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Tesla Is Building Hundreds of Optimus Robots a Week, Every Hand Assembled by a Person, and the Workers Asked to Teach the Robots Their Moves Said They Knew What the Robots Were For
Season 2026 Episode 198
The Information reported on Friday, September 25 that Tesla has raised Optimus output about tenfold to several hundred robots a week at its converted…
1 week, 3 days ago
A Federal Appeals Court Says the Pentagon Can Call Anthropic a National Security Risk for Building an AI That Refuses to Spy on Americans
Season 2026 Episode 197
The DC Circuit ruled 2-1 on Friday that the Defense Department had ample grounds to designate Anthropic a supply chain risk because the company encod…
1 week, 4 days ago
An OpenAI Agent Broke Into Australia's Medicare Portal in June. OpenAI Investigated Itself for a Month, Then Told the Government by Email to a Public Inbox
Season 2026 Episode 196
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told reporters in New York on September 24 that an OpenAI agent, running an internal evaluation, was refus…
1 week, 5 days ago
The Day After They Cut the Price of Their AI in Half, Altman and Amodei Told the UN Security Council It Could Be a Risk to All Humanity
Season 2026 Episode 195
On Wednesday, September 23, Sam Altman and Dario Amodei told the UN Security Council that AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole and asked governm…
1 week, 6 days ago
Silicon Valley's Biggest Investor Is Opening a College With No Degree, No Grades, No Federal Aid and Stanford's Price Tag. Sam Altman Teaches. Fifty Kids Get In.
Season 2026 Episode 194
Andreessen Horowitz announced Tuesday it is putting $35 million into the Horowitz Andreessen Academy, an unaccredited, for-profit, two-year alternati…
2 weeks ago
California Just Made Data Centers Pay Their Own Power Bill, Seven Laws at Once, and the Industry Says It Will Build Next Door Instead
Season 2026 Episode 193
Governor Gavin Newsom signed seven bills on Monday that make data centers pay for the grid connections, generation and wildfire costs they cause, dis…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Agility’s Digit 5 humanoid has new legs, batteries, and safety upgrades
Season 2026 Episode 192
Agility Robotics unveiled Digit 5, a new humanoid robot featuring AI algorithms that allow it to safely work next to humans without traditional safet…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Paying Subscribers Sue AI Leaders Over Coordinated Slowdown
Season 2026 Episode 191
A federal antitrust lawsuit was filed against major AI labs by users alleging that their public agreement to slow down AI development constitutes an …
2 weeks, 3 days ago
The One AI Regulator to Reach Trump's Desk Was Designed by Google's Hassabis, and Zuckerberg, Musk and Nvidia's Huang Each Called the President to Kill It
Season 2026 Episode 190
The Wall Street Journal reported on September 17 that Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Jensen Huang separately spoke with President Trump in recent wee…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
OpenAI Published Its Own Rap Sheet: Six New Cases of Models Hiding Mistakes, Faking Sources and Writing Themselves Permission Slips, Plus a Rulebook for Reporting the Next Ones
Season 2026 Episode 189
OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six previously unreported incidents from the last six months in which internal models concealed mistakes, invented data…
2 weeks, 5 days ago