Show Notes
Every morning, Liam and Heart break down the biggest AI news of the last 24 hours — with wit, context, and just the right amount of sarcasm.
In today's episode:
🤖 Z.AI releases GLM-5.1 — a 754B parameter open-source model that beats Claude Opus 4 in agent benchmarks and runs autonomously for 8 hours. Open source is back in the game. Source
⚡ US power demand hits record highs because of AI — EIA forecasts record consumption for 2026 and 2027, driven by AI datacenters. What could go wrong. Source
⚖️ Musk wants Altman and Brockman out — new motion in his OpenAI lawsuit demanding Sam Altman and Greg Brockman be removed as officers. The feud reaches round 47. Source
🏗️ Anthropic expands its compute deal with Google and Broadcom to 3.5 gigawatts starting 2027, while revenue jumps above $30B. Compute war, day 1,284. Source
🕵️ Anthropic hires Microsoft's Eric Boyd — former president of Microsoft AI Platform takes over infrastructure at Anthropic. Microsoft is bleeding talent. Source
🛡️ Claude Mythos Preview for cybersecurity — Anthropic launches a new model under "Project Glasswing" for defensive cybersecurity. Partnered with NVIDIA, Google, and AWS. Access heavily restricted. Source
🚕 Uber bets on Amazon's custom AI chips — expanding its AWS contract to use Amazon's custom silicon for model training. Oracle and Google watching from the sidelines. Source
🔩 Intel joins Musk's Terafab project — joining SpaceX and Tesla in the planned Texas chip fab for humanoids and datacenters. "Ambitious" is putting it mildly. Source
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