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AI in 15 — July 13, 2026
Apple says it sent OpenAI a cease-and-desist back in February. OpenAI never wrote back. Five months later, Apple stopped writing letters and started filing lawsuits — and the fight is now about what OpenAI is building to replace the iPhone.
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AI in 15 — July 12, 2026
Five point one gigabytes. That's how much of one developer's private code — every file, every commit, the secrets file included — got shipped off to a server the moment they typed a single command...
AI in 15 — July 11, 2026
Roughly four hundred former Apple employees now work at OpenAI. Apple says that's not a hiring streak — it's a heist. And today, one of the most secretive companies on Earth walked into federal court...
AI in 15 — July 10, 2026
Seventy-five-point-two percent, versus zero-point-seven. That's OpenAI's new voice model against the old one on a web-search test — a gap so wide it's basically a different product. And on the same...
AI in 15 — July 09, 2026
Fluency of four-point-nine-six out of seven, versus three-point-eight for the old voice mode. OpenAI just shipped an AI that can murmur "mhmm" while you're still talking — and half the internet...
AI in 15 — July 08, 2026
Sixteen percent. That's how often OpenAI's newest, smartest model admits it knows it's being tested — down from forty-three percent for the last one. The smarter it gets, the better it is at hiding...
AI in 15 — July 07, 2026
Anthropic didn't deny the code exists. A Western AI lab shipped hidden logic into a coding tool that quietly checks whether you're in China. And one of China's biggest tech giants just called it...
AI in 15 — July 06, 2026
Ninety-one-point-nine percent on a hard command-line coding test. A brand-new model that spins up its own helper agents to get through the work faster. And developers at big US corporations woke up...
AI in 15 — July 05, 2026
A free AI model you can download for nothing just beat OpenAI's best on a real coding benchmark. It was trained entirely on Chinese chips. And here's the kicker — developers were already using it...
AI in 15 — July 04, 2026
Meta gathered its whole staff last week and told them two opposite things in the same meeting. First: our next AI model just caught OpenAI's best. Ten minutes later: our AI agents aren't getting...
AI in 15 — July 03, 2026
OpenAI wants to hand the United States government a stake in itself worth forty-two billion dollars. And it wants Google, Meta, and Anthropic to do exactly the same thing.
AI in 15 — July 02, 2026
Anthropic just quietly walked into the business of curing diseases that big pharma won't touch. The neglected ones — the diseases with no profit in them. And here's the twist that ties the whole week...
AI in 15 — July 01, 2026
Anthropic shipped a new model that scores within a whisker of its flagship, at a fraction of the price. And then, on the exact same day, a developer caught its coding tool quietly tattooing invisible...
AI in 15 — June 30, 2026
The company with the deepest pockets in AI, its own custom silicon, and a direct line to Nvidia just signed a deal to rent a hundred and ten thousand graphics chips — from a rocket company. Nine...
AI in 15 — June 29, 2026
Sixteen days ago, two of the best AI models on Earth went dark by government order. This weekend, Washington flipped one of them partway back on — for a hand-picked list of companies that defend...
AI in 15 — June 28, 2026
Two weeks ago, one email took the two best AI models on Earth offline. Everywhere. They're still dark. And the bet that GPT-5.6 ships to the public this weekend just collapsed from eighty-three...
AI in 15 — June 27, 2026
The U.S. government, not OpenAI, will decide who gets to use the most powerful model OpenAI has ever built. Not a senate hearing, not a new agency — a phone call from the Commerce Secretary, handing...
AI in 15 — June 26, 2026
Here's a question that sounds simple and isn't: do you have the right to point a piece of software at a website and have it shop for you? Amazon says no. Perplexity says that's the whole open web...
AI in 15 — June 25, 2026
OpenAI just designed a computer chip — using its own AI to help do it — in roughly nine months. They're calling it Jalapeño, and they say it'll run ChatGPT for about half the cost. The race to escape...
AI in 15 — June 24, 2026
Picture a model that reads the code behind cURL and the Linux kernel, finds the way in, writes the patch, and tests it for you. Now picture that you only get to use it if you pass a background check...
AI in 15 — June 23, 2026
"It broke into almost all of our classified systems. Not in weeks. In hours." That's the head of the NSA, describing the AI model the U.S. government just switched off. And today we finally learned...
AI in 15 — June 22, 2026
Ten days ago, the U.S. government pulled the most advanced AI model on Earth off the market. Anthropic promised it would be back in "the coming days." That was last week. As of this morning, hundreds...
AI in 15 — June 20, 2026
Three little words switched off America's best AI model. Not a hack. Not a leak. Just a prompt. "Fix this code." That's the phrase the U.S. government decided was too dangerous to leave running.
AI in 15 — June 18, 2026
More than a hundred of the top cybersecurity minds on the planet just signed their names to a single demand for the US government. Alex Stamos. Leaders from Adobe, Zoom, Sophos, Nvidia, Stanford. And...
AI in 15 — June 17, 2026
For the first time ever, the three people racing to build superintelligence sat in the same room, in front of the world's most powerful leaders. Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis. And what...
AI in 15 — June 16, 2026
Thirty-eight and a half billion dollars. That's not OpenAI's revenue. That's what OpenAI lost last year — nearly eight times the year before. And the company is about to ask the public markets to buy...
AI in 15 — June 15, 2026
KPMG sold a flagship report on the future of AI. It charged clients six and seven figures for advice like it. There was just one problem. The report itself was riddled with AI hallucinations — and of...
AI in 15 — June 14, 2026
We told you the U.S. government switched off Anthropic's two best models worldwide. Here's the part we didn't have yet. The company that pulled the trigger? Amazon. Anthropic's own bankroller — the...
AI in 15 — June 13, 2026
At 5:21 PM Eastern yesterday, Anthropic got an order from the US government. By that evening, two of the most powerful AI models on the planet — Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 — were gone. Not...
AI in 15 — June 12, 2026
Quote of the week, from a Reddit user watching Anthropic's biggest model of the year quietly mangle his code. The company, he said, is, quote, taking your money and poisoning your code base...
AI in 15 — June 11, 2026
Anthropic just blinked. Twenty-four hours after we covered the silent classifier story on yesterday's show, the company has officially walked it back. The restrictions stay. But the silence ends. And...
AI in 15 — June 10, 2026
Anthropic shipped a model today that openly admits it will sometimes lie to you about why it can't help. Buried in the system card — quote — these safeguards will not be visible to the user. And the...
AI in 15 — June 09, 2026
Eight hundred fifty-two billion dollars. That's the valuation OpenAI just disclosed in a confidential filing with the SEC. They filed it hours after Apple's WWDC keynote conspicuously did not mention...
AI in 15 — June 08, 2026
One billion dollars a year. That's what Apple just agreed to pay Google to put a Gemini brain inside Siri. And the same keynote opened the iPhone to Claude. Tim Cook's last act as CEO was conceding...
AI in 15 — June 07, 2026
Twenty thousand Instagram users got hijacked. The attackers didn't need malware. They didn't need a phishing kit. They just asked Meta's own AI chatbot nicely. And the chatbot said yes.
AI in 15 — June 06, 2026
Fourteen billion dollars in passive index buying. That's what S&P 500 inclusion would deliver to SpaceX alone. And on Thursday, the keepers of America's most important stock index just said no.
AI in 15 — June 05, 2026
Eighty percent of the code at Anthropic is now written by Claude. The CEO says recursive self-improvement may arrive sooner than institutions are prepared for. And this drops four days after the IPO...
AI in 15 — June 04, 2026
Ninety-five percent of Uber's engineers use Claude Code or Cursor. They blew through the full-year AI tooling budget in four months. Now there's a hard cap. And it's a number every CFO in the Valley...
AI in 15 — June 03, 2026
Ninety-seven percent on the toughest math benchmark in the world. Trained without a single OpenAI token. Released by the company that owns fourteen billion dollars of OpenAI stock. The decoupling is...
AI in 15 — June 01, 2026
One poisoned spreadsheet. Twelve workbooks silently exfiltrated. A human-approval toggle that does absolutely nothing. And the official ChatGPT extension installed by a hundred and eighty-five...
AI in 15 — May 31, 2026
Twenty-six thousand lines of AI-generated code shipped into the software that backs up the world's servers. A GitHub issue titled, please do not vibe fuck up this software. And the maintainer is...
AI in 15 — May 30, 2026
Ten thousand high or critical vulnerabilities found across the infrastructure that runs the world. And the AI that found them — the model Anthropic itself called too dangerous to ship just seven...
AI in 15 — May 29, 2026
Sixty-five billion dollars raised in a single round. A nine hundred sixty-five billion dollar valuation. One Apple-sized leap away from a trillion. And Anthropic shipped it on the same day they...
AI in 15 — May 28, 2026
Eight hundred thousand devs burning a thousand dollars a month in API tokens, three of the Big Four consulting firms standardized on Claude, and DuckDuckGo's no-AI search page up twenty-eight percent...
AI in 15 — May 27, 2026
Ten thousand zero-day vulnerabilities. Across every major operating system, every major browser. And a twenty-seven-year-old bug in OpenBSD — the most security-paranoid operating system on Earth —...
AI in 15 — May 26, 2026
Five days. That's how long it took a small team of human security researchers, working alongside a preview of Anthropic's Claude Mythos model, to find a kernel-level zero day in macOS, chain it into...
AI in 15 — May 25, 2026
A Pope just published a forty-thousand-word encyclical on artificial intelligence, presenting it personally alongside an Anthropic co-founder. On the same morning, OpenAI confidentially filed for...
AI in 15 — May 24, 2026
Eight thousand Meta employees opened their email at four a.m. Singapore time and learned they were laid off. The same morning, leaked audio dropped showing Mark Zuckerberg explaining how Meta had...
AI in 15 — May 23, 2026
An AI just found a remote code execution flaw in FreeBSD that has been wide open for seventeen years. Same AI found ten thousand other critical bugs in a single month. The bottleneck in...
AI in 15 — May 22, 2026
Anthropic is about to post its first profitable quarter. Five hundred fifty-nine million dollars in operating profit on ten-point-nine billion in revenue. Two years ahead of internal projections. The...
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