OpenAI Drops Adult Chatbot and Sora

Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into Anthropic's back-to-back data leaks exposing Claude Code source and a secret frontier model called Mythos, OpenAI killing its adult chatbot and shuttering Sora, a record $122 billion funding round ahead of IPO, Apple letting third-party AI plug into Siri, university students fighting AI with typewriters, quantum researchers warning encryption could crack sooner than expected, and new AI video models from Google and ByteDance.

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Chapters:

• 0:00:00 - Start
• 0:09:31 - Claude Code's source code appears to have leaked: here's what we know
• 0:17:59 - Exclusive: Anthropic acknowledges testing new AI model representing ‘step change’ in capabilities, after accidental data leak reveals its existence
• 0:20:57 - Can we talk for a second about my time with Claude Cowork?
• 0:38:09 - The Sudden Fall of OpenAI’s Most Hyped Product Since ChatGPT
• 0:43:53 - OpenAI closes record-breaking $122 billion funding round as anticipation builds for IPO
• 0:45:13 - Apple Plans to Open Up Siri to Rival AI Assistants Beyond ChatGPT in iOS 27
• 0:50:26 - College students are writing with AI – but a pilot study finds they’re not simply letting it write for them
• 0:54:17 - University students fight artificial intelligence with vintage typewriters
• 1:02:14 - Exclusive: Anthropic acknowledges testing new AI model representing ‘step change’ in capabilities, after accidental data leak reveals its existence
• 1:05:49 - Google commits to video generation, announces Veo 3.1 Lite
• 1:06:45 - ByteDance's new AI video generation model, Dreamina Seedance 2.0, comes to CapCut
• 1:08:03 - Meta launches two new Ray-Ban glasses designed for prescription wearers
• 1:10:14 - Google Gemini now lets you import your chats and data from other AI apps
• 1:12:50 - Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds

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