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Anthropic calls for a global AI development pause, revealing that 80% of its code is now written by Claude. Plus: Google signs a $920M/month compute deal with SpaceX, a Canadian research team demonstrates an AI worm that adapts its attacks per target, and ChatGPT launches self-updating memory.
Show notes →Researchers hijacked Google Gemini through a WhatsApp message, and Meta's AI chatbot handed over Instagram passwords to hackers — two incidents that expose a structural flaw in how AI agents handle trust. Plus: DeepSeek raises $7.4B, Anthropic files for IPO, Microsoft unveils its own models, and Canada launches a $200B national AI strategy.
Show notes →Microsoft Build unveiled a full agentic AI stack with seven in-house models, while Anthropic filed its S-1 and Nvidia reimagined the PC as a local agent machine. We also cover OpenAI Codex going white-collar, the open research brain drain, Trump's new AI executive order, and why GitHub Copilot pricing is burning developer budgets overnight.
Show notes →Hackers hijacked high-profile Instagram accounts by simply chatting with Meta's AI support bot — no malware needed. Today we also cover Anthropic's trillion-dollar IPO filing, NVIDIA's agentic laptop chip, the AI coding cost crisis hitting enterprises, and why governance is now the real AI bottleneck.
Show notes →Amazon killed its internal AI leaderboard after employees gamed it with pointless tasks, spotlighting the enterprise tokenmaxxing crisis burning through budgets with zero ROI. Plus: Karpathy joins Anthropic, Grok collapses a simulated town, and why outcome-based AI metrics are the real competitive advantage of 2026.
Show notes →Robinhood hands AI agents wallets and credit cards to trade stocks autonomously, marking the clearest shift yet from AI-as-assistant to AI-as-principal. Also covered: Cognition's $26B Devin raise, Claude Opus 4.8 beating GPT-5.5, OpenAI solving the enterprise firewall problem for MCP, and why the FBI just created a new crime category for AI fraud.
Show notes →Chan Zuckerberg Biohub releases a world model of protein biology spanning 6.8 billion proteins, signaling AI's leap from predicting biology to programming it. Plus: Pope Leo XIV's landmark AI encyclical, a new benchmark that breaks the coding leaderboard, and why AI leaders are walking back job apocalypse predictions just in time for their IPOs.
Show notes →ClickUp fires 22% of staff and deploys 3,000 AI agents while Sam Altman admits he was wrong about AI job losses. Today's briefing also covers the Pope's landmark AI encyclical, xAI's coding agent launch, Karpathy joining Anthropic, and critical AI security vulnerabilities every enterprise leader needs to know about.
Show notes →After nearly 16 years at Google, Chiel is now a Managing Director at PwC Canada helping business leaders turn the agentic AI wave into durable advantage. Ambient Advantage is the podcast he wished existed when he started — briefings designed for busy executives, not engineers.
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