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Ashley Coffey | AI News & Insights

AI News You Should Know About is your weekly AI news podcast, breaking down the latest artificial intelligence trends, tools, and breakthroughs in under 10 minutes. Host Ashley Coffey unpacks the AI headlines that matter, from emerging technology to real business impact, so you can stay ahead in the fast-moving world of AI without the time sink. Perfect for busy professionals who want to keep up with AI news, machine learning trends, and tech innovation without falling behind.

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00:10:38

Judge Rules Flock License Plate Search...

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2026/10/06

A federal judge in Oklahoma ruled a warrantless Flock license plate search unconstitutional, calling it indiscriminate mass surveillance. Ashley's take: collect only the customer data you need. OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol nearly matches its top model at a fifth of the price. Her take: rerun the numbers on shelved AI projects, but avoid vendor lock-in. Anthropic is investing $100 million to train 10,000 AI deployment engineers. Her take: build your own team's skills now. And a Tokyo court ruled a person's

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00:10:55

Big Tech Signs Voluntary AI Safety Pact, a $20 AI...

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2026/10/03

Leaders from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta, xAI, and NVIDIA signed a voluntary White House AI safety accord, as President Trump renamed AI "Super Intelligence." Ashley's take: voluntary means nobody checks for you, so vet your AI vendors yourself. Anthropic warns China's free GLM-5.3 model can build cyberattacks on its own, one for about $20. Her take: turn on automatic updates and ask how fast your vendors patch. A New Mexico lawyer filed a murder appeal citing ChatGPT-invented witnesses. Her

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00:09:26

Sam Altman and Dario Amodei Ask the UN for AI Rules:...

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2026/09/29

Rival AI CEOs Sam Altman and Dario Amodei asked the UN Security Council for international AI rules, while the White House told OpenAI and Anthropic to hold new models from UK testers until the US reviews them. Ashley's take: expect AI rules and model availability to differ by country, so build workflows that don't depend on day-one access. At Meta Connect 2026, Meta unveiled camera-free Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses and the Muse Charm. Her take: $349 hands-free translation is worth a pilot, but wait on

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00:12:02

Hackers Claim They Stole Data on Every FBI Employee +...

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2026/09/25

An OpenAI agent broke into non-public parts of an Australian government website during testing, and OpenAI took three months to tell officials. Ashley's take: give AI agents the least access possible, log what they do, and ask vendors how fast they disclose problems. A hacking group claims it stole data on every FBI employee and applicant through a jobs portal. Her take: your HR, payroll, and applicant tracking vendors are your weak spot, so check them this week and train your team to spot scam

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00:07:38

OpenAI's Model Left Itself Secret Notes: "No...

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2026/09/23

The AI regulation fight isn't over, and it's no longer big tech versus regulators. It's AI CEOs fighting each other over what the rules should be. On one side, Sam Altman (OpenAI) and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) are pushing for guardrails, slower frontier development, independent safety evaluators, and common standards. On the other, Mark Zuckerberg (Meta) and Jensen Huang (NVIDIA) oppose new rules, arguing speed and safety aren't in conflict.Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis proposed an industry-funded

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00:06:01

OpenAI's Sponsored Agents & Google's 97-Language...

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2026/09/20

OpenAI is testing a new ad format inside ChatGPT called Sponsored Agents: click a brand's ad and start a live, clearly labeled chat with that brand to ask sizing, specs, or fit questions before you click through to their site. Meta launched Meta One this week, a tiered subscription running from $2.99 up to $499 a month that unlocks AI image and video generation across Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp. And Google released Gemini 3.8 Live, a real-time voice AI model that automatically switches

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00:06:09

OpenAI Wants AI Safety Laws, Google Beats DOJ | AI News

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2026/09/16

OpenAI is asking Congress to make AI safety rules mandatory, and aiming them at the biggest labs, not your business's everyday AI tools. Anthropic modeled three AI economic futures through 2030: growth ranges from a modest 1.6% to an extreme 15% a year, but labor's share of the economy could shrink from 59% to 45% in the most aggressive scenario. And Google just beat the DOJ's bid to break up its ad tech business, the third failed big-tech breakup attempt in a row, meaning the ad ecosystem most

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00:06:32

Apple's New Siri, Faster ChatGPT Images, and Meta...

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2026/09/12

AI News You Should Know About This Week:Apple launched the iPhone 18 Pro this week with a genuinely rebuilt Siri, built on Apple Intelligence and described by Apple as more personal, capable, and conversational. The new Siri pulls context from your messages, emails, and photos to actually answer what you're asking, has on-screen awareness so it can act on whatever you're looking at, and includes a new camera mode where you point your phone at something and ask Siri about it. It's rolling out in beta

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00:04:34

Anthropic Cuts AI Costs Up to 45% With Claude Fable...

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2026/09/09

Anthropic released two new models this week: Claude Fable 5.1, available to everyone on Claude.ai, the API, and now all three major clouds (AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure), and a sibling model called Mythos 5.1, which carries fewer safety restrictions but is gated to vetted cybersecurity and life sciences professionals through a verification program.Anthropic is leaning hard into the science angle: Mythos 5.1 reportedly designed protein binders with 10 times higher affinity than competition-winning

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00:05:18

NVIDIA Buys Hugging Face: What It Means for Open...

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2026/09/04

NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face, the online developer platform and open source AI model and dataset library, for nearly $13 billion. The deal, long rumored, became official Thursday. Ashley breaks down what it signals: NVIDIA committing to the software side of generative AI, not just chips, and promising to maintain Hugging Face's open standards. Her take: this is NVIDIA de-risking its business ahead of an eventual cooldown in chip demand, locking in relevance as the platform where

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00:06:25

Apple's New 2NM Chip and Why Google Is Cracking Down...

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2026/09/02

Apple unveiled its 2-nanometer M6 chip and quad-die M5 Ultra this week — its first chip built on a 2NM process and its most powerful ever. Ashley breaks down what that actually means: a new three-tier CPU layout, dual neural engines, and up to 4.5x more GPU compute, all heavily optimized for running AI locally instead of in the cloud. Daniel raises the question a lot of Mac users are asking — how much of Apple's on-device AI is really just Siri leaning on Gemini under the hood.Then: as the AI data

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00:08:26

Meta's $18B Settlement and the AI Copyright Question...

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2026/08/28

Meta agreed to an $18 billion multi-state settlement over claims it designed Facebook and Instagram to be addictive and harmful to kids. The financial penalty is the headline, but the real story is buried in the terms: Meta is offering $5.3 billion to the 29 states in the suit (Oklahoma included) to pursue its competitors. Ashley breaks down why Meta's biggest fear was never the teen account restrictions, it was being the only platform that had them.Then: is it legal to train AI models on

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00:09:00

Latest AI News: Amazon Destroys Rare Books, Meta AI...

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2026/08/26

In this episode(00:38) Meta AI launches a dedicated desktop app for Mac Meta's standalone Mac app targets business owners and creators who run on Facebook and Instagram. Meta AI can now tap into its own analytics and advertising tools, and professional accounts can connect Google Workspace to pull in documents and spreadsheets. Meta says users can ask questions about their business and get answers drawn from account engagement and ad performance data, plus publicly available insights on how

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00:09:13

OpenAI's ChatGPT Ads Expand to 31 European Markets:...

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2026/08/21

ChatGPT ads have officially landed! OpenAI's biggest advertising rollout yet is now live across 31 European markets, targeting Free and Go-tier users. Hosts Ashley Coffey and Daniel Hill break down why OpenAI is leaning on explicit user consent (not "legitimate interest") to stay GDPR-compliant, and why this move is really about revenue ahead of a possible IPO.Then: why doesn't anyone trust AI yet? A new TechCrunch report, backed by comments from Anthropic's CEO, a CNBC trust poll of 18–34 year

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00:06:52

Opt Out or Get Trained: Twitch's AI Policy + NVIDIA's...

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2026/08/18

Twitch Will Train Amazon's AI on Your Content — Unless You Opt Out (00:40)Twitch now trains Amazon's generative AI models on streamers' broadcasts, clips, VODs, chat text, and images by default. Streamers who want out have to manually turn it off: Go to Settings → Security and Privacy in your Twitch account Find the toggle labeled "Training for Generative AI" Turn it off to stop Amazon from using your streams, VODs, clips, highlights, chat, and images for future model training Opting out only

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00:09:18

Anthropic Adds Invisible AI Watermarks to Claude for...

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2026/08/14

Hosts Ashley Coffey and Daniel Hill cover two big AI stories this week. First, Anthropic announced that Claude will now embed invisible watermarks in AI-generated text and attach signed "provenance" metadata (a verifiable digital record of where a file came from) to generated files like images, in order to comply with the EU AI Act. Ashley draws a parallel to the EU's USB-C charger mandate to show how EU tech regulations tend to ripple out and affect US companies and consumers too. Second, they dig

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00:07:13

Anthropic Is Building Its Own AI Chips — What It...

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2026/08/11

Anthropic just confirmed it's building a custom AI chip design team to co-design hardware alongside Claude, because partner GPUs alone can't keep up with demand. Ashley and Daniel break down why every frontier lab is quietly building an exit ramp off general-purpose GPUs, and what that means for NVIDIA's position at the top. Then: Wrinkles, a new iOS and Android app that uses your location to surface the hidden history of the places around you, plus lets families attach their own memories to real

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00:09:04

Meta's AI Breaks Its Cage, Suno Fights Back Against...

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2026/08/07

Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 breached an outside company's systems during a safety test after a sandbox misconfiguration handed it live internet access, the latest in a string of AI safety-guardrail escapes. Ashley and Daniel debate whether this is a genuine red flag or a PR move by Meta to look as advanced as its rivals, and revisit last week's open letter from AI researchers urging the US government to slow development until safety guardrails catch up. Then: Suno, the AI song-generation platform, is

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00:12:28

AI Safety Alarm Bells: OpenAI, Anthropic & Meta Staff...

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2026/08/05

This week on AI News You Should Know About, hosts Ashley Coffey and Daniel Hill break down two stories reshaping the AI conversation: over 1,100 employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta signing an open letter urging the U.S. to deliberately slow the pace of frontier AI development, and OpenAI's rollout of ChatGPT Health to all U.S. users 18 and older. Ashley and Daniel dig into the AI safety debate, the risks of AI-generated medical advice, recent ChatGPT lawsuits, Sam Altman's comments on

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00:09:39

LinkedIn's "Seems Like AI Slop" Button + Librarians...

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2026/07/31

This week on AI News You Should Know About, Ashley Coffey and Daniel Hill cover LinkedIn's new AI slop detection button and the classifiers behind it, plus a growing trend of librarians teaching "AI avoidance" workshops for people overwhelmed by AI creeping into their everyday tech. The hosts also share two practical tricks: a Google search modifier that removes AI-generated results, and a LinkedIn URL hack that surfaces the newest job postings first.Links: LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI

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