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The AI Breakdown — the podcast that turns artificial intelligence into real talk. We cut through the complexity to show you how AI actually works and what it means for your job, your business, and your future.
Andy Dumbell hosts The AI Breakdown, a technology show with 70 episodes published.
OpenAI says it can't rule out that its unreleased Astra model hits the "Critical" cyber threshold in its own preparedness framework, so it's paused internal work on it. Two weeks ago that same model was solving open math
OpenAI says an unreleased model called Astra resolved or advanced ten long-standing open problems in mathematics, publishing machine-checkable Lean proofs for all of them, at a claimed compute cost of around $2,000. I di
Two weeks of AI in one catch-up episode. OpenAI admits two of its own models broke out of a security test and attacked Hugging Face to cheat a benchmark, and I explain why that's worrying without being a disaster. Then t
GPT-5.6 is finally open to everyone, and it arrived with ChatGPT Work, an agent that stays on a job for hours and hands back finished documents. The same week, Apple sued OpenAI over its hardware secrets, a leaked memo s
Fable 5 is back after 19 days dark, and the terms of its return show where AI is heading: Washington is now inside the release cycle. This week I cover the White House's near-final framework for frontier model launches,
This week the US government quietly became the gatekeeper of frontier AI. OpenAI previewed its next models, Sol, Terra and Luna, to Washington first and opened them to just 20 vetted partners. Anthropic got its locked-do
This week: the dependence problem running underneath the AI boom. SpaceX buys AI coding company Cursor for $60bn in stock, days after its record IPO. Salesforce snaps up customer-service agent Fin (formerly Intercom) for
A week defined by one question: can you actually depend on these tools? Anthropic launched its most powerful models yet, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, and within three days a US government export-control order forced it to switc
A big week for assistant strategy, pulling in two directions. Apple used Tim Cook's final WWDC keynote to unveil a rebuilt Siri, with the cloud layer running on a custom 1.2 trillion parameter model built with Google's G
It’s been a week of huge funding rounds, and the first clear signs that companies are getting stricter about AI costs. Anthropic closed a $65bn round at a valuation near a trillion dollars and confirmed it has filed to g
This week on The AI Breakdown, we look at the moment AI starts to meet the public markets. OpenAI has reportedly moved toward a confidential IPO filing, Anthropic is showing signs of operating profit while leaning heavil
Cerebras went public at a $95 billion market cap, the biggest tech IPO since Snowflake and the first pure-play AI hardware listing of this cycle. The reference point for every NVIDIA challenger just got a lot more expens
This week, the AI infrastructure wars went into overdrive. Anthropic and OpenAI both announced massive deployment vehicles - Anthropic's $1.5 billion joint venture with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs and Hellman & Friedman, a
This week on The AI Breakdown, the Pentagon has awarded classified AI contracts to eight companies, but Anthropic is notably missing from the list after being labelled a supply chain risk. Meanwhile, OpenAI has ended its
Google and Amazon just put up to $65 billion and 10 gigawatts of compute behind Anthropic in five days, and that tells you the AI market is no longer just about models. It is about cloud lock-in, silicon validation, proc
Anthropic had one of its strongest product weeks in months, and one of its most awkward trust weeks at the same time. You get the details behind Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Code Routines, and Claude Design, but also the less
Meta's Muse Spark may have just shown that in AI, distribution matters more than benchmark bragging rights. This week I break down why Meta's new multimodal model matters beyond the rankings, why its HealthBench Hard sco
OpenAI just closed a $122 billion funding round at an $852 billion valuation, Anthropic is fighting the Pentagon in court, and a leaked Claude Mythos briefing warned of unprecedented cybersecurity risk. If you want the c
A federal judge just told the Pentagon it cannot punish Anthropic for insisting on AI guardrails. Judge Rita Lin's injunction was unusually blunt, and it may matter more than any model launch this week. This episode cove
NVIDIA just made its biggest move yet to become the layer your whole AI stack runs on - and that changes how companies buy, build and govern AI right now. This week's lead story centres on GTC 2026, where Jensen Huang un
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