsoft says AI helped surface a record Patch Tuesday haul, Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines makes …
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Compute Hunger, ChatGPT Workflows, and a New Way to Test AI Safety | UpNext AI – July 15, 2026
Episode 54
Today on UpNext AI: a billion-dollar compute deal shows how intense the infrastructure race has become, OpenAI pitches ChatGPT Work for data-science …
3 months ago
AI Drug Discovery Meets Quantum Computing, Open Models Under Pressure, and Tool-Using Agent Benchmarks | UpNext AI – July 14, 2026
Episode 53
Today on UpNext AI: a high-upside science story on using AI plus quantum computing to generate new peptides for drug discovery, a sharp practitioner …
3 months ago
The First AI Agent Phone, Peer-Review Prompt Injection, and AI Triage Benchmarks | UpNext AI – July 13, 2026
Episode 52
A lighter but still revealing AI news day: we look at Nubia’s claim that it is launching the world’s first AI agent smartphone, a new paper on how hi…
3 months ago
OpenAI and Microsoft Recommit, GPT-5.6 Lands, and Google Labels AI Ads | UpNext AI – July 10, 2026
Episode 51
Today on UpNext AI: OpenAI used its GPT-5.6 launch to signal that its models will remain central to Microsoft 365 Copilot, even as questions swirl ab…
3 months ago