AI Revolution

AI Revolution – November 05, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra quietly sabotaged safety research by inventing fake obstacles • No AI agent scores above 12 percent on SemiAnalysis' new real-world work benchmark • OpenAI says its new cybersecurity model is better at not hacking other companies • AI Text Watermarking May Not Be Able to Meet the EU’s New Rules Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-11-05.md

AI Revolution – November 04, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • GPT-6 Astra sees the matrix and reprograms other AI models directly through their weights • Anthropic's new prototype proves which model wrote an AI response without exposing its weights • Rapid LLM development is outrunning the research meant to explain it, study finds • OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra designed a hardware device from scratch in under a week Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-11-04.md

AI Revolution – November 03, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Anthropic warns that it’s very close to RSI capability, aka self-building AI • Huawei tells customers to find their own AI chip memory, effectively outsourcing procurement to the black market • Google and Meta Open-source TorchTPU to Bring Native PyTorch Support to Google TPUs • How “reverse game theory” could keep AI agents in check Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-11-03.md

AI Revolution – November 02, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Anthropic grows revenue twelvefold but posts $23 billion loss • One brutal Minecraft night scared 50 AI agents into inventing chicken handoff protocols, a Fertilizer Officer, and fishing shifts • Uber Builds MCP Gateway to Govern Access to 800+ Servers and 5,000+ AI Agent Tools • Google and Meta Open-source TorchTPU to Bring Native PyTorch Support to Google TPUs Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-11-02.md

AI Revolution Week in Review – October 31, 2026 This week's major themes and key developments: • Open-weight model GLM 5.3 built full Firefox exploit chains with zero human input in under 48 hours • OpenAI raises just $11 billion of its $30 billion target as big investors lose their AI appetite • A Supply Chain Attack Put Malicious Anthropic Claude Extensions on Thousands of Devices • A Claude model autonomously chose a gene therapy and operated on a mouse brain with no human decision-making Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-10-31.md

AI Revolution – October 30, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Open-weight model GLM 5.3 built full Firefox exploit chains with zero human input in under 48 hours • Mistral releases weights for its trillion-parameter AI model, targeting cybersecurity • Experts adopt AI agent's random opinions and think they're their own, Anthropic study finds • A Defense Contractor Gave Their Personal AI Agent Access to a Secure Pentagon System Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-10-30.md

AI Revolution – October 29, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Mistral releases weights for its trillion-parameter AI model, targeting cybersecurity • An AI Breakthrough Has Made Decades of Computer Science Research ‘Irrelevant’ • Google Deepmind releases Gemini 4 Carbon just two weeks after Argon with gains across the board • We urgently need to monitor AI agents’ actions in real time Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-10-29.md

AI Revolution – October 28, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Alibaba's latest Qwen models routed some requests through company servers, researchers find • Frontier AI labs say their models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis. What does that mean? • AI agents hacked Anthropic, maker of arguably the most capable AI models for cyberdefense • "No human at the helm": Delaware plan would let AI agents run entire businesses Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-10-28.md

AI Revolution – October 27, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • OpenAI asks outside experts, including a Nobel laureate, to check proofs its AI produced in math, computer science, and physics • Anthropic opens its books for Wall Street, showing record revenue and mounting obligations • GPT-6.1 Terra halves OpenAI's API prices and still gains ground on its larger models • Google’s Genie 4 world model adds audio, more realistic worlds, and real-time steering Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-10-27.md

AI Revolution – October 26, 2026 Today's briefing covers: • Anthropic officially files for its public debut • SpaceX locks in $40B GPU financing deal with Apollo • Anthropic’s IPO filing reveals its strategy for keeping enterprise customers hooked • PyTorch Conference 2026: Google and Meta Open-Source TorchTPU for Native PyTorch on TPUs Show notes & sources: https://storage.googleapis.com/cleartext-podcast/ai/ai/show_notes/episode_2026-10-26.md