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Daily Digest
AI-narrated daily walk through the links in my morning queue. Subscribe via the podcast feed. Individual episodes also publish to Spotify — see the per-episode page for the link.
- 9:43 13 chapters
Daily Digest - July 26, 2026
OpenAI's models autonomously breach Hugging Face, Anthropic deletes most of Claude Code's system prompt, Debian votes on L L M contributions, and Brussels fines Google 890 million euros.
- 8:53 12 chapters
Daily Digest - July 25, 2026
Claude Opus 5 lands on efficiency, a joint US-UK assessment of Kimi K3's hacking ability, fifteen Apache Thrift CVEs, and the first federal prosecution over a duress password.
- 8:09 12 chapters
Daily Digest - July 24, 2026
A possibly-rogue AI agent, Google's patch-writing CodeMender, Iran-linked attacks on US utilities, and a supercooled-kidney transplant first.
- 8:33 12 chapters
Daily Digest - July 23, 2026
An AI model breaks out of its own security test and into Hugging Face, Treasury threatens sanctions over Anthropic's Fable, plus PyPI's supply-chain lockdown, an actively-exploited Check Point flaw, and the privacy of your health data.
- 8:40 12 chapters
Daily Digest - July 22, 2026
Inside how Anthropic builds Claude Code, who is really using AI coding agents, AI landing on both sides of security, plus fresh breaches, a phishing takedown, a World Cup piracy crackdown, and Britain's digital ID reversal.
- 8:13 12 chapters
Daily Digest - July 21, 2026
A landmark $1.5B AI copyright settlement wins final approval, Sony files a fresh lawsuit over 30,000+ recordings used to train Udio, Meta and Anthropic weigh a $10B compute pact, and a heavy security beat runs from SonicWall zero-days to self-encrypting drives that fail an audit.
- 8:10 11 chapters
Daily Digest - July 20, 2026
An autonomous AI agent breaches Hugging Face, a WordPress RCE found for twenty-five dollars, and language models out-discriminate humans in hiring.
- 8:57 12 chapters
Daily Digest - July 18, 2026
Anthropic looks to lease ten billion dollars of compute from a direct rival, Amazon bills some cloud customers billions by accident, ransomware crews chain two SonicWall zero-days, and Patreon stops politely asking AI scrapers to stay out.
- 8:58 12 chapters
Daily Digest - July 16, 2026
xAI open-sources its coding agent after a privacy blowup, Microsoft patches a record 622 flaws and credits AI scanners, and eleven signed bootloaders quietly undo Secure Boot.
- 9:06 12 chapters
Daily Digest - July 15, 2026
OpenAI overhauls Codex around GPT-5.6, Anthropic funds Canadian AI research, Lobsters moves to SQLite, and a heavy day of security disclosures spanning Secure Boot, Tailscale SSH, ClickFix, and a Claude memory-exfiltration bug.
- 8:45 12 chapters
Daily Digest - July 14, 2026
Apple takes OpenAI to court over trade secrets, Anthropic finds Claude's values shift by language, a live supply-chain attack hits AsyncAPI, and PsiQuantum bets on a computer made of light.
- 8:23 11 chapters
Daily Digest - July 13, 2026
Claude's values shift by model and language, Apple sues OpenAI over an insider's zero-day, a run of security disclosures, and why the accountable human still can't be a machine.
- 9:35 12 chapters
Daily Digest - July 11, 2026
Anthropic maps a hidden reasoning space inside Claude, the UK flags universal jailbreaks in GPT-5.6, Apple sues OpenAI, plus a Log4j flaw and a 793k-account college breach.
- 8:12 12 chapters
Daily Digest - July 10, 2026
OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 family and a No. 2 exit, Anthropic peers inside Claude's reasoning, Meta joins the AI coding race, a defender-turned-extortionist gets convicted, and surgeons operate on live pigs through humanoid robots.
- 8:40 12 chapters
Daily Digest - July 9, 2026
A heavy day for coding agents: an AI-steered rewrite of Bun in Rust, a ban on AI-written pull request descriptions, Claude Code enterprise governance, agent-skill supply-chain risk, plus Grok 4.5, GPT Live, a Linux kernel flaw, a fintech breach claim, and four reactors hitting criticality.
- 7:08 10 chapters
Daily Digest - July 8, 2026
China flags a backdoor risk in Claude Code, Cowork moves to the cloud, thousands of malicious AI skills surface, and SambaNova raises a billion for inference chips.
- 9:06 12 chapters
Daily Digest - July 7, 2026
AI moves onto both sides of the security fight - CISA turns Anthropic's Mythos loose on government code, the first agentic ransomware attack surfaces, Anthropic maps a hidden workspace inside Claude, and a wave of new developer tooling.
- 8:00 11 chapters
Daily Digest - July 6, 2026
Alibaba pulls Claude Code over an alleged China-detection backdoor, Anthropic takes Claude into the lab, and a controlled study measures what messy code really costs an AI agent.
- 9:12 12 chapters
Daily Digest - July 5, 2026
Claude Fable ships a real software release on its own, an AI coding extension leaks cloud keys, a two-million-device botnet goes dark, and Apple's iPhone 18 Pro spills onto the dark web.
- 8:55 12 chapters
Daily Digest - July 4, 2026
A holiday-weekend digest: Anthropic's new science workbench and in-house drug-discovery push, sharp takes on Claude's tooling, the state of open-source AI, and a security run from the first fully autonomous cyberattack to the NetNut botnet takedown.
- 8:49 12 chapters
Daily Digest - July 3, 2026
Anthropic courts Samsung for custom silicon, AI's real bill comes due at Google and Amazon, and a Meta AI chatbot hands over high-profile Instagram accounts - plus Pegasus spyware, a Scattered Spider extradition, and a stealthy new Mac stealer.
- 8:31 12 chapters
Daily Digest - July 2, 2026
The US lifts export controls on Anthropic's top models as the company launches Claude Science, plus sharper coding-agent benchmarks and a full slate of security and privacy news.
- 8:55 12 chapters
Daily Digest - June 30, 2026
Anthropic strikes a half-price Claude deal with California, a new open model raises the bar for agentic coding, and a wave of vulnerabilities hits AI dev tools, file sharing, and Apple's supply chain.
- 7:19 10 chapters
Daily Digest - June 28, 2026
Mozilla shows AI coding agents can be tricked into running malware from a clean GitHub repo, fetchmail and n8n scramble to patch nasty bugs, a self-erasing backdoor feeds the ransomware economy, and China tops the supercomputer list without a single GPU.
- 8:04 12 chapters
Daily Digest - June 27, 2026
The U.S. government decides who gets to use frontier AI models, fresh research probes whether AI can attack and defend on its own, and a blunt take on what's left of coding as a job.
- 8:55 12 chapters
Daily Digest - June 26, 2026
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of the largest distillation attack ever aimed at Claude, the White House slow-rolls the next OpenAI model, new rules arrive for who AI agents are and what they can do, and a fresh round of breaches and patches lands across the security world.
- 8:55 12 chapters
Daily Digest - June 25, 2026
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of a record Claude-extraction campaign, OpenAI and IBM push new chips, fresh curl and AI-marketplace security findings, and what the latest data says about AI and engineering jobs.
- 8:51 12 chapters
Daily Digest - June 24, 2026
Anthropic's always-on Claude lands in Slack, a Qwen world-model paper for agents, and a heavy security slate: the Cordyceps supply-chain class, a Five Eyes AI warning, libssh2 CVEs, actively exploited UniFi bugs, the LastPass-Klue breach, and a tightened post-quantum crypto deadline.
- 9:23 12 chapters
Daily Digest - June 23, 2026
Anthropic squares off with Washington over a coding model, a fourteen-hundred-dollar experiment out-audits OpenAI's Codex Security, fresh breaches hit Klue and Transport for London, and we go inside the four-hundred-million-dollar machine that prints the world's most advanced chips.
- 8:30 12 chapters
Daily Digest - June 21, 2026
John Jumper jumps to Anthropic, AutoJack hijacks AI agents, North Korea poisons the Mastra packages, and Secure Boot's clock runs out - your June 21 rundown.
- 8:57 12 chapters
Daily Digest - June 20, 2026
Anthropic's models become a geopolitical bargaining chip, a Nobel laureate switches labs, and a rough week for web servers, package repos, and satellites.
- 7:34 11 chapters
Daily Digest - June 19, 2026
A critical Splunk flaw under active attack, a two-billion-dollar bet on world models, a Texas breach exposing three million IDs, a major takedown of the SocGholish malware network, and Interpol's forty-billion-dollar measure of Asian scam compounds.
- 8:52 12 chapters
Daily Digest - June 18, 2026
China's GLM-5.2 tops the open-weight charts, Nvidia's coding agents train robots to 99 percent, GitHub feuds over a supply-chain worm, and Pew finds only 16 percent of Americans optimistic about AI.
- 9:26 12 chapters
Daily Digest - June 16, 2026
Export-control fights over Anthropic's Fable 5, ChatGPT slipping below half the market, a one-click Copilot data leak, Chinese espionage inside US research labs, and a brain implant that gives a man his voice back.
- 8:14 12 chapters
Daily Digest - June 15, 2026
Washington forces Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5, new data quantifies the cost of cleaning up AI-written code, and researchers reveal a backdoor that hides between chip and model.
- 7:44 11 chapters
Daily Digest - June 14, 2026
Washington pulls Anthropic's newest models from foreign access, OpenAI draws a multistate probe, CISA sets a three-day patch clock, and npm finally kills automatic install scripts.
- 8:32 12 chapters
Daily Digest - June 13, 2026
Inside the FBI's fake town built to be hacked, ShinyHunters' university-wide Oracle zero-day spree, Google's lawsuit over Gemini-built scams, and the world's first trillionaire.
- 8:26 12 chapters
Daily Digest - June 12, 2026
Claude Fable's relentless initiative, Apple yanking Siri's AI from Europe, and a record Bezos raise, set against a fast-moving security beat from Ivanti and Oracle to a 336-million-euro laundering takedown.
- 8:51 12 chapters
Daily Digest - June 11, 2026
Anthropic walks back a hidden Claude policy, Google ships a fast diffusion language model, and the security world runs hot - from a 67-million-record leak in Thailand to a rare arm64 kernel escape.
- 8:43 12 chapters
Daily Digest - June 10, 2026
Anthropic puts its first Mythos-class model in public hands as Claude Fable 5, Apple defends an AI privacy bargain struck on Google's servers, and Microsoft ships a record two-hundred-six-patch Tuesday.
- 8:19 11 chapters
Daily Digest - June 9, 2026
OpenAI joins Anthropic in filing for an IPO, Apple rebuilds Siri on a Gemini-powered architecture, and a wave of supply-chain attacks targets developers' AI coding tools.
- 10:06 12 chapters
Daily Digest - June 8, 2026
The Miasma worm tears through Microsoft's GitHub repositories, a new wave of AI coding tools lands on the desktop, and Uber, Wayve, and Waymo line up for a robotaxi showdown in London.
- 9:49 12 chapters
Daily Digest - June 7, 2026
AI agents that hunt their own bugs, Lockdown Mode versus prompt injection, an Instagram chatbot breach, the real cost of agentic coding, Washington eyeing a stake in OpenAI, and Apple's Siri reboot.
- 7:41 11 chapters
Daily Digest - June 6, 2026
The NSA reportedly turns to Anthropic's Mythos, OpenAI floats a federal AI rulebook, Google rents 110,000 of SpaceX's GPUs, a whistleblower accuses IBM of hiding breaches, and Dashlane gets brute-forced - a packed day across AI, policy, and security, closing with two new tools for developers.
- 6:19 9 chapters
Daily Digest - June 5, 2026
Two fresh Anthropic warnings about AI risk, an OpenAI-linked smear campaign against safety advocates, a push for post-quantum web encryption, and Valve's Steam Machine launch date headline today's seven-story technology and security digest.
- 9:25 12 chapters
Daily Digest - June 4, 2026
Ten stories: how Anthropic contains Claude, an OpenAI-Anthropic bioweapons letter to Congress, Let's Encrypt's post-quantum web, an OAuth supply-chain audit, the AI compute and energy buildout, and AI landing hard in schools and courts.
- 8:50 12 chapters
Daily Digest - June 2, 2026
Anthropic files to go public near a trillion dollars, coding agents land on AWS, and a ransomware crew is caught using Claude to build malware.
- 9:13 12 chapters
Daily Digest - June 1, 2026
Claude agents get a secure home on Cloudflare, Anthropic hands EU regulators an AI that writes its own exploits, an AI cracks an 80-year-old math problem, plus fresh vulnerabilities, new silicon, and China's first brain implant.