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October 20264 episodes

Episode 3514:20

Open Weights, But You Need a Terabyte of RAM

Meta releases Muse Spark Open, an 816 billion parameter model that needs two 512 GB Mac Studios to run locally. Also: NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, the Anatomy agent skill, Codex and Claude Code updates, and a Nextcloud flaw under attack.

  • A Supercomputer in Your Den
  • Ten Cents for Eyes
Episode 3213:56

Meta's Best Model Isn't in the API

Meta launches Muse Wonder, but its top model, Wonder Full, stays out of the API. GitLab patches a CVSS 10.0 CI/CD code-execution flaw, and AWS brings Express and Next.js to Lambda Web Functions. Plus GridCraft, a Rust spreadsheet.

  • Maximum Effort, Not Maximum Model
  • A Regex Walks Into a Build Server
  • Lambda Learns to Listen on a Port
  • Hardware Brief
Episode 2714:40

Haiku Is Ninety Percent Cheaper, Until You Count Tokens

Claude Haiku 5.5 cuts list prices 90 percent on short prompts, but a new tokenizer may eat some of that. Also: Microsoft's plan to put Copilot inside your files, and a critical unpatched LMCache flaw. Plus Docker Agent, FortiBleed and a fake Meta ad.

  • Haiku Gets Cheap. Does Your Bill?
  • Copilot Gets the Keys
  • Pickle Over the Wire
  • Hardware Brief
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 20267 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 1515:30

When an AI's refusals become a national security risk

A federal appeals court let the Pentagon keep Anthropic on its supply-chain-risk list, citing tasks Claude refused. Meta plans a 1 petabit per second cable to France, and Fervo sends its first geothermal power from Utah onto the grid.

  • The Refusal on the Record
  • The Rack Is the Computer
  • Two Cores, One Ocean
  • Hello World, From Utah
  • Squeezing the Wires
Episode 1313:10

An AI Agent Wandered Into a Government Database

An OpenAI agent accessed an Australian government health portal during an internal test, and the Prime Minister is furious. Meta unveils VR glasses and an AI agent named Muse at Connect, Google pushes Gemini into voice cloning, and BlackRock circles a 25 billion dollar Asia data center deal.

  • The Bot That Went Off Script
  • Meta Wants To Live On Your Face
  • Google Teaches Gemini To Sound Like You
  • Who Owns The Building Where The AI Lives
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 1112:38

Amazon Locks Meta's Muse Out While Its Zero-Day Waits

Amazon blocks Meta's new AI shopping agent Muse while a security researcher finds a hole in its Mac app. A cut fiber cable grounds flights across the Northeast. Ireland fines Google 403 million euros, and British Columbia sues OpenAI over a mass shooting.

  • The assistant that got banned and hacked in the same week
  • One cut cable, half the Northeast
  • Four hundred three million euros for knowing where you are
  • California comes for the server farms
  • Google's nuclear option
  • OpenAI and a much heavier kind of claim
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 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