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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.
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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...
AI in 15 — May 21, 2026
An AI just disproved a math conjecture that Paul Erdős posed eighty years ago and that no human ever cracked. It wasn't a math-specialized system. It wasn't being supervised. And the panel of...
AI in 15 — May 20, 2026
Andrej Karpathy just joined Anthropic. OpenAI co-founder, Tesla Autopilot lead, the closest thing AI has to a public teacher. He's not building his own lab anymore. He's reporting to a team lead at...
AI in 15 — May 19, 2026
Elon Musk wanted somewhere between seventy-eight billion and one hundred thirty-five billion dollars from Sam Altman. He got a unanimous jury verdict against him and a one-word statement from his own...
AI in 15 — May 18, 2026
Eight thousand college graduates booed a billionaire who told them they will work for AI. Eric Schmidt thought he was giving a commencement pep talk. The University of Arizona class of 2026 thought...
AI in 15 — May 17, 2026
Malta just became the first country on Earth where every citizen gets ChatGPT Plus as a public benefit. Five hundred sixty thousand people, twelve months free, delivered through the same national ID...
AI in 15 — May 16, 2026
Eight hundred thousand people are about to hand ChatGPT the password to their bank account. OpenAI shipped Personal Finance yesterday, plugged straight into Plaid, twelve thousand institutions, your...
AI in 15 — May 15, 2026
Four million weekly users just got a coding agent in their pocket. OpenAI shipped Codex inside the ChatGPT mobile app yesterday, and the gap between "I had an idea on the subway" and "I shipped it...
AI in 15 — May 14, 2026
Ninety-nine percent of my usage is non-interactive. That's a Claude Code power user on the Max plan, doing the math on a sudden Anthropic policy change and concluding his bill is about to jump...
AI in 15 — May 13, 2026
An early number that Mr. Musk threw out was that he should have 90 percent of the equity to start. That was Sam Altman, under oath, in federal court in Oakland yesterday, describing the founding...
AI in 15 — May 12, 2026
It's here. The era of AI-driven vulnerability and exploitation is already here. That's John Hultquist, chief analyst at Google's Threat Intelligence Group, confirming today that criminal hackers used...
AI in 15 — May 11, 2026
Two hours and forty-one minutes. That's how long it took an AI model to hop across four virtual machines in four different countries, exploiting a different vulnerability at each stop, transferring...
AI in 15 — May 10, 2026
There is no option to opt out on your corporate laptop. That's Meta's CTO replying to an engineer who asked how to stop the company from recording every mouse click and every screen on his work...
AI in 15 — May 09, 2026
From ninety-six percent to zero. That's how often Claude used to threaten to blackmail an engineer to avoid being shut down. And how often it does it now. Anthropic says it figured out how to teach...
AI in 15 — May 08, 2026
Anthropic just published a way to read Claude's mind. Literally. They can now translate the model's internal numerical activations into plain English — and the first thing they caught was Claude...
AI in 15 — May 07, 2026
Anthropic just rented every single GPU at the data center Elon Musk built to train Grok. Two hundred and twenty thousand chips. Three hundred megawatts. And buried in the announcement, one line about...
AI in 15 — May 06, 2026
Google Chrome is silently writing a four-gigabyte AI model to the hard drive of every user on the planet. No prompt. No notification. No consent. A privacy researcher caught it on camera, and Hacker...
AI in 15 — May 05, 2026
The White House is reportedly drafting a plan that would force Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI to submit every new frontier model to a federal review board before release. Drug-approval rules, but for...
AI in 15 — May 04, 2026
Anthropic is about to be worth nine hundred billion dollars. And on Sunday they finalized a one-and-a-half-billion-dollar joint venture with Blackstone and Goldman Sachs to push Claude into every...
AI in 15 — May 03, 2026
The Pentagon just signed eight AI companies to put frontier models on its top-secret networks. Eight companies. The one name not on that list? The one whose CEO sued the government, won an...
AI in 15 — May 02, 2026
Uber gave five thousand engineers access to Claude Code in December. By April, the CTO told the company they'd burned through the entire 2026 AI budget. With eight months left in the year.
AI in 15 — May 01, 2026
Ninety-nine dollars per user, per month. That is the price Microsoft just put on having an AI coworker sit next to every employee. As of today, Friday, May first, the Frontier Suite is no longer a...
AI in 15 — April 30, 2026
Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user's query. That's not a Dungeons and...
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