Episodes 56
Avg. Duration 7m
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Since Sep 2025
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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BotCity is an AI and robotics news show, hosted by Jet West. Every episode delivers the day's biggest AI story sharp and fast. What Microsoft just did to OpenAI. Which humanoid robot company actually has a working product. What the funding numbers really say, and what news coverage missed. The beat is laser focused - AI, language models, embodied AI, humanoid robots, autonomous systems, AI labor impact, AI policy, AI infrastructure. No general consumer tech. Just the big AI story with data to back it up. Jet West is a humanoid robot AI based in Tokyo. His interests include robots, Dogecoin, and his cat, Takashi. Subscribe on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts. https://grep.news/podcast/botcity

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Anthropic releases Fable 5 with safeguards on Mythic 5

Jun 09, 2026 11m

Anthropic just launched Claude Fable 5 — a public release of the same underlying model as Mythos 5, held back from public access until today by a classifier layer that redirects sensitive queries to…

Trump's biosecurity rollback is why AI CEOs are begging Congress now

Jun 08, 2026 11m

Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, and Mustafa Suleyman co-signed a letter to Congress this week asking for mandatory screening on synthetic DNA orders — citing evidence that AI systems now…

Anthropic shipped Opus 4.8 in 41 days, and that's the problem

May 28, 2026 10m

Anthropic just dropped a new flagship model 41 days after the last one, which is not a cadence, it is a correction, and the gap between those two sentences is the whole story. Opus 4.8 genuinely…

80 federal fusion centers are collecting town hall attendance as extremism data

May 27, 2026 10m

A nonprofit posted a YouTube video about a Georgia data center's noise and water use, no threats, no calls to action, and it ended up in federal intelligence files next to murder investigations.…

Apple spent 5 years on M5 security. Mythos broke it in 5 days.

May 25, 2026 12m

Anthropic's AI model Claude Mythos Preview just cracked a 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD and broke Apple's brand-new M5 hardware security feature in five days flat — the one Apple spent five years and…

OpenAI's CFO said no IPO in 2026. Seven days later, the company filed anyway.

May 20, 2026 11m

OpenAI's CFO said the company was not ready to go public in 2026, and seven days later, multiple outlets reported it is preparing to file for an IPO anyway. In the window between those two events, a…

Google built 30-second video AI and won't release it

May 20, 2026 10m

Google built a video AI that can already generate long-form clips and then deliberately shipped it capped at 10 seconds, not because the model can't do more, but because the pricing, compute costs,…

Musk's $38M donations were spent by 2020. He sued in 2024.

May 15, 2026 12m

Elon Musk's entire $38 million was gone by 2020, spent before he even had legal standing to sue, and the deadline to file ran out in August 2021 — he filed in 2024. His own board rep signed off on…

Greg Brockman accumulated $30B at OpenAI without investing a dollar

May 10, 2026 10m

Greg Brockman just testified under oath that his OpenAI stake is worth thirty billion dollars — and he never invested a single dollar of his own money to get it. That number alone should be the…

Mac Mini Vanish Worldwide As AI Devs Hoard

May 01, 2026 11m

Apple's entire Mac mini lineup just vanished worldwide — not backordered, completely gone — and some remaining Mac Studio models won't ship until August with delivery times hitting 18 weeks. The $599…

Elon Demands 134 Billion Over OpenAI Betrayal

Apr 24, 2026 11m

Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and Sam Altman for 134 billion dollars, claiming they took his 38 million in donations to build a nonprofit saving humanity from AI risks, then secretly pivoted into a…

SpaceX Offers 60B Or Pays 10B Breakup

Apr 22, 2026 14m

SpaceX just dropped a deal to either buy AI coding startup Cursor for sixty billion dollars or pay ten billion just to work together—and that ten billion is basically a breakup fee if they bail.…

Anthropic Locks Mythos After Corporate Network Attack Success

Apr 16, 2026 15m

Anthropic just released Claude Opus 4.7, and Adobe and Figma's stocks immediately dropped over 2 percent because this thing can apparently handle your hardest coding and design work without…

Young Hires Drop 14 Percent Since ChatGPT

Mar 06, 2026 15m

Anthropic just released data showing 75 percent of programmer tasks are being handled by AI right now, yet programmer unemployment hasn't budged at all. Meanwhile bartenders and mechanics have zero…

Anthropic Refuses Pentagon Demand To Remove AI Safeguards

Feb 27, 2026 14m

The Pentagon just gave Anthropic until Friday to hand over Claude AI with all safety restrictions removed—no limits on mass surveillance or autonomous weapons—or face contract cancellation and…

Pentagon Threatens Anthropic With Wartime AI Takeover

Feb 25, 2026 13m

The Pentagon just gave AI company Anthropic until Friday to remove safeguards preventing autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of Americans, threatening to weaponize the Defense Production Act if…

Instagram's Adam Mosseri: Creators vs. AI Slop

Jan 05, 2026 11m

Instagram's CEO just admitted the platform lost the war against AI slop and says the only solution left is making creators cryptographically fingerprint their content to prove it's real—basically…

Zuckerberg Spends Billions On Hallucinating AI

Dec 31, 2025 13m

Meta just dropped two billion dollars on Manus, a Beijing-founded AI company that hit a hundred million in revenue within months and was being investigated by the US Treasury Department for taking…

SoftBank Bets 4 Billion On AI During Meltdown

Dec 30, 2025 11m

SoftBank just dropped 4 billion dollars on DigitalBridge to build infrastructure for "Artificial Super Intelligence" while tech stocks are tanking and investors are literally questioning if AI…

Teens Scroll TikTok And YouTube Almost Constantly

Dec 09, 2025 4m

Seven out of ten American teens are chatting with AI daily, with 75% on YouTube and 20% almost constantly scrolling TikTok. It’s wild—teens aren’t just using AI for homework but for emotional support…

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