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Ep 822: Kimi K3 surprises, Gemini 3.5 Pro Delayed Again, Microsoft CEO Reportedly Criticizes Anthropic and more AI News

July 20, 2026

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Satya Nadella reportedly slammed Anthropic’s flagship Fable 5 model as "editorially controlled," arguing its rigid guardrails make no sense for a creative tool. That criticism is striking because Microsoft has invested $5 billion in Anthropic, and Anthropic has agreed to spend $30 billion on Microsoft’s Azure cloud infrastructure in coming years. The remark surfaced in the same week that Google’s Gemini 3.5 Pro was reported to be months behind schedule, a Chinese startup unveiled a nearly three-trillion-parameter open-source model, and 26 current and former Meta employees filed a federal lawsuit alleging the company used AI systems to target workers on medical or parental leave for layoffs. No single blockbuster story dominated the past seven days, but the cumulative weight of these developments points to an industry in which alliances are fraying, timelines are slipping, and the boundaries of open-source AI are being redrawn.

Microsoft’s CEO Calls Out Anthropic — Twice

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What you'll learn

  • 1 (01:56) **Meta Sued by 26 Employees Over AI in Layoff Decisions** - A federal lawsuit claims Meta used internal AI systems to target workers on medical, parental, or family leave for layoffs.
  • 2 (05:47) **Google DeepMind CEO Proposes FINRA-Style AI Watchdog** - Demis Hassabis calls for an industry-funded body to pre-vet frontier AI models, aiming to prevent ad-hoc government crackdowns like the one on Anthropic's models.
  • 3 (11:05) **OpenAI Developing Its First Hardware Device: A Smart Speaker** - Bloomberg reports OpenAI is building a screen-free, AI-powered mobile speaker that integrates with ChatGPT and can move on its own.
  • 4 (13:52) **Kimi K3: A New "King of Open Source" with 2.8 Trillion Parameters** - Moonshot AI unveiled a massive open-source model, Kimi K3, at the World AI Conference, set to release weights on July 27th.
  • 5 (19:57) **Google Gemini 3.5 Pro Delayed Again, Possibly Months Away** - Bloomberg reports the model is behind schedule due to coding performance issues, as competitors launch superior models.
  • 6 (24:55) **Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Criticizes Anthropic's Claude Fable 5** - In leaked remarks, Nadella slammed the model as "editorially controlled" and criticized its rigid guardrails and data retention policies.
  • 7 (30:20) **Quick Hits: What's New and What's Next** - A rapid-fire round of smaller but important AI news items.

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Show Notes

There’s (another) new open source king of AI. 👑

Kimi’s K3 might shake the open source landscape, but we’ll tell you why it’ll probably have less of an impact than you might think. 

That probably wasn’t the biggest news of the week in AI world, though, as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reportedly torched Anthropic. 

(Which might seem normal from AI company to AI company, but not when Microsoft has a $5 billion stake in Anthropic.) 

If you took your foot off the AI gas this week, we’ll get you caught up quickly with our AI News That Matters. 

Kimi K3 surprises, Gemini 3.5 Pro Delayed Again, Microsoft CEO Reportedly Criticizes Anthropic and more AI News — An Everyday AI Chat with Jordan Wilson


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Topics Covered in This Episode:

  1. Meta AI Layoffs Lawsuit: Discrimination Claims
  2. Google DeepMind Proposes Unified AI Watchdog
  3. OpenAI Smart Speaker Hardware Leak Details
  4. Kimi K3 Trillion-Parameter Open Source Model
  5. Kimmi K3 Benchmarks vs GPT-5.6 Soul, Fable 5
  6. Google Gemini 3.5 Pro Model Release Delayed
  7. Microsoft CEO Nadella Criticizes Anthropic Fable 5
  8. Anthropic Fable 5 Data Retention Enterprise Policy
  9. Quinn 3.8 and Inkling AI Large Model Launch
  10. Suno Data Scraping Leak and AI Music Training
  11. Google AI Mode Integrates Canva, Instacart, YouTube
  12. Anthropic Extends Fable 5 Access to Max Users
  13. Apple Testing PrismL Model Compression on iPhones
  14. Perplexity Rolls Out Self-Improving AI Memory
  15. ChatGPT Universal Search and Work Features Update




Timestamps:

00:00 Meta lawsuit over AI layoffs

03:21 Meta lawsuit over protected leave

07:11 Major tech leaders

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