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AI With Kyle is the daily podcast for people who want to understand artificial intelligence without hype, without jargon, and without getting lost in marketing nonsense. Every day, Kyle breaks down the biggest AI news, model releases, research updates, leaks, lawsuits, policy moves, and industry shifts - fast, clear, and brutally honest.
If you’re tired of exaggerated claims, clickbait headlines, or breathless “AGI tomorrow” predictions, this show gives you what actually matters in AI right now.
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-Real benchmarks, real performance, and how new models actually behave
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-Practical impacts for creators, entrepreneurs, and businesses
-Regulation, AI safety, copyright cases, and everything changing the landscape
-Tech industry shifts happening under the surface
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-Just the important stuff
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AI With Kyle – Daily AI News With Zero Hype, Zero BS
AI With Kyle is the daily podcast for people who want to understand artificial intelligence without hype, without jargon, and without getting lost in marketing nonsense. Every day, Kyle breaks down the biggest AI news, model releases, research updates, leaks, lawsuits, policy moves, and industry shifts - fast, clear, and brutally honest.
If you’re tired of exaggerated claims, clickbait headlines, or breathless “AGI tomorrow” predictions, this show gives you what actually matters in AI right now.
Every episode covers:
-Major AI model releases and upgrades (OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Meta, xAI, Mistral)
-Real benchmarks, real performance, and how new models actually behave
-The business story behind AI: funding rounds, strategy changes, earnings, and power plays
-Research explained plainly - world models, multimodality, reinforcement learning, generative video, synthetic data
-Practical impacts for creators, entrepreneurs, and businesses
-Regulation, AI safety, copyright cases, and everything changing the landscape
-Tech industry shifts happening under the surface
This show is perfect for:
-Founders and entrepreneurs
-Creators and educators
-Business leaders following AI strategy
-Anyone who wants signal, not noise
What you get here:
-Straight explanations
-Clear context
-No hype
-No fluffy futurism
-Just the important stuff
AI changes daily. This podcast helps you keep up - not by guessing about the future, but by understanding the present.
Subscribe if you want calm, honest, daily AI coverage you can actually trust.
091: Today in AI: China Cyber Attack Foiled by Claude, Cursor Raises $2.3B, GPT 5.1 Drops
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091: Today in AI: China Cyber Attack Foiled by Claude, Cursor Raises $2.3B, GPT 5.1 Drops
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This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle News and Updates Live Stream’ First aired: 14 November 2025
Summary: Today was all about China—the good, the bad, and the genuinely concerning. We kicked off with GPT 5.1, which is fine, perfectly serviceable, does what it says on the tin. OpenAI's learned to keep the hype train at the station this time, and people seem pleased with the personality rebalancing. They're trying to find that Goldilocks zone between the overly-agreeable 4o (which had people forming romantic attachments) and the rather dull GPT 5. But the real headline was China: Anthropic and Claude apparently foiled a large-scale cyber attack from Chinese-backed groups. The AI wars aren't coming—they're here, and AI's being weaponised in ways we're only beginning to understand.
On a brighter note, we also covered Cursor's absolutely bonkers $2.3 billion Series D funding round at a $30 billion valuation. They've hit $1 billion in annualised revenue and claim to produce more code than any other agent in the world. Whether that valuation is justified or pure bubble territory is anyone's guess, but they've certainly captured the market. We also touched on some cost-effective Chinese AI coding agents and had a good chat about business models, imposter syndrome, and why being too smart can sometimes paralyse you into inaction. Bit of a sprawling one today, but that's what happens when China dominates the news cycle.
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00:00 Intro: China AI News Preview & Cyber Attack Teaser
00:57 GPT 5.1 Release Review: Features, Benchmarks & Sam Altman's Response
05:23 Community Reactions to GPT 5.1 & Upcoming Coverage
05:50 Cursor Raises $2.3 Billion: AI Coding Tool Funding Breakdown
09:11 ByteDance Unveils $1.30 Chinese AI Coding Agent: Volcano Engine Deep Dive
13:53 Q&A: Cursor Composer vs Claude Code Performance Comparison
15:14 BREAKING: Chinese Hackers Used Claude Code for Cyber Espionage
22:19 Freedom Operating System Launch: AI Business Assessment Tool
25:47 Q&A: Using AI for SEO Content Creation & Blog Strategy
29:03 Q&A: Gemini Usage & Imagen 3 Performance Issues
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AI With Kyle – Daily AI News With Zero Hype, Zero BS
AI With Kyle is the daily podcast for people who want to understand artificial intelligence without hype, without jargon, and without getting lost in marketing nonsense. Every day, Kyle breaks down the biggest AI news, model releases, research updates, leaks, lawsuits, policy moves, and industry shifts - fast, clear, and brutally honest.
If you’re tired of exaggerated claims, clickbait headlines, or breathless “AGI tomorrow” predictions, this show gives you what actually matters in AI right now.
Every episode covers:
-Major AI model releases and upgrades (OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Meta, xAI, Mistral)
-Real benchmarks, real performance, and how new models actually behave
-The business story behind AI: funding rounds, strategy changes, earnings, and power plays
-Research explained plainly - world models, multimodality, reinforcement learning, generative video, synthetic data
-Practical impacts for creators, entrepreneurs, and businesses
-Regulation, AI safety, copyright cases, and everything changing the landscape
-Tech industry shifts happening under the surface
This show is perfect for:
-Founders and entrepreneurs
-Creators and educators
-Business leaders following AI strategy
-Anyone who wants signal, not noise
What you get here:
-Straight explanations
-Clear context
-No hype
-No fluffy futurism
-Just the important stuff
AI changes daily. This podcast helps you keep up - not by guessing about the future, but by understanding the present.
Subscribe if you want calm, honest, daily AI coverage you can actually trust.