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LinkedIn's answer to AI slop: a button -- AI Brief July 31
Season 2026 Episode 731
Good day, humans. Anthropic spent yesterday explaining that three of its Claude models hacked three real companies during safety tests — by accident,…
2 months, 1 week ago
The People Building AI Just Asked for a Brake Pedal -- AI Brief July 30
Season 2026 Episode 730
Good day, humans. More than twelve hundred of the people paid to build frontier AI just signed a letter asking Washington for something the industry …
2 months, 1 week ago
Zuckerberg Says AI Doom Is a Sales Pitch -- AI Brief July 29
Season 2026 Episode 729
Good day, humans. Mark Zuckerberg spent yesterday explaining, in two of America's biggest newspapers, why the labs building AI more cautiously than h…
2 months, 1 week ago
Google banned Gemini... from Google -- AI Brief July 28
Season 2026 Episode 728
Good day, humans. Dario Amodei has published roughly a thousand words that boil down to "we never said ban," and Satya Nadella -- whose company wrote…
2 months, 1 week ago
Welcome to the Singularity. Mind the Leaks. -- AI Brief July 27
Season 2026 Episode 727
Good day, humans. Sam Altman says we are officially living in the singularity — a claim that would land harder if the same weekend’s news didn’t incl…
2 months, 1 week ago
AI Broke Out, Broke In, and Moved In -- AI Brief July 26
Season 2026 Episode 726
Good day, humans. Today an OpenAI test model stopped rattling its cage and broke into a real company, Y Combinator pronounced pure-software startups …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Midjourney just bought 4.3 million Co-Star birth charts -- AI Brief July 25
Season 2026 Episode 725
Good day, humans. Today: OpenAI let ten days pass before telling Hugging Face whose models had been rummaging through its servers, Microsoft started …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Google read 15M AI chats. Your job's fine. -- AI Brief July 24
Season 2026 Episode 724
Good day, humans. OpenAI had the kind of Wednesday that lands in two very different sections of the paper: its new enterprise agent, Presence, torche…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Elon Musk vows to make an AI "Odyssey" -- AI Brief July 23
Season 2026 Episode 723
Good day, humans. Today the AI industry turned a coding tool into a loyalty test and a Greek epic into a subtweet. SpaceX's Cursor will now pick your…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Your Dating App Is Full of Ghostwriters -- AI Brief July 22
Season 2026 Episode 722
Good day, humans. Today the machines are ghostwriting your love life, a Chinese lab shipped a model nobody can recall, and somewhere a perfectly ordi…
2 months, 2 weeks ago