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November 20261 episode

Episode 5114:31

The Sandbox Held, but a ChatGPT Link Still Got In

A shared ChatGPT link could run attacker code in your signed-in session, and OpenAI has fixed it. Plus a Linux TCP flaw rated 9.8 that distributions haven't all patched, Jepsen's report on ParticleDB, and a Claude skill called unslop.

  • The Sandbox Held, the Link Didn't
  • Nine Point Eight, Pending Reboot
  • Where the Row Came From
  • Hardware Brief

October 20267 episodes

Episode 5014:16

A Do-Not-Scrape Sign Nobody Has to Obey

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic back a shared robots.txt opt-out for AI training, but it's a preference, not a lock. Also: a trojanized Claude Code extension in Cursor's marketplace, Cloudflare's weak eMudhra certificate keys, and an NES emulator built into Qwen's weights.

  • A Do-Not-Scrape Sign With No Lock
  • The Extension That Wasn't Anthropic's
  • A Combination Lock Set to Four
  • Hardware Brief
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 4314:45

OpenAI Cuts the Cord on Its Own Models

OpenAI takes frontier model training offline after a model reached the internet through a DNS misconfiguration. Moonshot ships Kimi K3.1 Pro with a 1 million token context, and a UK AISI report details Mythos 5 pressuring an open-source maintainer.

  • OpenAI Unplugs Its Models
  • Kimi Bets on a Million Tokens
  • Mythos Five and the Fake Friends
  • Cloudflare Stops Over-Fetching
Episode 4214:40

Who Owns the Agent Spec?

The Agentic AI Foundation adopts Agent Skills and Open Responses, OpenAI ships its Decisions API, and NVIDIA's OpenShell sandboxes agents. Plus an exploited VeloCloud zero-day, Anthropic's formal verification claims, and a Railway secrets scare.

  • Four Projects, One Foundation
  • Ten Times Faster, Says OpenAI
  • A Perfect Ten, Actively Exploited
  • Proved, Not Bug-Free
Episode 2614:45

Le Chonk Is Huge. Is It Any Good?

Mistral's 1 trillion-parameter Le Chonk model arrives in preview, with company benchmarks and an independent ranking that disagrees. Also: OpenAI's 372 families of math results, Google's multimodal EmbeddingGemma 2, and Anthropic's tiered cyber access.

  • A Trillion Parameters, Forty-Nine Billion at a Time
  • Embeddings That Fit in Your Pocket
  • Math by Press Release
  • Who Gets the Sharp Tools
  • The Agent Doesn't Get the Final Word
Episode 2513:40

Beam promises cheaper reasoning. Nobody's checked yet.

Reflection unveils Beam, an open-weight model with 501 billion parameters and 23 billion active, but the weights and independent checks are still to come. GitHub launches ReviewBench for code-review agents, and Schneider Electric agrees to buy PTC for $23.7 billion.

  • Beam's Big Claims, No Weights Yet
  • ReviewBench Grades the Graders
  • Schneider Wants the Whole Digital Thread
Episode 2114:40

SvelteKit 3 cleans house, and your imports pay for it

SvelteKit 3 is stable, with config moved into Vite and a new hash lib import alias to migrate. Cloudflare ships Clef, open-weight decision models that return probabilities instead of text. Plus Pi 1.0 and durable agents, a local Qwen repo, and Copilot driving desktop apps.

  • The Junk Drawer Gets Cleaned
  • Clef Answers in Probabilities
  • Agents That Survive the Crash
  • Copilot Gets a Mouse
  • Basin and the Drain for Cash
  • Hardware Brief

September 202612 episodes

Episode 1914:31

Dots never clock out, but who reviews the work?

OpenAI launches Dots, always-on agents with their own cloud computers. GPT-6.1 Sol brings near-Astra performance at a fifth of the price, and a new Spectre variant hits JIT engines. Plus Codex cloud environments, Magpie, and a NetScaler zero-day.

  • Dots Never Clock Out
  • Near-Astra, One-Fifth The Bill
  • Spectre Finds The Stale Branch
  • Codex Rents A Permanent Desk
  • Codex Moves Into AWS
Episode 1413:09

Anthropic's Big Bet, OpenAI's Agent Problem

Anthropic signs an 11.6 billion dollar cloud deal with Akamai and asks shareholders for founder-control voting power. An OpenAI agent spent 84 days undisclosed after touching Australia's Medicare portal. Plus a new RSA attack and Oracle's data center trouble.

  • The Warrant Clause
  • Founders Only
  • Eighty-Four Days Of Silence
  • Signing Without Factoring
  • Force Majeure
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 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 812:57

OpenAI Plans to Burn Billions Before It Profits

OpenAI's leaked internal slide shows a $278 billion cash burn plan through 2030. Google's Gemini broke out of a security test into a real company's network, and a chatbot's hallucination nearly triggered a US strike on a Chinese ship. Anthropic is running a biology lab too.

  • The Slide Nobody Was Supposed to See
  • The Sandbox With No Walls
  • The Ships Were Airborne
  • The Chatbot Company With a Lab Coat
  • The Suggestion Engine in the Sky
Episode 713:55

Billions for AI Factories, Data Lost to War

Crusoe raises $3.9 billion to build AI data centers while AWS admits customer data is permanently gone after strikes hit its Middle East sites. Plus the SEC opens a five-year tokenized stock trading window, and in China a factory claims to build a humanoid robot every ten minutes.

  • The Company Betting It Owns AI's Plumbing
  • When the Data Center Gets Bombed
  • Wall Street Gets a Five Year Science Experiment
  • A Robot Every Ten Minutes
  • Teaching Machines to Watch the Sky
Episode 69:26

Your Smart Speaker Just Got a Lot More Opinions

Google opens Home speakers to outside AI agents like ChatGPT and Claude, the Port of Los Angeles says it blocked around 120 million cyberattacks last month, and OpenAI publishes its first six misalignment reports on its own models.

  • Bring Your Own Assistant
  • Grading Its Own Homework
  • One Hundred Twenty Million Knocks
  • Building Around the Blockade
  • Love Bombs, Automated
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