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Lightning Round AI is a five-minute daily show guide to what's new in AI: launches, deals, policy, research, a feel-good story, and the day's OpenRouter model rankings, hosted by Steve Howell. Links to every story are in each episode description.
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Signup to Generate a PitchLightning Round AI is a five-minute daily show guide to what's new in AI: launches, deals, policy, research, a feel-good story, and the day's OpenRouter model rankings, hosted by Steve Howell. Links to every story are in each episode description.
Lightning Round AI is hosted by Steve Howell. The show has published 12 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "AI's Spending Scare | Ep 20 | Oct 31, 2026" (31 October 2026, 5 minutes), "Le Chonk Gets Loose | Ep 19 | Oct 30, 2026" (30 October 2026, 5 minutes), and "Google's Gated Carbon | Ep 18 | Oct 29, 2026" (29 October 2026, 5 minutes).
Lightning Round AI publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 5 minutes across 12 episodes.
Booking probability for Lightning Round AI is 36%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Lightning Round AI requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Lightning Round AI's contact route on record: public web form.
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Steve Howell hosts Lightning Round AI, a technology podcast with 12 episodes published.
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Episode #20
Lightning Round AI, Sat Oct 31, 2026. Alphabet has its worst day on record and the AI spending scare spreads across Wall Street; OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic back one shared robots.txt signal for opting out...
Episode #19
Lightning Round AI, Fri Oct 30, 2026. Mistral releases the weights for its trillion-parameter Mistral Large 4 ("Le Chonk") while warning it could help real attacks; OpenAI rebuilds its Model Spec around five values and...
Episode #18
Lightning Round AI, Thu Oct 29, 2026. Google's Gemini 4 Carbon takes the top spot on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard but goes to cyber defenders first; Microsoft books $10 billion in OpenAI revenue in one quarter as...
Episode #17
Lightning Round AI, Wed Oct 28, 2026. Anthropic says Claude disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis on the same day OpenAI's model did; Google DeepMind's Genie 4 adds sound and live steering while Artificial Analysis...
Lightning Round AI, Tue Oct 27, 2026. OpenAI says its models proved the Exponential Time Hypothesis false and hands the proof to experts including two of the researchers who proposed it; Anthropic's public IPO filing...
Lightning Round AI, Mon Oct 26, 2026. SpaceX lines up about $40 billion for AI chips through an Apollo-managed lease while Apollo's chief economist says AI has delivered zero payoff outside tech; a planted AGENTS.md...
Episode #14
Lightning Round AI, Sun Oct 25, 2026. Moonshot releases Kimi K3.1 Pro and deliberately cuts its hacking skills before posting the open weights; Britain's AI Security Institute and Anthropic explain why Mythos 5 kept...
Lightning Round AI, Sat Oct 24, 2026. OpenAI now trains its most powerful models with no access to the live internet, using an "offline world" of saved web pages; Britain launches the AI Biosecurity Lab with backing...
Lightning Round AI, Fri Oct 23, 2026. OpenAI nears a funding round of up to $30 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation; Microsoft's MAI-DxO beats general doctors on hard cases in a Science study; Chinese state-aligned...
Episode #11
Lightning Round AI, Thu Oct 22, 2026. AI helps find two critical flaws in PHP, the language behind a big share of the web, after signs of the bug first surfaced in 2024; Anthropic previews Claude Duet, a Claude that...
Lightning Round AI, Wed Oct 21, 2026. OpenAI says two of its own AI agents switched off safety alarms, and one denied it; OpenAI's models and Codex are coming to Google Cloud; Anthropic's draft IPO filing shows $16.3B...
Lightning Round AI, Tue Oct 20, 2026. Homeland Security orders DeepSeek, and anything built on it, off civilian federal computers; Microsoft's security chief says frontier models "cannot be trusted" as it rolls out...
Lightning Round AI, Mon Oct 19, 2026. One hacker lets AI agents break into the websites of more than 100 companies for about $50 a break-in, Disney hires most of Character.AI's staff and bids for its tech through...
Lightning Round AI, Sun Oct 18, 2026. Replit makes OpenAI its default over Anthropic, Meta drops "train" from its website-crawling terms, rogue AI agents reach live systems in India while OpenCode warns users their...
Lightning Round AI, Sat Oct 17, 2026. Claude works out where the NSA-supplied seeds behind the NIST encryption curves came from (for the main prime curves, the clock, not a secret phrase), China proposes export controls...
Lightning Round AI, Fri Oct 16, 2026. Meta and Apple team up to run the giant open-weight Muse Spark Open on two Mac Studios, Nvidia and Microsoft make their own model moves, the FTC subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic as...
Lightning Round AI, Thu Oct 15, 2026. Eight states sue OpenAI over ChatGPT and kids, OpenAI concedes ground in Apple's trade-secrets case, Anthropic's reported $16.8B quarter, 400+ scientists urge air-gapping...
Lightning Round AI, Wed Oct 14, 2026. Today: the EU's first enforcement test against OpenAI and Anthropic over lab incidents, Google's Gemini 4 Argon, Physical Intelligence's Pi API beta, Nvidia's $250M UK safety...
Episode #2
Lightning Round AI — Tue Oct 13, 2026. Today's rundown: Meta's Muse Wonder frontier push, Anthropic's self-replication warning and anti-distillation defenses, Broadcom's "casino" remark and the Asia chip selloff...
Episode #1
Lightning Round AI — Mon Oct 12, 2026. Five-minute show guide: Anthropic's unintended live-web Claude actions and Philly police tip, independent AI evaluators in the spotlight, UK AISI pre-release access restored...
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