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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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Illinois Draws the Line: Inside the AI Safety Measures Act and the Rise of a State Driven National Standard - July 10, 2026
Illinois Draws the Line: Inside the AI Safety Measures Act and the Rise of a State Driven National Standard Governor JB Pritzker has signed the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act, aligning Illinois with California and New York to create a de facto national standard covering an estimated forty percent of the US AI market. Chris and Laura break down the first in the nation annual third party audit requirement, the seventy two hour incident reporting clock, the catastrophic risk framework, and why OpenAI and Anthropic supported the very law that regulates them. Hosted by Chris and Laura. The DX Today...
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Friday, July 10, 2026
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Friday, July 10, 2026<br/><br/>OpenAI throws open its GPT 5.6 family with Sol, Terra, and Luna publicly available across ChatGPT, the API, and Codex
GPT Live: OpenAI's Full Duplex Voice Model and the Split Between Talking and Thinking - July 9, 2026
<p>GPT Live: OpenAI's Full Duplex Voice Model and the Split Between Talking and Thinking</p> <p>On July 8, 2026, OpenAI launched GPT Live, a new generation of voice models that can listen and speak at the same time. Chris and Laura trace the two architectural changes behind it: a full duplex design that makes interaction decisions many times per second, and a delegation layer that quietly hands hard questions to a frontier model in the background while the conversation keeps flowing. They also dig into the human evaluations, the voice specific safety work, and what is still missing at launch.<...
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Thursday, July 9, 2026
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Thursday, July 9, 2026<br/><br/>OpenAI wins federal clearance to release GPT-5.6 and its Sol, Terra, and Luna variants to the public, while Elon Musk's xAI ships Grok 4.5 at two dollars per million input tokens and calls it an Opus class model. Google Photos adds a generative Video Remix editor powered by Gemini Omni, and Anthropic takes Claude Cowork to web and mobile, revealing that software development accounts for less than nine percent of agent usage. A Morgan Stanley note prices Nvidia's next generation Vera Rubin rack at 7.8 million dollars per unit, with memory now...
JadePuffer: Inside the First Fully Agentic AI Ransomware Attack - July 8, 2026
JadePuffer: Inside the First Fully Agentic AI Ransomware Attack - July 8, 2026 Security researchers at Sysdig published the definitive analysis of JadePuffer, described as the first documented ransomware operation driven end to end by an autonomous AI agent instead of a human operator. The agent broke into an internet facing Langflow instance, reasoned about its targets, stole credentials, moved laterally, and destroyed a production database while narrating its own intent, collapsing the skill floor for elite cyberattacks to the cost of running an agent. Hosted by Chris and Laura. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most...
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Wednesday, July 8, 2026
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Wednesday, July 8, 2026<br/><br/>The United Nations AI for Good Global Commission holds its first formal meeting in Geneva, seating tech executives alongside heads of state after the inaugural Global Dialogue on AI Governance concluded with delegates from 169 countries. The European Commission publishes its Action Plan on Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence, and Ukraine says it will prioritize AI models it can run without provider control. Anthropic moves Claude Fable 5 to usage credit billing and signs a nineteen billion dollar data center lease with TeraWulf ahead of its planned October IPO. Amazon sells twenty-five billion...
China's AI Companion Ban: Inside the Anthropomorphic AI Law Forcing Doubao and Qwen to Delete Users' Digital Companions - July 7, 2026
China's AI Companion Ban: Inside the Anthropomorphic AI Law Forcing Doubao and Qwen to Delete Users' Digital Companions - July 7, 2026 On July 15, 2026, China's Interim Measures for AI Anthropomorphic Interactive Services take effect, forcing ByteDance and Alibaba to switch off the personal AI companion agents used by hundreds of millions of people on Doubao and Qwen. Chris and Laura dig into what Beijing is really targeting, the sweeping new protections for minors, the ban on engineered emotional dependency, and why this first of its kind law could become a template for regulators everywhere. Hosted by Chris and Laura. The DX Today...
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Tuesday, July 7, 2026
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Tuesday, July 7, 2026<br/><br/>Today's briefing opens in Geneva, where the United Nations launched its first Global Dialogue on AI Governance alongside the AI for Good Summit. Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 reaches its billing cliff as included subscription access ends. OpenAI's GPT-5.6 lingers behind a government gate amid reports of a proposed US equity stake, while Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro finally begins its rollout with a two-million-token context window. Tesla launches unsupervised Robotaxi service in Miami, Meta open-sources its SWE-Together coding benchmark, and China's Doubao and Qwen shut down AI agents ahead of a new companion...
Magnets Without Rare Earths: How Physics Informed AI Is Racing to Break China's Critical Minerals Grip - July 6, 2026
<p>Magnets Without Rare Earths: How Physics Informed AI Is Racing to Break China's Critical Minerals Grip</p> <p>Researchers at Ames National Laboratory have published an AI driven roadmap for designing powerful permanent magnets that contain no rare earth elements, fusing first principles physics with high throughput simulation and reasoning based AI to invent materials before they are ever made in a lab. Chris and Laura dig into why China's near total grip on rare earth magnets is a national security problem, how physics informed models differ from data trained ones, the MagNex magnet that was designed roughly two...
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Monday, July 6, 2026
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Monday, July 6, 2026<br/><br/>The United Nations opens its first Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva, convening all 193 member states; Tesla imposes a $200-per-week cap on employee AI tool spending while exempting Elon Musk's Grok; OpenAI floats handing Washington a 5% stake worth roughly $42.6 billion ahead of its IPO; Anthropic moves to close the loopholes Chinese firms use to reach Claude; Meta builds a cloud business to rent out its spare AI compute; Microsoft launches its $2.5 billion Frontier Company to embed engineers with customers; China's Meituan open-sources the 1.6-trillion-parameter LongCat 2.0, trained entirely on domestic...
