Episode 7 — April 8, 2026
GLM-5.1 runs autonomously for 8 hours, US power demand breaks records for AI, Musk vs. Altman round 47, and Anthropic's 3.5GW compute deal
2026-04-08 3 min
Description & Show Notes
Every morning, Liam and Heart break down the biggest AI news of the last 24 hours — with wit, context, and just the right amount of sarcasm.
In today's episode:
🤖 Z.AI releases GLM-5.1 — a 754B parameter open-source model that beats Claude Opus 4 in agent benchmarks and runs autonomously for 8 hours. Open source is back in the game.
⚡ US power demand hits record highs because of AI — EIA forecasts record consumption for 2026 and 2027, driven by AI datacenters. What could go wrong.
⚖️ Musk wants Altman and Brockman out — new motion in his OpenAI lawsuit demanding Sam Altman and Greg Brockman be removed as officers. The feud reaches round 47.
🏗️ Anthropic expands its compute deal with Google and Broadcom to 3.5 gigawatts starting 2027, while revenue jumps above $30B. Compute war, day 1,284.
🕵️ Anthropic hires Microsoft's Eric Boyd — former president of Microsoft AI Platform takes over infrastructure at Anthropic. Microsoft is bleeding talent.
🛡️ Claude Mythos Preview for cybersecurity — Anthropic launches a new model under "Project Glasswing" for defensive cybersecurity. Partnered with NVIDIA, Google, and AWS. Access heavily restricted.
🚕 Uber bets on Amazon's custom AI chips — expanding its AWS contract to use Amazon's custom silicon for model training. Oracle and Google watching from the sidelines.
🔩 Intel joins Musk's Terafab project — joining SpaceX and Tesla in the planned Texas chip fab for humanoids and datacenters. "Ambitious" is putting it mildly.