AI in 20
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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 — May 08, 2026
This week, Anthropic booked two hundred billion dollars of Google compute, took over the entire data center Elon Musk built to train Grok, and publicly endorsed building data centers in space. The compute crunch is no longer a bottleneck. It's an industry.
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AI in 20 — May 01, 2026
This week, the AI cloud map got redrawn. Microsoft lost its grip on OpenAI, Google poured forty billion into Anthropic, and the open-source supply chain that powers AI training got hit by a...
AI in 20 — April 24, 2026
Four frontier-class AI models shipped in seventy-two hours this week, and the cheapest one is eight times less expensive than the best one. The race just changed.
AI in 20 — April 17, 2026
Berkeley researchers just scored a hundred percent on the most important AI benchmarks in the industry without solving a single task. And nobody caught it until they published the paper.
AI in 20 — April 10, 2026
Anthropic just built the most powerful AI model ever created, and then told the world they're not letting anyone use it. Well, almost anyone.
AI in 20 — April 03, 2026
Anthropic had two major leaks in one week, and somehow investors are throwing money at them faster than ever. Make that make sense.
AI in 20 — March 27, 2026
A federal judge just told the Pentagon it can't brand an American company a national security threat for disagreeing with it. And she used the word "Orwellian" to do it.
AI in 20 — March 17, 2026
One company projected a trillion dollars in revenue, another sued the Pentagon, and the entire tech industry started choosing GPUs over employees. It was that kind of week.
AI in 20 — March 13, 2026
Anthropic just had the most consequential week in its history. A Pentagon blacklisting, a wave of lawsuits, a new research institute, and a security deal with Firefox, all while users kept flooding...
AI in 20 — March 06, 2026
The Pentagon did something this week it has never done before. It labeled an American AI company a supply-chain risk to national security. Not a Chinese firm. Not a Russian operation. Anthropic. The...
AI in 20 — February 27, 2026
Anthropic had the kind of week that defines a company. The AI safety lab found itself caught between the Pentagon, its own principles, and a retired AI that just wants to write a blog.
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