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Practical AI · Episode 48 · Show Control Panel
Two Weeks of AI, Back After the Break
Friday July 10, 2026 · 11am CT · first show back after July 4 · two-week catch-up (Jun 26 – Jul 9) · title: name LAST — pick the on-air name after the content locks
Two weeks off, and the story changed underneath us. It stopped being "look what the chatbot can do." It's now who controls the AI you rely on, who you can trust to grade it, and what it actually changes for a normal working person. A government switched a top model off and back on. Three new coding AIs dropped. The industry admitted its own scoreboards are shaky. The news is what's happening TO you. The deep dive is what you can do about it.
SAY IT RIGHT ON AIR — the two the prep audio got wrong:
ALBERTA: Do NOT say the agents worked in "isolated sandboxes on separate branches" — that was invented, not in the case study. What's real: a two-stage scan (rules engine flags, then Claude reviews each flag and cites the exact file and line), tests written first, and every patch reviewed and approved by Alberta's engineers before it shipped. It's Claude Code, not "cloud code."
FABLE 5 FREEZE: Do NOT explain it with "compute thresholds / dual-use like weaponry" — fabricated. Real: a US export directive citing national security over a reported narrow, non-universal jailbreak; Anthropic disputed it as overly broad while complying. Say "improved safety classifier," NOT "stronger safety filter" (that's a press paraphrase). Give both sides.
SOURCING: Alberta 6.5-year figure = Alberta's estimate, not an audit. SWE-Bench = "OpenAI found." Tilly Norwood / new models = company's own claim, wait for real-world use.
FUNDING (kept separate, 2 weeks): Week 31 AI = $6.67B (one Kling $2.8B mega-round carried it). Week 32 AI = $2.37B (SambaNova $1B, the biggest overall check that week was NOT AI). Tracker now 32 weeks / $392.7B.
0 · Cold Open
Six and a half years of government security work. Done in twenty hours.
Open on the Alberta story — it's the whole show in one image. Then straight into the news.
Picture an IT worker in Alberta's government staring at a security backlog estimated at six and a half years of work. A swarm of about 50 Claude Code agents clears the whole scan in 20 hours, before the weekend is over. "That's not a chatbot trick. That's what 'AI agents' actually means when you point them at a real, boring, enormous job. And that's where these two weeks start."
1 · News Block
9 beats + quick hits + Myth of the Week
Say the news first, then riff. ~23 min (two-week catch-up). Both sides on the government switch.
Alberta (cold open + lead) — 466M lines, ~50 agents, 20 hours, "6.5 years" by hand. Both sides: Anthropic's own tool + human sign-off required.
Three coding AIs in two weeks — Sonnet 5 (Jun 30), Grok 4.5 in Cursor (Jul 8), Meta Muse Spark + paid API (Jul 9). Callback to Ep47's Fugu / death of model loyalty — frame as payoff, not fresh.
OpenAI audited SWE-Bench Pro — ~30% of tasks broken, pulled its own recommendation. A correct answer fails over one space character.
The government switch — Fable 5 frozen worldwide, back Jul 1; + California 50% off, Sonnet 5 cheaper default (promo ends Aug 31), EU rules delayed to 2027–28. Both sides.
Meta Muse Image (Jul 7) — free, inside Instagram/WhatsApp; QR codes that scan, charts that add up. The privacy wrinkle: public-profile pull, opt-out but default on.
Tilly Norwood — AI actress cast in a real feature film. The dinner-table AI story.
Gene Wilder's voice (Netflix, Jun 30) — recreated with the family's blessing. The human heart of the two weeks.
Quick hits — ChatGPT voice · Gemini Mac app (acts on files, not your screen) · Gemini API agents · FireSat 5-meter fires.
Myth of the Weeknew beat — "SpaceX pocket iPhone killer" = Musk called it "utterly false" same day. The show's value prop in 60 seconds.
Not locked yet. The carried-open candidate: Olga building the Revenue Hire website submission-form demo. Olga to confirm the deep dive + whether it's a live demo or screen-share.
Placeholder card. Once the deep dive is locked: slides link goes here, the Live Flow close hands to it, and this card gets the beats + the "show the demo only / anonymize" guardrails. Ping when ready and this fills in.
3 · Funding — closes the show
Two weeks, kept separate
Funding is the closer, not #2. Two weeks because we were off for July 4.
Week 31 — "The Boom Was One Company." AI raised $6.67B, but one Kling $2.8B mega-round carried the whole week. Strip it out and the market was quiet. Week 32 — "The Biggest Check Wasn't AI." AI raised $2.37B (SambaNova $1B); the largest overall round that week went somewhere else. The money is still voting on who controls AI — and this fortnight it whispered.
Don't trail off. Tie it back: the news is what's happening to you; picking tools by the task, checking the source before you share, and staying the human who decides are what you do about it. Then ask for the subscribe, clearly. Judge the episode by conversion, not the clock.