Barely Possible

[Barely Possible 2026-06-11]

Today's episode:

• A German court ruled against Google AI Overviews, saying AI isn't necessary to search—a precedent that could gut the AI search business.

• A Florida man is suing police after a facial recognition "93% match" led to his arrest, with contradicting evidence ignored.

• The most AI-pilled firms now spend ~$7,500 per employee per month on AI tooling, per Ramp's AI Index—nearing salary territory.

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Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-06-11/podcast-episode-2026-06-11.txt | Notes: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-06-11/2026-06-11-notes.md

[Barely Possible 2026-06-10]

Today's episode:

• Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5, the safety-wrapped public version of its internal frontier engine, Mythos.

• On Cognition's FrontierCode Diamond set, Opus 4.8 hit just 13.4% and GPT-5.5 6.3% on "would a maintainer merge this?"

• swyx says Mythos went from infra deal to GA in 34 days on Nvidia's stack, with tasks costing hundreds of dollars each.

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Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-06-10/podcast-episode-2026-06-10.txt | Notes: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-06-10/2026-06-10-notes.md

[Barely Possible 2026-06-09]

Today's episode:

• 73 Microsoft-linked packages carry a self-replicating credential stealer that fires when an AI coding agent opens them—not a human.

• The worm rides your agent's GitHub tokens to spread; Microsoft pulled dozens of Azure and AI tool repos after the hack.

• Apple's new "Siri AI" runs on a two-tiered, Google-powered model overhaul—frontier capability isn't in Cupertino.

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Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-06-09/podcast-episode-2026-06-09.txt | Notes: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-06-09/2026-06-09-notes.md

[Barely Possible 2026-06-08]

Today's episode:

• A school shooting survivor is suing an AI gun-detection firm after the computer vision system failed to spot the weapon (via Ars...

• The accuracy your sales team advertises becomes the accuracy you're liable for when the missed 4% walks through the door.

• Anthony Ha's "Tokenpocalypse" piece ties coming price hikes to AI labs cleaning up unit economics ahead of IPOs.

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Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-06-08/podcast-episode-2026-06-08.txt | Notes: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-06-08/2026-06-08-notes.md

[Barely Possible 2026-06-07]

Today's episode:

• Bernhard Hauser gave an autonomous AI agent its own computer—and argues the seat-based SaaS model dies when the user is a machine.

• Trump says the administration might take an equity stake in OpenAI; Bernie Sanders floated government owning half of major AI labs.

• Reid Hoffman is leaving Microsoft's board to go "founder mode" with Manus, and Sriram Krishnan exits as White House AI advisor.

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

[Barely Possible 2026-06-06]

Today's episode:

• Google is paying SpaceX $920M/month for compute, calling it "unexpected demand" from its newly launched AI products (Sean O'Kane...

• The S&P 500 rejected SpaceX over its profitability rule, slamming the same on-ramp shut for OpenAI and Anthropic (Jeremy Hsu, Ars Technica).

• Labs pulled $200/month flat plans from enterprises like Uber and Brex—now full API token pricing, per Simon Willison.

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

[Barely Possible 2026-06-05]

Today's episode:

• A San Francisco burglar used a Waymo robotaxi as a getaway car for a lululemon heist—and the footage didn't get him caught.

• Columbia admits its breach hit people with no connection to the school, exposing SSNs of total strangers.

• AT&T and Verizon lost 8–1 at the Supreme Court over FCC fines for selling customer location data.

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Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-06-05/podcast-episode-2026-06-05.txt | Notes: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-06-05/2026-06-05-notes.md

[Barely Possible 2026-06-04]

Today's episode:

• Uber caps coding agents at $1,500/month per employee per tool — $18k/year per seat that Simon Willison reads as a value tell.

• Anthropic launched a Services Track and Partner Hub to formalize the integrators wiring Claude into big enterprises.

• Anthropic mapped a year of AI-enabled cyber threats onto MITRE ATT&CK, the defender's standard attacker taxonomy.

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Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-06-04/podcast-episode-2026-06-04.txt | Notes: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-06-04/2026-06-04-notes.md

[Barely Possible 2026-06-03]

Today's episode:

• swyx: Mustafa Suleyman built a "neolab" inside Microsoft in 2 years, all models near-SOTA, controlled chip to model to harness.

• Anthropic expands Project Glasswing days after its confidential S-1 and $65B Series H near a $1T valuation.

• Meta open-sourced RCCLX to make AMD GPUs talk better—a quiet bet against Nvidia owning the data center.

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Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-06-03/podcast-episode-2026-06-03.txt | Notes: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-06-03/2026-06-03-notes.md

[Barely Possible 2026-06-02]

Today's episode:

• Anthropic confidentially filed a draft S-1 with the SEC, days after closing its $65B Series H at a ~$965B valuation.

• KPMG, with 276,000+ employees, is integrating Claude across its core business as Anthropic opens offices in Milan and Seoul.

• Google's AI Mode is reshaping U.S. search, answering longer queries directly and squeezing the traffic builders depend on.

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Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-06-02/podcast-episode-2026-06-02.txt | Notes: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-06-02/2026-06-02-notes.md