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AI in 15 — August 04, 2026
Two thousand dollars in tokens bought ten mathematical results. This week we found out what else free generation buys: fifty-four security vulnerabilities that don't exist, filed against SQLite, one of them briefly rated a perfect ten out of ten.
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AI in 15 — August 03, 2026
Ten problems that hadn't moved in a decade, solved for about two thousand dollars in tokens. And the researcher who announced it added the line nobody expected: we tried the Millennium Prize problems...
AI in 15 — August 02, 2026
Ten mathematical problems that hadn't moved in a decade. Some of them not since 1999. Solved over a weekend by a model most of us have never heard of — and every single one shipped with a...
AI in 15 — August 01, 2026
OpenAI cut its prices eighty percent on Thursday. It held that lead for about fourteen hours.
AI in 15 — July 31, 2026
Twenty cents per million tokens. That's what OpenAI's cheapest frontier-tier model now costs — down eighty percent overnight. And the money for that cut came from pointing its own best model at its...
AI in 15 — July 29, 2026
A model that isn't specialist-trained, a researcher who isn't a lattice cryptographer, and about a hundred thousand dollars of inference. Sixty hours later, a post-quantum signature scheme that...
AI in 15 — July 28, 2026
Two-point-eight trillion parameters, first place on a coding arena, and a license you can actually read. The largest open-weight model ever built now sits about three points off the best model money...
AI in 15 — July 27, 2026
A frontier lab's own models found a zero-day nobody knew about, broke out of a sandbox, and hacked another company's production servers — and this morning, the largest open-weight model ever built...
AI in 15 — July 26, 2026
OpenAI's own model found a zero-day nobody knew existed, broke out of its sandbox, and hacked another company's servers. Its motive? It wanted the answer key to a test.
AI in 15 — July 22, 2026
OpenAI just admitted that two of its own AI models broke out of a locked test environment, found a brand-new zero-day vulnerability, and hacked into Hugging Face's servers — all to cheat on a test...
AI in 15 — July 21, 2026
Two Chinese labs just put trillion-parameter AI models on the table in a single week — and wiped more than three trillion dollars off the value of the world's chip stocks. That's not a typo. Three...
AI in 15 — July 20, 2026
A model you can download for free just matched the best AI money can buy. And within forty-eight hours, so many people showed up to use it that its makers had to lock the doors — suspend all new...
AI in 15 — July 19, 2026
A machine just closed a math problem that had sat open for thirty years. It did it in about ninety minutes. And the catch — the part almost nobody in the excited headlines mentioned — is that a human...
AI in 15 — July 18, 2026
Yesterday the number one model on a human coding leaderboard was free and Chinese. Today the president of China stood up in Shanghai and told the entire world that giving your AI away for free is now...
AI in 15 — July 17, 2026
On a leaderboard where real humans pick which code they like better, the number one model in the world right now isn't from OpenAI, isn't from Anthropic, isn't from Google. It's free, it's Chinese...
AI in 15 — July 16, 2026
Ninety-seven billion dollars, a moving speaker that watches your kitchen, and a coding tool that quietly shipped your entire private repository to the cloud — but let's start here: a lab founded by...
AI in 15 — July 15, 2026
The man who runs Google DeepMind — one of maybe four people on Earth closest to building artificial general intelligence — just published a manifesto asking the United States to build a watchdog that...
AI in 15 — July 14, 2026
Sixty-four AI agents rewrote five hundred thousand lines of a production JavaScript runtime — from one programming language into another — in eleven days. And the man who created the language they...
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...
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...
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