Barely Possible

[Barely Possible 2026-07-12]

Today's episode:

• Phia, Phoebe Gates' shopping startup, is accused in a Bloomberg probe of "cookie stuffing" — taking affiliate credit for sales it...

• Meta pulled an Instagram AI feature that referenced users' public content by default, admitting it "missed the mark."

• George Hotz's 2040 AI essay splits the future into three bets: capability, cost, and the boring physical world — power, chips, fabs.

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Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-07-12/podcast-episode-2026-07-12.txt | Notes: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-07-12/2026-07-12-notes.md

[Barely Possible 2026-07-11]

Today's episode:

• Apple sued OpenAI for trade-secret theft, alleging senior leadership directed a long-time ex-Apple employee to take secrets.

• UST is wiring Anthropic's Claude into physical AI, putting a frontier model behind factory-floor machines that actually move.

• Netflix is reportedly planning "always-on" 24/7 live channels amid signs of slowing engagement.

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Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-07-11/podcast-episode-2026-07-11.txt | Notes: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-07-11/2026-07-11-notes.md

[Barely Possible 2026-07-10]

Today's episode:

• NYT and news publishers filed a sanctions motion accusing OpenAI of hiding/deleting ChatGPT logs and faking an inability to search...

• Altman debuted GPT-5.6 plus ChatGPT Work, a desktop app, and hosted sites—OpenAI's play for the enterprise knowledge layer against...

• OpenAI is sunsetting its Atlas browser after under a year, folding agentic browsing into the desktop app and a Chrome extension.

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Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-07-10/podcast-episode-2026-07-10.txt | Notes: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-07-10/2026-07-10-notes.md

[Barely Possible 2026-07-09]

Today's episode:

• Here's what actually happened, per the reporting: the Waymo stopped, called 911 itself, and sat there and waited for the San Mateo...

• The CEO's argument, laid out in the piece, is that models like ChatGPT and Claude are genuinely great at text.

• General Intuition thinks gaming data is the training set for physical AI — for robots — and that if you feed a foundation model enough...

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Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-07-09/podcast-episode-2026-07-09.txt | Notes: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-07-09/2026-07-09-notes.md

[Barely Possible 2026-07-08]

Today's episode:

• DeepSeek plans its own chips to cut dependence on Nvidia AND Huawei—independence from its own national champion.

• Microsoft joins the AI cost-cutting trend, leaning on in-house models over premium frontier calls for the boring 80%.

• A Discord bug banned hundreds of users for posting perfectly innocent pictures.

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Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-07-08/podcast-episode-2026-07-08.txt | Notes: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-07-08/2026-07-08-notes.md

[Barely Possible 2026-07-07]

Today's episode:

• Anthropic embedded a secret Claude tracker on Chinese users; an engineer called it an "experiment" that's now over.

• Alibaba banned Claude Code as high-risk with "backdoor risks," days after Anthropic accused it of distilling Claude.

• Microsoft cut ~4,800 jobs (2.1%), closing 5 studios and shedding 3,200 in gaming under an "AI replacing jobs" framing.

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Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-07-07/podcast-episode-2026-07-07b.txt | Notes: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-07-07/2026-07-07-notesb.md

[Barely Possible 2026-07-06]

Today's episode:

• Nearly a million wallets lost a combined $3.8B on the TRUMP memecoin while Trump himself cleared $636M, per Anthony Ha's analysis.

• Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk to new customers, ending the 2005 crowd-labor era that trained much of modern AI.

• Bending Spoons, the little-known owner of AOL and Vimeo, just went public as ~90 new unicorns minted in six months.

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Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-07-06/podcast-episode-2026-07-06.txt | Notes: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-07-06/2026-07-06-notes.md

[Barely Possible 2026-07-05]

Today's episode:

• Alibaba classified Anthropic's Claude Code as high-risk software and banned employees from using the terminal-based coding agent.

• Cursor IDE sandbox bypass flaws turn prompt injection into remote code execution; Sysdig reports agent-driven ransomware extorting...

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Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-07-05/podcast-episode-2026-07-05c.txt | Notes: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-07-05/2026-07-05-notesb.md

[Barely Possible 2026-07-04]

Today's episode:

• Zuckerberg told Meta staff internally that AI agents haven't progressed as fast as he hoped — after nine-figure talent poaches.

• True Anomaly and Rocket Lab are flying Top Gun-style orbital satellite fly-bys for the US Space Force.

• A freelance-quality benchmark hit 16% professional-grade work, up 4x in under 8 months — meaning humans still cover 84%.

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Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-07-04/podcast-episode-2026-07-04.txt | Notes: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-07-04/2026-07-04-notes.md

[Barely Possible 2026-07-03]

Today's episode:

• Jersey Mike's, a sandwich chain, name-dropped AI in its IPO filing — a clean signal the hype curve has topped out.

• OpenAI floated handing a US sovereign wealth fund 5% equity, roughly $42B, to buy political goodwill.

• Google lost its EU appeal and must pay $4.7B over bundling Chrome and search with Android.

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Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-07-03/podcast-episode-2026-07-03.txt | Notes: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-07-03/2026-07-03-notes.md