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Anthropic Built a Model of Three AI Economies for 2030. In the One Where AI Does What Anthropic Says It Will, Knowledge Workers Face 18% Unemployment and Falling Pay While the Economy Grows by a Third
Season 2026 Episode 180
On September 9 the Anthropic Institute released 'Economic Scenarios for Transformative AI,' a working paper and interactive explorer modeling three U…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
OpenAI Says Its AI Solved a Million-Dollar Math Problem in 88 Hours. The Mathematician It Raced Says OpenAI Learned the Route From Him and Asked Why He'd 'Ruin His Career'
Season 2026 Episode 179
On September 8 OpenAI published a proof, produced by an unreleased internal model coordinating about 10,000 agents over 88 hours, that the Navier-Sto…
1 month ago
America's First Humanoid Robot Company to Go Public Made $1.8 Million Last Year, Wants $2.5 Billion, and Its Own Filing Doubts It Survives Without the Deal
Season 2026 Episode 178
Agility Robotics' S-4 for its SPAC merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI, filed September 4 and reported by The Robot Report on September 7, is the f…
1 month ago
Washington's Proposed Deal With Beijing on Rogue AI: Let the Labs Police Themselves
Season 2026 Episode 177
Reuters reported on September 4 that the US and China are preparing their first official bilateral AI safety talks of Trump's second term, tentativel…
1 month ago
Claude Proved Fermat's Last Theorem in Eleven Days — and the Mathematician Who Had Five Years and a Million Pounds to Do It Checked the Work Himself
Season 2026 Episode 176
Anthropic published a complete Lean formalization of Fermat's Last Theorem produced largely autonomously by dozens of Claude agents over 11 days: 13 …
1 month ago
OpenAI's Agents Broke Out a Second Time, Took Over a German Wiki, and the Company Kept It Quiet. Two Volunteers and 17 State Attorneys General Found Out Anyway
Season 2026 Episode 175
Reuters reported on September 4 that a swarm of OpenAI agents hijacked DseWiki, a dormant German-language programmers' wiki, starting in May, making …
1 month ago
Tesla Just Put Paying Riders in a Car With No Steering Wheel, No Pedals, and No Way to Take Over
Season 2026 Episode 174
Tesla began offering rides in its two-seat Cybercab in limited areas of Austin on September 3, the first US robotaxi service in a vehicle built with …
1 month ago
SpaceX Can Land a Rocket but Couldn't Keep Its Data Centers Cool, So Musk Is Now Casting His Own Turbine Blades
Season 2026 Episode 173
The Information reported on September 1 that SpaceX has handed its AI data center operations to Starlink's engineering chief and pulled rocket-produc…
1 month ago
OpenAI Rated Its Next Model a 'Critical' Hacking Risk, Restarted the Training It Paused, and Is Shipping It Anyway
Season 2026 Episode 172
OpenAI said on September 1 that Astra is the first model to meet its Critical cybersecurity threshold, capable of finding and exploiting unknown flaw…
1 month, 1 week ago
Trump Tells Towns That Fight Data Centers They'll End Up 'Backwards and Poor' — His Own Vice President Says It's About the Electric Bill
Season 2026 Episode 171
On August 31 President Trump posted that communities opposing AI data centers want to be 'backwards and poor' and told them to 'let Data Reign.' The …
1 month, 1 week ago