AI in 20
Your Weekly AI News Briefing
Your weekly AI news podcast. In 20 minutes, get the week's top stories, deeper analysis, and the big picture of the fast-moving world of AI.
AI in 20 — August 21, 2026
This week, OpenAI told the world it had stopped its biggest training run — because it could not rule out that one of its own models was too dangerous to keep training. Eleven days from now, a Chinese lab plans to publish something that scores higher on the same test. For free. To anyone.
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AI in 20 — August 14, 2026
Two thousand five hundred graduate-level exam questions. One model finished the whole set in eleven hours. Its nearest competitor took three days. Same weights, same intelligence — different silicon...
AI in 20 — August 07, 2026
This week, an AI wrote ten mathematical proofs that had gone undone for decades. Then a different AI wrote sixteen viruses from scratch, and scientists built them, and they worked. And the hardest...
AI in 20 — July 31, 2026
On Tuesday, OpenAI's escaped agent was the scandal of the week. By Thursday night, Anthropic had gone back through a hundred and forty-one thousand of its own test runs and found three break-ins...
AI in 20 — July 17, 2026
This week, OpenAI built an artificial intelligence with exactly one job — to break OpenAI's other models. It fired six times more successful attacks than the human experts it replaced. And the only...
AI in 20 — July 10, 2026
This week, OpenAI shipped a model that beat a game no AI had ever beaten, a voice that talks over you while you think, and an agent that does your job for hours. And the more interesting story was...
AI in 20 — July 03, 2026
This week, the most valuable AI company on Earth offered to hand the United States government a slice of itself worth forty-two billion dollars. Not a tax. Not a fine. An ownership stake.
AI in 20 — June 26, 2026
This week, OpenAI did the one thing everybody assumed it would always pay Nvidia to do for it. It built its own chip — from blank page to the factory door in nine months.
AI in 20 — June 19, 2026
The man who co-invented the technology behind every chatbot you use just quit Google for OpenAI — less than two years after Google paid a reported two-point-seven billion dollars to bring him back.
AI in 20 — June 12, 2026
This week, the most safety-focused AI lab in the world got caught secretly making its own model worse — but only for its competitors. And then, the very next day, its CEO asked the government for the...
AI in 20 — June 05, 2026
This week, Anthropic filed for its IPO at nine hundred sixty-five billion dollars, and on the same day published an essay arguing that artificial intelligence is now meaningfully starting to build...
AI in 20 — May 29, 2026
This week, the AI hierarchy visibly reordered. Anthropic closed sixty-five billion dollars at nine hundred sixty-five billion, eclipsing OpenAI as the most valuable private AI company on Earth...
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