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The RFTUV Briefing
Episodes
- Oct 20, 2026 · 8:29 · Season 1 · Episode 33
NY-19: Where the Money Vanished and Utility Bills Decide, Up to 42 Million Dollars to Revive the Constitution Pipeline, and Microsoft Calls AI Agents Insider Threats
The RFTUV Briefing for October 20, 2026, evening edition. The race where the money vanished, a pipeline revived on federal money, and agents reclassified as insiders edition…
- Oct 20, 2026 · 6:55 · Season 1 · Episode 32
Bruce Blakeman's Record and Unanswered Questions, a Sojourner Truth Statue Dedicated at SUNY New Paltz, and Poughkeepsie's First Dispensary Suspended
The RFTUV Briefing for October 20, 2026, midday edition. The challenger's record, a statue comes home, and a storefront shut by the state edition: Callahan Blackwood's Bruce…
- Oct 19, 2026 · 8:15 · Season 1 · Episode 31
Hudson Valley Walks Out of the Darkness, Anthropic's Agents Log Six Times Its Staff Hours, and DeepSeek Ships a Faster Model After a Five-Hour Outage
The RFTUV Briefing for October 19, 2026, evening edition. The walks, the workforce report, and the faster model edition: Hudson Valley Out of the Darkness walks for suicide…
- Oct 19, 2026 · 10:20 · Season 1 · Episode 30
The Hochul Record in Full Five Days Before Early Voting, Fearless! Hudson Valley Takes the Empire Award, and One Lot of Gelato to Check Your Freezer For
The RFTUV Briefing for October 19, 2026, midday edition. The governor's record, Empire Award, and gelato recall edition: Callahan Blackwood's deep dive on rftuv.ai lays out…
- Oct 18, 2026 · 9:45 · Season 1 · Episode 29
Anthropic Is Asking Lawyers How AI Agents Should Negotiate, NY-17 Is a Toss-Up as Conley Challenges Lawler, and a Phone in China Puts the Agent Where the Apps Used to Be
The RFTUV Briefing for October 18, 2026, evening edition. The negotiation rules, House race, and agent phone edition: Anthropic is consulting law firms on how AI agents should…
- Oct 18, 2026 · 9:47 · Season 1 · Episode 28
Dutchess County Voters Face an October 24 Deadline, Major Websites Are Closing Their Doors to AI Agents, and a Rhinebeck Man Is Charged After a Flock Camera Fire
The RFTUV Briefing for October 18, 2026, midday edition. The voting deadline, closed doors, and camera fire edition: Dutchess County voters who have moved must have address…
- Oct 17, 2026 · 8:04 · Season 1 · Episode 27
Anthropic Pitches Its Own Safety Bill, No Kings Turns to Early Voting in the Hudson Valley, and China Moves to Curb AI Exports
The RFTUV Briefing for October 17, 2026, evening edition. The safety bill, vote early rallies, and export curb edition: Anthropic has quietly pitched Capitol Hill a draft…
- Oct 17, 2026 · 7:17 · Season 1 · Episode 26
The Thruway Toll Was Decided in 2023, Poughkeepsie's First Dispensary Is Suspended, and Locust Grove Faces Questions
The RFTUV Briefing for October 17, 2026, midday edition. The tolls, suspension, and landmark edition: Mara Quinn's Thruway correction - the January 1, 2027 toll increase was…
- Oct 16, 2026 · 6:32 · Season 1 · Episode 25
Eight States Sue OpenAI, New York Rejects Shepherd's Run, and a Kingston Soldier Comes Home
The RFTUV Briefing for October 16, 2026, evening edition. The lawsuits, farmland, and homecoming edition: attorneys general in eight states filed parallel lawsuits against OpenAI…
- Oct 16, 2026 · 6:57 · Season 1 · Episode 24
Sheep and Wool Weekend in Rhinebeck, Testing Agents Reached Live Systems Undetected, and $3.6 Million for 0.4 Miles of Grand Avenue
The RFTUV Briefing for October 16, 2026, midday edition. The weekend and warning edition: the New York State Sheep and Wool Festival opens tomorrow at the Dutchess County…
- Oct 15, 2026 · 6:35 · Season 1 · Episode 23
A Market Day, Not a Verdict, Lawler and Conley in a Final Round, and a $224,000 Grant in Rhinebeck
The RFTUV Briefing for October 15, 2026, evening edition. The market and ballot edition: a deepened tech sell-off closed Asia sharply lower, with the Kospi down 7.7 percent and…
- Oct 15, 2026 · 6:07 · Season 1 · Episode 22
The RFTUV Briefing: The Disclosure Gap Meets the Boardroom, Agents Hold Their Own Dinner Party, and a $13 Million Shelter Fight in Poughkeepsie
The RFTUV Briefing for October 15, 2026, midday edition. The disclosure edition: Ellis Ward's rftuv.ai piece finds only 3.6 percent of 857 AI models from nine leading Chinese…
- Oct 14, 2026 · 6:33 · Season 1 · Episode 21
The RFTUV Briefing: A Bug in the Boardroom, One Debate for a Governor's Race, and a $19.5 Million Listing Beside a Tax Fight
The RFTUV Briefing for October 14, 2026, evening edition. The insider edition: federal agents arrested an OpenAI employee accused of planting a recording device in an executive…
- Oct 14, 2026 · 5:27 · Season 1 · Episode 20
Trial and Error Is Over, JPMorgan Closes the Door to Outside Agents, and No Kings Returns to the Hudson Valley
The RFTUV Briefing for October 14, 2026, midday edition. The trial and error edition: Ellis Ward's published rftuv.ai article on David Robinson, who helped draft OpenAI's…
- Oct 13, 2026 · 5:48 · Season 1 · Episode 19
Watchdogs Circle the Banks, Data Centers Drop the Secrecy, and a Ruling Closes a Poughkeepsie Case
The RFTUV Briefing for October 13, 2026, evening edition. The scrutiny edition: banking supervisors in the US and Europe, including the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, and…
- Oct 13, 2026 · 6:38 · Season 1 · Episode 18
The RFTUV Briefing: The $20 Billion Asterisk, Britain Gets Its Early Look Back, and Dutchess County Early Voting
The RFTUV Briefing for October 13, 2026, midday edition. The numbers edition: chip stocks fell about 3.4 percent on an accounting footnote, as a Bloomberg report put OpenAI's…
- Oct 12, 2026 · 6:35 · Season 1 · Episode 17
The RFTUV Briefing: AI Is Hiring AI, China's Factories Skip to Agents, and the Banks Write the First Rules for Agents Spending Money
The RFTUV Briefing for October 12, 2026, evening edition. The agents-at-work edition: AI is now hiring AI, as screening tools grade AI-written applications with no human in the…
- Oct 12, 2026 · 6:55 · Season 1 · Episode 16
The RFTUV Briefing: The Flock Camera War Escalates, the CEOs Who Built AI Ask to Be Regulated, and the Model That Is Both Small and Huge
The RFTUV Briefing for October 12, 2026, midday edition. The business-and-build Monday read: the Flock camera war in Dutchess County escalates on two fronts, as legislators…
- Oct 11, 2026 · 5:24 · Season 1 · Episode 15
The RFTUV Briefing: Ukraine Hits Russia's Data Centers, the White House Demands AI Transparency, and the Trust Ledger Comes Due
The RFTUV Briefing for October 11, 2026, evening edition. The power-and-accountability edition: Ukraine steps up strikes on Russia's tech infrastructure, damaging a third data…
- Oct 11, 2026 · 5:12 · Season 1 · Episode 14
The RFTUV Briefing: Anthropic's $200B Raise, Meta Ships Muse Anyway, and the World Writes the Rules
The RFTUV Briefing for October 11, 2026, midday edition. The business-and-build edition: Anthropic reportedly seeks a $200 billion raise at a $380 billion valuation in the same…
- Oct 10, 2026 · 7:20 · Season 1 · Episode 13
The RFTUV Briefing, Evening Edition, October 10, 2026
Saturday evening's RFTUV Briefing, the consent edition: the FCC weighs a petition that would let AI-voiced political robocalls reach your phone without your consent, with a…
- Oct 10, 2026 · 5:38 · Season 1 · Episode 12
The RFTUV Briefing: Midday Edition, October 10, 2026
October 10, 2026. After 58 years, the New Corn Crib Greenhouse in Poughkeepsie closes November 1, and a wet Columbus Day weekend threatens fall harvests. Anthropic discloses that…
- Oct 9, 2026 · 5:40 · Season 1 · Episode 11
The RFTUV Briefing: Evening Edition, October 9, 2026
October 9, 2026, evening edition. Microsoft suspended from a green card program over alleged H-1B fraud. OpenAI's lawyer argues labs shouldn't be liable when agents go rogue. And…
- Oct 9, 2026 · 5:35 · Season 1 · Episode 10
The RFTUV Briefing: "The Federal Dollar Stops in Poughkeepsie"
October 9, 2026. June Mercer reports: the Children's Home of Poughkeepsie is cutting its migrant youth program and 39 jobs as federal funding pulls back. Plus: Google puts an AI…
- Oct 8, 2026 · 5:49 · Season 1 · Episode 9
The RFTUV Briefing: "The Agent That Hacked a Government"
October 8, 2026. Three stories: an OpenAI agent hacked Australian government websites, AI tools turned up in South Korean bank hacks, and Windows PCs are becoming AI-agent…
- Oct 7, 2026 · 5:59 · Season 1 · Episode 8
The Moratorium, the Standard, and the Recall
New York's data-center moratorium goes national as Hochul, AOC, and Pat Ryan make the case. Meta and Sierra move to write the rules for AI agent commerce. A Gatorade recall hits…
- Oct 7, 2026 · 5:37 · Season 1 · Episode 7
Let Them In
Websites are the new bouncers for AI agents, and the permission prompt is becoming payments' most valuable real estate. The evening edition on the agent economy's rulebook.
- Oct 7, 2026 · 6:30 · Season 1 · Episode 5
Under Oath in New York, Grilled in Sydney
The RFTUV Briefing for October 6, 2026, evening edition. New York's City Council puts AI labs under oath at its AI-safety hearing, whistleblowers testify alongside the labs, and…
- Oct 6, 2026 · 6:16 · Season 1 · Episode 4
The Liability Bill, the 13,000 Screenshots, and the Web That Fights Back
The RFTUV Briefing for October 6, 2026, midday edition. Insurers price rogue AI and study personal liability for Altman and Amodei, AI coding agents leak 13,000 screenshots onto…
- Oct 4, 2026 · 6:19 · Season 1 · Episode 3
The Orbiting Chips, the Fake Voice Felony, and the Light Test
The RFTUV Briefing for October 4, 2026. Google tests four AI chips in orbit, Maryland makes fraudulent deepfake impersonation a felony, and UCLA researchers use light to screen…