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Episode 1515:30

When an AI's refusals become a national security risk

A federal appeals court let the Pentagon keep Anthropic on its supply-chain-risk list, citing tasks Claude refused. Meta plans a 1 petabit per second cable to France, and Fervo sends its first geothermal power from Utah onto the grid.

  • The Refusal on the Record
  • The Rack Is the Computer
  • Two Cores, One Ocean
  • Hello World, From Utah
  • Squeezing the Wires
Episode 1013:30

An AI Hotline Between Washington and Beijing

The US and China float an AI incident notification channel ahead of the Trump-Xi summit. Four paying subscribers sue Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and SpaceXAI claiming the companies colluded to slow AI down. Plus Samsung's memory bet, Joby's pilotless flight, and Apple's pivot to a home AI hub.

  • The Hotline Nobody's Written Yet
  • When Slowing Down Becomes a Crime
  • The Parts Nobody Sees
  • Apple's Quiet Reshuffle
Episode 912:22

The Strike the Algorithm Didn't Stop

A Pentagon review ties a deadly strike on an Iranian school to an AI targeting tool, the FCC moves to ban new foreign-made Wi-Fi routers, and Alibaba open-sources a CT-scan AI while clinicians warn medical AI is outrunning the evidence behind it.

  • The Note Nobody Read
  • Bring the Factory Home, or Don't Sell Here
  • The AI That Reads Your CT Scan, and the Doctors Who Still Don't Trust It
  • The Chatbot Safety Laws With Their Own Escape Hatch
Episode 713:55

Billions for AI Factories, Data Lost to War

Crusoe raises $3.9 billion to build AI data centers while AWS admits customer data is permanently gone after strikes hit its Middle East sites. Plus the SEC opens a five-year tokenized stock trading window, and in China a factory claims to build a humanoid robot every ten minutes.

  • The Company Betting It Owns AI's Plumbing
  • When the Data Center Gets Bombed
  • Wall Street Gets a Five Year Science Experiment
  • A Robot Every Ten Minutes
  • Teaching Machines to Watch the Sky
Episode 413:40

Siri Gets a Waitlist While the EPA Guts Carbon Limits

Apple's new Siri AI ships today with a waitlist and pricier iCloud tiers. The EPA guts power plant carbon rules just as AI data centers spike electricity demand. AI leaders call for a slowdown, and Nvidia's Jensen Huang says not a chance.

  • Siri, But You Have to Get in Line
  • The EPA Just Erased the Rulebook on Power Plant Pollution
  • The Industry Asked for a Pause, and Nvidia Said No
  • OpenAI Goes Shopping for Camera Engineers
  • Sixty One Million Dollars, One Exchange, and an Iranian Oil Network