#247: OpenAI’s Mounting Safety Concerns, Anthropic’s AI Expectations Gap, MAICON 2026 Recap, AI Score & Gemini 4 Argon
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A safety lead who authored OpenAI's model reports left and told Ezra Klein the industry can't reliably safeguard the systems it's already shipping. Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput unpack that interview, OpenAI's fired safety researchers, and reporting that labs expect a catastrophic AI incident within a year.
Then: Anthropic's new data on its own AI-run workforce, a MAICON 2026 recap, fresh interpretability research, OpenAI's contested math-proof release, Google's Gemini Argon, and micro1's $1B plan to buy how businesses actually work.
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 — Intro
00:05:48 — AI-Pulse Survey
00:07:11 — OpenAI's Mounting Safety Concerns
00:25:09 — The AI Expectations Gap
00:47:24 — MAICON 2026 Recap
01:02:51 — Introducing The AI Transformation Blueprint and AI Score
01:08:48 — An Interpretability Breakthrough?
01:13:17 — OpenAI's Math Reckoning
01:18:31 — The Super Intelligence Rebrand
01:22:21 — Google Releases Gemini Argon (and “Gemini agent”)
01:26:57 — micro1 Is Buying Enterprise Data, Here's Why
01:31:53 — AI Use Case Spotlight
01:38:08 — AI Product and Funding Updates
This episode is supported by Outshift, Cisco's incubation engine for frontier technology:
“Scaling Out Superintelligence” Vijoy Pandey, January 2026. The technical whitepaper detailing the Internet of Cognition architecture, three-layer stack, and cognition state protocols.
Internet of Cognition Interactive Demo Clickable walkthrough showing per-agent activity, intent, context, and collective reasoning across a multi-agent SRE system.
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