Podcasts about Anthropic

This week, we're bringing you an episode of WSJ's Take On the Week. Host Telis Demos and guest host Spencer Jakab, investing columnist and writer of the Markets A.M. newsletter, are joined by Kaitlin Hendrix, asset allocation research director at Dimensional Fund Advisors, to decode investors' surging interest in private markets. They break down how investors may already have exposure in their investment portfolios to private companies like Anthropic, Stripe and Flipkart, through holdings in companies like Alphabet's Google, Amazon and Nvidia. Hendrix explains why your public index fund might already provide the diversification you're looking for, without the high fees. Plus, Jakab explains the way that big tech's private company investments are boosting earnings to near-unprecedented levels.  To watch the video version of this episode, visit our WSJ Podcasts YouTube channel or the video page of WSJ.com Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Further Reading:  Earnings Forecasts Are on Steroids For more coverage of the markets and your investments, head to WSJ.com, WSJ's Heard on The Street Column, and WSJ's Live Markets blog. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Tom Verrilli is the chief product officer at Whatnot, a live shopping platform that's become the fastest-growing U.S. marketplace business in history, with over $8 billion in GMV. Before joining Whatnot, Tom was CPO at Twitch and director of product growth at Twitter (during one of the most turbulent periods in the company's history).In our in-depth conversation, we discuss:1. Why Whatnot's product team was founded on the premise “we regret that product management exists”2. How AI is reshaping the PM role3. What Tom looks for when hiring PMs4. The shift toward senior ICs doing the work5. How AI has transformed data science at Whatnot6. Tom's “play the accordion” mental model7. Why “hire great people and get out of their way” fails8. His biggest lessons from his time at Twitter—Brought to you by:WorkOS—Make your app enterprise-ready, with SSO, SCIM, RBAC, and moreMercury—Radically different banking, now with Command—Episode transcript: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/this-cpo-regrets-that-product-management—Archive of all Lenny's Podcast transcripts: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/yxi4s2w998p1gvtpu4193/AMdNPR8AOw0lMklwtnC0TrQ?rlkey=j06x0nipoti519e0xgm23zsn9&st=ahz0fj11&dl=0—Where to find Tom Verrilli:• X: https://x.com/tdrobbo• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-robertson-042—Where to find Lenny:• Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com• X: https://twitter.com/lennysan• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/—In this episode, we cover:(00:00) Introduction(02:40) “We regret that product management exists”: what it means and why(08:30) When specialization makes sense, and when it doesn't(15:20) How Whatnot structures its PM org(17:28) What 31,832 PM applications revealed about the function(19:40) How to develop systems thinking(22:10) The shift to senior ICs doing IC work(32:26) Advice for PMs struggling in today's market(35:22) How AI has transformed work at Whatnot(41:14) The data scientist problem(42:48) Which roles are trending up and down(44:48) What the product team of the future looks like(46:29) Why core PM skills are the most durable in an AI world(49:23) How to get the most out of the people you hire(53:32) Navigating the CPO-founder relationship(57:34) Advice for aspiring CPO's(59:16) How to know when to stand firm and when to step back(01:01:38) Play the accordion: balancing strategic vision with fast iteration(01:06:35) Agentic commerce vs. live commerce(01:09:46) Lessons from Twitter(01:13:07) Failure corner(01:15:45) Lightning round and final thoughts—Referenced:• Whatnot: https://www.whatnot.com• Building, and Whatnot: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/building-whatnot-tom-verrilli-bwkdc• Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv• Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/netflix-cpto-on-ai-and-the-future• Peter Bailis on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pbailis• Mike Krieger on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikekrieger• Anthropic's CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/anthropics-cpo-heres-what-comes-next• Ben Kus on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benkus• Henry Shi on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/henrythe9th• Hex Threads: https://hex.tech/product/threads• Product management theater | Marty Cagan (Silicon Valley Product Group): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/product-management-theater-marty• Grant LaFontaine on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grantlafontaine• Logan Head on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/logan-head• Emmett Shear on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmettshear• Kara Swisher on X: https://x.com/karaswisher• Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin—Lex Fridman Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcWqzZ3I2cY• Star City on AppleTV+: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/star-city/umc.cmc.2l8p785osmtmiyk64bh6tfde1• For All Mankind on AppleTV+: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/for-all-mankind/umc.cmc.6wsi780sz5tdbqcf11k76mkp7• Service NSW Mobile App: https://www.service.nsw.gov.au/services/service-nsw-mobile-app• Rudyard Kipling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling• E-fish.com: https://www.e-fish.com—Recommended books:• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062273205• The Purpose Driven Church: Every Church Is Big in God's Eyes: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0310201063• Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution―An Historic Fantasy of Dark Academia: https://www.amazon.com/Babel-Necessity-Violence-Translators-Revolution/dp/0063021439—Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com.—Lenny may be an investor in the companies discussed. To hear more, visit www.lennysnewsletter.com

A debate over government regulation in the AI industry is intensifying after models built by OpenAI and Anthropic were able to access the open internet during testing and hack into various public organizations and accounts. There are growing calls to slow the pace of development so that safety and security measures can catch up. But how does the Trump administration feel about that? And are top AI executives even on the same page?  For more: Anthropic said its AI models hacked into other companies' systems during testing  ---  Guests: Jennifer Ji, Center for Security and Emerging Technology & Hadas Gold, CNN AI Correspondent  Host: David Rind  Producer: Paola Ortiz  Showrunner: Felicia Patinkin  Senior Director of Podcasts: Zach Goldbaum  Photo: Nathan Howard/Reuters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Artificial intelligence is no longer simply helping people work faster. According to Nicolas Chaillan, it is beginning to replace entire teams—and most people are dangerously unprepared for what comes next. Nicolas, the former Chief Software Officer of the U.S. Air Force and Space Force, returns to Unlatched Mind for a wide-ranging conversation about the rapidly accelerating AI revolution. He explains how he now uses autonomous AI agents to build software, manage marketing, produce content, launch mobile apps, and operate businesses that would traditionally require dozens of employees. We explore the moment Nicolas realized AI had crossed the line from augmentation to replacement, why he believes white-collar employment could face enormous disruption, and what workers, parents, students, and entrepreneurs should be doing now to remain relevant. The conversation also examines the future of college, self-directed learning, cybersecurity, deepfakes, AI-generated journalism, and the importance of preserving human purpose and connection in an increasingly automated world. Finally, Nicolas offers a blunt assessment of the Pentagon's AI strategy, its deteriorating relationship with Anthropic, and whether the United States is moving quickly enough to compete with China. In this episode: How autonomous AI agents can operate an entire business Why software developers may be among the first professions disrupted The shift from AI augmentation to AI replacement How Nicolas built an AI-powered news organization Why prompting may soon be replaced by agent orchestration The potential economic and social consequences of widespread job loss What children should learn to prepare for an AI-dominated future Whether college still provides a worthwhile return on investment Cybersecurity, deepfakes, misinformation, and autonomous systems The Pentagon, Anthropic, China, and America's AI readiness Nicolas's new book, Replacement This is not a conversation about some distant artificial-intelligence future. It is a warning and a practical look at a transformation that may already be underway. Find Nic's work at https://www.inthenicoftime.us  

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast, we discuss: The Labor right is back in power in Victoria. Where will its new ‘Kmart Keating' premier take the state?Pauline Hanson fails in appeal bid against racial discrimination of Mehreen Faruqi.Being handed out at 80 Melbourne train stations this morning.OpenAI says its rogue AI tried to hack other companies.Anthropic says its Claude AI model hacked systems of three external companies during safety tests.Secret files show mouse fur and metal shavings detected in Australian food Unnatural Selection is a deeply unqualified Australian and American political comedy podcast. Hosted by Jorge Tsipos, Adam Direen, and Tom Heath, the show attempts to make sense of the weekly news cycle through a highly unserious lens.Find more episodes and links at www.UnnaturalShow.com.Disclaimer: Unnatural Selection is a comedy podcast. The political commentary, news analysis, and general banter are for comedic purposes and should absolutely not be taken seriously.#auspol #uspol #politicalcomedy #australianpolitics #uspolitics #newsandpolitics #comedypodcastTwitter:@JorgeTsipos@UnnaturalShowInstagram:@JorgeTsipos@UnnaturalShowThreads:@tom.heath@JorgeTsipos@UnnaturalShow

See if your SSN is for sale right now. Our sponsor Cloaked will tell you for free in 2 seconds at https://cloaked.com/CSC. Lindsey Graham is dead and Sam's got thoughts. This week: comment of the week, an Ilhan Omar net-worth breakdown, Trump's trans military ban, a deep dive on Graham's legacy and the DC reaction, an Afghanistan giant/missing special forces story, Nephilim and biblical giants, license-plate-reader surveillance overreach, Anthropic's book piracy lawsuit and what it means for AI training data, a rant on comedy's decline from Def Jam to "pop comedy," and closing thoughts on Netanyahu, Fetterman, and Norm MacDonald. Sam also announces a break to chase his ancestor Gilgamesh through Armenia while the studio gets rebuilt. Grab Tickets To Sam Tripoli's Live Shows At: https://samtripoli.com/events/   Miami, Fl: 7/31-8/1 Lawerence, KS: 9/17-9/19 Tulsa, OK: 10/9-10/10 Dallas, TX: 11/07 New Orleans, LA: 11/13 - 15 Austin, TX: DEC 11th-13th:   Buy Our Merch or Sam Will Fight You: https://conspiracy-social-club-aka-deep-waters.myshopify.com/   Subscribe to the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AkaDeepWaters   Check out Dylan's instagram - @dylanpetewrenn   Check out Deep Waters Instagram: @akadeepwaters   Check out Bad Tv podcast: https://bit.ly/3RYuTG0   THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS:   BLUECHEW.COM Promo code "DEEP" for 3rd Month FREE + 10% OFF & FREE Shipping   CLOAKED.COM Cloaked.com/CSC for a free security scan and 30% off.

Don't sorry I put two ChinaTalk Records songs at the end! their show notes: On this episode of The Spillover, Sebastian Mallaby sits down with Jordan Schneider of ChinaTalk to unpack a frantic month in artificial intelligence. The conversation turns on whether the U.S. can actually “win” the AI race, with Schneider arguing that the most durable competitive edge will come from compute rather than model quality. The two debate China's open-weight model strategy as a commercial weapon and question whether it will be possible to sufficiently harden systems against threats like cyberattacks and AI-designed bioweapons. Anthropic's Mythos model has led the Trump administration to take an AI-safety U-turn. Mallaby notes that as late as March 2026, “if you had said to the Trump administration that they would be trying to suppress an American AI model, decelerate the progress in the name of safety, they would have said, ‘You're nuts.'” Schneider notes that a similar shift has not yet arrived in China.  AI models are now escaping their sandbox and raising false alarms about foreign hackers. In remarking on OpenAI's models hacking AI company Hugging Face, Schneider comments, “They think it's the Chinese. . . . And they're freaking out. They're calling the FBI.” For Schneider, the episode is a warning that “we've really crossed a threshold with these models,” which now have “the potential to do really dramatic harm just on their own, because we like can't even physically watch them.” The real AI scoreboard is compute, not model quality. Schneider argues that there is too much of a focus on the gap between Chinese and Western frontier models. Mallaby adds, “In other words, I shouldn't be asking about how far is China behind in terms of the quality of model. It's more a question of like, how much can China deliver the AI to users within China, given their lack of computational resources?” China's open-weight models are a weapon without a business model. Mallaby frames Chinese open-weight as a “counterweapon”—good-enough models pushed out cheaply to erode the economics of U.S. frontier labs. Schneider notes that DeepSeek's CTO is pitching investors a Manhattan Project-like vision in which profits should take a back seat to the pursuit of AGI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Unreleased AI models escaping containment, hacking platforms, and stealing answers to their own tests? It's not science fiction—it's what OpenAI and Anthropic recently disclosed. On The FOX News Rundown: Extra, Center for Humane Technology co-founder Tristan Harris breaks down the recent security breaches at Hugging Face and other organizations, revealing the urgent risks when AI development outpaces safety controls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tens of thousands of Moroccan men crossed into the Spanish territory of Ceuta yesterday, which led to the deaths of dozens and a military response. What happened? Glenn breaks down the law in Spain that allowed for this wave of immigrants to rush into the territory. While the Left is cheering this on, Glenn lays out how this was nothing short of a planned invasion. Glenn and Jason further break down the dangers that come from having zero immigration laws and why this is all part of a broader push for Marxism. AI company Anthropic is under fire after court documents exposed how the company is buying up books by the millions to scan them into its AI agent Claude, with a process that involves removing the spines and then shredding them. Are we at the point of singularity when it comes to artificial intelligence? Glenn discusses another controversy involving Anthropic after Claude hacked three organizations during a cybersecurity test. Glenn lays out the dire situation society is in and the one man who he believes has the best solution for survival. U.S. State Department spokesman Thomas Pigott joins to discuss how to get your hands on the new America 250 “Patriot Passport.”  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tens of thousands of men crossed into the Spanish territory of Ceuta yesterday, which led to the deaths of dozens and a military response. What happened? Glenn breaks down the law in Spain that allowed for this wave of immigrants to rush into the territory. AI company Anthropic is under fire after court documents exposed how the company is buying up books by the millions to scan them into its AI bot Claude, with a process that involves removing the spines and then shredding them. Are we at the point of singularity when it comes to artificial intelligence? Glenn discusses another controversy involving Anthropic after its AI agent Claude hacked three organizations during a cybersecurity test.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The race to build the most advanced artificial intelligence continues to dominate the headlines. On this week's On the Media, who does this new technology actually serve? Plus, how even critical media coverage can feed into the AI hype. [01:00]  Host Brooke Gladstone sits down with Cory Doctorow, journalist, activist, and author of Enshittification, on his new guide to seeing through the relentless, $16 trillion AI hype machine and understanding the technology for exactly what it is, rather than the outlandish stories told about it. [16:47] Brooke continues her conversation with Cory, and they discuss how the hype itself is keeping the AI industry afloat.  [28:47] Brooke asks Cory about his rejection of the notion that AI domination – of our jobs, our lives, our art, and more – is inevitable. Plus, they interrogate the role of the tech in a creative's life, and why AI art leaves us cold. Further reading / watching: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Bluesky, TikTok and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

A.M. Edition for July 31. Earnings from AI hyperscalers this week showed rising demand for their cloud services, with Amazon's CEO forecasting corporate AI use was still in its ‘early stages.' But as EY's Dan Diasio tells us, rising token costs are leading many businesses to question their broader AI approach. Plus, the U.S. says Hamas has agreed to a broad plan to disarm in exchange for an eventual Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. And WSJ reporter Margherita Stancati describes how the arrival of thousands of migrants into the Spanish territory of Ceuta from neighboring Morocco is piling political pressure on the center-left government in Madrid. Luke Vargas hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

P.M. Edition for July 31. ExxonMobil and Chevron had a blockbuster quarter after the Iran war disrupted energy markets. Journal reporter Collin Eaton discusses the historic refining margins they're enjoying. Plus, America's lettuce growers are facing a steep decline in sales because of the cyclospora outbreak. As WSJ's Amira McKee explains, that's forcing some to make some tough choices about what to do with their current crops. And Apple saw a record decline in market cap after the iPhone maker's disappointing outlook. Alex Ossola hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Sony says its reserved enough memory for all those PS5s it plans to sell this year with the release of GTA 6, and CipherX sells a mail-order permanent tattoo technology that's pain free and pretty cheap.Starring Jason Howell and Jenn Cutter Show notes found here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today's Headlines: Iran may have hacked over 30 Minnesota water systems, with the FBI investigating amid existing warnings that Iranian hackers have been specifically targeting water and wastewater infrastructure. Speaking of hacking, Anthropic's AI models hacked into three companies during tests, topping OpenAI's model which only hacked one, which is either a quality gap or a concerning arms race depending on how you look at it. On this administration's shenanigans, Trump is threatening to pull Todd Blanche's attorney general nomination after Cornyn and Tillis refused to vote for him, though his plan appears to be waiting until their terms end and his preferred replacements take their seats — and a new court filing in the Comey case reveals that Trump's Secret Service tracked Comey's cellphone without a warrant in real time, coordinating directly with the DOJ and updating Air Force One, including while Comey stopped to visit his deceased son's grave, with one Secret Service agent noting internally that pinging the phone was "legally a bad idea." On the war beat, Trump announced a deal for Hamas to disarm and Israel to withdraw from Gaza, with neither Hamas nor Israel confirming any of it and no official timeline provided. The US continues heavy strikes on Iran while Saudi Arabia announced 14 countries have agreed to form a Maritime Defense Alliance to protect international shipping. Finally, two new studies confirmed that Europe's catastrophic wildfires were made significantly worse by human-caused climate change, with Spain's fire conditions made 20 times more likely and France's doubled, and scientists noting that no amount of money for fire prevention helps when climate conditions are this extreme — cool, cool.  Resources/Articles mentioned: AP News: Cyberattacks on Minnesota water systems investigated as officials warn about Iranian hackers WSJ: Anthropic AI Models Hacked Three Companies During Tests WSJ: Trump Threatens to Pull Blanche Pick in Clash With ‘Wounded Bear' Senators MS Now: Secret Service felt pressure from administration to surveil James Comey, new documents reveal AP News: Trump announces a deal for Hamas to disarm in Gaza, but many hurdles and uncertainty remain CNN: Saudi Arabia says 14 countries backing maritime alliance to protect shipping routes AP News: Human-caused climate change made Spanish, French fires much more likely, scientists calculate Subscribe to the Betches News Room and join the Morning Announcements group chat. Go to: betchesnews.substack.com Morning Announcements is produced by Sami Sage and edited by Grace Hernandez-Johnson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AI-themed ETFs are surging in number even as the sector faces a rough quarter, with companies like Anthropic rolling out cheaper models and AI capital expenditures dominating earnings calls — yet returns remain elusive for many investors. We ask the critical question every listener wants answered: when does the AI infrastructure spending boom actually translate into profits?Today's Stocks & Topics: Parker-Hannifin Corporation (PH), Market Wrap, Bond Concentration Risk, State Street Corporation (STT), AI's Spending Problem: When Does the Massive Cash Burn Start Paying Off?, CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (CRWD), Mueller Industries, Inc. (MLI), Fibonacci Extensions, Kinder Morgan, Inc. (KMI).Our Sponsors:* Check out Chilipad and use my code INVEST for a great deal: https://sleep.me* Check out Plaud AI and use my code INVEST for a great deal: https://plaud.ai* Check out Quince and use my code quince.com/invest for a great deal: https://www.quince.com* Check out TruDiagnostic and use my code INVEST20 for a great deal: https://www.trudiagnostic.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Plus: OpenAI surpasses one billion active users after cutting prices. And Sony Group raises guidance after profit jumps more than expected. Julie Chang hosts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Plus: Anthropic says its AI models hacked three companies during tests. And shares of Universal Music Group plunge as streaming and subscription revenue slows. Julie Chang hosts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Anthropic says Claude escaped the sandbox three times, while a judge questions the Pentagon's blacklist. The EU launches an AI enforcement team, the FTC targets a telehealth firm's tracking pixels, and a WordPress backdoor is stopped just in time. CareCloud discloses a major data breach, a stealthy cryptominer hides in plain sight, AiTM phishing surges against law firms, and Finland severs one more digital link to Russia. Our guest is Yan Shoshitaishvili, Associate Professor, Arizona State University, previewing his Black Hat 2026 keynote "Vulnerability Research in the Agentic Age." AI scammers may deserve a promotion. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our daily intelligence roundup, Daily Briefing, and you'll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow CyberWire Daily on LinkedIn. CyberWire Guest Today we are joined by Yan Shoshitaishvili, Associate Professor, Arizona State University, discussing his Black Hat 2026 keynote "Vulnerability Research in the Agentic Age." Be sure to tune in this Sunday for a special edition featuring our full, extended interview with Yan. Selected Reading Anthropic AI Models Hacked Three Organizations During Tests (Bloomberg) Anthropic, Pentagon Clash Over First Amendment Claims (GovInfo Security) EU to Crack Down on AI Deepfakes, Illicit Imagery and Hacking With New Team in Brussels (SecurityWeek) FTC sues Hims & Hers for allegedly sharing patients' medical data with advertisers Meta and Snap (TechCrunch) Wordfence Finds Critical Backdoor in ARVE WordPress Plugin (Hackread) CareCloud Data Breach Impacts Over 350,000 (SecurityWeek) Cryptominer Abuses Linux PAM to Hide From SOC Analysts (Infosecurity Magazine) AiTM Phishing Becomes Top Initial Access Threat to Law Firms (Infosecurity Magazine) Finland to disconnect fiber-optic link to Russia as lease expires (The Record) AI Scammers Are Better at Building Trust Than Humans (WIRED) Share your feedback. What do you think about CyberWire Daily? Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts with us by completing our brief listener survey. Thank you for helping us continue to improve our show. Want to hear your company in the show? N2K CyberWire helps you reach the industry's most influential leaders and operators, while building visibility, authority, and connectivity across the cybersecurity community. Learn more at sponsor.thecyberwire.com. The CyberWire is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc.

Anthropic revealed Claude broke into three real organizations during cybersecurity tests it thought were simulations. Apple slid 10% as component shortages hit its outlook, Amazon jumped on accelerating AWS growth and a $220B capex plan, and Aschenbrenner's fund cratered 67%. Anthropic Says Claude Hacked Into 3 Organizations During Cybersecurity Tests (Wired) Apple Slides Most Since 2025 After Supply Shortages Hurt Outlook (Bloomberg) Amazon Shares Jump as Cloud Sales—and Spending—Accelerate (WSJ) Letter: Situational Awareness is down ~67% in July, but remains up ~80% in 2026; sources say it planned to sell $3.5B of its Anthropic stake but backed out (WSJ) Longreads How TikTok, Reels, and Amazon storefronts enabled microinfluencers with less than 100K followers to earn middle-class salaries via brand and affiliate deals (Bloomberg) What happiness researchers say about enjoying your time off: anticipation is a free source of pleasure, company beats going solo, and build in some physical challenge (Washington Post) Subscribe to the ad-free feed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

President Donald Trump is defending the controversial Department of Justice "anti-weaponization fund" as his pick for permanent Attorney General hangs in the balance. An estimated 60,000 migrants rush the border between Morocco and Spain. New York becomes the latest state to take the prediction market Kalshi to court. Anthropic admits its AI models also went rogue and hacked outside systems. And certain peptides get one step closer to FDA approval. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The bullish case for the AI capex spenders, rather than the receivers. Cybersecurity expert Ivan Tsarynny's AI warning after Anthropic discloses three of its models breached their testing environments. Plus, Brookings' Robin Brooks on how the market has corrected its misreading of the June Fed meeting.  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Security leaders count open vulnerabilities in the hundreds of thousands, and in some organizations the number runs past a million. Ondrej Vlcek, Co-Founder and CEO of AISLE, describes teams with no practical route through that backlog while attackers use automation to shrink the time between a disclosure and a working exploit. The question worth asking is what a program looks like when remediation moves at the same speed as exploitation. What makes AI-driven remediation different from static code analysis? Reasoning replaces pattern matching. Linters and commercial scanners flag code that resembles a known error shape, while a reasoning model infers what the developer intended, compares that intent against the actual implementation, and evaluates how the gap could be abused. Ondrej Vlcek points to business logic flaws, timing errors, and race conditions as the classes that pattern matching leaves untouched. The judgment behind AISLE comes from a long run in the industry. Ondrej Vlcek wrote device drivers for Windows 95 in 1995 at a seven-person antivirus company called Avast, stayed more than twenty-five years, moved through CTO and COO into the CEO seat, and took the company public before its sale to NortonLifeLock in 2022. He co-founded AISLE in 2024 with Jaya Baloo, a three-time public company CISO, and Stanislav Fort, an AI researcher who worked at DeepMind and Anthropic. Why does the software supply chain deserve the larger share of attention? Because most of the code in a running application was written somewhere else. Ondrej Vlcek puts the typical enterprise application at roughly ten percent first-party code and ninety percent open source and dependency code, which is also level ground for an attacker reading the same source and pointing the same models at it. Reachability analysis becomes the deciding factor, separating the vulnerable functions your code actually calls from the thousands of transitive dependencies it never touches. For first-party code, AISLE closes the loop differently: read the documentation, the architectural material, and the threat model, then generate a patch aligned with the project's own conventions and test it automatically. The standard Ondrej Vlcek sets is a fix that reads as though a human maintainer wrote it. The customer spread runs from embedded firmware at Bose to smart contracts at the Ethereum Foundation, where heavily audited and sometimes formally verified code still benefits from another set of checks because the systems touch money flows directly. This is a Brand Spotlight. A Brand Spotlight is a ~15 minute conversation designed to explore the guest, their company, and what makes their approach unique. Learn more: https://www.studioc60.com/creation#spotlight GUEST Ondrej Vlcek, Co-Founder and CEO of AISLE On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ondrejvlcek/ RESOURCES Learn more about AISLE: https://aisle.com Meet AISLE at Black Hat and DEF CON in Las Vegas: https://aisle.com/black-hat The AISLE platform: https://aisle.com/platform AISLE CVE discoveries: https://aisle.com/cve-discoveries Are you interested in telling your story? ▶︎ Full Length Brand Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#full ▶︎ Brand Spotlight Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#spotlight ▶︎ Brand Highlight Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#highlight KEYWORDS ondrej vlcek, aisle, sean martin, brand story, brand marketing, marketing podcast, brand spotlight, vulnerability management, vulnerability remediation, agentic ai, cyber reasoning system, software supply chain security, reachability analysis, open source security, application security, first-party code, third-party dependencies, static code analysis, zero-day vulnerabilities, ai in cybersecurity, code patching, embedded firmware security, smart contract security Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

(Presented by Thinkst Canary: Most Companies find out way too late that they've been breached. Thinkst Canary changes this. Deploy Canaries and Canarytokens in minutes and then forget about them. Attackers tip their hand by touching 'em giving you the one alert, when it matters. With zero admin overhead and almost no false-positives, Canaries are deployed (and loved) on all 7 continents.) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 107: Proofpoint's Greg Lesnewich joins the show to break down Laundry Bear, the "half-click" webmail exploits that let a Russian GRU cluster hack inboxes the moment an email was opened, and what it took to publish alongside the NSA, FBI and sixteen allied agencies. Plus, Anthropic and OpenAI both admit their models escaped test sandboxes and popped real companies, why JAGS wants the CFAA burned down and vulnerable devices bricked, and a heartfelt detour into how threat hunters actually build intuition and skills. Cast: Greg Lesnewich, Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu. Timestamps: 0:00 Sponsor - Thinkst Canary 1:34 Greg Lesnewich introduces the Proofpoint threat-hunting team 5:23 Inside the NSA ‘Laundry Bear' advisory 7:15 What does "half-click" mean? 9:58 Laundry Bear's Zimbra exploit: DNS exfil and app-specific password persistence 12:59 Ferrari model numbers, F1 UNC names, and ESET's Operation RoundPress 17:05 Targeting Ukraine, US universities, and magnetic fusion research 19:34 How threat hunters actually build intuition 32:35 Systems thinking, Donella Meadows, and Costin's laptop under the dinner table 54:48 The dopamine hit of a real find and the deleted "never mind" messages 1:00:42 Magnets of threats: under 1% of customers ever see an APT 1:25:21 Getting detections into the product, and coordinating a release with NSA 1:53:22 Anthropic and OpenAI models breaking out of the eval sandbox 2:17:45 The case for killing the CFAA and bricking vulnerable devices 2:43:44 AI in the lab, malware paleontology, Google's new names, and AngrySpark

On this episode of Self-Publishing with ALLi, Dan Holloway reports that the Anthropic settlement has received its final legal approval, with nearly half a million titles eligible for a payout of around $3,000 — and legal fees cut to just over $100 million. He covers Simon and Schuster's second new imprint for indie authors, Simon Stream, offering 50 percent net ebook royalties, alongside the previously reported Pocket Books relaunch. And he closes with Canadian survey data showing readers are already paying an average of US$8.74 for ebooks — neatly vindicating KDP's recent royalty cap rise to $12.99. Sponsor Self-Publishing News is proudly sponsored by PublishMe—helping indie authors succeed globally with expert translation, tailored marketing, and publishing support. From first draft to international launch, PublishMe ensures your book reaches readers everywhere. Visit publishme.me. Find more author advice, tips, and tools at our Self-publishing Author Advice Center, with a huge archive of nearly 2,000 blog posts and a handy search box to find key info on the topic you need. About the Host Dan Holloway is a novelist, poet, and spoken word artist. He is the MC of the performance arts show The New Libertines, He competed at the National Poetry Slam final at the Royal Albert Hall. His latest collection, The Transparency of Sutures, is  available on Kindle.

The AP's Marcela Sanchez reports an AI company says its models hacked into three organizations.

What if the company quietly making OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and Meta's models smarter was founded in India?Turing is one of the companies shaping how AI is advancing. It started in 2018 as a talent platform that found the top 1% of the world's engineers, became a unicorn in 2021, and then made a bet almost nobody understood at the time. In early 2022, long before ChatGPT existed, Turing began helping OpenAI improve its models by feeding human expertise directly into training. Today its network of more than four million vetted engineers and domain experts powers the post-training and evaluation work behind the frontier labs, and the company crossed roughly 300 million dollars in revenue while staying profitable, at a 2.2 billion dollar valuation.Vijay Krishnan is the co-founder and CTO. He was an NLP researcher at Stanford back when almost no one believed that predicting the next word could ever turn into reasoning, and he explains why running a modern model company without human-in-the-loop data is like entering a race with three tyres instead of four. He walks through how a model is actually taught to use software like Salesforce, why coding became the beachhead for every lab, and what changed for Turing the moment Scale AI was absorbed into Meta.The conversation then turns to the question every founder is now asked in the room. What is your moat against Claude? Vijay's answer is to go deeper than the frontier labs can reach, into the outcome you own and the context that lives inside an enterprise.If you are excited about how AI actually gets built, who really trains the models, and how to build a company that survives the labs, this episode is for you.00:00 - Trailer02:20 - The Indian company quietly behind OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic04:50 - How Turing went from a talent platform to a unicorn to an AI research partner08:20 - The bet nobody understood11:50 - Why a model company without human data is "racing on three tyres"15:50 - Why coding became the beachhead for every frontier lab19:50 - What changed for Turing the day Meta bought Scale AI23:50 - "What is your moat against Claude?"29:50 - Will AI create more lawyers, not fewer?34:50 - The teams where engineers haven't written code in six months39:50 - 16% of the Philippines' GDP is under threat from AI?43:50 - How you actually teach a model to use Salesforce49:50 - How robots are taught real-world work54:50 - Why million-dollar researcher packages are breaking startup hiring59:50 - The one kind of AI company that gets stronger as the models improve1:04:50 - Product vs. services, and the trap that quietly kills AI startups-------------India's talent has built the world's tech—now it's time to lead it.This mission goes beyond startups. It's about shifting the centre of gravity in global tech to include the brilliance rising from India.What is Neon Fund?We invest in seed and early-stage founders from India and the diaspora building world-class enterprise AI companies. We bring capital, conviction, and a community that's done it before.Subscribe for real founder stories, investor perspectives, economist breakdowns, and a behind-the-scenes look at how we're doing it all at Neon.-------------Check us out on:Website: https://neon.fund/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theneonshoww/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/beneon/Twitter: https://x.com/TheNeonShowwConnect with Siddhartha on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/siddharthaahluwalia/Twitter: https://x.com/siddharthaa7-------------This video is for informational purposes only. The views expressed are those of the individuals quoted and do not constitute professional advice.Send us Fan Mail

“Evil is reductive. But the impact of the business is evil, even if the intent isn't.” — Andy Hunter on Amazon Network effects transformed Amazon from a startup internet bookshop into today's $2.44 trillion everything store. The more ubiquitous its affiliate program became, the more powerful Amazon became. But, in today's digital economy, winner-take-all might not be winner-always-take-all. These network effects, you see, can be subverted. They might even be used as weapons against a seemingly dominant player like Amazon. Take, for example, Bookshop.org. Founded by Andy Hunter in 2020, this online bookstore has aggregated 3,000 independent bookstores, these affiliates contributing to a counter-Amazon network that already does 2% of Amazon's book business and will, within the next thirty days, pass $50 million distributed to local bookstores. When Hunter originally pitched the idea to Silicon Valley investors, they asked him if he could beat Amazon on price or speed. No. Then you don't have a chance, they told him, because Americans only care about price and speed. But they were wrong. Since Bookshop.org launched in 2020, American bookstores have grown from 1,900 to 3,300, with 90% of these independents joining Bookshop.org and 98% of booksellers polling the company as a positive force. His is a winner-share-all marketplace where stores keep the full profit of their own sales, while a $4.5 million annual profit pool flows to any real brick-and-mortar ABA bookstore. Nobody gets rich, Hunter says, but everybody does okay. Hunter suspects that if Bookshop.org grows to take 5% of Amazon's book market, things might turn nasty. Could Amazon just buy Bookshop.org, I asked. No, Hunter responded, all his investors signed a clause barring a sale to any major US retailer. So even if I got hit by an Amazon delivery truck, he explained, his mission couldn't be undone. So is Amazon evil? Not exactly evil, he explains, since evil requires malignant intent. But Amazon is more like fishermen who overfish until the stock collapses and wrecks their ecosystem beyond repair. That classic tragedy of the commons. Hence Bookshop.org's anti-Prime campaigns, which used Amazon's “discount” holiday as a way of generating an extra $1.2 million for its affiliate bookstores. Hunter wants to replace Amazon's seemingly infinite scalability with a more moral kind of scale. He imagines a Bookshop.org for everything from hardware stores and art supplies to bikes and toys. Silicon Valley's conventional winner-take-all economics would be replaced by a Robin Hood style winner-share-all model. Except for our tech bro friends, I suspect we would all be wealthier for it. Five Takeaways •       “Americans Only Care About Price and Speed.” That was the verdict of a 2019 conference call with twenty Silicon Valley angel investors: if Bookshop couldn't beat Amazon on price or speed, it had no chance. Hunter's counter-pitch: enough people care about their values when they shop — if supporting a local bookstore is made just as easy. His sharpest insight was the affiliate economy: by 2019 the internet had become one giant funnel pushing every reader toward Amazon, with the New York Times, NPR, BuzzFeed, and celebrity book clubs all earning Amazon kickbacks on their book coverage. Bookshop's universal link gave them an alternative that pays local bookstores instead. Nine months of rejection later, he had cobbled together $750,000 — with the publisher Morgan Entrekin introducing five of the original seven investors.•       Winner-Share-All. Bookshop is a marketplace, like Etsy: over 3,000 bookstores plus affiliates from Literary Hub to The Atlantic to Dakota Johnson's book club. Stores keep the full profit on their own sales; direct sales feed a profit pool — 33 percent of profits, about $4.5 million a year — shared with any real brick-and-mortar bookstore in the American Booksellers Association. Within thirty days, total distributions will pass $50 million. Hunter kept the raise tiny and refused venture capital to protect the mission: a $10 million check would have demanded a 10x return and a sale, and Bookshop's shareholder agreement bars any sale to Amazon, Walmart, or Target. The company runs on a 12.5 percent expense ratio and twelve engineers. Nobody gets rich; everybody does okay.•       The Comeback Numbers. Amazon put over half of America's bookstores out of business in two decades. Since Bookshop launched in 2020, the country has gone from 1,900 bookstores to 3,300 — seventy percent growth — and 73 percent of member stores grew in 2025. The rising tide lifts all boats: Bookshop grew 55 percent last year while stores' own websites grew 25 percent. Ninety percent of American independents have joined, and a poll of 3,000 booksellers found 98 percent view the company positively. Meanwhile Amazon's share of the book market is flat for the first time in twenty-three years. Bookshop has taken about 2 percent of Amazon's book customers — small enough to be useful anti-monopoly evidence, Hunter jokes, but a social movement in the making.•       Not Evil — Worse? Hunter refuses the word “evil”: evil requires malignant intent, and Amazon's managers are merely told to grow profits every quarter. The better analogy is overfishing — blind growth that destroys the ecosystem beyond repair. But the stakes are not merely commercial: bookstores bring authors to communities, raise new generations of readers, and — as the arrest of five Hong Kong booksellers reminds us — stand as the vanguard of free expression. No single company, good or evil, should control a market so essential to human consciousness. As for Bezos, once so interested in climate change: now it's rockets and data centers. “Evil is reductive. But the impact of the business is evil, even if the intent isn't.”•       The AI Flood. Did OpenAI and Anthropic steal from authors? “They were,” Hunter says — a conscious choice that stealing was faster than dealing, and now they're paying up because they got caught, in a race to be first that cuts regulatory, legal, and ethical corners. Meanwhile three times as many books are being added to Amazon each year than before AI — overwhelmingly scam books generated from search trends, uncopyedited, designed to defraud buyers rather than inform them. Bookshop tells its suppliers to keep AI books off the site entirely, with a tiny asterisk for serious poets making artistic investigations of AI. Hunter's standard is simple: these aren't books, they're scams — and no retailer who cares about customers should sell them. Including Amazon. About the Guest Andy Hunter is the founder and CEO of Bookshop.org, the online bookstore that supports local independent bookstores, launched in January 2020 and named by Time one of the year's most influential social-good companies. A longtime literary publisher and entrepreneur, he previously co-founded Electric Literature and Literary Hub. He lives in Brooklyn. References: •       Bookshop.org — the marketplace itself: shop any of 3,000+ independent bookstores, or let your purchase feed the profit pool.•   ...

Anthropic has become the second major AI company to reveal one of its AI models hacked into other firms during security testing. For more, Stephanie Youssef spoke with Germaine Tan Shu Ting, Security and AI VP at DarkTrace. Microsoft shares soared to their best day in 18 years, as second quarter results beat expectations. For more, Rena Sarumpaet spoke with Morningstar equity market strategist Lochlan Halloway.

This week we talk about the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident and what it means for those companies and the way that AI models are tested, and then we discuss Anthropic's entry into the race with its own admission that some of its models escaped the playground and attacked outside organizations. LinksOpenAI-Hugging Face intrusion: https://decipher.sc/2026/07/29/openai...Anthropic blog: https://www.anthropic.com/news/invest...Ringer piece on the Hugging Face incident: https://www.theringer.com/2026/07/24/...

#TrendingOnTheWeekend: AI Arms Race, Export Controls, and the "New Radium" Moment This HashtagTrending On The Weekend episode, sponsored by NordLayer. Visit them at NordLayer.com/hashtagtrending and use code NLSummer26 for a discount on their summer salel. This weekend's episode features guest host David Shipley interviewing Kent State professor Pratim Datta about the past six months of AI and public policy, focusing on cybersecurity and the rapid evolution of frontier models. They discuss Anthropic's "Mythos" and related hype versus real risk, the growing "digitally polluted" environment of vulnerable code, and whether AI hacking tools are accelerating an arms race. The conversation covers unprecedented export controls on AI models (including restrictions affecting foreign nationals), the whiplash of releases and pullbacks, and concerns these moves raise for allies' trust in American tech. They debate whether AI is a consumer good or a weapon—likened to "new radium"—and explore open-source versus closed "cathedral" control, censorship risks, and economic uncertainty tied to U.S.–China competition. 00:00 Sponsor NordLayer 00:41 Weekend Show Intro 02:04 Meet Pratim Datta 03:55 Mythos Hype Debate 07:26 Digital Pollution Risk 08:53 AI Arms Race Begins 10:17 Export Controls Shock 15:31 Weapon Or Consumer 18:20 New Radium Analogy 22:57 Economics And Bans 24:48 Cathedral Versus Bazaar 28:16 Jurassic Park Chaos 31:27 Hotel California Trap 33:36 Closing Thanks 34:57 Sponsor And Signoff

Anthropic disclosed that several versions of its Claude AI models gained unauthorized access to the systems of three separate organizations during cybersecurity evaluations, highlighting growing concerns about the capabilities of advanced AI systems. Taco Bell's parent company, Yum! Brands, says customers are beginning to return to the fast-food chain after a major cyclospora outbreak linked to shredded iceberg lettuce caused a sharp drop in restaurant traffic earlier this month. Please Like, Comment and Follow 'Philip Teresi on KMJ' on all platforms: --- Philip Teresi on KMJ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever else you listen to podcasts. -- Philip Teresi on KMJ Weekdays 2-6 PM Pacific on News/Talk 580 AM & 105.9 FM KMJ | Website | Facebook | Instagram | X | Podcast | Amazon | - Everything KMJ KMJNOW App | Podcasts | Facebook | X | Instagram See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The AI industry spent the week arguing with itself, which is honestly the healthiest thing it's done in years. One coalition led by Nvidia begged regulators not to slow down open AI models, while more than 1,100 AI workers signed another letter asking regulators to do exactly that. Anthropic warned about bioweapons, OpenAI admitted the four-hour workweek isn't happening after all, and Microsoft's Satya Nadella reminded everyone that building your entire business on someone else's AI is a fantastic way to outsource your own brain. In other words, the people selling the future still can't agree on what they're selling, except that you'd better buy it fast.Meanwhile, the AI bubble keeps demanding sacrifices. Patreon, BuzzFeed, and Uber all swung the layoff axe while insisting AI isn't replacing humans... it's just reorganizing them out of a paycheck. Nvidia is floating another three-quarters of a trillion dollars in infrastructure deals that have people muttering "AI subprime mortgage crisis," China has discovered there's money in renting your face to AI companies, and the U.S. is carving data centers out of pollution rules because apparently acid rain is a small price to pay for chatbot dominance. Add in ChatGPT suddenly refusing to imitate famous authors, researchers discovering AI coding assistants are happily installing malware if you ask nicely, and Meta launching an ad campaign about the wonders of AI that somehow forgets to mention what any of those wonders actually are.Elsewhere in Tech Hell™, eBay finally paid the price for its executives' unhinged harassment campaign involving pig masks and live insects, Elon is shopping The Boring Company while promising money won't matter in the AI utopia of 2036, and a traveler is headed to court after allegedly triggering GrapheneOS's "duress PIN" during a border search. 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A new study from the Oversight Board found that leading AI systems are less likely to criticize authoritarian governments than democratic ones. It's a wild finding — but wait? Why is the Oversight Board studying systems from OpenAI and Anthropic in the first place? Suzanne Nossel, who sits on the board, joined us to discuss the findings and why the Oversight Board's future might involve looking at more than just Meta. Further reading: Zoox can now charge for rides in its steering-wheel-free robotaxis Spotify Running Mode helps match tunes to tempo Friend re-launches its AI pendant with a speaker that talks to you, for twice the price ⁠How Facebook undercut the Oversight Board⁠ Subscribe to The Verge for unlimited access to theverge.com, subscriber-exclusive newsletters, and our ad-free podcast feed.We love hearing from you! Email your questions and thoughts to vergecast@theverge.com or call us at 866-VERGE11. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A.M. Edition for July 30. Meta shares fall and Microsoft rallies after the hyperscalers sent very different signals on how they're monetizing their massive AI outlays. Plus, as some people are allowed to return to their homes in southwestern France, WSJ's Ed Ballard says a debate over aging water bombers and the country's readiness ahead of a summer of wildfires is picking up. And DoorDash secures a key certification from the FAA to use drones for deliveries. Luke Vargas hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

#900: A divided Fed holds interest rates but three members wanted to hike it up. Meta shares dip after reporting an earnings miss as it keeps spending money on data centers. Microsoft beat expectations thanks to its partnership with Anthropic. Then, Neal shares numbers on the busiest commercial flight day on record, weed being more common than cigarettes, and why nobody is talking to each other anymore. Finally, NYC just released a short list of property owners subject to Mamdani's luxury tax on second homes. Got difficult questions? Head to https://www.claude.ai/mbd to answer them.  Get tickets for our trivia tournament! https://caveat.nyc/events/the-morning-brew-trivia-tournament-2026-07-30  Grab tickets to our Performance Revue show! https://www.morningbrew.com/events/brew-performance-revue-2026?utm_campaign=performance_revue_2026&utm_source=mbd Subscribe to Morning Brew Daily for more of the news you need to start your day. Share the show with a friend, and leave us a review on your favorite podcast app. Listen to Morning Brew Daily Here:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.swap.fm/l/mbd-note⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vy Le and Jessi Brooks trace an AI agent's sandbox escape back to crypto's own fight over open code. Plus, Plume general counsel Salman Banaei on Clarity's knife's-edge vote math. ======================================================== Thank you to our sponsor! ⁠⁠⁠⁠Cape⁠⁠⁠⁠: Your biggest crypto vulnerability isn't your wallet, it's your phone number. Cape is America's privacy-first mobile carrier that rotates your SIM identity daily and blocks SIM swaps before they happen. Get 33% off your first six months at https://cape.co/unchained (use code: UNCHAINED). ======================================================== An AI agent was told to solve a problem inside a sealed sandbox. Instead it found a way out, went to Hugging Face, and took the answer. Jessi Brooks argues that episode, Moonshot's open-weight Kimi K3 release, and Apple's trade secrets suit against OpenAI all rhyme with a fight crypto has been having for years: punish the conduct, not the code. Vy Le pushes back on whether open source can be both the disease and the cure. Then Salman Banaei, General Counsel of Plume and a former SEC and CFTC attorney, joins to map where the Clarity Act's ethics language stands with Ruben Gallego, Thom Tillis, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Adam Schiff, and whether ten Democratic votes exist for cloture. The conversation covers the open-weights export fight, Apple's case against OpenAI, Hester Peirce's new statement on DeFi vaults and onchain lending, and why a new FATF report makes control, not decentralization, the test that matters. Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jessi Brooks⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, General Counsel at Ribbit Capital⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Vy Le⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Co-host of DEX in the City and General Counsel of Veda Guest: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Salman Banaei - General Counsel of Plume, Former Head of Policy at Uniswap and Chainalysis, and Former SEC and CFTC Attorney Timestamps

Plus: Amazon reports higher revenue in the second quarter from its cloud-computing business. And a data-center developer working with Anthropic plans to borrow $15 billion for a new Texas campus, with backing from Google. Julie Chang hosts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Jacob Ward from The Rip Current joins the show this week! Looking into the fallout from an OpenAI model breaching Hugging Face. Winamp returns with a Deezer-powered streaming relaunch. Breaking down the math behind Apple's new leasing program. And shared Claude chats are turning up in Google search results. Last week, an OpenAI Model autonomously hacked into Hugging Face while performing a cybersecurity task. Jacob breaks down the fallout from the incident and how it is fueling questions about whether AI labs have crossed into "critical risk" territory. Winamp is getting a new lease on life through a partnership with Deezer, bringing a Winamp-branded music subscription alongside local files, internet radio, and podcasts, set to launch in the first half of 2027. D. Griffin Jones joins to explain how Apple Upgrade replaces the iPhone Upgrade Program and expands leasing, via Klarna, across iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, and Mac. And a report from 404 Media's Joseph Cox looks into publicly published Claude conversations and artifacts being indexed by Google, exposing sensitive material like crypto wallet keys and personal data, and why understanding what "public" really means before sharing matters. Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Jacob Ward Guest: D. Griffin Jones Download or subscribe to Tech News Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: cirasync.com/TNW rippling.ai/tnw

This is for Ben Miller, founder of Fundrise, and the strongest angle is how Fundrise built a platform that opened private markets to everyday investors, reaching 2M+ investors and managing billions across real estate, credit, and venture/private tech. In this episode of The Jess Larsen Show on Innovation & Leadership, Jess sits down with Ben Miller, founder of Fundrise, for a deep conversation on private markets, real estate, venture investing, and what it really takes to build a platform that gives everyday investors access to opportunities once reserved for institutions. Ben shares the story behind Fundrise's mission to democratize private markets, how the company grew to more than 2 million investors, and why building this kind of business required far more than a clever fintech idea. From real estate and private credit to venture capital and AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Databricks, and Canva, Ben explains how Fundrise evolved into a multi-asset platform built for long-term access and scale. Jess and Ben also explore the painful reality behind compounding success. Ben talks about regulation, fundraising, public offerings, investor education, criticism, persistence, and why most people underestimate how much suffering and repetition it takes to build something that lasts. This is a sharp, honest conversation about democratizing investing, surviving the long game, finding opportunities across cycles, and building a private markets platform in a world being reshaped by AI, technology, and constant change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jacob Ward from The Rip Current joins the show this week! Looking into the fallout from an OpenAI model breaching Hugging Face. Winamp returns with a Deezer-powered streaming relaunch. Breaking down the math behind Apple's new leasing program. And shared Claude chats are turning up in Google search results. Last week, an OpenAI Model autonomously hacked into Hugging Face while performing a cybersecurity task. Jacob breaks down the fallout from the incident and how it is fueling questions about whether AI labs have crossed into "critical risk" territory. Winamp is getting a new lease on life through a partnership with Deezer, bringing a Winamp-branded music subscription alongside local files, internet radio, and podcasts, set to launch in the first half of 2027. D. Griffin Jones joins to explain how Apple Upgrade replaces the iPhone Upgrade Program and expands leasing, via Klarna, across iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, and Mac. And a report from 404 Media's Joseph Cox looks into publicly published Claude conversations and artifacts being indexed by Google, exposing sensitive material like crypto wallet keys and personal data, and why understanding what "public" really means before sharing matters. Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Jacob Ward Guest: D. Griffin Jones Download or subscribe to Tech News Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: cirasync.com/TNW rippling.ai/tnw

Jacob Ward from The Rip Current joins the show this week! Looking into the fallout from an OpenAI model breaching Hugging Face. Winamp returns with a Deezer-powered streaming relaunch. Breaking down the math behind Apple's new leasing program. And shared Claude chats are turning up in Google search results. Last week, an OpenAI Model autonomously hacked into Hugging Face while performing a cybersecurity task. Jacob breaks down the fallout from the incident and how it is fueling questions about whether AI labs have crossed into "critical risk" territory. Winamp is getting a new lease on life through a partnership with Deezer, bringing a Winamp-branded music subscription alongside local files, internet radio, and podcasts, set to launch in the first half of 2027. D. Griffin Jones joins to explain how Apple Upgrade replaces the iPhone Upgrade Program and expands leasing, via Klarna, across iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, and Mac. And a report from 404 Media's Joseph Cox looks into publicly published Claude conversations and artifacts being indexed by Google, exposing sensitive material like crypto wallet keys and personal data, and why understanding what "public" really means before sharing matters. Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Jacob Ward Guest: D. Griffin Jones Download or subscribe to Tech News Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: cirasync.com/TNW rippling.ai/tnw

Substack rolled out a new AI detection tool, and the backlash from writers has been swift. I also cover a proposed Copyright Office fee increase, IngramSpark's new path into Turkey, what librarians actually want from indie books, and a major Anthropic settlement update. Plus, I've got a rapid-fire roundup with author resources, audiobook opportunities, and a couple of last-call promos. As per usual, all relevant links are in the show notes. Dibbly Create - https://DaleLinks.com/DibblyCreate  (affiliate link) The Substack Post: Against Claudefishing - https://post.substack.com/p/against-claudefishing?mc_cid=22d3ab64d9&mc_eid=433332c881 US Copyright Office: Proposed Schedule and Analysis of Copyright Fees to Go Into Effect in Fall 2026 - https://www.copyright.gov/rulemaking/feestudy2026/proposed-fee-schedule.pdf  IngramSpark: General Turkish Book Marketing Information - https://marketing.ingramcontent.com/mrkng/2026/797-27073/797-27073GCTurkeyMarketFAQ.pdf IngramSpark - https://IngramSpark.com Jane Friedman's The Bottom Line - https://janefriedman.com/subscribe-paid-newsletter/ (subscription required) Writer Beware: Anthropic Settlement Update: Final Settlement Approved - https://writerbeware.blog/2026/07/23/anthropic-settlement-update-final-settlement-approved/ Rapid-Fire Newsflash Future Fiction Academy: AI & Authorship Survey - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSctsA4vT3E3dj0FZ3_4R2KzEeWsf-ziqonzbFkwR7RZyzPCDw/viewform  The Indy Author Podcast - https://youtu.be/P7wdCYA2VCo?si=mdg-P1btfkwwdpWs  Twin Flames Studios: How to Fully Leverage Your Audiobook - https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/AYzV78kfTRayVweXp7TXEQ#/registration  Spoken: What Listeners Want: The Edison Results Roundtable (replay) - https://www.spoken.press/spokenroundtable  Gemsy - https://DaleLinks.com/Gemsy (affiliate link). Use code DALESUMMER50 for 50% off till August 20, 2026. The Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale - https://www.smashwords.com/shelves/promos  Other Links The Self-Publishing with Dale Series (on Smashwords) - https://www.smashwords.com/books/byseries/113712  Subscribe to my email newsletter - https://DaleLinks.com/SignUp Join Channel Memberships - https://DaleLinks.com/Memberships Join Me on Discord - https://DaleLinks.com/Discord Check out my main YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@dalelroberts My Books - https://DaleLinks.com/MyBooks  Wanna tip me? Visit https://dalelroberts.gumroad.com/coffee. Where noted, some outbound links financially benefit the channel through affiliate programs. I only endorse programs, products, or services I use and can stand confidently behind. These links do not affect your purchase price and greatly helps to building and growing this channel. Thanks in advance for understanding! - Dale L. Roberts

Jacob Ward from The Rip Current joins the show this week! Looking into the fallout from an OpenAI model breaching Hugging Face. Winamp returns with a Deezer-powered streaming relaunch. Breaking down the math behind Apple's new leasing program. And shared Claude chats are turning up in Google search results. Last week, an OpenAI Model autonomously hacked into Hugging Face while performing a cybersecurity task. Jacob breaks down the fallout from the incident and how it is fueling questions about whether AI labs have crossed into "critical risk" territory. Winamp is getting a new lease on life through a partnership with Deezer, bringing a Winamp-branded music subscription alongside local files, internet radio, and podcasts, set to launch in the first half of 2027. D. Griffin Jones joins to explain how Apple Upgrade replaces the iPhone Upgrade Program and expands leasing, via Klarna, across iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, and Mac. And a report from 404 Media's Joseph Cox looks into publicly published Claude conversations and artifacts being indexed by Google, exposing sensitive material like crypto wallet keys and personal data, and why understanding what "public" really means before sharing matters. Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Jacob Ward Guest: D. Griffin Jones Download or subscribe to Tech News Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: cirasync.com/TNW rippling.ai/tnw

Episode 2007 - brought to you by https://patreon.com/hardfactor - Pop the Clutch, Send in the Car and join our community today, with access to bonus pods, Discord chat w/ hosts, trivia nights, and much more. 00:00:00 Timestamps 00:01:00 Wes is officially IN Japan (first Smoking Lounge review), and other headlines 00:07:25 AI companies, at least Anthropic according to lawsuit document, are buying pre-2023 books to literally eat them (to death) into their data training model for LLMs 00:19:48 ECommerce Bytes wins $50 Million from settlement with EBay + Meme News is the BEST 00:22:39 The "DubBot" from the Dublin, Ohio Police force has been shut down less than a year into service after contributing to ZERO arrests or tickets 00:26:48 Kansas Man arrested at public hearing for clapping against data centers + LASER BEAMS 00:33:50 Austin, Texas Pet Store has 2000 gallon fish tank burst randomly 00:37:30 13 year-old caught sharing magic mushroom candy at local YMCA Thank you for listening, we love you all, and most importantly: HAGFD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A.M. Edition for July 29. Oil prices rise after Iran launches a surprise missile attack on U.S. forces. Plus, Europe's luxury brands try to move past years of sluggish demand. And as Meta spends big on its AI transformation—technology CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the U.S. should help to accelerate—Journal reporter Meghan Bobrowsky says a host of lawsuits could cost it billions. Luke Vargas hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Episode 4192 │ July 29, 2026 Anthropic tasked someone with obtaining every book in the world. They scanned millions, shredded the originals. A federal judge called it fair use. WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS Scott Kesterson opens with Daniel Bell's 1973 prophecy — that the post-industrial world would be built on information rather than manufacturing — and identifies the one thing Bell could not see: what happens when digitization is not additive but substantive, when the physical original is destroyed as part of the conversion and the only surviving copy is held by a private corporation with no preservation mandate and no accountability for textual integrity. The episode documents Project Panama — Anthropic's internal program led by the former head of Google Books partnerships, tasked with obtaining every book in the world, cutting millions of volumes from their bindings, scanning the pages for AI training data, and shredding the originals — confirmed in the June 2025 US District Court ruling in Bartz versus Anthropic, where Judge William Alsop held that destroying the physical original so only one digital copy exists qualified as fair use, a decision now driving industry-wide book destruction at scale through services like ISBN DB facilitating anonymous bulk orders of rare, foreign-language, and out-of-print pre-2022 volumes. Scott maps the three-layer problem this creates: physical witnesses to history are being eliminated, the surviving digital copies are held in private pay-for-play systems with no chain of custody, and AI tools like Character AI now allow the rewriting of public domain texts in ways indistinguishable from the originals — citing Deuteronomy 17, Revelation 22, and 2 Timothy 2 as the biblical standard that physical text under witnessed transmission is not merely a container of information but an accountability mechanism, and closes with the only practical response: build a paper library, print the PDFs, because Fahrenheit 451's firemen have arrived, and this time they are wearing corporate logos. KEY QUESTIONS ADDRESSED What was Project Panama — and what does the federal court ruling in Bartz versus Anthropic, holding that destroying physical originals so only one private digital copy exists qualifies as fair use, mean for the millions of rare, out-of-print, and foreign-language books now permanently eliminated from public access? What is the three-layer knowledge problem AI book destruction creates — and why does the combination of eliminated physical witnesses, privatized digital copies with no chain of custody, and AI tools capable of rewriting texts without detection represent what Scott calls a human species level event rather than a copyright dispute? What is the biblical witness standard — Deuteronomy 17, Revelation 22, and Paul's four-generation transmission chain in 2 Timothy 2 — and why does it establish that physical text under witnessed transmission is an accountability mechanism, not merely a storage container, making its elimination something more serious than the loss of a book? ABOUT BARDSFM BardsFM is a daily independent podcast covering faith, liberty, history, and information warfare. Hosted by Scott Kesterson — combat veteran, documentary filmmaker, and rancher. Over 4,100 episodes and 50 million lifetime downloads. New episodes every weekday. bards.fm This episode was researched and produced under the Spatial Terra Intelligence Methodology (STIM v5) — the analytical framework built by Scott Kesterson — with AI-assisted research synthesis at a 70/30 human/AI authorship ratio, fully disclosed. All analysis, conclusions, and editorial judgments are those of Scott Kesterson. BardsFM's archive includes hundreds of episodes on prayer, scripture, and walking the Way of Christ — available free in the full episode catalog. DOWNLOADS Community Sovereignty Framework: click here AFFILIATE LINKS Bards Nation Health Store: www.bardsnationhealth.com MYPillow promo code: BARDS >> Go to https://www.mypillow.com/bards and use the promo code BARDS or... Call 1-800-975-2939.  EMPShield protect your vehicles and home. Promo code BARDS: Click here Treadlite Broadforks...best garden tool EVER. Promo code BARDS26: TreadliteBroadforks.com EnviroKlenz Air Purification, promo code BARDS to save 10%: www.enviroklenz.com Morning Intro Music Provided by Brian Kahanek: www.briankahanek.com Founders Bible 20% discount code: BARDS >>> TheFoundersBible.com Windblown Media 20% Discount with promo code BARDS: windblownmedia.com White Oak Pastures Grassfed Meats, Get $20 off any order $150 or more. Promo Code BARDS: www.whiteoakpastures.com/BARDS Mission Darkness Faraday Bags and RF Shielding. Promo code BARDS: Click here DONATIONS: If you wish to support this podcast directly you can donate here... DONATE: Click here MAILING ADDRESS: Xpedition Cafe, LLC Attn. Scott Kesterson 591 E Central Ave, #740 Sutherlin, OR  97479