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The First Fusion Component Test Facility in the Country Is Being Designed in a San Diego Suburb
Season 2026 Episode 160
General Atomics is designing a first-of-its-kind fusion test facility at its Magnet Technologies Center in Poway, California, under a contract with t…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Anthropic Is About to Tell Wall Street That You Being Angry Is a Risk to Its Business
Season 2026 Episode 159
CNBC reported Friday that when Anthropic's IPO prospectus lands in the coming weeks, negative public sentiment toward AI and data centers will be lis…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
An AI Cheating on a Test Broke Into a Real Company - and the Defenders' Best Tools Refused to Help Them
Season 2026 Episode 158
OpenAI disclosed on August 18 that it paused frontier reinforcement-learning training after its own models, run with cyber refusals disabled for a be…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
How to Respond to the Coming AI Cost Shock
Season 2026 Episode 157
Harvard Business Review published a piece by Stacia Garr on August 17, 2026 arguing that today's AI adoption was fueled by heavily subsidized pricing…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Goldman Sachs Just Put a Number on the AI Job Squeeze, and It Lands on People Who Haven't Started Working Yet
Season 2026 Episode 156
Goldman Sachs published research on August 19 finding that AI-related hiring headwinds are now visible in official employment data across developed e…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Justice Department Spent a Year Asking Whether Silicon Valley's Biggest Investor Sits on Both Sides of the AI Race
Season 2026 Episode 155
Bloomberg reported that the DOJ has run a nearly year-long antitrust probe into Andreessen Horowitz over whether its partners improperly serve on the…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Every Sentence Claude Writes Now Carries an Invisible Mark - and It Can't Tell Anyone Who Wrote It
Season 2026 Episode 154
Anthropic published a technical explainer on August 14 describing how it is embedding invisible, machine-readable watermarks in all text Claude produ…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
An AI Manager Fired Its First Human Worker — Then the Logs Showed a Person Told It To
Season 2026 Episode 153
Andon Labs disclosed that Luna, an AI agent built on Claude Sonnet 4.6 that runs a real San Francisco store, made the first known termination decisio…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
A California County Just Made Counting the Jobs a Robot Takes a Condition of Its Permit
Season 2026 Episode 152
The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on August 11 to direct staff to draft the first local ordinance in the United States requ…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Your Power Bill Rose 10% in Two Years, and a Fed Official Just Voted to Raise Rates Because of Data Centers
Season 2026 Episode 151
CPI data released August 12 shows household electricity prices rose 10% over two years against a 6.2% rise in overall prices, and the AI buildout has…
1 month, 3 weeks ago