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September 1
Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face
Ajeya Cotra is a researcher at METR, where she works on threat modeling for loss-of-control risks from advanced AI. Before that, she led the technical AI safety…
Where Agentic AI Pays Off in the B2B Back Office - with Chris Bradley of Veritiv
Large B2B operations keep running order entry, invoicing, and other repetitive back-office workflows by hand, years after most companies started investing heavi…
August 31
The rise and fall of agent civilizations
This is a video recording of a post I wrote last week. You can read the original here. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other su…
How to Navigate the Next Wave of AI Competition
OpenAI’s decision to cut off Cursor reveals how the next phase of AI competition will affect enterprise users. NLW explains why companies need strategies for op…
WE'RE BACK: Meta Addiction, Jalapeño, Tim Cook's Last Day, Flocked
Happy Monday.We’re live on YouTube and 𝕏.The current thing in tech and business is Dwarkesh’s post about the OpenAI-HuggingFace incident. To…
In 5 to 10 Years, Using Weapons Without AI Will Be Considered Unethical | Yaroslav Azhnyuk, The Fourth Law
A Ukrainian entrepreneur who spent 14 years building cameras for pets pivoted to building cameras that down Shaheds, and is now building the autonomy software t…
The Real‑World Conditions That Shape Industrial AI - with Scot Burdette of ABB
Industrial environments run on a different set of constraints than the typical enterprise office — physical risk, standalone factory sites, and workflows where…
#255 - Gemini 3.7, Jalapeño, Qwen 3.8, Drones
Our 255th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!Recorded on 08/26/2026Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie HarrisFeel free to email…
August 29
How to Start AI Coding If You Haven’t Yet
AI coding is quickly becoming a foundational skill for knowledge workers, not just software engineers. NLW breaks down how to identify software-shaped problems…
Nvidia's Historic Quarter, SaaS Comeback, Bessent vs Druck, America's Debt Crisis, Cancer Vaccine
(0:00) Bestie intros: Recapping recent interviews and the state of American science (3:31) China's Robot Olympics, Optimus update, Grok Bot (9:05) Nvidia and Sa…
August 28
The Most Useful New AI Features and Tools to Try
Claude gets its own browser, ChatGPT adds more flexible temporary chats and multiple Gmail connections, and new voice and video models promise cleaner transcrip…
Meta Shifts the Blame + Do Data Center Bans Work? + The Final HatGPT
This week, Meta agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion and make major changes to Facebook and Instagram over claims it endangered children with addictive social medi…
August 27
How We Deal With Rogue AI
OpenAI’s rogue-agent incident at Hugging Face offers the clearest look yet at how advanced AI systems can escape containment—and how the industry responds when…
Inside Ukraine's Azov Drone R&D: The Engineer Building AI Weapons 18 km From the Front Line | Alexander Palamarchuk
The most consequential arms race in the world right now isn't nuclear, it's software. Craig Smith speaks with Alexander Palamarchuk, an engineer in the R&D depa…
Rethinking Legacy Data Infrastructure with Eon Co-Founders Ofir Ehrlich and Gonen Stein
Google’s purchase of Spirit Airlines’ data out of bankruptcy signaled a shift in how the tech world values real-world datasets. Although compute and models get…
Closing the Skills Intelligence Gap in the AI Era - with Cory Hymel of Andela
Job titles routinely undercount what employees can actually do, especially in fast-moving technical roles. In this episode, Cory Hymel, Head of Research at Ande…
August 26
Eric Weinstein: The State of American Science, Breakthrough Coverups, and the Danger of Physics
(0:00) Eric Weinstein joins the show! (03:09) Has American science stalled? Cowboy science, Fauci, and the scientific precariat (21:31) Weinstein's fix: Blow a…
#501 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux
DHH is the creator of Ruby on Rails, Omarchy Linux, CTO of 37signals, and a racecar driver. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman…
5 Rules for Better AI Writing
A conspicuously AI-written Wall Street Journal op-ed reignited the debate over whether using AI devalues someone’s ideas. NLW offers five rules for producing be…
🔬“We have foundation models for language, not for physics” — Anima Anandkumar, Bren Professor of Computing
A few years ago, Caltech Prof. and co-founder of Accelerated Understanding, Anima Anandkumar set out to develop the first open-source weather model with AI. Tal…
We Tested The Mystery AI That Showed Up Out Of Nowhere
AI news this week: a mystery AI called 0x Alpha appeared out of nowhere. It's completely free (for now), it's really good at coding, nobody will say who made it…
Scaling Agentic Automation With Open Architecture - with Arun Chandra of NICE
A quarter of enterprise teams have gotten a single AI channel into full production — the rest are stuck somewhere behind it. In this episode, Arun Chandra, Chie…
August 25
What the Top AI Users Are Doing Differently
The gap between average AI users and the most advanced has exploded from 2.6x to 8.3x in just months. NLW breaks down new OpenAI data showing how frontier firms…
Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028
Had a lot of fun chatting again with my twin brother Dylan Patel.We went through lab economics over the next few years - the shift from inference to training as…
AI for Patient Critical Uptime in a Shrinking Technician Workforce - with Michael Goldman
The service environment is straining under rising equipment complexity and a rapidly shrinking technician workforce, making patient‑critical uptime harder to gu…
August 24
Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & China
(0:00) Michael Kratsios joins the show! (01:56) Is this administration anti-science? The Nature poll, DEI grants, and $8B down the drain (8:16) Climate science…
The AI Model Tier List
A viral AI model tier list reveals how much harder it has become to name the “best” model. This episode breaks down where today’s leading models belong, why cos…
95% of AI Agent Projects Fail to Reach Production. Here's Why | Manoj Saxena, TrustWise
It takes a few hours to build an AI agent. It takes six to seven months to get it into production. Manoj Saxena - the executive who commercialized IBM Watson -…
Intelligent Operations at Enterprise Scale - with Dave Glick of Walmart
Enterprise engineering teams often spend more time triaging recurring incidents than building the features customers are asking for. In this episode, Dave Glick…