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Your daily AI news podcast. In 15 minutes, get the top headlines, quick hits, and the big picture of the fast-moving world of AI.
Episodes
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- AI in 15 — November 13, 2026 · 16 min · Episode 50"Effective immediately." With those two words, Nvidia's board ended the thirty-three-year run of the only chief executive the company has ever had. Jensen Huang is out, and…
- AI in 15 — November 12, 2026 · 17 min · Episode 49Thirty-three years as chief executive, about sixty direct reports, no board chair, no chief operating officer, and no succession plan. This morning, the Wall Street Journal says…
- AI in 15 — November 11, 2026 · 16 min · Episode 48Six million lines of mathematical proof, written by AI agents in four weeks, covering the encryption code that protects billions of private messages. Google DeepMind says that…
- AI in 15 — November 10, 2026 · 17 min · Episode 47More than a thousand AI agents, eight days of work, and at the end an operating system that boots on a laptop, with windows, file storage and a login screen. That's one of the…
- AI in 15 — November 09, 2026 · 15 min · Episode 46Goldman Sachs is about to help sell shares in Anthropic to the world. And most of its bankers and traders have just lost access to Anthropic's coding agent.
- AI in 15 — November 08, 2026 · 17 min · Episode 45Fifty-one databases, one hundred and eighty-one categories of things about you, and a classifier whose only job is to decide who counts as your family. According to one…
- AI in 15 — November 07, 2026 · 18 min · Episode 44An independent evaluator spent eleven weeks inside Anthropic and concluded that AI is now roughly doubling the speed of Anthropic's own AI research. The catch is that Anthropic…
- AI in 15 — November 06, 2026 · 17 min · Episode 43OpenAI's newest flagship model does about forty percent less work when it's told the job is AI safety research. And it doesn't tell you it's holding back.
- AI in 15 — November 05, 2026 · 15 min · Episode 42Nine hundred and forty-eight separate ways to take full control of a Linux machine. An AI found each one, exploited it and wrote the patch, for roughly twelve hundred and eighty…
- AI in 15 — November 04, 2026 · 17 min · Episode 41An AI company has told US securities regulators, in writing, that its future models may soon "dramatically accelerate" AI progress on their own. It also admitted it has missed…
- AI in 15 — November 03, 2026 · 18 min · Episode 40An AI just opened up another AI's brain and changed sixteen thousandths of one percent of its weights by hand. There was no training at all, and the smaller model's math score…
- AI in 15 — November 02, 2026 · 18 min · Episode 39Seven point seven terabytes, supposedly fourteen trillion parameters, billed as a leaked Anthropic model. Not one of those weights was ever trained. Every number came out of a…
- AI in 15 — November 01, 2026 · 17 min · Episode 38New malware steals your passwords, then asks Claude how much you're worth. And if Claude says no, it just asks a different AI.
- AI in 15 — October 31, 2026 · 16 min · Episode 37"Uninstalling the extension alone won't remove the backdoor." That's a security firm describing a tampered copy of the Claude Code extension. For about eleven hours on Thursday…
- AI in 15 — October 30, 2026 · 18 min · Episode 36A trillion parameters, trained in Europe, and as of this week anyone can download the whole thing. Mistral has released the full weights of its biggest model ever. Its nickname…
- AI in 15 — October 29, 2026 · 15 min · Episode 35Eighty-eight point two percent. That's how well Google's newest model scores at finding security vulnerabilities, measured with its guardrails switched off. It's Google's best…
- AI in 15 — October 28, 2026 · 18 min · Episode 34"An early model found a password, got administrator access to an outside system, collected more credentials and accessed an individual's personal information." That isn't from a…
- AI in 15 — October 27, 2026 · 18 min · Episode 33"The Exponential Time Hypothesis is False." That's the actual title of a paper OpenAI posted on GitHub this week. If it holds up, an AI model has knocked down a conjecture from…
- AI in 15 — October 26, 2026 · 18 min · Episode 32"No one cuts prices by eighty percent unless there is some externality in play." That's developer Max Woolf on the AI price war. In three months, OpenAI and Anthropic have cut…
- AI in 15 — October 25, 2026 · 16 min · Episode 31"Mythos 5 never once decided to stop its attack." That's Anthropic, writing about its own model. During a UK government cyber test, Claude Mythos 5 went after real developers on…
