OpenAI and Anthropic simultaneously launched Palantir-style consulting arms—$11.5B raised to embed engineers inside enterprises. The White House is weighing a regulatory reversal driven by national security fears around AI hacking capabilities.

Source episodes:

- What an AI-designed car looks like (The Vergecast) https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/257/traffic.megaphone.fm/VMP3908052139.mp3?updated=1777925527

- Claude BROKE Wall Street Overnight... (Wes Roth) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzVhPTSNWnE

- GPT-5.5 VERIFIED Opus 4.7: A Pi Coding Agent That REVIEWS Like YOU (Indy Dev Dan) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnXKysJNz_8

- Why OpenAI and Anthropic Are Becoming Consultants (The AI Daily Brief) https://anchor.fm/s/f7cac464/podcast/play/119541750/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-5%2F423549447-44100-2-8f38fa4b802.mp3

Software engineering job postings up 18% even as AI doom narratives peak — Jevons' Paradox and real labor data are rewriting the displacement thesis. Codex runs 14-hour unattended sessions; Stripe built a live design-system MCP to stop getting 'Blurple Slop.'

Source episodes:

- Is AI Doom Going Out of Style? (The AI Daily Brief) https://anchor.fm/s/f7cac464/podcast/play/119477213/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-4%2F423457255-44100-2-fe6b9de1ef78c.mp3

- The Codex Feature Everyone's Obsessed With (RAmjad) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p88mkfPkOZc

- The internal AI tool that's transforming how Stripe designs products | Owen Williams (How I AI) https://anchor.fm/s/1035b1568/podcast/play/119195462/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-3-30%2F423229381-44100-2-2f32a32aa9cde.mp3

- STOP Paying for Claude Code, Use Codex Instead (Robin) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgK1TE_OM1A

A math professor cracked a 42-year open problem in 12 hours with ChatGPT — after 40 solo hours of failure. AI agents are now replicating workers, not just assisting: the infinite backlog just became your immediate to-do list.

Source episodes:

- What happens now that AI is good at math? — the OpenAI Podcast Ep. 17 (OpenAI) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-TVwv6wtGQ

- Why Agents Make Every Job a Startup (The AI Daily Brief) https://anchor.fm/s/f7cac464/podcast/play/119405321/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-3%2F423360033-44100-2-c575d9afb184.mp3

- The Week AI Grew Up (The AI Daily Brief) https://anchor.fm/s/f7cac464/podcast/play/119353351/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-1%2F423292374-44100-2-592667a340f63.mp3

- Stripe's AI Agents Can Spend Your Money — And Spotify's War on Slop (Department of Product) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkZLOc4o8X0

Aronson's collaborators now estimate fault-tolerant quantum computers will break today's encryption by 2029—and years of archived traffic are already at risk. The White House blocked Claude Mythos expansion, citing national security. DeepSeek reshapes visual reasoning at a fraction of current costs.

Source episodes:

- I Made Presentations Using Every AI. This is the Best One By Far! (The AI Advantage) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOHnK_qLu8Q

- AI News: 18 Breaking Stories You Missed This Week (Matt Wolfe) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDI4odijz44

- US wants Claude all to itself... because it's "TOO DANGEROUS" (Wes Roth) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quCJwkDAx0g

- AI just killed Crypto... (Wes Roth) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMJb-_uL6lQ

- DeepSeek Just Killed Visual Reasoning (And It's 10× Cheaper) (Engineer Prompt) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=315Xn6h_e_4

Musk's first week on the stand produced yelling under cross-exam, a four-page doc he claims he skimmed, and an on-record admission that xAI distilled OpenAI's models. OpenAI's $50B Amazon deal is a direct play against Anthropic's cloud anchor.

Source episodes:

- OpenAI Codex Can Now Use Your Computer! (Full Breakdown + Testing) (The AI Advantage) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7l2XkgkyxE

- Elon Musk had a bad week in court (The Vergecast) https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/257/traffic.megaphone.fm/VMP8245730988.mp3?updated=1777598185

- OpenAI's Big Reset + A.I. in the Doctor's Office + Talkie, a pre-1930s LLM (Hard Fork) https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pfx.vpixl.com/6qj4J/pscrb.fm/rss/p/nyt.simplecastaudio.com/3e43d072-f8a5-430f-bc8e-4c70aafdf3c7/episodes/f3aaf1b4-9b7f-4c31-8c88-3d2e64568115/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=3e43d072-f8a5-430f-bc8e-4c70aafdf3c7&awEpisodeId=f3aaf1b4-9b7f-4c31-8c88-3d2e64568115&feed=6HKOhNgS

- Build Hour: Workspace agents in ChatGPT (OpenAI) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kktBVmjA19A

DeepSeek V4 arrives with 1.6T parameters but only 27% the compute cost of V3, now the strongest open-weight option for agentic workloads. Google Cloud grew 63% YoY as Sundar Pichai declared AI the primary cloud growth driver for the first time.

Source episodes:

- 40+ INSANE Ways To Use ChatGPT Image (For FREE) (Matt Wolfe) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u_T68P9H_U

- Let's chat about Valve's Steam Controller (The Engadget Podcast) https://injector.simplecastaudio.com/d3dc597c-2303-4fd3-8d9f-9066bd1aaa52/episodes/d3dfd7e0-e469-4a48-ba8d-49b845977076/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=d3dc597c-2303-4fd3-8d9f-9066bd1aaa52&awEpisodeId=d3dfd7e0-e469-4a48-ba8d-49b845977076&feed=GyJnPUxL

- How Harness-as-a-Service Will Change Agents (The AI Daily Brief) https://anchor.fm/s/f7cac464/podcast/play/119301935/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-3-30%2F423220216-44100-2-a4431219fe598.mp3

- DeepSeek Just Did It Again (Engineer Prompt) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3f35QQSLqE

A Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's gate signals AI-directed violence is escalating beyond online rage. Polls show 41% of young Americans find killing a CEO acceptable. Plus: OpenAI targets life sciences and harness engineering unpacked.

Source episodes:

- Allbirds is AI now (The Engadget Podcast) https://injector.simplecastaudio.com/d3dc597c-2303-4fd3-8d9f-9066bd1aaa52/episodes/4b18d75d-a86c-4ac5-a588-71e5f50f67d5/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=d3dc597c-2303-4fd3-8d9f-9066bd1aaa52&awEpisodeId=4b18d75d-a86c-4ac5-a588-71e5f50f67d5&feed=GyJnPUxL

- Episode 16 - Building AI for Life Sciences (Open AI podcast) https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68470ba8d911dedd6501609c/e/69e058f1501ebe6715da3c65/media.mp3

- AI Populism Turns Violent (The AI Daily Brief) https://anchor.fm/s/f7cac464/podcast/play/118473507/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-3-15%2F422094145-44100-2-5f2984c00c24f.mp3

- Harness Engineering 101 (The AI Daily Brief) https://anchor.fm/s/f7cac464/podcast/play/118369806/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-3-13%2F421955000-44100-2-1bd967633a8ec.mp3