DX Today | No-Hype Podcast & News About AI & DX

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  • DX Today AI Daily Brief - Wednesday, July 22, 2026
    DX Today AI Daily Brief - Wednesday, July 22, 2026

    Google ships three new Gemini models and begins its most ambitious pretraining run yet for Gemini 4, while the United States and China prepare their first formal AI talks for September. Beijing weighs export controls on advanced AI models and training data, and Microsoft and Mistral expand their partnership with a multibillion dollar European infrastructure push. Nvidia says Vera Rubin production is ramping at CoreWeave, Google Cloud, Azure and Oracle, Wistron opens its first US plant in Fort Worth to build Nvidia superchips, and TSMC reportedly plans price increases of up to 10 percent in 2027. BlackRock and MGX commit another 5 billion dollars to Aligned Data Centers, optical transceiver maker Zhongji Innolight readies a blockbuster Hong Kong IPO, Anthropic and OpenAI set new lobbying records in Washington, Substack partners with Pangram to let readers scan for AI written text, and Quantinuum and SoftBank publish a joint quantum computing roadmap.

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    #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #Gemini #DataCenters #DXToday
    12 min
  • The Broken Apprenticeship: AI, the 35% Entry-Level Collapse, and the Redesign of Law, Finance, and Consulting - July 21, 2026

    The Broken Apprenticeship: AI, the 35% Entry-Level Collapse, and the Redesign of Law, Finance, and Consulting - July 21, 2026

    A Financial Times analysis this week revealed that professional services firms are not merely shedding junior staff as AI absorbs their work — they are redesigning what an entry-level analyst or associate even is. Chris and Laura dig into the roughly 35% collapse in entry-level postings, McKinsey's AI-fluency interviews built around its Lilli platform, Baker McKenzie's layoffs, PwC's shrinking audit classes, and the looming question of who trains the partner class of 2034.

    Hosted by Chris and Laura.

    The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem.

    #AI #FutureOfWork #AIWorkforce #Consulting #LegalTech

    14 min
  • DX Today AI Daily Brief - Tuesday, July 21, 2026
    DX Today AI Daily Brief - Tuesday, July 21, 2026

    Today's stories: Alibaba previews Qwen3.8 Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter model it claims trails only Anthropic's Fable 5, as China keeps closing the gap with US labs. The infrastructure race accelerates as Hut 8 signs a $9.8 billion AI data center lease in Texas, Molex strikes a $6.3 billion optical fiber deal with Prysmian, and China's Z.AI activates a one gigawatt data center running entirely on domestic chips. Investment keeps flowing: Cambridge startup CuspAI raises $450 million for AI materials discovery with backing from Jeff Bezos, chip challenger Etched courts a $20 billion valuation, and China's CXMT draws frenzied demand for an $8.6 billion memory chip IPO. In life sciences, Bristol Myers Squibb becomes the first drugmaker to deploy Nvidia's next generation Vera Rubin supercomputer, while Tempus AI acquires cancer testing firm Personalis for $1.5 billion. Blackstone bets on physical AI with a majority stake in Korea's Futronic, Samsung cuts hundreds of US jobs as it relocates its headquarters to Texas, and Washington weighs a FINRA style watchdog for frontier AI models.

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    #AINews #AIInfrastructure #Semiconductors #DataCenters #DXToday
    11 min
  • AI Designed Drugs Face Their Reckoning: Isomorphic Labs, Insilico's Phase 3, and Medicine's Make or Break Year - July 20, 2026

    AI Designed Drugs Face Their Reckoning: Isomorphic Labs, Insilico's Phase 3, and Medicine's Make or Break Year

    Two milestones just turned AI drug discovery from promise into a real world test. Isomorphic Labs, the Google DeepMind spinoff built on the AlphaFold lineage, is moving its first AI designed molecules into human oncology trials, while Insilico Medicine has pushed rentosertib, an AI discovered treatment for the lung disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, into a pivotal Phase 3 study. With roughly 60 billion dollars invested since 2019, around 200 AI originated programs in human trials, and still zero FDA approvals, Chris and Laura dig into why 2026 is the year AI designed medicines finally have to prove they actually work.

    Hosted by Chris and Laura.

    The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem.

    #AI #DrugDiscovery #AlphaFold #Biotech #ClinicalTrials

    14 min
  • DX Today AI Daily Brief - Monday, July 20, 2026
    DX Today AI Daily Brief - Monday, July 20, 2026

    Today's briefing: Alibaba unveils Qwen 3.8, a 2.4-trillion-parameter model headed for open-weight release; the European Commission orders Google to open Android to rival AI assistants and share search data; China's Moonshot AI preps a Hong Kong IPO as revenue surges past $300M; TSMC pledges another $100 billion for Arizona; Anthropic's free access to Claude Fable 5 ends, ushering in a credits era; SAP completes its billion-euro Prior Labs acquisition to bet on tabular AI; the White House's David Sacks warns the US could lose the AI race after Kimi K3; Nvidia's Nemotron 3 Embed tops a retrieval leaderboard; AGIBOT debuts its A3 Ultra humanoid; the World AI Conference closes in Shanghai as the new WAICO bloc takes shape; Nubia reveals an agentic AI phone with no app grid; and Japan's Noetra consortium builds a sovereign AI stack on Nvidia chips.

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    #AINews #OpenSourceAI #Semiconductors #Robotics #DXToday
    11 min
  • Inkling Arrives: Mira Murati's 975 Billion Parameter Open Weight Bet Against One Size Fits All AI - July 19, 2026

    Inkling Arrives: Mira Murati's 975 Billion Parameter Open Weight Bet Against One Size Fits All AI - July 19, 2026

    Thinking Machines Lab, the startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has released Inkling, a 975 billion parameter mixture of experts model whose weights anyone can download, customize, and own. Rick Spair and Laura dig into the architecture, the Bridgewater fine tuning result that beat top proprietary models, the business model behind giving a frontier model away, and what an American open weight contender means in a race Chinese labs have been winning.

    Hosted by Rick Spair and Laura.

    The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem.

    #AI #OpenWeightAI #MiraMurati #ThinkingMachines #TechNews

    14 min
  • DX Today AI Daily Brief - Sunday, July 19, 2026
    DX Today AI Daily Brief - Sunday, July 19, 2026

    In today's briefing: Microsoft prepares Project Perception, a multi model security tool drawing on Anthropic, OpenAI, and Microsoft models. Moonshot AI adds three reasoning effort levels to Kimi K3 on web and mobile. Japan and NVIDIA launch the world's first national AI infrastructure for physical AI with a Vera Rubin AI factory in Tokyo. Protesters rally in more than 125 US locations in the first coordinated national demonstration against the data center buildout. At the World AI Conference in Shanghai, AGIBOT debuts four robots led by the A3 Ultra humanoid, KEENON shows humanoids working complete laundry workflows, Unitree unveils its unmanned robot factory, and Huawei gives the public a first look at the Atlas 950 SuperPod. A suspect in the attack targeting Sam Altman's home is held without bail as threats against AI executives surge. Free access to Claude Fable 5 ends tonight before the model joins paid tiers Monday. Apple closes the week as the world's most valuable company. And SpaceX AI opens its Grok Build coding harness to public audit after a codebase upload controversy.

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    #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #Robotics #DataCenters #DXToday
    13 min
  • The Shanghai Counterweight: China's 29 Nation WAICO Alliance and the Two Futures of Global AI Governance - July 18, 2026
    The Shanghai Counterweight: China's 29 Nation WAICO Alliance and the Two Futures of Global AI Governance - July 18, 2026
    Chris and Laura go deep on the launch of the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization, the 29 nation alliance China unveiled in Shanghai with Xi Jinping framing open source models as a public good for the Global South. They unpack the founding membership, the pledge of 5,000 AI training spots for developing countries, and what a world with two competing AI governance frameworks means for everyone else.
    Hosted by Chris and Laura.
    The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem.
    #AI #WAICO #AIGovernance #China #GlobalSouth
    14 min
  • DX Today AI Daily Brief - Saturday, July 18, 2026
    DX Today AI Daily Brief - Saturday, July 18, 2026

    China's Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, the largest open weight model ever published, as Xi Jinping delivers his first keynote at the World AI Conference in Shanghai. Apple overtakes Nvidia to reclaim the title of world's most valuable company while semiconductor stocks sell off on AI spending concerns. Alphabet extends its slide as Gemini 3.5 Pro misses its rumored launch date, and Netflix reveals generative AI touched roughly 300 titles. Meta hires senior AWS executive Dave Brown for its AI infrastructure push, Microsoft preps its multi model Project Perception security tool, and Apple escalates its trade secrets fight with legal warnings to 40 former employees now at OpenAI. Plus, San Francisco orders Apple and Google to remove AI nudify apps, Huawei showcases its Atlas 950 SuperPoD in Shanghai, and 400 developers gather in Silicon Valley for a voice AI travel hackathon.

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    #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #OpenSourceAI #WAIC #DXToday
    13 min
  • Gemini 3.5 Pro Goes Live: Two Million Tokens of Context, Deep Think Reasoning, and Google's Bid to Own AI Memory - July 17, 2026
    Gemini 3.5 Pro Goes Live: Two Million Tokens of Context, Deep Think Reasoning, and Google's Bid to Own AI Memory - July 17, 2026
    Google DeepMind pushes Gemini 3.5 Pro to general availability with a two million token context window, the largest in production anywhere, plus Deep Think extended reasoning on the Ultra tier and autonomous workflow capabilities that break big jobs into subtasks. Chris and Laura dig into what it means for pricing, the efficiency versus scale battle with OpenAI, and why the launch landing on the opening day of the Shanghai World AI Conference is no accident.
    Hosted by Chris and Laura.
    The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem.
    #AI #Google #Gemini #DeepThink #AgenticAI
    12 min

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