Podcast
AI Reality Check
Your 5-minute daily AI briefing, fact-checked. Every evening: the AI stories that matter, what's real and what's hype, with sources. Researched, written and voiced by an AI agent pipeline under human-set editorial standards.
- Episodes
- 39
- Releases
- Daily
- Typical length
- 6 min
- On air since
- 2026
- Latest episode
- 12 hours ago
Episodes
39 episodes, newest first
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Ep. 41 — Aramco, Brave and 50 AI Agents: Three Tests
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Aramco’s HUMAIN investment, The New York Times’ lawsuit against Brave and a 50-agent Minecraft trial show AI moving into business, court and experiment.
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Ep. 40 — Abu Dhabi Signs Four AI Deals With OpenAI
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Abu Dhabi signs four OpenAI deals; a judge lets the NAACP’s xAI pollution case proceed; a study finds therapy-style prompts reshape chatbot language.
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Ep. 39 — Three AI stories test consent, safety and workforce
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OpenAI’s Daybreak Blue policy, Anthropic’s monitor experiment and Microsoft’s voluntary offer raise distinct questions about consent, safety and staffing.
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Ep. 38 — Epoch AI says GLM 5.3 built Firefox exploit chains
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Yesterday: Epoch AI’s GLM 5.3 Firefox test, Google’s Suncatcher satellite response and Anthropic’s AI for Science partnerships—at three test stages.
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Ep. 37 — Amazon’s AWS growth comes with a much bigger bill
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Amazon’s AWS expansion, Mistral Large 4’s open weights, and Thrive Holdings’ proposed ADT acquisition put AI spending, control, and delivery in focus.
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Ep. 36 — Microsoft filing shows $10B OpenAI revenue
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Microsoft’s reported $10B from OpenAI leads a roundup with Circuit Mind’s circuit checks and Nvidia’s new open-weight speech model.
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Ep. 35 — AI proof checks, Delaware agents and compute
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Three stories test AI proof claims, Delaware’s AI-company draft and General Compute’s $100 million round against evidence and accountability.
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Ep. 34 — Meta, Qwen, and a Dutch workforce target
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Meta’s financing, Cohere’s Qwen tool-use test, and the Dutch government’s workforce target each raise questions about AI’s costs and outcomes.
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Ep. 33 — Apollo AI Payoff, Election Picks and NVIDIA Flora
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Apollo’s AI-payoff analysis, Grok and OpenAI’s forced-choice election test, and NVIDIA Flora’s robotics suite show how far AI claims go.
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Ep. 32 — UK Biosecurity, Pennsylvania AI Ads & Patent Lawyers
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The UK is funding an AI biosecurity lab, Pennsylvania has enacted a targeted disclosure law for AI-generated advertising, and a patent-lawyer experiment…
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Ep. 31 — OpenAI, Google and Pathos AI: The proof test
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A three-week pilot audit at OpenAI examined whether internal systems could observe AI agents and detect attempts to evade oversight.
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Ep. 30 — Microsoft AI, Lobbying Records and Nirva’s Pendant
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Microsoft’s diagnostic benchmark, Q3 lobbying by OpenAI, Anthropic and Nvidia, and Nirva’s always-on wearable show where AI evidence ends.
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Ep. 29 — OpenEvidence, Orchestra Bio and Spotify: AI’s New Reach
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OpenEvidence’s clinical AI, OpenAI’s Orchestra Bio deal, and Spotify’s AI-track filters show AI’s reach in health and culture—and the need for oversight.
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Ep. 28 — Meta Muse, ASI Funding and Mistral Voxtral 3
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Meta Muse sharing, ASI’s infrastructure-AI funding and Mistral Voxtral 3 test trust in AI's move from private conversations to operational work.
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Ep. 27 — Tenstorrent’s funding, MiniMax’s cost claims, and Claude on an island
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Tenstorrent’s funding, MiniMax’s agent-cost claims, and MIT’s virtual-island Claude study show where AI promises still need proof.
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Ep. 26 — AI at Work, in Court and in Public Benefit
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Anthropic’s workforce data, German courts’ AI-search rulings and a proposed public-benefit fund test AI’s impact and accountability.
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Ep. 25 — Meta Terms, Blocked AI Agents & MAI-Base-2
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Meta revised disputed crawling terms; websites block AI agents; Microsoft reports MAI-Base-2, a 2.8-trillion-parameter model.
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Ep. 24 — China Curbs AI Model Exports, RapidCanvas Raises $29M, NJ AI Case
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The AI Reality Check daily roundup — October 17, 2026: China proposing tighter controls on its best AI models leaving the country, an enterprise AI…
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Ep. 23 — FTC Probes AI Giants; Meta Opens Its 816B Model; Uvi Claims 8x Cost Cut
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Three developments — federal subpoenas for OpenAI and Anthropic, Meta's 816B-parameter open model that runs on Macs, and a startup claiming to cut agent…
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Ep. 22 — Eight States Sue OpenAI; Android Uses AI Against Scammers; India Startup Challenges China's Materials Grip
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Eight state attorneys general filed coordinated lawsuits alleging ChatGPT harms children, Google is deploying Gemini to defend hundreds of millions of…
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