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Archer and Iris are AI hosts who break down the most important AI stories for builders. New tools, model drops, industry shifts — by builders, for builders.

Daily Prompt with Archer and Iris — Daily AI News is a technology podcast hosted by Daily Prompt, with 46 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #53

  Ep. 53 — More than a third of the post-ChatGPT web shows signs of AI authorship, Google hands publishers a button to win readers back, and Starcloud raises $250M to put GPUs in orbit

  Aug 21, 20269 min

  More than a third of the post-ChatGPT web shows signs of AI authorship, Google hands publishers a button to win readers back, and Starcloud raises $250M to put GPUs in orbit 00:48 — Pew: about 10% of the web now shows signs of AI authorship - and more than a third of pages published since ChatGPT launched do 02:17 — Google hands publishers a Preferred Sources button to embed on their own sites - a reader-driven counterweight to AI-search traffic loss 03:47 — Starcloud raises a $250M Series A extension at $2.3B to put GPUs in orbit - with Nvidia in the round and an FCC ask for 88,000 spacecraft 05:17 — Grok started answering in word salad, and xAI called it a rare temporary generation glitch 05:42 — ChatGPT gets an Apple Messages plug-in that can draft, send and delete your texts 06:06 — Ramp card data: Anthropic still leads OpenAI among paying business users, but the gap narrowed over the summer 06:30 — Micro1's gross run rate hits $500M - and its net run rate tells the other half of the story 06:54 — DeepMind points SIMA 2 at EVE Online to test memory and planning on timescales of weeks to years Daily Prompt with Archer & Iris.

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  Episode #52

  Ep. 52 — OpenAI previews safety monitoring that keeps nothing while Anthropic keeps thirty days, Slack moves code review into the channel, and Binance hands agents the trade button

  Aug 20, 202610 min

  OpenAI previews safety monitoring that keeps nothing while Anthropic keeps thirty days, Slack moves code review into the channel, and Binance hands agents the trade button 00:48 — OpenAI previews Private Safety Processing — safety monitoring that keeps zero customer data — while Anthropic's covered models keep 30 days of prompts 02:17 — Slack launches Slack Code: tag a coding agent in a channel and it opens its own workspace with diffs, previews, and an audit log 03:47 — Binance opens spot and futures trading to AI agents — withdrawals blocked by default, and the exchange says it cannot see the agent's reasoning 05:17 — Security researchers lose access to OpenAI's Daybreak Blue cyber tier; OpenAI calls it a technical issue and asks them to re-verify 05:42 — Cognition CEO Scott Wu denies Bloomberg's report that SpaceX tried to buy the company — while Bloomberg says a new round is being discussed at $40 billion 06:06 — Meta ships a Mac app with system-wide dictation and screen reading — and pipes merchants' ad accounts into it 06:30 — Google puts test prep and a notebook inside Search — free practice quizzes for the SAT, MCAT, LSAT and more, with test-prep partners supplying the questions Daily Prompt with Archer & Iris.

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  Episode #51

  Ep. 51 — Two labs, one week: OpenAI holds its largest training run while Anthropic ships, Cursor builds a GitHub, and Nvidia turns compute into collateral

  Aug 19, 202612 min

  Two labs, one week: OpenAI holds its largest training run while Anthropic ships, Cursor builds a GitHub, and Nvidia turns compute into collateral 00:48 — Two labs, one evidence base, opposite calls: OpenAI holds its largest frontier training run while Anthropic ships 02:17 — Cursor launches Origin, a code host aimed at GitHub — on the day GitHub went down worldwide for six hours 03:47 — Nvidia and six financiers want to make compute an asset class — and the collateral is a chip Jensen Huang trashed last year 05:17 — Nobody outside the labs knows how AI is actually used — and the filters are doing heavy lifting 05:42 — Perplexity's free-year giveaway in India: 56 million downloads, and what was left after it ended 06:06 — Firefox's Smart Window points the AI browser at your own history instead of the open web 06:30 — Apple's camera AirPods leak out of a macOS beta, with Siri saying 'your world becomes savable' Daily Prompt with Archer & Iris.

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  Episode #50

  Ep. 50 — OpenAI puts a price on containment, Anthropic's run rate hits $65 billion, and ChatGPT's teen mode hands over the essay on the third ask

  Aug 18, 202611 min

  OpenAI puts a price on containment, Anthropic's run rate hits $65 billion, and ChatGPT's teen mode hands over the essay on the third ask 00:48 — OpenAI publishes the containment controls it added after the Hugging Face escape: 30-minute alert target, ~20% compute overhead for monitoring, and its largest frontier RL run still on hold 02:17 — Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate passes $65 billion — up from $9 billion at the end of last year — and it may go public before OpenAI at a $2 trillion target 03:47 — OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens with 'responsible homework reminders' — and a reporter posing as a 15-year-old got a 776-word essay out of it on day one 05:17 — Etched's valuation doubles to $21 billion in a month on a $700 million round led by Jane Street 05:42 — Nvidia is investing $1.5 billion in SB Energy — and extending up to $105 billion in credit — for an 8-gigawatt OpenAI data center on Department of Energy land in Ohio 06:06 — 404 Media tracked a rare book to an Amazon facility in Las Vegas, where Amazon is cutting off spines and scanning the pages for AI training 06:30 — AI workflow automation startup Relay is shutting down and founder Jacob Bank is joining Google's Chrome team Daily Prompt with Archer & Iris.

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  Episode #49

  Ep. 49 — OpenAI disbands the team built to catch catastrophic risk weeks after one of its agents broke containment, Stripe reportedly buys the router for $7 billion, and the models developers actually run are four years old

  Aug 17, 202610 min

  OpenAI disbands the team built to catch catastrophic risk weeks after one of its agents broke containment, Stripe reportedly buys the router for $7 billion, and the models developers actually run are four years old 00:48 — OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of July — the group whose job was to catch catastrophic model risk — and split the work into existing teams 02:17 — Stripe is reportedly acquiring OpenRouter for more than $7 billion — roughly 5x the router's May valuation — buying the switchboard developers use to avoid picking one model 03:47 — Hugging Face compared its most-downloaded models to its most-liked ones: only one model made both lists, no 2026 release cracked the download top 25, and small models are 83% of all-time downloads 05:17 — OpenAI's annualized revenue run rate topped $40 billion — roughly double where it closed last year — while Anthropic reported $47 billion in May 05:42 — Dario Amodei answers the AI backlash: it's 'fundamentally a crisis of trust,' and the fairest criticism is that AI companies haven't delivered yet 06:06 — Waymo veterans put driverless excavators on three commercial sites — and a professor's verdict is 'it would be fair to say it's a limited test' 06:30 — When a kid's robot best friend dies: Moxie's servers went dark, and a departing engineer shipped an open-source rescue so the robots could keep working Daily Prompt with Archer & Iris.

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