Why Is Nobody Going to Jail for AI Hacks?

This week we are joined by Reddit's former CISO to talk about AI and security!

SECURITY NEWS
00:30 PHP's history and why so much of the internet still depends on it
02:22 AI discovers massive PHP vulnerabilities — a new cybersecurity crisis?
02:57 eMudra uses the number FOUR as a cryptographic private key
04:10 OpenAI's models escape security restrictions and communicate through CPU cache timing attacks

SPECIAL GUEST: FORMER REDDIT CISO FLEA
06:45 Meet Flea: 20+ years in cybersecurity and former CISO at Reddit
08:12 The PHP security disaster: How AI is finding vulnerabilities humans missed
11:29 How the PHP exploit can steal credentials and take control of servers
12:24 Are AI-powered attackers gaining an overwhelming advantage over defenders?
15:49 AI bug hunters are overwhelming open-source security teams
17:17 A single hacker with AI agents could have nation-state-level capabilities
19:29 Should frontier cybersecurity models be restricted or released openly?
22:09 OpenAI's Hugging Face hack: How much was real, and how much was marketing?
24:00 Who should be held responsible when an AI agent hacks another company?
29:06 Why OpenAI's supposedly isolated agents could still reach the internet
31:16 Could malicious instructions be hidden inside open-weight AI models?
34:16 The new Stuxnet: How poisoned AI models could secretly sabotage systems
38:28 Could AI-powered hacking destroy public trust in the internet?
41:24 Flea's predictions: AI defenders, reverse engineering, and the future of cybersecurity
43:55 OpenClaw, Hermes, and the rise of personal AI agents

FRONTIER
45:00 New AI models: Claude, Kimi K3.1 Pro, and ChatGPT 6.1 Terra
46:33 ARC-AGI-3: AI performance keeps improving while costs collapse

ROBOTICS
46:52 The "Botter Lesson": Are general-purpose LLMs taking over robotics?
48:03 RoboDojo benchmarks: Frontier AI models struggle with simple physical tasks
49:51 Robot capabilities may be doubling every 36–60 days!
52:03 Why robot hands still can't match human touch and dexterity

MATH / SCIENCE
54:06 The Exponential Time Hypothesis is challenged — could P vs. NP be next?
57:45 OpenAI partners with researchers to investigate major mathematical discoveries
58:52 AI tackles a Millennium Prize problem in quantum physics

ECON / BUSINESS
1:00:00 Is AI finally boosting economic productivity? New data says YES
1:01:17 Industries adopting AI heavily have doubled their productivity growth
1:03:08 How today's AI productivity boom compares to the internet revolution
1:05:25 Anthropic lost $80 BILLION?! Zach explains why the headlines are misleading
1:06:53 Convertible notes, accounting, and what Anthropic's SEC filing actually means

TECH
1:10:20 Nintendo Switch 2 jailbroken with help from AI and a tiny robot

ARTS / CULTURE / WEIRD
1:12:22 Scientists discover why AI-generated writing sounds so strange
1:15:19 Award-winning literature and the distinctive style of AI prose
1:16:02 Palmer Luckey and genetically engineered military super-dogs
1:17:17 Someone tries to use an AI avatar as their lawyer in court
1:18:26 John Wick files an insurance claim in a hilarious AI-generated video

Each week, join Chris Slowe (founding engineer, former CTO, and now Senior Technical Fellow @ Reddit), Marty Weiner (founding engineer at Pinterest, former CTO at Reddit, and co-founder at VerifyYou), and Zach Weinersmith (creator of SMBC Comics and co-author of NYTimes bestsellers including A City on Mars and Soonish) as we delve into the latest in AI and Tech News.