Episode Description
Welcome to The Friday Download for May 15, 2026!
This week JR DeLaney covers five stories reshaping how AI intersects with security, finance, and neuroscience.
First: OpenAI launched GPT-5.5 Cyber through the Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program—a model built for pen testing and red teaming that requires vetting before access. Anthropic’s rival cybersecurity model, nicknamed Mythos, prompted a banking warning from India’s finance ministry. The UK AI Safety Institute notes frontier cyber AI capability is doubling every four months.
Second: the Chicago Mercantile Exchange is launching a futures market for AI compute—you can now trade GPU capacity like corn or crude oil, as Anthropic commits $200B to Google Cloud and Meta acquires robotics startup ARI.
In our Wait… That’s Actually Cool segment: Meta’s Tribe V2 brain model predicts neural activity with 70x better resolution using 1,115 hours of fMRI data from 700+ volunteers—zero-shot, open-sourced, and genuinely revolutionary for neuroscience. Plus: a Stanford undergrad achieved a 5x training speed-up with a new optimizer, embarrassing every billion-dollar AI lab in the process. Tiny Tech Snacks cover agentic AI (Google Remy), compute futures, and zero-shot generalization. #AIInnovationsUnleashed