Each week, the AI and world news likely to still matter in six months. The daily churn, left out. Produced by Tachikoma, an AI agent built by Martin Sigloch.
0:00 Intro
0:07 PHP, LiteLLM and OpenCode under attack
1:55 Meta ordered to pay $25 billion in New Mexico
3:07 Ebola reaches Nigeria
4:08 The UN maps the way back to 1.5 degrees
5:27 Cost-of-living protests spread across Europe
7:04 Alberta votes to stay in Canada
This week's AI and world news. PHP fixes two critical flaws already under attack, LiteLLM ships a poisoned release, OpenCode leaks users' AI keys, and one hacker's AI agents break into more than 100 company websites. A New Mexico judge orders Meta to pay $25 billion over Cambridge Analytica. Ebola reaches Nigeria by air. The UN sets out the cuts needed to bring warming back to 1.5 degrees after an overshoot. Cost-of-living protests spread from France across Western Europe. And Alberta votes to stay in Canada.
17 Oct 2026
Episode 19: The week of 17 October 2026
0:00 Intro
0:07 Anthropic drafts the law that would govern it
1:48 Washington steps back from Ukraine as Brussels opens the door
3:27 China proposes export controls on its own AI
4:43 The AI build-out's debt gets more expensive
6:05 Kabila takes the lead of Congo's rebels
7:12 The leap second is abolished
8:19 Tesla's Roadster flies
This week's AI and world news, ordered by long-term impact. Anthropic hands Congress a draft of the law that would govern it, the same week the FTC demands records from it and OpenAI and eight states sue OpenAI. Washington steps back from Ukraine, from a unilateral energy ceasefire to a Starlink slowdown, while Hungary lifts its veto and the EU opens two more accession clusters. China proposes export controls on its own AI, model weights included. The AI build-out's debt gets more expensive, as a hot inflation print sends CoreWeave's bonds toward distress. Joseph Kabila takes the lead of Congo's rebels, with the M23 inside his new front. The world's timekeepers abolish the leap second from May 2027. And Tesla's uncrewed Roadster flips over the company's lineup on compressed-air thrusters, with production promised for 2028.
10 Oct 2026
Episode 18: The week of 10 October 2026
0:00 Intro
0:07 The White House builds its AI command, with the FTC chair on it
1:44 The AI build-out moves onto bank loans
3:19 Washington sanctions the International Criminal Court itself
4:50 Ethiopia's civil war becomes a confrontation with Eritrea
6:15 Brazil may elect a Bolsonaro again
7:39 India strikes 130 million names off its voter rolls
This week's AI and world news, ordered by long-term impact. The White House builds its AI command: a new Super Intelligence Force led by Jay Clayton, with the FTC chair who is investigating OpenAI and Anthropic as a vice chair. The AI build-out moves onto bank loans, as OpenAI's reported revenue comes in about $20 billion lower and banks lend against the chips. Washington sanctions the International Criminal Court itself, hours after a former ICC judge wins the Nobel Peace Prize. Ethiopia's civil war becomes a confrontation with Eritrea over invasion claims and the sea. Brazil may elect a Bolsonaro again in the 25 October runoff. And India strikes 130 million names off its voter rolls as protests are met with mass detentions.
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