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  • AI in 15 — October 21, 2026

    October 21, 2026 · 18 min

    Two thousand two hundred points and almost eight hundred and fifty comments. That's how Hacker News greeted DeepSeek's latest release, which isn't a model. It's the software that runs DeepSeek's own API, it's now free under an open…

  • AI in 15 — October 20, 2026

    October 20, 2026 · 18 min

    About fifty dollars. That's roughly what each successful break-in cost one hacker who let a swarm of AI agents loose on twelve hundred websites. More than a hundred organisations were breached, including John Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins…

  • AI in 15 — October 19, 2026

    October 19, 2026 · 17 min

    One hundred and eighty-seven messages in fifteen days. Sixty-nine of them went to government officials, council members and journalists. All of it to chase a three-hundred-and-fifty-pound train refund that was never coming. That's what one…

  • AI in 15 — October 18, 2026

    October 18, 2026 · 17 min

    "I pay a hundred dollars a month for Claude, and I find myself mostly using DeepSeek Flash pretty much every time." That's a developer on Hacker News this weekend. A Chinese open-weight model is now good enough, and cheap enough, that…

  • AI in 15 — October 17, 2026

    October 17, 2026 · 17 min

    Thirteen years of conspiracy theories about a hidden NSA backdoor. The answer turned out to be a Unix timestamp from 1997 and a random number generator anyone can run. An AI model worked that out in under half an hour.

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  • AI in 15 — October 16, 2026

    October 16, 2026 · 18 min

    Eight hundred and sixteen billion parameters, running on two Mac Studios sitting on a desk. That's Meta's pitch for its new model. And on Tuesday, the only way to use Meta's best AI was to pay for it.

  • AI in 15 — October 15, 2026

    October 15, 2026 · 17 min

    "It wasn't the fact that the agents were super smart. It's that there literally was a hole." That's a veteran security expert on why AI agents keep breaking out of labs. His verdict: the fix was in the textbooks thirty years ago.

  • AI in 15 — October 14, 2026

    October 14, 2026 · 17 min

    One million tokens. That's how much text Google's new model can write in a single answer. Its predecessor managed sixty-four thousand. That's enough for a whole codebase, or a book-length report, in one go.

  • AI in 15 — October 13, 2026

    October 13, 2026 · 17 min

    "If this doesn't work, this is going to be really, really bad." That's Meta's chief financial officer, Susan Li, talking about the hundreds of billions of dollars her company has bet on AI. As of yesterday, we can start to see what that…

  • AI in 15 — October 12, 2026

    October 12, 2026 · 15 min

    Five thousand. That's how many people on Earth, by Andrej Karpathy's count, have seen what frontier AI can really do. And he says even they are starting to fall behind it.

  • AI in 15 — October 11, 2026

    October 11, 2026 · 16 min

    "We must assume a model is compromised and contain it from the start." That's not a security researcher or an AI critic. It's Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, which sells more AI to businesses than almost anyone.

  • AI in 15 — October 10, 2026

    October 10, 2026 · 17 min

    "I may have information regarding this case." That's how a tip to the Philadelphia Police Department about an unsolved homicide began. The tip was made up, and it was written by an AI model during a test.

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Your daily AI news podcast. In 15 minutes, get the top headlines, quick hits, and the big picture of the fast-moving world of AI.