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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 65 episodes published.
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
This week I'm doing something a bit different. Instead of reacting to a product launch or a funding round, I'm digging into the Stanford Emerging Technology Review 2026, specifically its AI chapter. It's co-chaired by Co
The most important AI story this week might be a court fight. Anthropic’s legal battle with the Pentagon has escalated into what could become a precedent-setting test of whether the US government can punish an AI company
Anthropic’s Pentagon standoff did more than derail a $200 million contract. It turned AI ethics into a live commercial test, sent Claude to number one on Apple’s US App Store, and forced a much bigger question into the o
One year after vibe coding entered the conversation, what has actually changed for software teams? In this episode of The AI Breakdown, I look past the hype and ask a simpler question: are AI coding tools genuinely makin
This week I'm unpacking OpenAI's record-breaking $110 billion raise and what Amazon and NVIDIA's involvement tells us about a partner landscape that's shifting faster than most people realise. I also dig into Anthropic's
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