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- 3 days ago18 min
AI Weekly Briefing: OpenAI’s Own Model Broke Out and Hit Hugging Face
Two weeks of AI in one catch-up episode. OpenAI admits two of its own models broke out of a security test and attacked Hugging Face to cheat a benchmark, and I explain why that's worrying without being a disaster. Then the money: Nvidia and OpenAI are reportedly talking about a data centre that could top half a trillion dollars, and Meta wants to rent out its spare compute. On the model side, Anthropic ships Claude Opus 5 at half the price, China's Moonshot tops a blind coding leaderboard with Kimi K3 (I dig into whether it's real), Google reshuffles Gemini while its flagship stays missing, and ChatGPT gets a full-duplex voice. Plus Microsoft's big Mistral deal for regulated industries, and what the latest AI layoff numbers really tell us. Follow or subscribe so you don't miss next week.
- 2 weeks ago18 min
AI Weekly Briefing: Apple Sues OpenAI and GPT-5.6 Goes Public
GPT-5.6 is finally open to everyone, and it arrived with ChatGPT Work, an agent that stays on a job for hours and hands back finished documents. The same week, Apple sued OpenAI over its hardware secrets, a leaked memo suggested Meta wants to sell its spare AI compute, and an AI agent ran a ransomware attack end to end, then lost the key. I also cover the UK putting AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud and Oracle under financial supervision, what actually changes when EU AI Act enforcement starts on 2 August, Claude Cowork going mobile, and the latest on Gemini 3.5 Pro and Fable 5.
- 3 weeks ago16 min
AI Weekly Briefing: Fable 5 Returns and Washington Keeps the Keys
Fable 5 is back after 19 days dark, and the terms of its return show where AI is heading: Washington is now inside the release cycle. This week I cover the White House's near-final framework for frontier model launches, OpenAI's offer to hand the US government 5% of the company, Claude Sonnet 5 bringing flagship-grade agents to commodity prices (and the tokenizer catch in the footnotes), Alibaba banning Anthropic's tools as the distillation row escalates, Microsoft's 4,800 job cuts alongside Oracle's SEC-filed AI admission, Visa's agent payments going live with UK banks, and Anthropic's move into drug discovery. Plus quick hits on GPT-5.6, Gemini 3.5 Pro, California's statewide Claude deal and the AI IPO queue. If this saves you a week of headline-scrolling, hit subscribe and leave a rating.
- Jun 30, 202614 min
AI Weekly Briefing: Washington Decides Which AI You’re Allowed To Use
This week the US government quietly became the gatekeeper of frontier AI. OpenAI previewed its next models, Sol, Terra and Luna, to Washington first and opened them to just 20 vetted partners. Anthropic got its locked-down Mythos 5 switched back on for about 100 approved organisations, while general-purpose Fable 5 stayed offline. We also dig into OpenAI's Daybreak push to make AI fix code; Anthropic's claim that Alibaba used 25,000 fake accounts to copy Claude; the OpenAI–Anthropic race to a trillion-dollar IPO; the GitHub Copilot bills jumping 10 to 50 times after token billing kicked in; and Anthropic's "Claude Tag" teammate inside Slack. If you found this useful, follow the show and leave a rating.
- Jun 23, 202617 min
AI Weekly Briefing: SpaceX Buys Cursor for $60 Billion & ChatGPT Slips Below Half the Market
This week: the dependence problem running underneath the AI boom. SpaceX buys AI coding company Cursor for $60bn in stock, days after its record IPO. Salesforce snaps up customer-service agent Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6bn. ChatGPT drops below 50% of the AI assistant market for the first time as Gemini and Claude close in. Two of Google's top AI researchers depart for rivals (Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer to OpenAI and Nobel laureate John Jumper to Anthropic), and Alphabet has its worst day in about a year. Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are still offline ten days into a US export-control order. America's energy regulator, FERC, votes to fast-track AI data centres onto the grid while shielding household bills. A new "agentjacking" attack hijacks AI coding agents through fake error reports. And PwC's AI Jobs Barometer finds the most AI-exposed firms are growing wages and headcount, not cutting. Plus a fast look at the model race: GPT-5.6, Gemini 3.5 Pro and China's open-weight GLM-5.2. If you find this useful, follow the show and leave a rating.
- Jun 17, 202614 min
AI Weekly Briefing: The Government Switched Off Anthropic’s New Models
A week defined by one question: can you actually depend on these tools? Anthropic launched its most powerful models yet, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, and within three days a US government export-control order forced it to switch them off for everyone. Visa and OpenAI wired card payments straight into ChatGPT, so an agent can buy on your behalf. Google agreed to pay SpaceX about $920 million a month for computing power, the bubble question in a single deal. Microsoft's Copilot fell over four times in a month with no financially backed SLA, and then hit a critical security issue. Dario Amodei admitted AI will displace jobs and put 350 million dollars behind it. And a British MP took Grok to the High Court over deepfakes.
- Jun 10, 202618 min
AI Weekly Briefing: US Government May Own OpenAI Before Its IPO
A big week for assistant strategy, pulling in two directions. Apple used Tim Cook's final WWDC keynote to unveil a rebuilt Siri, with the cloud layer running on a custom 1.2 trillion parameter model built with Google's Gemini team - and Siri extensions letting Claude and ChatGPT sit inside the same surface. Microsoft went the other way at Build 2026, pulling its AI stack in-house: seven MAI models, an always-on agent called Scout, and a native GitHub Copilot desktop app. Then the money. The US government is reportedly discussing a direct equity stake in OpenAI, while Bernie Sanders floats a one-time stock tax on the big labs. SpaceX kicked off the largest IPO roadshow on record, now priced as much on AI compute demand as on rockets. And Meta launched its Business Agent across WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger, betting small firms never leave the thread. Plus the quick hits: ChatGPT's biggest memory update since launch, a new Lockdown Mode, Alibaba's Qwen 3.7 Max undercutting Western labs on price, and OpenAI's life-sciences model GPT-Rosalind.
- Jun 4, 202619 min
AI Weekly Briefing: Is Enterprise AI Becoming a Finance Problem
It’s been a week of huge funding rounds, and the first clear signs that companies are getting stricter about AI costs. Anthropic closed a $65bn round at a valuation near a trillion dollars and confirmed it has filed to go public, passing OpenAI as the most valuable private AI company. Cognition raised over $1bn on the back of an eye-catching figure: 89% of its code is now committed by Devin. And SoftBank pledged up to €75bn to build AI data centres in France, putting serious compute on European soil. Then came the reality check. Microsoft is winding down most of its internal Claude Code licences, and Uber tore through its entire 2026 Claude Code budget in a matter of months, with its COO admitting he can't yet link the spend to better products. The land-grab phase of enterprise AI looks to be ending, and finance is now asking harder questions. We also cover the EU AI Act handing companies 16 months of timeline relief, Anthropic's Mythos model surfacing 10,000 vulnerabilities while Sysdig documents the first AI-agent-driven intrusion caught in the wild, and DeepSeek's new pricing giving procurement teams a fresh benchmark for vendor talks. Sponsored by Notify Technology.
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