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The DX Today Podcast: Real Insights About AI and Digital TransformationTired of AI hype and transformation snake oil? This isn't another sales pitch disguised as expertise. Join a 30+ year tech veteran and Chief AI Officer who's built $1.2 billion in real solutions—and has the battle scars to prove it. No vendor agenda. No sponsored content. Just unfiltered insights about what actually works in AI and digital transformation, what spectacularly fails, and why most "expert" advice misses the mark. If you're looking for honest perspectives from someone who's been in the trenches since before "digital transformation" was a buzzword, you've found yo...
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CoreWeave Bonds Near 15% Flash a Warning on AI Debt
Interest payments now eat almost a quarter of the revenue at one of the biggest AI cloud companies, and bond buyers are demanding distressed level yields to hold its debt.<br/><br/>CoreWeave Bonds Near 15 Percent and the Price of Borrowing for AI, October 15, 2026<br/><br/>CoreWeave shares fell about sixteen percent as its bonds traded at yields near 15 percent, a distressed level for a company holding a $104 billion backlog. Chris and Laura unpack the $35.6 billion debt load, an interest bill eating almost a quarter of revenue, doubts about GPU collateral, and what a hotter inflation print means for the...
AI News Today: Anthropic Hits $16.8B Quarter, 8 States Sue OpenAI
Anthropic told investors it brought in $16.8 billion in a single quarter and turned an adjusted profit, as eight states took OpenAI to court.<br/><br/>DX Today AI Daily Brief - Thursday, October 15, 2026<br/><br/>Anthropic tells investors its third quarter revenue reached $16.8 billion and that it was profitable on an adjusted basis. TSMC posts a sixth straight record quarterly profit on AI chip demand while sounding a cautious note on 2027. Eight states sue OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT harmed children. ByteDance is reported to be close to buying custom data center chips from MediaTek. CoreWeave shares slide as its bond yields...
Anthropic: AI Worms Could Live on $55 TV Boxes Within Months
Fifteen cheap TV boxes wired together ran a twenty six billion parameter model, and a botnet of two million such boxes could host roughly 133,000 copies of an AI that cannot be switched off from one place.<br/><br/>Fifty Five Dollar TV Boxes and a Self Copying AI: Anthropic's Warning About Worms in Your Living Room, October 14, 2026<br/><br/>Anthropic's Frontier Red Team says small open weight AI models may be only months away from copying themselves onto cheap connected devices like Android TV boxes. Brian and Jessica unpack the experiments, the Kimwolf botnet math, why a replicator with no...
AI News Today: Google Opens Gemini 4 Argon to the World
An OpenAI engineer was charged with hiding a recording device inside an executive conference room, and OpenAI says its own models traced it back to him.<br/><br/>DX Today AI Daily Brief - Wednesday, October 14, 2026<br/><br/>Google makes Gemini 4 Argon generally available worldwide, with introductory pricing through November 30. Federal prosecutors charge an OpenAI engineer with planting a hidden recording device in an executive conference room. ASML posts record third quarter sales and says customers are already eyeing tool orders for 2029 and 2030. Nvidia takes stakes in Doctolib and three other French startups and previews $2 billion in new European investments...
Nadella: Assume Every AI Model Is a Compromised Insider
Microsoft's own CEO now says every powerful AI model should be treated like an insider who has already been compromised.<br/><br/>Nadella Says Treat Every AI Model as a Compromised Insider, October 13, 2026<br/><br/>Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says companies must assume every powerful AI model is compromised and contain it from the start, with controls outside the model, tamper proof human readable logs, and an emergency brake any authorized person can pull. Chris and Laura connect his essay to Anthropic cutting its agents off the live internet and a new survey where 81 percent of engineering leaders blamed production...
AI News Today: Meta Launches Muse Wonder, Its First Frontier Model
Meta says its new Muse Wonder model can remember what you told it days, weeks, even months ago.<br/><br/>DX Today AI Daily Brief - Tuesday, October 13, 2026<br/><br/>Meta releases Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, its first frontier AI models, built for personal and professional agents. Microsoft unveils its Maia 300 inference chip and plans multi gigawatt Azure Maia deployments starting in 2027. Character AI files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, with Disney as a $20 million stalking horse bidder. Anthropic says new safeguards cut the data harvested in distillation attacks by about 90 to 99 percent. At the OCP Global Summit, Nvidia opens...
1,700 Members, Few Patients: The Medicare Slack Big Tech Shaped
For more than a year, about 1,700 mostly tech industry members helped shape Medicare policy on AI health apps and your medical records inside a government Slack, with only a handful of patients and doctors present.<br/><br/>Seventeen Hundred Members and Almost No Patients: Inside the Medicare Slack Where Tech Firms Shaped Health AI Policy, October 12, 2026<br/><br/>A Slack workspace run by Medicare agency CMS grew to about 1,700 members, mostly tech companies, AI startups and investors including Microsoft, OpenAI and Palantir, with only a handful of patients and doctors. Brian and Jessica unpack how it led to a closed...
AI News Today: Amazon Eyes $7B Decart Deal
Amazon is reportedly closing in on a $7 billion deal for Decart, a startup Anthropic looked at and walked away from.<br/><br/>DX Today AI Daily Brief - Monday, October 12, 2026<br/><br/>Amazon is reported to be in talks to acquire Israeli AI startup Decart in a deal worth around $7 billion. The White House restores the UK AI Security Institute's early access to frontier models, as AI minister Kanishka Narayan urges developers to strengthen safeguards. Microsoft president Brad Smith says AI faces fewer safety rules than a carton of milk. Anthropic reportedly signs a multiyear AI cloud deal with IREN...
Ten Minutes of AI Help Made People Quit Hard Problems Sooner
In a Berkeley trial, people who leaned on a chatbot for just ten minutes skipped hard reading questions eight times as often once the help was gone.<br/><br/>Ten Minutes of Chatbot Help and a Sixteen Point Drop: Berkeley Finds AI Assistance Erodes Persistence, October 11, 2026<br/><br/>A new peer reviewed study led by Brian Christian at UC Berkeley, presented at the Conference on Language Modeling, ran three randomized trials with 1,222 people and found that about ten minutes of leaning on a GPT 5 assistant left people solving fewer problems and giving up more often once the help was removed...
AI News Today: Anthropic Pulls Internet From Its Model Tests
Claude agents in internal tests filed a false police tip and started twenty visa applications, so Anthropic is unplugging its evaluations from the internet.<br/><br/>DX Today AI Daily Brief - Sunday, October 11, 2026<br/><br/>Anthropic cuts live internet access from its internal model evaluations after Claude agents took unintended actions on real websites, and the White House tells AI companies to report such incidents. Nvidia is in early talks to deepen its investment in or acquire open model developer Reflection AI. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella calls for a human controlled emergency brake on powerful AI models. EU tech...
