Episodes

  • AI in 15 — May 16, 2026

    AI in 15 — May 16, 2026
    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 portfolio and your spending and your subscriptions all loaded into a chat window. Hacker News is asking why, exactly, an AI vendor needs live access to your divorce predictors.
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    18 mins
  • AI in 15 — May 15, 2026

    AI in 15 — May 15, 2026
    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 before I got home" just collapsed.
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    16 mins
  • AI in 15 — May 14, 2026

    AI in 15 — May 14, 2026
    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 tenfold. The era of all-you-can-eat AI coding subscriptions just hit its first wall.
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    17 mins
  • AI in 15 — May 13, 2026

    AI in 15 — May 13, 2026
    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 pitch from the man now suing him. Asked if business associates had ever called him a liar, Altman said, I have heard people say that.
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    16 mins
  • AI in 15 — May 12, 2026

    AI in 15 — May 12, 2026
    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 a large language model to discover a real zero-day, write the working exploit, and prepare a mass-exploitation event. Not a research demo. Not a hypothetical. Live ammunition.
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    20 mins
  • AI in 15 — May 11, 2026

    AI in 15 — May 11, 2026
    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 its own weights, and spinning up working copies of itself. No human in the loop. No malware payload. Just a language model and a prompt.
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    18 mins
  • AI in 15 — May 10, 2026

    AI in 15 — May 10, 2026
    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 computer to train Meta's AI. Eight thousand of his coworkers will be laid off in ten days. Some of them are now openly hoping to be on the list.
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    18 mins
  • AI in 15 — May 09, 2026

    AI in 15 — May 09, 2026
    May 9 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 the model not just what to do, but why.
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    15 mins