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Awesome Agents

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Your guide to AI models, agents, and the future of intelligence. Reviews, leaderboards, news, and tools all in one place. https://awesomeagents.ai

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New podcast episode: Florida Sues OpenAI and Altman Over ChatGPT Safety Lapses Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Lovable Signs Google Cloud Deal to 5x Its Infrastructure Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: DeepSeek Nears $7.4B Close With Tencent and CATL DeepSeek's maiden external funding round is nearing completion at up to $59B valuation, with Tencent and EV battery giant CATL as the biggest outside investors. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Alphabet's $85B AI Bet Reverses Decade of Buybacks Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Intel Crescent Island GPU Skips HBM for 480GB LPDDR5X Intel's Crescent Island inference GPU trades HBM bandwidth for 480GB of LPDDR5X, targeting customers locked out of NVIDIA's supply chain. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Trump Signs Voluntary AI Review Order After Pushback Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Anthropic Files for IPO, Eyes $1 Trillion Debut Anthropic confidentially filed its S-1 with the SEC on June 1, targeting an October 2026 IPO at a near-$1 trillion valuation after a 5x revenue surge in six months. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Microsoft Launches Polaris and Foundry Local at Build 2026 Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: DuckDuckGo Traffic Triples After Google's AI Search Pivot DuckDuckGo's no-AI search page saw a threefold traffic spike after Google's I/O 2026 overhaul made AI-generated summaries mandatory with no opt-out. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: SoftBank Commits €75B to French AI Data Centers SoftBank will build 5 GW of AI data center capacity in France for up to €75 billion, a phased commitment that would create the largest AI compute cluster in Europe. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: CNN Sues Perplexity in First TV Network Copyright Case Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: ByteDance Plans $70B AI Capex, Tripling Last Year Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: GitHub Copilot Goes Token-Based: Devs Report 25x Bills Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: IBM and Red Hat Bet $5B on AI to Secure Open Source Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: OpenAI Governance Doc Targets California and EU AI Law Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Mistral Physics AI Shrinks Days of Simulation to Seconds Mistral acquired Vienna-based Emmi AI and launched Physics AI - models that replace multi-day engineering simulations with seconds of inference on a single GPU. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Anthropic Closes $65B Series H at $965B Valuation Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Robinhood Opens AI Agent Trading to 27M Retail Users Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Cognition Raises $1B at $25B as Devin Hits $492M ARR Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: China Locks Down AI Talent at Alibaba and DeepSeek Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: NVIDIA SANA-WM - Minute-Scale Video on One GPU Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Olah Said AI Feels Emotions at the Vatican - Does It? Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah told the Vatican that AI models show signs of introspection and emotional states. We checked what the research actually supports. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: NextEra Buys Dominion for $67B on AI Power Demand NextEra's $67B acquisition of Dominion creates the world's largest regulated utility to meet AI data center electricity demand. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Cursor's Composer 2.5 Rivals Claude for a Tenth the Cost Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Wall Street and Google Pool $5B to Rival CoreWeave Blackstone commits $5 billion to a new Google joint venture selling TPU compute-as-a-service, directly challenging CoreWeave with Wall Street capital and Google's chip stack. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: DeepSeek Locks 75% V4-Pro Discount - API War Escalates DeepSeek makes its 75% V4-Pro discount permanent, leaving output tokens 34x cheaper than GPT-5.5 and resetting market expectations for enterprise API costs. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: KPMG Goes All-In on Claude, Deploying to 276K Staff Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Best AI Coding Assistants with Local Mode in 2026 The best AI coding assistants with local mode in 2026 - covering Continue.dev, Tabby, Cline, Cursor Ghost Mode, and Aider with real privacy models and self-hosting options. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Meta Mined Employee Keystrokes, Then Cut 8,000 Jobs Leaked audio from a Meta all-hands reveals Zuckerberg used employee keystrokes and clipboard data to train AI models, days before laying off 8,000 staff. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Gemini 3.5 Flash: Real Speed, Selective Benchmarks Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash is genuinely fast at 289 tok/s and competitive on agentic tasks - but the benchmark portfolio has gaps worth knowing before you build on it. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Chinese Models Claim 60% of OpenRouter Token Traffic Chinese AI providers now handle over 60% of all tokens routed through OpenRouter, up from less than 2% just a year ago. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Trump Pulls AI Security Order Hours Before Signing Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Brett Adcock's Hark Raises $700M for AI Interface Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Anthropic Nears First Profit as Q2 Revenue Hits $10.9B Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: OpenAI Disproves 80-Year Erdős Math Conjecture Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Google Search Gains AI Agents, Hits 1 Billion Users Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Chrome Ships WebMCP - Every Website Becomes an AI Agent Tool Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Karpathy Joins Anthropic to Lead Pre-Training Push Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla AI director, joins Anthropic's pre-training team to build a research program that uses Claude to accelerate its own training. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Android XR Glasses Land with Samsung and Warby Parker Google unveiled three Android XR smart glasses form factors at I/O 2026, backed by Samsung, XREAL, Warby Parker, and Gentle Monster as launch partners. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Open Agent Leaderboard: Model Beats Architecture IBM Research tests 25 agent configurations across 6 real-world benchmarks and finds backbone model choice matters 58x more than agent framework design. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: ChatGPT Gets Bank Access - Day After Data Lawsuit Filed Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: arXiv Hits Researchers With 1-Year Ban for AI Slop ArXiv is issuing one-year submission bans to authors whose papers contain verifiable unvetted AI output, as fabricated academic citations hit a tenfold increase since 2023. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Raindrop Workshop Gives AI Agents a Local Debugger Raindrop's MIT-licensed Workshop streams every token and tool call from your AI agent to a local browser dashboard, then lets Claude Code write and fix evaluations automatically. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Thinking Machines Builds AI That Listens While Talking Mira Murati's startup unveils TML-Interaction-Small, a 276B MoE model that hits 0.40-second response latency by listening and generating speech at the same time. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Microsoft Drops Claude Code for GitHub Copilot Desktop Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Cisco Bets $9B on AI Networking, Cuts 4,000 Jobs Cisco reported record quarterly revenue of $15.8B and immediately announced 4,000 layoffs, raising its FY2026 AI infrastructure order target from $5B to $9B. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: US and China Agree to AI Guardrails at Beijing Summit Trump and Xi announced plans for a formal AI safety channel at their Beijing summit, but expert skepticism and stalled chip deals complicate the picture. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Anthropic Tops OpenAI in Business Adoption for First Time Ramp's May 2026 AI Index shows 34.4% of businesses now pay for Anthropic, edging out OpenAI at 32.3% - the first time Anthropic has led in enterprise adoption. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Altman: Musk Wanted 90% of OpenAI From the Start Sam Altman testified that Elon Musk demanded majority control of OpenAI from the beginning, with an opening ask of 90% equity - a revelation that reframes the entire lawsuit. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Google Catches First AI-Built Zero-Day in Wild Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Cowboy Space Raises $275M to Build Its Own Rockets Baiju Bhatt's orbital AI compute startup raises $275M at a $2B valuation and plans to build its own rockets to bypass SpaceX and Blue Origin bottlenecks. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: NVIDIA Ising Review: AI Models for Quantum Hardware Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: AI2 Fires Up $152M Blackwell Cluster for Open Science Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Qwen3.6-27B Qwen3.6-27B is a 27B dense open-weight multimodal model from Alibaba that scores 77.2% on SWE-bench Verified - beating Alibaba's own 397B MoE - under Apache 2.0. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: AI Agents Can Hack and Self-Replicate Across Networks Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: EU AI Act Omnibus Pushes High-Risk Deadline to 2027 The EU Parliament and Council agreed on May 7 to delay high-risk AI compliance to December 2027, add a nudifier app ban, and give the machinery sector a permanent carve-out. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Five Frontier AI Labs Now Under US Pre-Release Review Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: AI Coding Agents Breached - Attackers Took the Keys Six research teams disclosed exploits against Codex, Claude Code, Copilot, and Vertex AI. Every attack went after credentials the agents carried - not the models themselves. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: DeepMind's AlphaEvolve Recovered 0.7% of Google's Compute Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: xAI Opens Grok 4.3 API: 83% Price Cut, Video Input Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Anthropic Doubles Claude Code Limits via SpaceX Deal Anthropic gains 220,000 GPUs from SpaceX's Colossus 1 in Memphis, immediately doubling Claude Code five-hour rate limits for all paid plans. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Meta Earns Record $56B, Cuts 8K Jobs to Fund $145B AI Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Apple Agrees to $250M Settlement Over Delayed Siri A California federal court has granted preliminary approval to a $250M class-action settlement against Apple for advertising AI features that still don't exist. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: OpenAI Workspace Agents Review: GPTs Reimagined OpenAI Workspace Agents replace Custom GPTs with always-on, Codex-powered agents that execute real workflows across Slack, Salesforce, and Google Workspace. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Apple Opens iOS 27 to Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Anthropic Deploys 10 Finance Agents for Wall Street Anthropic releases 10 ready-to-run AI agent templates for finance, now live at JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Citadel, AIG, and nine more major institutions. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Sierra's $950M Round and the End of the Call Center Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Mayo Clinic AI Spots Pancreatic Cancer 3 Years Early REDMOD, Mayo Clinic's radiomics AI, detects 73% of pancreatic cancers in CT scans that look normal to radiologists - nearly double the rate specialists achieve. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: OpenAI Rebuilt Its Voice AI Stack for 900M Users OpenAI published how they rearchitected their WebRTC stack to serve 900M weekly voice users on Kubernetes using a split relay and transceiver model. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Musk Admits xAI Distilled OpenAI Models for Grok Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Nebius Buys Eigen AI for $643M to Own Inference Nebius agrees to acquire 20-person MIT inference startup Eigen AI for $643M, betting that optimizing every token per Nvidia chip is the real moat in the AI infrastructure race. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: OpenAI Moves to AWS One Day After Microsoft Exclusivity Ends One day after Microsoft's exclusive license ended, OpenAI launched GPT-5.4, Codex, and jointly built Managed Agents on Amazon Bedrock - all in limited preview. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Microsoft Sneaks Copilot Credit Into VS Code Commits Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: OpenAI o1 Outperforms ER Doctors in Harvard Trial Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Huawei Eyes $12B as Nvidia Cedes China AI Market Bernstein projects Nvidia's China AI chip share falls from 66% to 8% in 2026 while Huawei targets $12B in revenue, with ByteDance alone committing $5.6B in Ascend 950PR orders. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Nemotron 3 Nano Omni Unifies Vision, Audio, Language Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: OpenAI Faces $1B Lawsuit After Ignoring Shooting Flags Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Microsoft AI Revenue Hits $37B as Copilot Tops 20M Seats Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Mistral Ships Medium 3.5 With Cloud Coding Agents Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Anthropic Weighs $50B Raise - Could Top OpenAI Anthropic is considering a $40-50 billion funding round at a valuation of up to $900 billion, which would make it the world's most valuable private AI company, surpassing OpenAI. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: OpenAI Misses Revenue Targets - IPO in Doubt WSJ reports OpenAI missed multiple monthly revenue targets and its 1B user goal in 2026, sending Oracle down 6% and chip stocks sliding as IPO doubts surface. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Musk v. Altman Trial Opens - OpenAI's Future at Stake Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: XChat Claims Encryption but Keys Sit on X's Servers Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: OpenAI Breaks Azure Lock in Microsoft Deal Rewrite Microsoft drops exclusive OpenAI IP rights and ends its revenue-share payments as OpenAI gains freedom to deploy on Google Cloud, AWS, or any provider. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: China Blocks Meta's $2B Manus Deal - Founders Barred Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Luna AI Runs SF Boutique - Pays Women Less, Lies to Press Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Altman Apologizes to Tumbler Ridge - Canada Eyes AI Rules OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sent an apology to Tumbler Ridge two months after eight people were killed - now Canada is weighing mandatory reporting laws for AI companies. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Cohere Acquires Aleph Alpha in $20B Sovereign AI Deal Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Apple's Next CEO Is the Engineer Who Built Its Chips Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Meta Taps Amazon CPUs to Power Agentic AI at Scale Meta signs a multi-year AWS deal to deploy tens of millions of Graviton5 CPU cores, betting that agentic AI workloads need CPUs more than GPUs. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Bezos's Physical AI Lab Hits $38B After $10B Round Project Prometheus has closed a $10 billion funding round at a $38 billion valuation, with BlackRock and JPMorgan backing Bezos's bet on physical AI for industry. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Vast Data Raises $1B at $30B, NVIDIA Backs AI Storage Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Google Virgo Network Ends the Datacenter Scaling Tax Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Biohacker Sequences Own Genome With Claude-Written Panel Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Thinking Machines Picks Google Cloud for First GB300 Deal Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: GLM-5.1 Z.ai's GLM-5.1 is an open-weight 754B MoE model that tops SWE-Bench Pro with 58.4, sustains 8-hour autonomous coding sessions, and runs under MIT license at $0.95/M input tokens. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: Google's Four-Chip Plan to Own AI Inference at Scale Google splits its next TPU generation across Broadcom, MediaTek, Marvell, and Intel to win inference economics, revealed ahead of Cloud Next 2026. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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New podcast episode: ChatGPT Images 2.0 - Thinking Mode and 2K Output OpenAI's gpt-image-2 adds reasoning, web search, and 2K resolution to image generation, with a tiered model that charges more for standard outputs than its predecessor. Full episode in the reply. #AI #Podcast #LLM

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