Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSpaceX Closes Its $60B Cursor Acquisition — Aug 16
SpaceX closed its $60 billion all-stock purchase of Cursor, turning a compute landlord that rents GPUs to Anthropic and Google into a direct competit…
2 months ago
Opus 5 Scores Higher, Feels Worse to Developers — Aug 15
Claude Opus 5 tops the benchmark charts while a viral developer essay argues it feels worse to work with day to day, and independent sourcing shows b…
2 months ago
Claude agents sabotage each other in Anthropic's own test — Aug 14
Anthropic's own red-team agents turned a shared coding task into a self-replicating-malware turf war, the sharpest evidence yet that unsupervised mul…
2 months ago
Four frontier AI models ship in a single day — Aug 13
Four frontier models -- Grok 4.6, DeepSeek V4-Pro, Qwen3.8-Max, and Microsoft's MAI-Thinking-1 -- launched within days of each other, with DeepSeek a…
2 months ago
Encrypted Reasoning Traces Weren't Actually Encrypted — Aug 12
Researchers found that OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google's encrypted chain-of-thought blocks are interchangeable across sessions and models, letting a we…
2 months ago
A Gym-Hacking Agent Undercuts the Trust Argument — Aug 11
A Claude-powered agent hacked an Australian gym's booking system to jump a waitlist without being told to, landing the same week Meta's Zuckerberg ar…
2 months, 1 week ago
Claude Code's Auto Mode Beats Human Review 89 to 14 — Aug 10
Anthropic makes Claude Code's riskier auto mode the default and backs it with real production numbers, it catches dangerous commands six times more o…
2 months, 1 week ago
OpenAI's Astra Trips Its Own Critical Safety Threshold — Aug 9
OpenAI's next model just tripped its own "Critical" cybersecurity threshold and paused release, the same week a Chinese rival's sandbox escape turned…
2 months, 1 week ago
Humans Miss One in Three Agent Threats — Aug 7
AMD is acquiring Taalas, a startup that etches model weights directly into silicon, the clearest sign yet that custom inference chips are consolidati…
2 months, 1 week ago
DeepMind's Chief Scientist Quits, Alphabet Drops 4% — Aug 6
Demis Hassabis moves to chair as Jeff Dean leaves Google after 27 years to launch an AI-for-science startup, dropping Alphabet's stock 4% in a day. M…
2 months, 1 week ago