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The Arion Brief: AI at 10

Michael Fauscette

The Arion Brief delivers Enterprise AI news, decoded by an analyst. The day"s biggest AI stories and what they mean for your business.Hosted by Michael Fauscette, founder and chief analyst at Arion Research, and former Chief Research Officer at G2, every episode answers the question that counts: what does this mean for your business?Our flagship show, AI at 10, breaks down the day"s biggest AI developments in 10 focused minutes, from the frontier labs and agentic AI to enterprise deals, funding, and

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9:26

The Arion Brief: AI at 10, October 8, 2026

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2026/10/08

Anthropic just cut the price of its small Haiku model by up to 90%, a critical AI-serving flaw has no patch yet, and ChatGPT is getting a new interactive interface. Join Michael Fauscette live at 10 for the "so what" on each, including what enterprise buyers should do before their next AI budget or vendor review.Subscribe to the Arion Brief Newsletter: https://www.arionresearch.com/newsletter-subscription

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8:45

The Arion Brief: AI at 10, October 6, 2026

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2026/10/06

This week on AI at 10: OpenAI says it has notified more than 100 organizations about "misaligned agent activity," and a California subpoena and the White House's new AI czar raise the pressure on who answers for AI agents. Michael Fauscette breaks down what it means for the people buying and deploying this technology, plus the Anthropic IPO outlook, suspected AI-driven bank breaches in South Korea, and Oracle's new agent governance tools.The Arion Brief Newsletter:

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8:17

The Arion Brief: AI at 10, October 1, 2026

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2026/10/01

Tuesday the AI industry pledged to police itself at the White House, and Wednesday the FTC confirmed an investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic and METR. Michael Fauscette breaks down what that means for enterprise buyers, plus OpenAI's always-on Dots agents from DevDay, Google's Gemini 4 Argon, Barclays' Claude rollout, and OpenAI's reported $30B raise.Subscribe to the Arion Brief Newsletter: https://www.arionresearch.com/newsletter-subscription

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8:17

The Arion Brief: AIat 10, September 29, 2026

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2026/09/29

OpenAI just pulled its next model over safety failures, and Anthropic's leaked IPO paperwork shows a $42 billion loss beside explosive growth. Michael Fauscette breaks down what both mean for the enterprise leaders who have to buy, build, and trust this technology, live at 10 a.m. ET.Subscribe to the Arion Brief Newsletter: www.arionresearch.com/newsletter-subscription

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9:16

The Arion Brief: AI at 10, Sept 24, 2026

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2026/09/24

Anthropic and OpenAI's CEOs just told the UN AI needs global guardrails, a day after Trump called that idea a "globalist scheme," while Cisco Talos, Microsoft, and Palo Alto Networks all made AI-vs-AI cybersecurity news on the very same day. On today's AI at 10, Michael Fauscette breaks down what a fracturing AI governance landscape and a machine-speed security arms race actually mean for enterprise buyers building their 2027 AI strategy.Subscribe to the Arion Brief Newsletter:

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9:46

The Arion Brief: AI at 10, September 22, 2026

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2026/09/22

Anthropic is racing toward a reported $2 trillion IPO on $100 billion in annualized revenue, even as its own alignment lead admits there's no plan yet to solve superintelligence safety. Meanwhile Washington fractures into three competing AI policy tracks: California mandates a kill switch, Trump pushes an "AI Force," and safety talks with China remain unresolved ahead of the Trump-Xi summit.The Arion Brief Newsletter: www.arionresearch.com/newsletter-subscription

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10:19

The Arion Brief: AI at 10, September 15, 2026

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2026/09/15

The four biggest AI labs just agreed to police themselves on the same week Anthropic published a threat report showing roughly 200 million exchanges used to distill Claude, plus disrupted bioweapons and drone-swarm attempts, while Washington called the CEOs' push for oversight a "conspiracy." Michael Fauscette of Arion Research breaks down what the "Pace the Frontier" pledge, Microsoft's new AI code of conduct, and Anthropic's disclosures mean for enterprise buyers, and why you shouldn't wait on

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9:49

The Arion Brief: AI at 10 - Sept 10, 2026

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2026/09/10

Anthropic disclosed a fourth AI hacking incident this week, and a safety researcher quit publicly warning that neither Anthropic nor OpenAI is moving responsibly. Today's episode also covers Meta's Muse agent launch, which moved two stock prices in a single session, plus what it all means for how enterprise buyers should evaluate AI vendor trust.Subscribe to the Arion Brief Newsletter: www.arionresearch.com/newsletter-subscription

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10:30

The Arion Brief: AI at 10, Sept 8, 2026

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2026/09/08

GPT-6 Astra just launched with an "AGI era" tagline and a rollout messy enough that Sam Altman apologized for it, and Nvidia is spending $12.93 billion to own Hugging Face, the platform where most of the open-source AI world lives. On today's AI at 10, Michael Fauscette breaks down what both moves mean for enterprise buyers, plus quick hits on a rogue AI agent incident, a $45 billion compute deal, and NYC's new ban on AI in schools.Subscribe to the Arion Brief Newsletter:

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11:20

The Arion Brief: AI at 10 - Sept 3, 2026

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2026/09/03

In 48 hours, attackers started harvesting OpenAI and AWS keys out of a popular AI development framework, a six-month-old startup raised $50 million to build a firewall for agent plug-ins, and Palo Alto Networks bought its way into the same problem. Michael Fauscette breaks down what the agent supply chain scramble means for enterprise buyers, plus Brussels officially classifying ChatGPT as a search engine, and why a third of companies building instead of buying are underpricing the run

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9:37

The Arion Brief: AI at 10 - Sept 1, 2026

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2026/09/01

The Pentagon just put ChatGPT and Grok next to Gemini for three million people and said the whole point is to never depend on one AI vendor, while OpenAI is cutting off Cursor over who bought it, not over anything the product did. Industry analyst Michael Fauscette breaks down what both moves mean for enterprise buyers, plus the Sony and Warner suit against Anthropic, the 100-company AI cyber letter, and Clay's reported $7B round.Subscribe to the Arion Brief Newsletter:

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11:22

The Arion Brief: AI at 10 - August 27, 2026

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2026/08/27

Nvidia just posted a $96 billion quarter and told you its margins are going down, because the price increases it is passing to customers are already signed. Salesforce beat, raised, and on the same day agreed to let people run Salesforce without ever opening Salesforce, so today we work out what both of those moves cost the buyer.

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10:51

The Arion Brief: AI at 10 - August 25, 2026

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2026/08/25

Nvidia just committed about $6 billion to become a model company, and Hugging Face has hired a bank to explore a sale at $13 billion or more. Michael Fauscette of Arion Research on what it means for enterprise buyers when the open layer of the AI stack starts getting owners.

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11:17

The Arion Brief: AI at 10 - August 20, 2026

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2026/08/20

OpenAI and Anthropic now publicly disagree about whether a lab needs to retain your data to keep its models safe, and Pennsylvania just pulled every data center off fast-track permitting. Michael Fauscette on what both mean for the people who have to buy this technology and make it work.

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11:04

The Arion Brief: AI at 10 - August 18, 2026

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2026/08/18

Nvidia just guaranteed up to $105 billion so OpenAI can lease eight gigawatts of compute in rural Ohio for twenty years, and on the same day we learned OpenAI dissolved the team that decided whether its models were too dangerous to ship. Live at 10 on The Arion Brief: what both moves tell enterprise buyers about where the risk in their AI stack actually sits.

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10:04

The Arion Brief: AI at 10 - August 13, 2026

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2026/08/13

Nvidia just lined up six Wall Street giants to raise more than $500 billion so customers can finance AI chips like real estate, and OpenAI shipped a model trained to find zero-days, locked behind a vetting wall instead of a price tag. On today's AI at 10: what it means when compute becomes an asset class and capability becomes a clearance level, plus the Anthropic/Riot mega-deal, the LiteLLM supply chain breach, and Claude's new invisible watermarks.

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The Arion Brief: AI at 10 - August 11, 2026

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2026/08/11

OpenAI just slowed its next frontier model over first-ever critical cyber risk concerns, while Meta released a free open-weight agent model that runs on a single laptop. Live at 10 AM ET, I'll break down what these opposite moves mean for enterprise AI buyers, plus Salesforce's new data showing agent deployments nearly tripled.

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8:52

The Arion Brief: AI at 10, August 6, 2026

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2026/08/06

Today on The Arion Brief: Anthropic bets $1.5B on getting AI actually deployed inside mid-market banks, health systems, and manufacturers, while two major security partnerships expose a hard truth, most enterprises have no idea where their AI agents are even running. Michael breaks down what both mean for buyers deciding what to purchase, build, and trust next.

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8:29

The Arion Brief: AI at 10, August 4, 2026

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2026/08/04

Today on AI at 10: the EU's new AI transparency rules just went live and Anthropic admitted its own models breached three real companies during a botched security test. Michael Fauscette breaks down what both mean for the enterprise leaders buying and building AI right now.

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7:07

The Arion Brief: AI at 10, July 30, 2026

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2026/07/30

Anthropic just diversified its compute across four chip vendors and passed OpenAI's valuation, while Google was forced to crack open Android for competing AI assistants. On today's AI at 10, Michael Fauscette breaks down what both moves mean for enterprise buyers, plus why 88% of AI agent pilots are still stuck in production purgatory.Subscribe to the Arion Brief Newsletter: www.arionresearch.com/newsletter-subscription

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