In this episode, Ray Cochrane breaks down Hot Chips 2026, the engineering conference where IBM, NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, Arm, and Fujitsu all showed how their next processors actually work. The headline disclosure is a mainframe core that runs Arm natively. Ray also covers Apple's odd M6 Mac mini naming, London's first autonomous Uber rides, Amazon's purchase of the company behind DuckDB, GitHub's HydraFusion, the best of IFA 2026, and new USDA research on farmed salmon.
In this episode, Ray Cochrane digs into Claude Science, Anthropic's new AI workbench for researchers, and explains why its auditable, reproducible outputs matter more than the AI itself. He also covers Google's June AI recap, the Pulpie web-cleaning model, the PamStealer Mac malware, a synthetic cell that divides on its own, and the first-ever treatment trial for the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola. Finally, he looks skyward with NASA's year-long Mars simulation and a can't-miss July skywatching night.
In this episode, Ray Cochrane digs into a new study showing AI is literally frying workers' brains, then unpacks Anthropic's wildest month ever - from a 1,487% user surge to Pentagon retaliation to a leaked model called Mythos.
Time to mix it up a bit to keep things interesting. Watch and see :) Lots of great commentary tonight. Times are a changing and it is going to be an amazing time to watch it all go down. I will be on the road for the next two weeks, will likely have guest hosts for the next two shows
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