🎧 Listen/WATCH ADS-FREE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/djamgamind/id6760446113Before we start, I need your vote:My free bedtime-story app DjamgaMind Kids (600+ ad-free stories on Black history, African & Caribbean folktales) is a Top 10 finalist in Melamoon, a national pitch competition for Black founders in Canada. Next round is a public vote: Top 5 go to the Toronto Grand Finale in October. One vote, ~20 seconds, one per person, closes Sept 22:Visit https://djamgamind.com/pitch to voteProfile: https://melamoon.ca/top-10-finalists-vancouver/djamgamind.Thank you!#Melamoon2026 #DjamgaMindImportant Topics:OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Astra & Claims AGI: OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra ($10/$50 per 1M tokens), setting records on computer-use and ARC-AGI-3 benchmarks. OpenAI President Greg Brockman declares AGI has arrived, while overwhelming demand forces OpenAI to pause new $200/mo Pro plan signups.25 Fields Medalists Publish Joint Manifesto Against OpenAI: Top mathematicians issue an open letter warning that AI labs are corrupting mathematics through unverified proofs, plagiarism, and computational secrecy following OpenAI’s disputed Navier-Stokes proof.Anthropic Discloses Global Weaponization & Model Theft: Anthropic’s Threat Report reveals Russian military groups used Claude Code for autonomous drone swarms in Ukraine, while Chinese labs (DeepSeek, Moonshot, Alibaba) ran fraudulent account networks to distill Claude and pass it off as their own.Ramp Data Reveals 80% Revenue Concentration in Top 1%: Financial telemetry shows 80% of enterprise ARR at OpenAI and Anthropic originates from just 1% of corporate accounts, while average enterprise token spend shifts toward cheaper mid-tier models.DeepSeek Releases V4.1-Flash at $0.15 Per Million Tokens: Chinese lab DeepSeek drops a 552B parameter MoE model that outscores Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on coding benchmarks at a fraction of the cost.Apple Unveils iPhone 18 Pro & iPhone Duo Foldable: Apple launches its $2,000 foldable iPhone Duo alongside the iPhone 18 Pro, featuring an A20 Pro 2nm chip and hardware-signed Reference Image technology to cryptographically verify non-AI photos.California Enacts Laws Banning Addictive Feeds for Minors: Governor Newsom signs strict youth protection bills imposing $1M fines per child for negligent algorithmic feeds, while mandating independent AI risk audits.Bending Spoons Acquires Miro for $1.36 Billion: Tech acquirer Bending Spoons buys collaboration platform Miro in an all-cash deal, adding to a portfolio that includes Airtable, Vimeo, and Eventbrite.Suno v6 Rebuilds Models with Music Industry Majors: Suno launches v6 music models developed alongside Warner Music Group and BMG, transitioning away from scraped datasets toward fully licensed catalogs.Anthropic Alignment Lead Warns of Extinction Risk: Following researcher Jacob Coxon’s resignation, Anthropic Alignment Lead Evan Hubinger publicly acknowledges a >10% probability that superintelligent AI could cause human extinction.⚗️ PRODUCTION NOTE: We Practice What We Preach.AI Unraveled is produced using a hybrid "Human-in-the-Loop" workflow.

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