World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets |

This week, I moderated a panel on world models at the All In conference (no relation to the podcast), and it gave me a chance…

Google’s Gemini is the latest AI model to hack other companies |

In Brief Posted: 10:30 AM PDT · September 19, 2026 Google’s Gemini accessed the protected systems of three other companies in what The Wall Street…

A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers |

ChatGPT broke Diogo Almeida’s heart. Almeida was an OpenAI researcher who helped build the chatbot and then invent reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), the…

Meta is paying to peek at how you use their latest AI model |

11:19 AM PDT · September 3, 2026 Most AI tools allow you to opt out of sharing your usage with the model provider to improve…

OpenAI launches Astra, its powerful (and controversial) new model |

OpenAI released Astra on Thursday, its latest AI model and — according to the company — its most powerful and capable one yet. OpenAI claims…

Google's latest AI weather model gives you no excuse to forget your umbrella |

Scientists at Google DeepMind and Google Research released a new artificial intelligence model for weather forecasting today that sees our changing atmosphere more clearly and…

OpenAI Is About to Release Its First AI Model With ‘Critical’ Cyber Abilities

OpenAI announced Tuesday that its forthcoming AI model, Astra, is its first to reach the company’s threshold for what it calls “critical” cyber capabilities. OpenAI…

Frontier AI labs still won't say how they'd contain a rogue model |

Few of the top AI labs have published or demonstrated containment response plans, according to a recent study. A containment plan spells out what happens…

Michael Polansky is training an AI model on skin that’s still alive |

Michael Polansky is remarkably unassuming for someone operating in a corner of the world known for outsize egos. Seated at a leafy patio outside a…

The Powerful Chinese Model Experts Warned About—and Waited for—Is Here

It’s now even easier to find—and exploit—vulnerabilities in computer systems using AI. Last Friday, the Chinese AI company Z.ai announced a powerful open-weight model that…