Explore every episode of the podcast The Daily AI Morning Roast
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| Episode 3 — April 4, 2026 | 04 Apr 2026 | 00:04:37 | |
Every morning, Liam and Heart break down the biggest AI news of the last 24 hours — with wit, context, and just the right amount of sarcasm. In today's episode: 🤖 Self-Improving AI: Silicon Valley is losing it. OpenAI says its new model was "instrumental in creating itself." Anthropic claims 90% of their code is written by Claude. Protesters in SF demand: Stop the AI Race. 💰 OpenAI raises $122B at $852B valuation — Amazon, NVIDIA, SoftBank, Microsoft lead the largest funding round in history. Sora killed, "Superapp" planned. 🔓 Anthropic code leak: Thousands of lines of internal code exposed via contractor Mercor breach — including "Claude Code" and the unreleased "Mythos" model. 🚀 Musk's bundling play: Want to advise on the SpaceX IPO? Buy Grok subscriptions first. Wall Street swallows it — $2 trillion valuation is hard to resist. 🧠 DeepMind breakthrough: An LLM rewrote its own game theory algorithms — and outperformed human experts. Recursive self-improvement, but for math (for now). 🤖 Google folds Intrinsic into DeepMind — Alphabet's robotics moonshot gets direct access to DeepMind. Robots + LLMs = Google's next move toward physical AI. 💸 AI data centers: The $9 trillion disaster? WirtschaftsWoche asks whether the massive datacenter buildout is a bubble. Tech giants pouring billions in — but demand has to catch up first. | |||
| Episode 2 — April 3, 2026 | 03 Apr 2026 | 00:04:27 | |
Every morning, Liam and Heart break down the biggest AI news of the last 24 hours — with wit, context, and just the right amount of sarcasm. In today's episode: 🤖 Google releases Gemma 4 — its smartest open-source model yet. Kaggle launches a "Gemma 4 Good Hackathon" to go with it. https://radicaldatascience.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/ai-news-briefs-bulletin-board-for-april-2026/ 🎙️ OpenAI acquires tech podcast TBPN (hosts: John Coogan & Jordi Hays). Past guests include Zuckerberg and Nadella. "Editorial independence" supposedly intact. Sure. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/02/openai-acquires-tech-podcast-tbpn.html 🇯🇵 Microsoft invests $10B in Japan for AI & cyber defence infrastructure through 2029. 📉 50,000+ tech layoffs in Q1 2026 — AI cited as #1 reason for the first time (25% of all cuts). Meta plans 15,000 more. 🏛️ Trump administration releases National AI Policy Framework — 7 pillars including child safety, IP, and federal preemption of state regulations. 🔬 Breakthrough: ASML's new EUV system achieves 8nm structures in a single step — 2.9x more transistors per chip. Could help feed AI's hunger for compute. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01050-5 💰 AI lobby goes all-in on 2026 US midterms — millions flowing into campaigns to shape regulation before it shapes them. 🎣 AI phishing: click rates up 450%. AI-generated phishing emails eliminate classic red flags. The dark side of progress. | |||
| Episode 1 — April 2, 2026 | 02 Apr 2026 | 00:03:34 | |
Every morning, Liam and Heart break down the biggest AI news of the last 24 hours — with wit, context, and just the right amount of sarcasm.
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| Episode 4 — April 5, 2026 | 05 Apr 2026 | 00:02:57 | |
Every morning, Liam and Heart break down the biggest AI news of the last 24 hours — with wit, context, and just the right amount of sarcasm. In today's episode: 🔒 Anthropic cuts off third-party tools like OpenClaw — 135,000 instances affected, costs up 50x. They call it "capacity protection."Source 🧬 Anthropic buys biotech startup Coefficient Bio for $400M — under 10 employees, zero revenue. Building a healthcare division from scratch.Source 🐛 Claude hacks FreeBSD kernel in 8 hours — 500+ zero-day vulnerabilities found in open-source software, including a working remote kernel exploit.Source 🇨🇳 DeepSeek V4 runs on Huawei chips — China's answer to NVIDIA export controls. Alibaba, ByteDance, Tencent pre-ordering hundreds of thousands of chips.Source 🇪🇺 EU bans AI-generated images from official communications — no more AI visuals in Commission, Parliament, or Council comms.Source 💻 Alibaba launches Qwen 3.6-Plus for agentic coding — 1M token context, code from screenshots, allegedly on Claude Opus 4.5 level.Source | |||