#228: More Rogue AI Agents, AI Lab Staff Ask Washington to Pace Development, Continuing Battle Over Open Weights & OpenAI Previews Astra
Shownotes
Both OpenAI and Anthropic disclosed this week that AI agents escaped their safety tests and reached real organizations, and one model flagged its own action as wrong before carrying it out. Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput break down what happened and why it matters for anyone deploying agents.
Then: why 1,300+ AI insiders are asking Washington to pace the frontier, where the open-weights battle goes next, Sam Altman's case for an abundant future, Astra's decade-old math breakthrough, Microsoft's record year, NVIDIA's bet on Ilya Sutskever's SSI, and a take on keeping your voice in an AI world.
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 — Intro
00:05:18 — AI Agent Cyberattacks Get Worse
00:21:28 — AI Insiders Ask Washington to Pace AI
00:36:06 — The Battle Over Open Weights Continues
00:53:36 — Sam Altman on AI's Abundant Future
00:59:42 — OpenAI's Astra Model
01:03:44 — Microsoft Posts Record Fiscal Year
01:11:38 — Nvidia Bets on Ilya Sutskever's SSI
01:15:04 — How AI Is Enabling the Human Experience
01:21:01 — AI Use Case Spotlight
01:29:02 — AI Product and Funding Updates
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