#241: Pacing the Frontier Gets Political, Why AI Labs Could Keep the Best Models for Themselves & Introducing the AI Transformation Blueprint
AI-safety pacing became a political fight this week: Trump versus a bipartisan push, with data centers and the midterms in the middle. Paul and Mike go deeper on the part that matters more: the widening gap between the models labs keep and the ones you can use, Noam Brown's warning about it, and OpenAI's six new rogue-agent disclosures. Plus Paul's surprise book announcement and a full rapid-fire slate.
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 — Intro
00:04:29 — The AI Slowdown Gets (Very) Political
00:25:18 — AI Labs Could Keep the Best Models to Themselves
00:54:33 — The AI Transformation Blueprint
01:09:45 — OpenAI Discloses More Rogue Agent Incidents
01:14:03 — Claude Merges Chat and Cowork
01:17:53 — Meta Rolls Out Muse
01:20:36 — Apple Ships Siri AI
01:23:20 — OpenAI and Microsoft Face Copyright Revelations
01:27:18 — AI Use Case Spotlight
01:32:59 — AI Product and Funding Updates
This episode is supported by Outshift, Cisco's incubation engine for frontier technology. Outshift by Cisco is an open source foundation for building multi-agent systems from design to production with shared context, shared memory, and guardrails to drive the results we actually expect from AI. Read the paper, experience the demo, grab the code from Outshift.com.
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