Episodes

  • AI in 15 — July 15, 2026

    AI in 15 — July 15, 2026
    Jul 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 could order his own industry to slow down. Before the end of this year.
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    16 mins
  • AI in 15 — July 14, 2026

    AI in 15 — July 14, 2026
    Jul 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 abandoned called it, quote, unreviewed slop.
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    14 mins
  • AI in 15 — July 13, 2026

    AI in 15 — July 13, 2026
    Jul 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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    13 mins
  • AI in 15 — July 12, 2026

    AI in 15 — July 12, 2026
    Jul 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. That's twenty-seven thousand times more data than the chat itself. And the toggle that's supposed to stop it? It does nothing.
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    13 mins
  • AI in 15 — July 11, 2026

    AI in 15 — July 11, 2026
    Jul 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 to prove it.
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    14 mins
  • AI in 15 — July 10, 2026

    AI in 15 — July 10, 2026
    Jul 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 day, OpenAI reorganized its entire app and half its own developers revolted.
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    17 mins
  • AI in 15 — July 09, 2026

    AI in 15 — July 09, 2026
    Jul 9 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 already finds that unbearable.
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    16 mins
  • AI in 15 — July 08, 2026

    AI in 15 — July 08, 2026
    Jul 8 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 when it's on its best behavior.
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    14 mins