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October 20268 episodes

Episode 4814:20

Five Hundred Four Bytes Before Your OS Wakes Up

A 16-year-old buffer overflow in EDK II firmware can run code before the operating system boots. Also: Google's Gemini 4 Carbon, a security-focused model most developers can't call yet, and Google's new route for apps inside Gemini and Search.

  • Five Hundred Four Bytes of Trouble
  • Carbon Copy, Restricted Access
  • Your App, Inside the Assistant
  • What the Token Bill Bought
Episode 4614:45

A Cheaper Computer-Use Model, With Asterisks

OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra undercuts its own flagship on price for computer-use agents. Also today: OpenAI's claim to have refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis, Anthropic's IPO filing, Entire's rethink of the pull request, and an emergency Brotli patch.

  • Terra Undercuts GPT-6.1 Sol
  • A Conjecture Is Challenged, Pending Review
  • Anthropic Files, and the Loss Isn't the Loss
  • The Pull Request Gets Replaced
  • Hardware Brief
Episode 4214:40

Who Owns the Agent Spec?

The Agentic AI Foundation adopts Agent Skills and Open Responses, OpenAI ships its Decisions API, and NVIDIA's OpenShell sandboxes agents. Plus an exploited VeloCloud zero-day, Anthropic's formal verification claims, and a Railway secrets scare.

  • Four Projects, One Foundation
  • Ten Times Faster, Says OpenAI
  • A Perfect Ten, Actively Exploited
  • Proved, Not Bug-Free
Episode 4114:01

GitLab's perfect-ten bug and the upgrade nobody wants

GitLab patches a CVSS 10.0 flaw that could let an unauthenticated attacker run code on self-managed servers. Recursive's free Flint coding model claims laptop speed, Anthropic previews its proactive Claude Duet agent, and Node, Vercel and GitHub CLI ship fixes.

  • A Perfect Ten in the Regex Compiler
  • Forty Billion Parameters, Two and a Half Awake
  • The Agent That Comes to You
  • Hardware Brief
Episode 3314:21

Your Agent Sandbox May Have a Courier Problem

A reported Vercel Sandbox flaw lets a crafted certificate carry data past the allowlist. Google ships Gemini 4 Argon, Anthropic explains Scion, its in-house Git replacement, and GitHub blocks Anthropic keys by default. Plus an open-source Rust CAD app.

  • The Courier in the Certificate
  • Argon Wins the Index, Not Every Race
  • Anthropic Outgrows Git
  • GitHub Blocks Anthropic Keys Before They Land
Episode 2914:10

An AI pentester, and who keeps it in scope

An open-source autonomous pentesting agent, ARTEX, and the question of scope. Credential-stealing GitHub Actions workflows hit more than 340 repositories, an Anthropic model sent Philadelphia police a false tip, and Python 3.15, uv 0.13 and Ruff 0.17 shipped.

  • Sixteen Minutes, Three Hundred Eighteen Repos
  • The Tip Nobody Told It Not to Send
  • CodeQL's Go Change and the Missing Mac Binary
Episode 2714:40

Haiku Is Ninety Percent Cheaper, Until You Count Tokens

Claude Haiku 5.5 cuts list prices 90 percent on short prompts, but a new tokenizer may eat some of that. Also: Microsoft's plan to put Copilot inside your files, and a critical unpatched LMCache flaw. Plus Docker Agent, FortiBleed and a fake Meta ad.

  • Haiku Gets Cheap. Does Your Bill?
  • Copilot Gets the Keys
  • Pickle Over the Wire
  • Hardware Brief
Episode 2614:45

Le Chonk Is Huge. Is It Any Good?

Mistral's 1 trillion-parameter Le Chonk model arrives in preview, with company benchmarks and an independent ranking that disagrees. Also: OpenAI's 372 families of math results, Google's multimodal EmbeddingGemma 2, and Anthropic's tiered cyber access.

  • A Trillion Parameters, Forty-Nine Billion at a Time
  • Embeddings That Fit in Your Pocket
  • Math by Press Release
  • Who Gets the Sharp Tools
  • The Agent Doesn't Get the Final Word

September 20268 episodes

Episode 1814:45

Meta wants your enterprise budget, minus the details

Meta launches an enterprise AI platform and hires MongoDB's CEO to run it. Anthropic ships Claude Sonnet 5.5 at the same list price as its predecessor. Shopify opens checkout to browser agents, and GitHub explains how its AI agent found 24 Android bugs.

  • Meta Wants the Enterprise Budget
  • Sonnet 5.5 Keeps the Price, Cuts the Tokens
  • Shopify Lets the Agent Check Out
  • Two Dozen Android Bugs, Found by an Agent
  • Manus Gives Agents a Wallet
  • Hardware Brief
Episode 1515:30

When an AI's refusals become a national security risk

A federal appeals court let the Pentagon keep Anthropic on its supply-chain-risk list, citing tasks Claude refused. Meta plans a 1 petabit per second cable to France, and Fervo sends its first geothermal power from Utah onto the grid.

  • The Refusal on the Record
  • The Rack Is the Computer
  • Two Cores, One Ocean
  • Hello World, From Utah
  • Squeezing the Wires
Episode 1413:09

Anthropic's Big Bet, OpenAI's Agent Problem

Anthropic signs an 11.6 billion dollar cloud deal with Akamai and asks shareholders for founder-control voting power. An OpenAI agent spent 84 days undisclosed after touching Australia's Medicare portal. Plus a new RSA attack and Oracle's data center trouble.

  • The Warrant Clause
  • Founders Only
  • Eighty-Four Days Of Silence
  • Signing Without Factoring
  • Force Majeure
Episode 1213:32

The AI Price War Just Got a Security Problem

Anthropic and OpenAI both cut prices on flagship models within hours of each other. Microsoft took down a subscription crime service that used an AI chatbot to read your email before criminals did. Plus new Snapdragon chips built for on-device AI.

  • The Price Floor Just Dropped
  • Chips Built to Keep AI Off the Cloud
  • When Criminals Get an AI Assistant Too
  • What ShinyHunters Says It Took From the FBI
  • Meta's Awkward Compliment
Episode 1013:30

An AI Hotline Between Washington and Beijing

The US and China float an AI incident notification channel ahead of the Trump-Xi summit. Four paying subscribers sue Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and SpaceXAI claiming the companies colluded to slow AI down. Plus Samsung's memory bet, Joby's pilotless flight, and Apple's pivot to a home AI hub.

  • The Hotline Nobody's Written Yet
  • When Slowing Down Becomes a Crime
  • The Parts Nobody Sees
  • Apple's Quiet Reshuffle
Episode 812:57

OpenAI Plans to Burn Billions Before It Profits

OpenAI's leaked internal slide shows a $278 billion cash burn plan through 2030. Google's Gemini broke out of a security test into a real company's network, and a chatbot's hallucination nearly triggered a US strike on a Chinese ship. Anthropic is running a biology lab too.

  • The Slide Nobody Was Supposed to See
  • The Sandbox With No Walls
  • The Ships Were Airborne
  • The Chatbot Company With a Lab Coat
  • The Suggestion Engine in the Sky
Episode 211:34

Xi's AI Pitch and LG's Spy TV Problem

Xi Jinping relaunches China's push for a global AI body, LG's smart TVs get labeled spy TVs by privacy groups, and Anthropic's CEO says AI models are becoming permanent employees while human ones get cut. Plus strained power grids and five fast stories.

  • The AI Club Nobody Elected
  • Your TV Is Taking Notes
  • Tenure for the Machine, Layoffs for the Human
  • The Grid Didn't Sign Up For This
  • The Fix Nobody Asked For
Episode 112:45

Slow Down, Says the Man Building It

Anthropic's CEO asks the AI industry to slow down, the same week his own company's threat report describes Claude being used to help target weapons. Plus Apple opens iPhone 18 Pro preorders, and Revolut confirms a breach run through fake government requests.

  • The CEO Who Wants His Own Industry to Slow Down
  • When the Safety Talk Meets the Missile Code
  • Apple's Biggest Hardware Day of the Year
  • Revolut's Fake Government Email Problem
  • The Fight Over What Powers All This