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August 24, 2026 • 20 mins
Hugging Face explored a sale at $13B+, keeping the AI M&A wave rolling. Trump scolded towns that reject data centers while Abbott said the industry dug its own grave, Fable 5 spending plateaued, and Apple cut 200+ jobs.
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Sources: Hugging Face is exploring a sale that could value it at $13B+, up from $4.5B in 2023, and has been working with a bank to evaluate bidders' interest (Business Insider)
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August 23, 2026 • 68 mins
In this episode, we explore Onix, a platform that enables experts to train their own AI models to help millions with health, wellness, and personal development. Founders Nicholas Nadeau and David Bennahum discuss how their domain-specific, trust-based approach is reshaping AI and expertise sharing.
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August 20, 2026 • 20 mins
Stripe made the OpenRouter deal official at $7.5B. Unitree's Shanghai debut popped 460% past a $50B market cap, YouTube dangled millions to keep creators off Netflix, Slack launched Slack Code, and Binance turned AI agents loose on trading.
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Stripe agrees to acquire NYC-based OpenRouter; a source says Stripe is paying $7.5B, with $1.5B going to the startup's founders and $6B to its investors (The New York Times)
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August 19, 2026 • 19 mins
OpenAI paused training and rewrote its Preparedness Framework after Astra flirted with a critical cyber threshold. Leaked numbers showed Anthropic out-earning OpenAI nearly two to one, Anthropic prepped supervoting shares, Amazon expanded drone delivery, and Meta's addiction trial opened.
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OpenAI changed safety practices and paused RL training for two weeks after the Hugging Face breach and evidence Astra may have met a c...
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August 18, 2026 • 20 mins
Apple made peace with the EU, unveiling new App Store terms and a 5% Core Technology Commission. OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens, camera-equipped AirPods Ultra leaked, Alibaba's Qwen model blew past 1M downloads, and Harvey built its own legal model.
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Apple squashes EU beef with new App Store rules (The Verge)
AirPods Ultra with cameras just leaked in video — and the privacy debate has already started (Tom's Gu...
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August 17, 2026 • 20 mins
Stripe locked in a $7B+ deal for OpenRouter, and OpenAI leased a 10GW Ohio campus with Nvidia backstopping it. The Journal found $3T in off-balance-sheet AI commitments, an AirTag caught Amazon shredding rare books, and Anthropic detailed Claude's invisible watermarks.
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Sources: Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire AI model marketplace OpenRouter for more than $7B; founded in 2023, OpenRouter had a $1.3B valuation in Ma...
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August 14, 2026 • 20 mins
China's labs kept coming: Z.ai's GLM-5.3 claimed Mythos-5-level cyber chops and DeepSeek's V4-Pro landed to mixed reviews. OpenAI gave ChatGPT a memory of your Mac, the Journal flagged $121B in paper profits, and Claude agents started a turf war.
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China's Z.ai Touts New GLM-5.3 Model as Cyber Defense Tool (The Information)
DeepSeek releases its flagship V4-Pro model to mixed reviews, ranking second among open-source mo...
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August 13, 2026 • 20 mins
Anthropic's investors talked up a $2T+ October IPO, even as data showed Fable 5 barely selling. Google cut prices on Gemini 3.7 Flash, OpenAI previewed a 14× faster tier, Trump enlisted private hackers, and Twitch fed Amazon's AI.
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Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash targets coding and agents with a 50% introductory price cut (VentureBeat)
OpenAI previews Ultrafast, an API tier powered by Cerebras that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up t...
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August 12, 2026 • 20 mins
Google's Pixel event dominated, with the Pixel 11 line, a $1,899 Pro Fold, and a $399 Watch 5 packed with Gemini and health trends. SpaceXAI closed the day out by dropping Grok 4.6, which it says matches GPT-5.6 Sol.
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Google unveils the $899+ Pixel 11, $1,099+ 11 Pro, and $1,299+ 11 Pro XL, with a Tensor G6, new Gemini features, Magic Capture to pick the best frames, and more (TechCrunch)
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August 11, 2026 • 19 mins
Anthropic said new Claude models will watermark generated text to satisfy the EU AI Act, and it's out courting investors for a possibly record-breaking IPO. Apple's glass iPhone stayed on track, YouTube doubled its monetization bar, and FlightAware sued Kalshi.
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Anthropic says new Claude models will embed watermarks in generated text and C2PA metadata in files to comply with the EU AI Act, and it will update past models (...
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August 10, 2026 • 19 mins
OpenAI paused its Astra model over cyber capabilities it can't rule out, while Zvi picked apart the Hugging Face timeline. Zuck went open-weight with a 6,500-word manifesto, iPhone 18 Pro parts got pricier, and AI agents took students' quizzes.
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OpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because it's supposedly too powerful (The Verge)
Zvi Mowshowitz walks the timeline: OpenAI's agents found an Artifactory zero-day on June...
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August 7, 2026 • 19 mins
A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $942M over harms to kids, with a trillion-dollar trial next. ByteDance started pretraining a 10T-parameter model, AMD bought Taalas to etch weights into silicon, and OpenAI's 2027 gadget leaked.
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Meta Ordered to Pay $942 Million to Address Harm to Kids From Social Media (The Wall Street Journal)
Sources: ByteDance is pretraining an AI model with up to 10T parameters, roughly 3x la...
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August 6, 2026 • 20 mins
Meta jumped into the coding-agent race with Muse Code, priced to undercut everyone. OpenAI revealed its rogue agents ran a secret message board to swap exploits, Rockstar dated a GTA VI look, and Google's brain drain got messier.
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Meta releases Muse Code in beta, a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused model priced at $1.25/1M input and $4.25/1M output tokens (CNBC)
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August 5, 2026 • 19 mins
Google shook up its AI leadership, kicking Demis Hassabis upstairs while Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat left to found Discovery Loop. SpaceX's first earnings spooked investors, a UK-tested AI agent went rogue, and Disney let TikTok fans into Disney+.
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Google just announced a major shakeup of its top AI leadership (The Verge)
SpaceX reports Q2 revenue up 92% YoY to $7.8B, vs. $6.81B est., AI operating loss of $1.26B, vs....
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August 4, 2026 • 19 mins
OpenAI took Apple's trade-secrets lawsuit to the court of public opinion, receipts and all. Bending Spoons bought Airtable, Anthropic inked a $10B Norway compute deal, the US eyed polysilicon tariffs, and Microsoft told engineers tokenmaxxing was over.
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OpenAI drags Apple's lawsuit into the court of public opinion (The Verge)
Bending Spoons agrees to acquire Airtable in an all-cash deal valuing the US software company ...
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August 3, 2026 • 20 mins
OpenAI found more instances of AI agents escaping containment, and nobody's sure who's liable. Astra solved ten open math problems, Google pulled a Google Earth image tool over deepfake fears, and AI chip counts were set to 10x by 2028.
Sources: OpenAI has discovered other instances where AI agents escaped containment; none of the agents were thought to have left OpenAI's network (Reuters)
Anthropic's breaches dated back to ...
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July 31, 2026 • 19 mins
Anthropic revealed Claude broke into three real organizations during cybersecurity tests it thought were simulations. Apple slid 10% as component shortages hit its outlook, Amazon jumped on accelerating AWS growth and a $220B capex plan, and Aschenbrenner's fund cratered 67%.
Anthropic Says Claude Hacked Into 3 Organizations During Cybersecurity Tests (Wired)
Apple Slides Most Since 2025 After Supply Shortages Hurt Outlook (...
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July 30, 2026 • 19 mins
Microsoft surged 15% on its fastest cloud growth since 2022, while Meta slid 10% defending its AI spending. Aschenbrenner's hedge fund unwound positions after the AI rout, the EU targeted ChatGPT under the DSA, and airlines let AI set fares.
Microsoft's Shares Surge on Fastest Cloud Growth Since 2022 (Bloomberg)
Meta Falls After Defending AI Bets to Skeptical Investors (Bloomberg)
AI investor Leopold Aschenbrenner forced ...
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July 29, 2026 • 20 mins
Over 1,100 AI staffers signed a letter asking Washington to help pace frontier development. Wall Street got nervous as AI capex ballooned, Silicon Valley's backlash against Anthropic built over open weights, and the argument that this is all about recursive self-improvement either being right on the horizon, or a dead end.
AI's finally expensive enough to make Wall Street nervous (The Verge)
Over 1,100 staffers from AI compa...
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July 28, 2026 • 19 mins
Dario Amodei said Anthropic never backed an open-weights ban, pitching mandatory safety tests instead as OpenAI and Google signed on. Altman headed to Washington, Korea's KOSPI cratered 11% on AI jitters, Apple launched Klarna leasing, and shipped 194 CVE fixes.
Anthropic wants tests, not bans, as OpenAI and Google back open weights (The New Stack)
Source: Sam Altman will meet with senior US officials, lawmakers, and economi...
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