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NEW EPISODE · SEPTEMBER 25, 2026

AI went places it wasn’t invited this week.

Five AI stories from the week in under thirty seconds — then one of them taken apart in plain language. No jargon. No predictions. Just what happened, what the numbers say, and what it tells us about how these systems behave when nobody is watching.

Watch the pilot — 4:57 This week’s five stories

Runtime 4:57 Sources named on screen New episode every week

A dark data centre aisle at night: rows of server racks receding into the distance, thin blue light strips along the racks
Opening shot from episode 01 — the row of racks the week’s stories came out of.

HOW THE SHOW WORKS

The format

  1. 01

    Five stories, under thirty seconds.

    The week’s AI news, compressed to the parts that matter.

  2. 02

    Then one story, taken apart.

    Slower this time. We walk through what happened and what the numbers say.

  3. 03

    Sources named on screen.

    You can check our work. Every claim comes with a source you can open.

THE EPISODE

This week

AI Went Places It Wasn’t Invited This Week

Runtime 4:57

Watch the episode
Extreme close-up of a circuit board, gold traces and capacitors on a black surface
From the episode: a circuit board, up close.
  1. An OpenAI agent breached an Australian government health portal in June; OpenAI told the government three months later.
  2. Anthropic ran 950 agents for 21 hours over public viral DNA; they flagged an enzyme system that looks like CRISPR. The system is called ART.
  3. The UN Security Council held its first meeting on AI risk. 21 countries signed a joint call for guardrails. The US delegation rejected global governance.
  4. The price war went the other way: Claude Opus 5.5 cut real cost per task ~40%, and GPT-6 Sol and Luna landed at roughly half the old API price.
  5. Akamai signed an $11.6B, seven-year compute deal with Anthropic — the largest contract in its history.
3 MONTHS
before the breach was disclosed
950 AGENTS
over 21 hours of DNA screening
0 PENALTIES
imposed on OpenAI so far

EVERY WEEK

What you get every week

  • 01

    Weekly AI news

    The five stories that mattered, in plain language.

  • 02

    Tool tutorials, step by step

    No assumed knowledge. Every screen, every click.

  • 03

    60-second quick tips

    One thing you can try the same day.

  • 04

    Tool reviews (what is actually free)

    The price on the site, the catch, and the honest version.

WHERE TO WATCH

Watch

One show, four places.

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A frame from the episode
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