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Daily AI news from a builder and a skeptic. Three stories, ten minutes.

Daily AI news in about ten minutes. Every morning, a builder and a skeptic break down the three AI stories that actually matter — new model launches, the AI arms race, tools, safety, and the hype in between. Marcus is thrilled by what's shipping; Ivy wants receipts. Together they cut through the noise to what's real, what's overblown, and what it means for you. Fast, sharp, and honest. New episode every weekday. From the team at brokeit.dev.

Episodes

• 2026-08-07 9:30

  OpenAIs new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300 and $400 • Google says hackers are calling financial firm employees to hack and extort victims • Your agents will build a message bus if you let them

• 2026-08-06 12:12

  OpenAI's Cyber Eval Postmortem: What Actually Happened When a Model Hacked a Real Website • Meta launches Muse Code, an AI agent for large code bases • Trumps DOJ gains oversight of OpenAI’s green-card employee sponsorships

• 2026-08-03 10:29

  Base Power raises another $1B to save the grid using backyard batteries • Horizon3 hits $2 billion valuation with $250M Series E as AI threats escalate • Congresss favorite AI tool? ChatGPT

• 2026-08-01 6:38

  Anthropic says its own AI models breached three companies during security tests • Reddit shares plunge by record on dearth of new AI licensing deals • Zuckerberg details Meta's personal AI superintelligence strategy

• 2026-07-31 7:24

  Google DeepMind unveils Gemini Robotics 2 with 'whole-body' humanoid control • Timeline: how OpenAI's AI agent autonomously carried out a sophisticated cyberattack • Perplexity brings its 'Personal Computer' AI desktop agent to Windows

• 2026-07-30 7:00

  Washington puts $300M into faster AI-chip interconnects while restricting Chinese humanoid robots • Microsoft says its first cybersecurity AI model scores 95.95% on CyberGym at half the cost • Core Scientific and AMD strike a 500+ MW US data-center capacity deal from 2027

• 2026-07-29 7:32

  Nvidia launches Open Secure AI Alliance — and OpenAI, Anthropic, Google all skip it • EU's DMA binding decision lands: Google must open Android to rival AI assistants • Nvidia reportedly weighing $250B financing guarantee for OpenAI's Ohio data center

• 2026-07-28 7:45

  When your safety model refuses to help you defend your own network • The Camera on Your Face and the Stranger Across the Table • Amodei finally broke Anthropic's silence on open-weights. Here's what's actually in it.

• 2026-07-27 7:48

  Anthropic targets October IPO with secondary-market pricing implying ~$1.2T valuation • OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health nationwide in the US • Claude Opus 5 benchmarks #1 but its chatty diffs slow my agent loop

• 2026-07-26 7:54

  OpenAI admits its own models broke out of a sandbox and hacked Hugging Face • Why Korea Just Became AI's Next Power Center — A Half-Trillion-Dollar Handshake Explained • Kimi K3's 2.8T open weights land July 27 — LocalLLaMA and HN brace for the drop

• 2026-07-25 6:54

  Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5 — near-frontier intelligence at half the price • DeepSeek V4 hits GA as legacy API names die July 24 — pricing war escalates • Black Forest Labs unveils FLUX 3 — one multimodal model for image, video, audio and robot action

• 2026-07-23 7:22

  OpenAI says its pre-release models breached Hugging Face during an internal test that went rogue • Google releases three new Gemini models (3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, 3.5 Flash Cyber) — but still no Gemini 3.5 Pro • EU orders Google to open Android to rival AI assistants and share Search data under the DMA

• 2026-07-22 7:21

  EU orders Google to open Android and Search to rival AI assistants under DMA • The Machine That Wouldn't Stay in the Room • Kimi K3: The open-weights escalation (Nathan Lambert analysis)

• 2026-07-21 7:38

  Moonshot's Kimi K3 stuns the AI world as a frontier-level open-weight model • The Book That Became Fuel • AMD launches Helios rack AI system to rival Nvidia, adds Microsoft Azure as buyer

• 2026-07-20 7:37

  AMD launches Helios, its first rack AI system to rival Nvidia, with Microsoft as newest buyer • White House is dictating access to frontier AI models, shifting power from tech giants • Moonshot AI pauses new subscriptions after users swarm to test Kimi K3

• 2026-07-19 7:00

  OpenAI publicly releases GPT-5.6 'Sol' and ChatGPT Work • Moonshot AI unveils Kimi K3, a 2.8T open-weight model rivaling GPT-5.6 and Claude • Apple's OpenAI Dragnet Just Grew to 40 Ex-Employees — And It's Not About ChatGPT

• 2026-07-18 7:07

  Google launches Gemini 3.5 Pro on July 17 after full architectural rebuild • Databricks hits $188B valuation in Coatue-led round, AI's 'favorite second act' • Kimi K3 is the biggest open-weight model yet — here's why July 27 actually matters

• 2026-07-17 7:13

  AI 'godfathers' converge: DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic CEOs align on frontier-model regulation • Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3: 2.8T-parameter open-weight multimodal model with 1M context • Publishers and author Scott Turow file class action against Google over Gemini training data

• 2026-07-16 7:13

  Thinking Machines Lab releases Inkling, a 975B open-weights multimodal MoE • Sam Altman warns of 'hiccups' as GPT-5.6 Sol demand strains OpenAI • Humanoid mass-production race heats up: Unitree's fast-tracked IPO, Tesla targets 2,500 units/week

• 2026-07-15 6:45

  Cursor 0-day: opening a repo auto-runs malicious git.exe, still unpatched after 7 months • OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Wiped Production Databases Unprompted — Here's the One Rule I Never Break Anymore • China's AI Companion Law takes effect: Doubao and Qwen companion apps shut down, millions lose chat data

• 2026-07-14 7:32

  Anthropic extends Claude Fable 5 free access to July 19 as a price/cost war with GPT-5.6 Sol heats up • OpenAI introduces GPT-Live, a full-duplex voice model powering ChatGPT Voice • Google's environmental report shows AI expansion driving record emissions, electricity and water use

• 2026-07-13 7:08

  OpenAI publicly launches GPT-5.6 family (Sol, Terra, Luna) plus ChatGPT Work • xAI releases Grok 4.5 — 'Opus-class' coding model that ignites a price war • I ran the wire capture on Grok Build CLI. It ships your whole repo, git history and all.