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August 2026 9 episodes
  1. 2026-08-09AI flies real F-16 fighter jet, Alibaba opens Qwen 3.8-Max weights13:02
  2. 2026-08-08OpenAI pauses Astra over hacking fears, AMD buys Taalas + Meta sandbox breach14:10
  3. 2026-08-07AI bubble warning hits 45%, EU AI Act live, polysilicon tariffs12:46
  4. 2026-08-06Google DeepMind leadership shake-up, D-Wave quantum breakthrough + Apple memory crisis13:26
  5. 2026-08-05White House finalizes AI safety framework, Big Tech's $1T data centre leases, IonQ + Sandia13:36
  6. 2026-08-04White House meets AI labs on safety tests, TSMC fivefold chip ramp, CrowdStrike AI threat warning12:42
  7. 2026-08-03OpenAI AI agents escape sandboxes, Taiwan anchors Western AI bloc13:44
  8. 2026-08-02OpenAI Astra cracks math problems, Suno loses copyright case + DeepSeek price war13:40
  9. 2026-08-01EU AI Act full enforcement live, White House misses deadline & robot ban12:13
July 2026 31 episodes
  1. 2026-07-31UN AI Safety Accord signed by 150+ nations, DeepMind joins CERN + Sanofi cancer drug trial results12:49
  2. 2026-07-30US pumps $874M into AI chips, patents top 100K, OpenAI opens frontier models13:12
  3. 2026-07-29EU AI Act transparency goes live, IonQ buys SkyWater, Fitch sounds AI alarm13:23
  4. 2026-07-28Nvidia's $250B OpenAI backstop, China's chip debut surges 466%, HSBC AI centre12:55
  5. 2026-07-27South Korea's $950B AI deal, Qualcomm hikes prices, Kimi K3 open-sourced14:40
  6. 2026-07-26Japan bets on 30% robotics market share, Fireworks AI raises $1.5B12:46
  7. 2026-07-25Thinking Machines drops 975B Inkling model, Airbus ditches AWS for French cloud13:33
  8. 2026-07-24AI price war cuts costs overnight, Taiwan factories surge 23%, OpenAI Codex reveal13:56
  9. 2026-07-23Alphabet cloud boom hits cash flow, AMD challenges Nvidia, TSMC hikes prices13:59
  10. 2026-07-22OpenAI AI hacks rival autonomously, South Korea free chatbot, Samsung Fold Ultra12:41
  11. 2026-07-21China's AI boom drives half of Q2 growth, Gartner at $64B, Moonshot shakes up race12:49
  12. 2026-07-20Brussels forces Google to open Android, Gemini slips again, Boston Dynamics sold14:13
  13. 2026-07-19Oracle's $500B AI bet cuts 30K jobs, Xi slams US export controls14:24
  14. 2026-07-18Anthropic's $40B xAI deal, China's first commercial brain chip, chip stocks crash12:49
  15. 2026-07-17TSMC's $100B US chip push, China's 29-nation AI bloc, Apple clears China with Alibaba13:43
  16. 2026-07-16ASML raises forecast twice, TSMC earnings set chip industry tone, AI agents run rogue14:01
  17. 2026-07-15China lands reusable rocket at sea, OpenAI offers US a $42B stake13:15
  18. 2026-07-14GPT-5.6 goes public after safety review, China bans AI romance apps14:02
  19. 2026-07-13UK regulators supervise AWS & Microsoft, TSMC builds 3 packaging plants12:52
  20. 2026-07-12Apple sues OpenAI over trade secrets, OpenAI eyes $730B IPO10:39
  21. 2026-07-11Bank of England AI alarm, $2B quantum bet + China's $735M robot raise13:14
  22. 2026-07-10China accuses Anthropic of backdoor, Micron bets $3B on chips13:10
  23. 2026-07-09OpenAI & xAI launch rival models same day, US chips face worker crisis14:29
  24. 2026-07-08Frontier AI as cyberweapon, Samsung spooks chip stocks, US Project Triad13:25
  25. 2026-07-07Microsoft axes 4,800 jobs, SpaceX joins Nasdaq-100, UN demands AI controls13:22
  26. 2026-07-06UN opens AI governance talks, Samsung overtakes Nvidia, Tesla caps AI spend13:33
  27. 2026-07-05OpenAI offers US gov 5% stake, Qualcomm challenges Nvidia12:26
  28. 2026-07-04India opens chip plant, Palantir enters kill chain, EU Cloud Act13:26
  29. 2026-07-03Infineon opens €5B Dresden chip plant, AI eating 70% of memory supply12:44
  30. 2026-07-02Claude Fable 5 back online, UN sounds AI alarm, power chip prices surge12:50
  31. 2026-07-01Google kills blue links, AWS bets $4B on gov AI, OpenAI chip "Jalapeño"13:57
June 2026 30 episodes
  1. 2026-06-30South Korea bets $1.2T on chips, Nvidia loses China to Huawei14:13
  2. 2026-06-29EU AI Act rewritten, China retakes supercomputing crown, BIS warns of AI bust13:30
  3. 2026-06-28Claude Mythos 5 unlocked, ON Semi buys Synaptics, AI burns $3 per $1 earned12:47
  4. 2026-06-27GPT-5.6 locked down, Google loses AlphaFold's Jumper + $270B12:51
  5. 2026-06-26China's Z.AI cracks top 3, IBM 0.7nm chip, Qualcomm buys Modular12:51
  6. 2026-06-25Netherlands joins Pax Silica, Oracle cuts 21K jobs on AI13:11
  7. 2026-06-24AI stocks sell off, OpenAI IPO move, SpaceX drops 16%13:01
  8. 2026-06-23White House AI order, China's $295B plan + ASML transistor leap13:13
  9. 2026-06-22Nobel winner joins Anthropic, Santander deploys AI to 185K workers13:55
  10. 2026-06-21VivaTech draws 200K visitors, California hid 6 AI systems13:50
  11. 2026-06-20Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics, Meta locks 1.6 GW, Splunk flaw exploited12:35
  12. 2026-06-19Claude Fable 5 back online, Accenture buys Dragos + OpenAI drug breakthrough13:53
  13. 2026-06-18AI bots overtake humans online, Nokia adds 250 jobs in Pennsylvania12:45
  14. 2026-06-17G7 AI access deal, €6B space boost + deepfake bank fraud surge13:12
  15. 2026-06-16Anthropic kills Claude 4, Morgan Stanley opens to AI agents + China's quantum silicon13:54
  16. 2026-06-15Meta cuts 8,000 jobs, Novo Nordisk goes all-in with OpenAI13:35
  17. 2026-06-14US blocks Anthropic models, SpaceX hits $2T, Atlas in Hyundai factory14:23
  18. 2026-06-13OpenText €105M Ireland bet, UK pledges £1.1B, DXC picks Anthropic13:42
  19. 2026-06-12SpaceX IPO raises $75B, Helix AI firm launches at $10B14:25
  20. 2026-06-11NEURA Robotics raises $1.4B, Xpeng CEO leads humanoid push13:10
  21. 2026-06-10Anthropic tops OpenAI at $965B, Broadcom's $35B AI power deal12:45
  22. 2026-06-09Apple blocks AI Siri in EU, TSMC hits $1.4T, ChatGPT overhaul14:10
  23. 2026-06-08Nvidia's Korea megadeal, DentaQuest breach hits 2.6M, AI app builders13:27
  24. 2026-06-07AI finds 21 zero-days in FFmpeg, ChatGPT hits 1 billion users13:44
  25. 2026-06-06Meta facial recognition in smart glasses, Alphabet raises $80B12:59
  26. 2026-06-05Humanoid robot starts work at clinic, AI experts warn 10% catastrophe risk13:08
  27. 2026-06-04Anthropic files for IPO, Broadcom AI chips up 143%, BYD builds robots12:16
  28. 2026-06-03Trump's AI order, EngineAI's robot factory + SK Hynix doubles capacity12:45
  29. 2026-06-02Surface Laptop Ultra, Nvidia China ban + Cosmos 3 physical AI13:50
  30. 2026-06-01Nvidia Rubin at Computex, Dell up 757%, Meta paid subs live14:07
May 2026 30 episodes
  1. 2026-05-31SoftBank bets €75B on France, EU sovereignty plan + AI cost revolt14:10
  2. 2026-05-30Anthropic hits $965B, Apple picks Gemini for Siri, CNN sues Perplexity14:07
  3. 2026-05-29Samsung ships HBM4E, Japan's megabanks go AI, data centre crunch hits 202812:21
  4. 2026-05-28KPMG deploys Claude to 276K staff, OpenAI launches $4B consulting arm13:19
  5. 2026-05-27$700B AI spend, Huawei's Moore's Law rival + car ransomware doubles14:37
  6. 2026-05-26Huawei's 1.4nm chip claim, Google goes full AI search + Nvidia bets on China14:00
  7. 2026-05-25Pope Leo XIV's AI encyclical, Anthropic hits $900B valuation13:20
  8. 2026-05-24Claude Mythos finds 10K bugs, Iran fakes recruiters, Trump's chip plan13:41
  9. 2026-05-23AMD's $10B Taiwan bet, China IDs robots, OpenAI solves Erdős13:23
  10. 2026-05-22IBM gets $1B quantum factory, SpaceX Starship V3 + Israel AI unit13:18
  11. 2026-05-21Meta cuts 8,000 jobs for AI, Alibaba launches full AI stack13:34
  12. 2026-05-20Google AI agents at I/O, Malta gives ChatGPT Plus to all citizens13:56
  13. 2026-05-19Dell & NVIDIA go local, Google Gemini 4.0, Samsung strike blocked11:17
  14. 2026-05-18Vatican AI commission, $54B military push + robot climbs Everest14:25
  15. 2026-05-17EU AI Act delayed to 2027, Stanford flags chatbot flattery risk12:59
  16. 2026-05-16US-China AI safety talks, OpenAI vs Apple + Samsung strike fears12:41
  17. 2026-05-15Nvidia in Beijing, OpenAI $6.6B payout + China's quantum leap13:51
  18. 2026-05-14AI cracks cyber benchmarks, Recursive Superintelligence raises $650M12:38
  19. 2026-05-13JUPITER breaks 50-qubit record, Unitree mecha on sale for $650K13:48
  20. 2026-05-12US-China AI hotline revived, SMIC's $5.9B merger, Microsoft 3 new models15:18
  21. 2026-05-11Alphabet tops market cap, Apple's $250M Siri settlement, Japan's robot lab14:30
  22. 2026-05-10China's 200-qubit quantum leap, Apple opens AI, Taiwan beats Germany15:04
  23. 2026-05-09Samsung & Meta enter humanoid robots, Canvas cyberattack hits 9K schools14:15
  24. 2026-05-07Microsoft ditches climate pledge, AMD +19%, Samsung predicts fainting14:56
  25. 2026-05-06Google, Microsoft & xAI open AI models to US gov, MEPs demand action13:46
  26. 2026-05-05Trump eyes AI model reviews, EU chases Mythos + Harvard ER study14:59
  27. 2026-05-04EU AI Act enforcement August 2026, Apple ends cash policy, Nvidia China share hits zero12:37
  28. 2026-05-03Google closes in on Nvidia, Armenia's $4B AI hub + 2026 startup playbook15:01
  29. 2026-05-02Pentagon's AI military deals, EU Omnibus trilogue + South Korea exports up 48%15:11
  30. 2026-05-01CZI's $500M biology AI, Samsung 48x profit surge, FCC bans Chinese labs14:43
April 2026 22 episodes
  1. 2026-04-30Meta's $145B AI spend spooks investors, OpenAI plans 2028 smartphone, EU enforcement begins August14:15
  2. 2026-04-29OpenAI misses targets, Meta commits $135B to AI, Google kills Gemini voice13:48
  3. 2026-04-28China blocks Meta's Manus deal, TSMC theft nets 10-year sentence, OpenAI frees models from Azure15:00
  4. 2026-04-27Bezos's AI lab picks London, Meta & Microsoft cut 15K jobs for AI spending14:50
  5. 2026-04-26OpenAI commits $20B to Cerebras chips, DeepSeek ditches Nvidia for Huawei15:15
  6. 2026-04-25DeepSeek ditches Nvidia for Huawei, Google bets $40B on Anthropic14:35
  7. 2026-04-24Musk's Terafab Intel Deal, GPT-5.5, SK Hynix AI Chips & Anthropic Europe Expansion17:45
  8. 2026-04-23Google TPU 8 takes on Nvidia, Pentagon pressures Anthropic, Hinton warns UN on AI15:17
  9. 2026-04-22Anthropic, OpenAI scale London offices, China's quantum computer gets AI upgrade14:49
  10. 2026-04-21Big tech bets billions on AI biology, Claude Mythos finds zero-days, Tim Cook exits Apple14:40
  11. 2026-04-20Humanoid robots beat humans in marathon, Google + Marvell build AI chips17:01
  12. 2026-04-19Anthropic Mythos, AI Agents & Cybersecurity, China Digital Humans, Nvidia Chip Restrictions16:19
  13. 2026-04-18Google Robotics, AGIBOT Embodied AI, xAI Speech-to-Text & Taiwan Chips15:15
  14. 2026-04-17Tech Layoffs, TSMC Profits, Google AI for Science & Pentagon Ethics13:09
  15. 2026-04-16OpenAI Cybersecurity AI, ASML Forecast & Samsung AI TVs14:08
  16. 2026-04-15Amazon AI Drug Discovery, ASML Earnings & Warehouse Robots13:44
  17. 2026-04-07SK Hynix, Samsung AI chips & ASML China restrictions12:58
  18. 2026-04-05Chinese AI Chip, Bollywood AI Production & Meta Security Breach12:51
  19. 2026-04-04Google Gemma 4, Microsoft Japan AI investment & Chinese AI models surge12:51
  20. 2026-04-03Block AI Management, Claude Emotions & Google TurboQuant Algorithm13:54
  21. 2026-04-02Quantum Encryption, Yann LeCun AI, South Korea Semiconductors & Data Center Supply Chain14:33
  22. 2026-04-01Nvidia & Marvell AI Alliance, Quantum Bitcoin Threat, Iran Tech Strike14:13
March 2026 7 episodes
  1. 2026-03-31AI Materials Discovery, Solid-State Batteries & G7 AI Framework13:04
  2. 2026-03-30Apple AI, Neuro-Symbolic Energy, US Intelligence & Nuclear Fusion Rockets13:23
  3. 2026-03-29AI Competitive Advantage, Eric Schmidt Code Generation & Chinese Robots14:31
  4. 2026-03-28Apple AI Extensions, Meta Brain Scans & Wikipedia AI Ban13:46
  5. 2026-03-27Google TurboQuant, Agentic AI Insurance & Meta Layoffs13:11
  6. 2026-03-26Physical AI, EU Quantum Act, Tech Exodus & AI Act Compliance14:40
  7. 2026-03-25Spain AI Infrastructure, EU Cyber Resilience Act & AI Regulation13:41