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October 20266 episodes

Episode 4614:45

A Cheaper Computer-Use Model, With Asterisks

OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra undercuts its own flagship on price for computer-use agents. Also today: OpenAI's claim to have refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis, Anthropic's IPO filing, Entire's rethink of the pull request, and an emergency Brotli patch.

  • Terra Undercuts GPT-6.1 Sol
  • A Conjecture Is Challenged, Pending Review
  • Anthropic Files, and the Loss Isn't the Loss
  • The Pull Request Gets Replaced
  • Hardware Brief
Episode 3613:48

The open frontier model that needs a rack to run

Reflection opens Beam, a 501 billion parameter model under Apache 2.0. Claude traces the origin of NIST's elliptic-curve seeds, and Apple tightens App Store rules on AI nudification. Plus Rust, Zod, FastAPI and four security stories.

  • Beam Goes Open, Rack Not Included
  • The Seeds Were Just a Clock
  • Apple Closes the Review-Time Loophole
  • GNOME OS Gets a Preview
Episode 3013:45

Cloudflare tracing is in beta, and the meter is coming

Cloudflare Traces enters open beta with volume-based pricing starting December 1. Also, NumPy 2.5 makes searchsorted up to 25 times faster in the authors' benchmark, and a repo lets Codex drive a real iPhone. Plus a ship log and Oxide's $445 million round.

  • Cloudflare Tracing Gets a Price List
  • NumPy Stops Waiting on Memory
  • Hardware Brief
Episode 2914:10

An AI pentester, and who keeps it in scope

An open-source autonomous pentesting agent, ARTEX, and the question of scope. Credential-stealing GitHub Actions workflows hit more than 340 repositories, an Anthropic model sent Philadelphia police a false tip, and Python 3.15, uv 0.13 and Ruff 0.17 shipped.

  • Sixteen Minutes, Three Hundred Eighteen Repos
  • The Tip Nobody Told It Not to Send
  • CodeQL's Go Change and the Missing Mac Binary
Episode 2312:48

The Agent Said Done. The Database Disagreed.

Microsoft's ThinkingBox benchmark grades agents on database state, not their own report. Cloudflare wants developers to build the next Git platform for agents, with credits as the prize. Plus the Coucou notch app, Zig 0.17, Istio 1.31 and uv.

  • When Done Isn't Done
  • Cloudflare Wants Your Git Platform
Episode 2214:31

GitLab's AI Gateway Sandbox Let Users Run Commands

GitLab patches a CVSS 9.9 sandbox escape in its self-hosted AI Gateway. Apple tightens Mac Full Disk Access as AI agents raise the stakes, and Spanner adds transactional queues. Plus Rust 1.99, Copilot review APIs, and a Git hook with bad manners.

  • A Sandbox With a Door In It
  • The Permission Apple Admits Is a Loophole
  • The Queue That Commits With Your Data
  • Hardware Brief

September 20268 episodes

Episode 1814:45

Meta wants your enterprise budget, minus the details

Meta launches an enterprise AI platform and hires MongoDB's CEO to run it. Anthropic ships Claude Sonnet 5.5 at the same list price as its predecessor. Shopify opens checkout to browser agents, and GitHub explains how its AI agent found 24 Android bugs.

  • Meta Wants the Enterprise Budget
  • Sonnet 5.5 Keeps the Price, Cuts the Tokens
  • Shopify Lets the Agent Check Out
  • Two Dozen Android Bugs, Found by an Agent
  • Manus Gives Agents a Wallet
  • Hardware Brief
Episode 1213:32

The AI Price War Just Got a Security Problem

Anthropic and OpenAI both cut prices on flagship models within hours of each other. Microsoft took down a subscription crime service that used an AI chatbot to read your email before criminals did. Plus new Snapdragon chips built for on-device AI.

  • The Price Floor Just Dropped
  • Chips Built to Keep AI Off the Cloud
  • When Criminals Get an AI Assistant Too
  • What ShinyHunters Says It Took From the FBI
  • Meta's Awkward Compliment
Episode 1013:30

An AI Hotline Between Washington and Beijing

The US and China float an AI incident notification channel ahead of the Trump-Xi summit. Four paying subscribers sue Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and SpaceXAI claiming the companies colluded to slow AI down. Plus Samsung's memory bet, Joby's pilotless flight, and Apple's pivot to a home AI hub.

  • The Hotline Nobody's Written Yet
  • When Slowing Down Becomes a Crime
  • The Parts Nobody Sees
  • Apple's Quiet Reshuffle
Episode 512:44

Apple Wants a Photo That Can Prove Itself

Apple builds a privacy-first way to prove a photo is real. OpenAI is reportedly in talks for funding near a 1.2 trillion dollar valuation. SK Hynix calms a labor fight, and Gujarat police say they found 500,000 fake Gmail accounts tied to bomb hoaxes.

  • A Photo That Can Prove Itself
  • The Trillion Dollar Rumor
  • The Chipmaker That Talked Its Workers Down
  • Half a Million Fake Accounts
  • The Model That Doesn't Talk Back
Episode 413:40

Siri Gets a Waitlist While the EPA Guts Carbon Limits

Apple's new Siri AI ships today with a waitlist and pricier iCloud tiers. The EPA guts power plant carbon rules just as AI data centers spike electricity demand. AI leaders call for a slowdown, and Nvidia's Jensen Huang says not a chance.

  • Siri, But You Have to Get in Line
  • The EPA Just Erased the Rulebook on Power Plant Pollution
  • The Industry Asked for a Pause, and Nvidia Said No
  • OpenAI Goes Shopping for Camera Engineers
  • Sixty One Million Dollars, One Exchange, and an Iranian Oil Network
Episode 313:54

OpenAI Goes For-Profit While Amazon Cuts Deep

OpenAI completes its for-profit conversion with Microsoft's stake locked in, Amazon confirms 30,000 corporate layoffs, Tesla's robotaxi fleet draws a fresh NHTSA probe, and the EU issues its first AI Act fines against Meta and X.

  • The Nonprofit That Wasn't
  • Thirty Thousand Emails
  • Who's Watching the Robotaxi
  • Brussels Sends the Bill
  • Further Than Last Time
Episode 211:34

Xi's AI Pitch and LG's Spy TV Problem

Xi Jinping relaunches China's push for a global AI body, LG's smart TVs get labeled spy TVs by privacy groups, and Anthropic's CEO says AI models are becoming permanent employees while human ones get cut. Plus strained power grids and five fast stories.

  • The AI Club Nobody Elected
  • Your TV Is Taking Notes
  • Tenure for the Machine, Layoffs for the Human
  • The Grid Didn't Sign Up For This
  • The Fix Nobody Asked For
Episode 112:45

Slow Down, Says the Man Building It

Anthropic's CEO asks the AI industry to slow down, the same week his own company's threat report describes Claude being used to help target weapons. Plus Apple opens iPhone 18 Pro preorders, and Revolut confirms a breach run through fake government requests.

  • The CEO Who Wants His Own Industry to Slow Down
  • When the Safety Talk Meets the Missile Code
  • Apple's Biggest Hardware Day of the Year
  • Revolut's Fake Government Email Problem
  • The Fight Over What Powers All This