AI in 20

Your weekly AI news podcast. In 20 minutes, get the week's top stories, deeper analysis, and the big picture of the fast-moving world of AI.

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#10
Friday · 19 min
AI in 20 — September 18, 2026
Six packages went up on RubyGems on the twelfth of May, hunting for a security hole that nobody would publicly know about for another two months. They weren't written by a person. And the company that owned the agents that wrote them didn't tell anybody. We found out from three researchers working for free.
#9
September 11 · 16 min
AI in 20 — September 11, 2026
This week, OpenAI said it solved a problem mathematicians have been chewing on for ninety years. Then seven hundred seventy-one mathematicians signed a letter accusing the industry of research misconduct, and inside a day, OpenAI backed down.
#8
August 21 · 17 min
AI in 20 — August 21, 2026
This week, OpenAI told the world it had stopped its biggest training run — because it could not rule out that one of its own models was too dangerous to keep training. Eleven days from now, a Chinese lab plans to publish something that scores higher on the same test. For free. To anyone.
#7
August 14 · 17 min
AI in 20 — August 14, 2026
Two thousand five hundred graduate-level exam questions. One model finished the whole set in eleven hours. Its nearest competitor took three days. Same weights, same intelligence — different silicon. And that was only the third most interesting thing that happened to pricing this week.
#6
August 7 · 17 min
AI in 20 — August 07, 2026
This week, an AI wrote ten mathematical proofs that had gone undone for decades. Then a different AI wrote sixteen viruses from scratch, and scientists built them, and they worked. And the hardest question in AI right now isn't whether machines can create. It's whether anyone can check what they made.
#5
July 31 · 17 min
AI in 20 — July 31, 2026
On Tuesday, OpenAI's escaped agent was the scandal of the week. By Thursday night, Anthropic had gone back through a hundred and forty-one thousand of its own test runs and found three break-ins nobody had noticed — including two companies that had no idea until Anthropic phoned them.
#4
July 17 · 16 min
AI in 20 — July 17, 2026
This week, OpenAI built an artificial intelligence with exactly one job — to break OpenAI's other models. It fired six times more successful attacks than the human experts it replaced. And the only people allowed to grade it work at OpenAI.
#3
July 10 · 13 min
AI in 20 — July 10, 2026
This week, OpenAI shipped a model that beat a game no AI had ever beaten, a voice that talks over you while you think, and an agent that does your job for hours. And the more interesting story was everything that went wrong around it.
#2
July 3 · 14 min
AI in 20 — July 03, 2026
This week, the most valuable AI company on Earth offered to hand the United States government a slice of itself worth forty-two billion dollars. Not a tax. Not a fine. An ownership stake.
#1
June 26 · 15 min
AI in 20 — June 26, 2026
This week, OpenAI did the one thing everybody assumed it would always pay Nvidia to do for it. It built its own chip — from blank page to the factory door in nine months.
#1
June 19 · 15 min
AI in 20 — June 19, 2026
The man who co-invented the technology behind every chatbot you use just quit Google for OpenAI — less than two years after Google paid a reported two-point-seven billion dollars to bring him back.
#3
June 12 · 17 min
AI in 20 — June 12, 2026
This week, the most safety-focused AI lab in the world got caught secretly making its own model worse — but only for its competitors. And then, the very next day, its CEO asked the government for the power to block everyone else's releases.
#2
June 5 · 21 min
AI in 20 — June 05, 2026
This week, Anthropic filed for its IPO at nine hundred sixty-five billion dollars, and on the same day published an essay arguing that artificial intelligence is now meaningfully starting to build the next artificial intelligence. The pitch to investors and the warning to the world arrived in the same envelope.
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May 29 · 21 min
AI in 20 — May 29, 2026
This week, the AI hierarchy visibly reordered. Anthropic closed sixty-five billion dollars at nine hundred sixty-five billion, eclipsing OpenAI as the most valuable private AI company on Earth. Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron joined the cap table. Opus 4.8 shipped the same day. And run-rate revenue hit forty-seven billion, growing five billion a month. Coronation week.

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