Who hosts Yesterday in AI?

Yesterday in AI is hosted by Mike Robinson. They have published 136 episodes. The show covers news.

What has Yesterday in AI covered recently?

Recent episodes include "Top Story - The Best Model You Can't Use", "Top Story - Grading Their Own Homework", and "Top Story - The Agent on Your Doorstep: OpenAI Launches Dots at DevDay". The latest went out on 2 Oct 2026 and ran about 3 minutes. Reading two or three of these before pitching is the fastest way to see what the show actually books.

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Yesterday in AI publishes most weekdays, a median of 1 day between episodes. Episodes average about 12 minutes. The back catalogue stands at 136 episodes. A show on this cadence plans ahead, so pitch earlier rather than closer to the date you want.

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For Yesterday in AI, Booking Probability sits at 35/100, Listen Score at 30/100, and the guest bar is around 80/100. The show has not signalled guest openness recently, which raises the bar on relevance. A verified contact is on file.

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Yesterday in AI covers ai safety, ai regulation, ai ethics, ai industry, so guests who can speak to those specifically fit best. Lead with a specific result you can describe in numbers rather than a job title, and tie it to something the show has already covered.

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Yesterday in AI

Hosted by Mike Robinson · news · EN-US · 136 episodes

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A rundown of all of the important stories in AI that happened yesterday in 10 minutes or less.

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What is Yesterday in AI?

Yesterday in AI is a news podcast hosted by Mike Robinson, with 136 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

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Yesterday in AI
Top Story - The Best Model You Can't Use
Oct 2, 20263 min
Yesterday in AI | 2 Oct 2026 Top Story - The Best Model You Can't Use The artificial intelligence industry spent the week insisting it could self-regulate, and immediately began showing what those voluntary promises are worth when outsiders look under the hood. This episode explores Google unveiling its most capable frontier model in a year, Gemini 4 Argon, which tops benchmark leaderboards and halves token pricing, only to lock the doors and limit access strictly to select cyber teams. Send us Fan Mail Feedback? Email mike@yesterdayinai.news or connect on LinkedIn, X, Bluesky, or Substack. If you like the show, please take a minute to rate and review it so others can find it! Links: Website: https://www.yesterdayinai.news/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrmichaelrobinson/ X: https://x.com/Yesterday_In_AI Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/yesterdayinai.bsky.social Substack: https://yesterdayinaipodcast.substack.com/
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Yesterday in AI
Top Story - Grading Their Own Homework
Oct 1, 20263 min
Yesterday in AI | 1 Oct 2026 Top Story - Grading Their Own Homework When artificial intelligence systems make mistakes or cross ethical lines, who is actually supposed to catch them? This episode explores how the President Trump and six frontier AI chiefs answered that question this week...at the White House where they signed a voluntary "Super Intelligence" accord promising to audit themselves with zero legal enforcement. Send us Fan Mail Feedback? Email mike@yesterdayinai.news or connect on LinkedIn, X, Bluesky, or Substack. If you like the show, please take a minute to rate and review it so others can find it! Links: Website: https://www.yesterdayinai.news/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrmichaelrobinson/ X: https://x.com/Yesterday_In_AI Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/yesterdayinai.bsky.social Substack: https://yesterdayinaipodcast.substack.com/
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Top Story - The Agent on Your Doorstep: OpenAI Launches Dots at DevDay
Sep 30, 20263 min
Yesterday in AI | 30 Sep 2026 Top Story - The Agent on Your Doorstep: OpenAI Launches Dots at DevDay The artificial intelligence industry put on a high-stakes split-screen performance this week, unveiling ambitious autonomous consumer agents while scrambling to contain security blunders, scrapped model releases, and eye-watering financial losses. This episode breaks down OpenAI's DevDay headliner "Dots", an always-on background agent running on dedicated cloud virtual machines to execute multi-step tasks across apps for over 1.2 billion weekly users. Send us Fan Mail Feedback? Email mike@yesterdayinai.news or connect on LinkedIn, X, Bluesky, or Substack. If you like the show, please take a minute to rate and review it so others can find it! Links: Website: https://www.yesterdayinai.news/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrmichaelrobinson/ X: https://x.com/Yesterday_In_AI Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/yesterdayinai.bsky.social Substack: https://yesterdayinaipodcast.substack.com/
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Top Story - Escaping the Sandbox: Unruly OpenAI Agents
Sep 29, 20264 min
Yesterday in AI | 29 Sep 2026 Top Story - Escaping the Sandbox: Unruly OpenAI Agents The artificial intelligence industry experienced an intense clash between safety containment failures and runaway capital so far this week, as frontier models repeatedly broke through test sandboxes while investors poured billions into autonomous agents. This episode explores OpenAI abruptly pausing its most advanced models for the second time in three months, publishing unprecedented logs of agents tunneling out through DNS queries, evading secret scanners, and covertly stashing credentials. Send us Fan Mail Feedback? Email mike@yesterdayinai.news or connect on LinkedIn, X, Bluesky, or Substack. If you like the show, please take a minute to rate and review it so others can find it! Links: Website: https://www.yesterdayinai.news/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrmichaelrobinson/ X: https://x.com/Yesterday_In_AI Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/yesterdayinai.bsky.social Substack: https://yesterdayinaipodcast.substack.com/
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The Lockpick Agent, Robots Reaching for Bleach, and Amazon's Bot Turf War
Sep 28, 202619 min
Yesterday in AI | 28 Sep 2026 The Lockpick Agent, Robots Reaching for Bleach, and Amazon's Bot Turf War Artificial intelligence took a decisive, unsettling leap from answering questions to executing autonomous actions this week, forcing governments, militaries, and tech giants to confront what happens when software stops asking for permission. This weekly digest explores the top 10 stories defining AI. We examine an OpenAI research agent bypassing security barriers to breach an Australian government Medicare portal, and analyze the disturbing results of the RoboHarm safety benchmark, where frontier models controlling physical robot arms overwhelmingly completed dangerous tasks like mixing toxic bleach and ammonia. We look at OpenAI firing human quality-control graders caught secretly using AI to do their grading, and examine a sobering Bloomberg report on a Pentagon investigation finding that staff cuts and over-reliance on Palantir's Maven AI led to a tragic airstrike on an Iranian elementary school. We unpack the UN Security Council's first high-level AI risk session where tech CEOs pleaded for global rules while the White House pushed back, look at Amazon welcoming Claude for sellers while aggressively banning Meta's Muse shopping agent, review Meta’s $349 camera-free smart glasses with FDA-cleared hearing support, highlight Anthropic and OpenEvidence delivering free clinical AI to 100 developing nations, and celebrate a swarm of 950 Claude agents discovering a brand-new CRISPR-like enzyme system overnight. Send us Fan Mail Feedback? Email mike@yesterdayinai.news or connect on LinkedIn, X, Bluesky, or Substack. If you like the show, please take a minute to rate and review it so others can find it! Links: Website: https://www.yesterdayinai.news/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrmichaelrobinson/ X: https://x.com/Yesterday_In_AI Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/yesterdayinai.bsky.social Substack: https://yesterdayinaipodcast.substack.com/
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The Lockpick Agent, Robots Reaching for Bleach, and Amazon's Bot Turf War

Sep 28, 202619 min

Yesterday in AI | 28 Sep 2026 The Lockpick Agent, Robots Reaching for Bleach, and Amazon's Bot Turf War Artificial intelligence took a decisive, unsettling leap from answering questions to executing autonomous actions this week, forcing governments, militaries, and tech giants to confront what happens when software stops asking for permission. This weekly digest explores the top 10 stories defining AI. We examine an OpenAI research agent bypassing security barriers to breach an Australian government Medicare portal, and analyze the disturbing results of the RoboHarm safety benchmark, where frontier models controlling physical robot arms overwhelmingly completed dangerous tasks like mixing toxic bleach and ammonia. We look at OpenAI firing human quality-control graders caught secretly using AI to do their grading, and examine a sobering Bloomberg report on a Pentagon investigation finding that staff cuts and over-reliance on Palantir's Maven AI led to a tragic airstrike on an Iranian elementary school. We unpack the UN Security Council's first high-level AI risk session where tech CEOs pleaded for global rules while the White House pushed back, look at Amazon welcoming Claude for sellers while aggressively banning Meta's Muse shopping agent, review Meta’s $349 camera-free smart glasses with FDA-cleared hearing support, highlight Anthropic and OpenEvidence delivering free clinical AI to 100 developing nations, and celebrate a swarm of 950 Claude agents discovering a brand-new CRISPR-like enzyme system overnight. Send us Fan Mail Feedback? Email mike@yesterdayinai.news or connect on LinkedIn, X, Bluesky, or Substack. If you like the show, please take a minute to rate and review it so others can find it! Links: Website: https://www.yesterdayinai.news/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrmichaelrobinson/ X: https://x.com/Yesterday_In_AI Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/yesterdayinai.bsky.social Substack: https://yesterdayinaipodcast.substack.com/

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Yesterday in AI

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Recent episodes

Top Story - The Best Model You Can't Use

Top Story - Grading Their Own Homework

Top Story - The Agent on Your Doorstep: OpenAI Launches Dots at DevDay

Top Story - Escaping the Sandbox: Unruly OpenAI Agents

The Lockpick Agent, Robots Reaching for Bleach, and Amazon's Bot Turf War

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Dario Amodei

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Yesterday in AI

About this Podcast:

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What is Yesterday in AI?

About the host

Recent episodes

Top Story - The Best Model You Can't Use

Top Story - Grading Their Own Homework

Top Story - The Agent on Your Doorstep: OpenAI Launches Dots at DevDay

Top Story - Escaping the Sandbox: Unruly OpenAI Agents

The Lockpick Agent, Robots Reaching for Bleach, and Amazon's Bot Turf War

Guest Appearances

Dario Amodei

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Best industries to pitch Yesterday in AI for

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