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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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Anthropic's Mythos Model Leak: A Step Change in AI Power With Unprecedented Cybersecurity Risks - April 1, 2026
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p>Anthropic's Mythos Model Leak: A Step Change in AI Power With Unprecedented Cybersecurity Risks - April 1, 2026A basic CMS misconfiguration at Anthropic exposed roughly 3,000 unpublished documents, including details about Claude Mythos — their most powerful AI model ever built. Sitting in a new tier above Opus, Mythos delivers dramatically higher benchmark scores in coding, reasoning, and cybersecurity. But the same capabilities that make it a defensive powerhouse also make it a potential weapon, with Anthropic privately warning government officials that large-scale cyberattacks become much more likely as these capabilities proliferate.Hosted by Chris and Laura.Th...
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Wednesday, April 1, 2026
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p>DX Today AI Daily Brief - Wednesday, April 1, 2026<br/><br/>OpenAI closes a record one hundred twenty-two billion dollar funding round at an eight hundred fifty-two billion dollar valuation, with major commitments from Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank. Oracle begins its largest layoff in company history, cutting up to thirty thousand employees to fund A.I. data center expansion. Anthropic accidentally leaks over five hundred thousand lines of Claude Code source code through an npm packaging error, revealing unreleased features and internal codenames. Nvidia invests two billion dollars in Marvell Technology for a new NVLink...
Block's 40% AI Layoff, 45,000 March Tech Job Cuts, and the Harvard Data on Who Survives the AI Workforce Shift - March 31, 2026
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p>Block's 40% AI Layoff, 45,000 March Tech Job Cuts, and the Harvard Data on Who Survives the AI Workforce Shift - March 31, 2026Jack Dorsey cut Block from 10,000 to under 6,000 employees, calling it the future of how companies operate. March 2026 saw 45,000 tech layoffs with over 20% explicitly attributed to AI automation. Chris and Laura dig into the Block playbook, Harvard's research on which jobs AI creates versus destroys, and why young workers are getting hit hardest.Hosted by Chris and Laura.The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI...
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Tuesday, March 31, 2026
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p>DX Today AI Daily Brief - Tuesday, March 31, 2026<br/><br/>Anthropic's secret Mythos model leaks into public view, raising unprecedented cybersecurity concerns as the company briefs government officials. SoftBank secures a record forty billion dollar bridge loan for its OpenAI stake, fueling intense IPO speculation. Mistral AI closes eight hundred thirty million in debt financing to build a major Nvidia-powered data center outside Paris. OpenAI shuts down Sora after burning fifteen million dollars a day on inference costs against just two million in lifetime revenue. Shopify activates Agentic Storefronts for five point six million...
The White House AI Blueprint: Federal Preemption, State Law Battles, and the Future of AI Governance - March 30, 2026
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p>The White House AI Blueprint: Federal Preemption, State Law Battles, and the Future of AI Governance - March 30, 2026The White House released its National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence on March 20, 2026 — a sweeping legislative blueprint urging Congress to preempt state AI laws, reject a centralized AI regulator, and favor industry-led standards. Chris and Laura break down the seven priority areas, the fierce political reactions from both sides, and what it all means for companies building AI today.Hosted by Chris and Laura.The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most co...
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Monday, March 30, 2026
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p>DX Today AI Daily Brief - Monday, March 30, 2026<br/><br/>Mistral AI secures eight hundred thirty million dollars in debt financing to build a massive Nvidia-powered data center near Paris as Europe pushes for A.I. compute sovereignty. Anthropic faces fallout after a data leak reveals its most powerful model yet, Claude Mythos, which the company warns poses unprecedented cybersecurity risks. Meta six-folds its El Paso Texas data center investment to ten billion dollars, targeting one gigawatt of capacity by twenty twenty-eight. Bluesky debuts Attie, an A.I. assistant that lets users build custom...
GPT-5.4: Steerable Reasoning, Computer-Use Agents, and the Million-Token Context Shift - March 30, 2026
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p>Join Chris and Laura for a deep-dive conversation into OpenAI's GPT-5.4 release and what it means for the AI ecosystem.Today's Topic:GPT-5.4 isn't just another model upgrade — it introduces steerable reasoning, native computer-use capabilities, tool search that cuts token usage by 47%, and a million-token context window. Chris and Laura break down what's actually new, why agentic AI is now a first-class product category, and what builders should be paying attention to.The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem.Hosted by Chris and La...
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Monday, March 30, 2026
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p>DX Today AI Daily Brief - Monday, March 30, 2026<br/><br/>Today we cover Eli Lilly signing a $2.75 billion deal with Insilico Medicine for AI-developed drugs, Tesla and SpaceX unveiling their $25 billion TeraFab chip factory in Austin, the Model Context Protocol crossing 97 million monthly downloads as the agentic AI standard, General Motors embedding generative AI throughout its vehicle design process, Figure 03 joining Melania Trump at a White House education summit for 45 nations, Google releasing Lyria 3 Pro for three-minute AI music generation, Google Stitch launching an AI-native UI design canvas, GM beginning supervised autonomous driving tests...
Federal Preemption and the White House AI Framework (Mar 29, 2026)
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p>A single-topic deep dive on the White House’s March 2026 National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence — and the most consequential idea inside it: federal preemption of state AI laws.Rick Spair and Sarah unpack what “preempting a patchwork” could mean for developers, liability for third-party misuse, innovation sandboxes, access to federal datasets, and the fault lines around copyright and free speech.Key sources:- White House (PDF): National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence — Legislative Recommendations (March 2026): https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/03.20.26-National-Policy-Framework-for-Artificial-Intelligence-Legislative-Recommendations.pdf- White House release (Mar 20, 2026): https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/03/president-donald-j-trump-unveils-national-ai-legislative-framework/- K&L Gate...
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Sunday, March 29, 2026
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p>Today's top AI stories: (1) SoftBank secures $40B loan to fund $30B OpenAI investment. (2) Apple hires former Google VP Lilian Rincon to lead AI marketing ahead of Siri overhaul. (3) SK hynix files for US listing targeting $10-14B to fund AI memory chip production. (4) OpenAI completes training on next model codenamed Spud, release expected in weeks. (5) Cursor reveals real-time reinforcement learning ships Composer improvements every 5 hours. (6) Perplexity launches Health platform connecting medical records to AI search. (7) Cognition's Devin AI engineer delivers 12x efficiency gains at Nubank. (8) Anthropic develops AutoDream background memory consolidation for Claude Code. (9...
