AI Explained Official Podcast

What AI Researchers Saw, Before Their Demand to ‘Pace’ AI

Why has it been the last few days that the calls to come to pace the frontier AI have come so loudly? The safety warnings, and lab leader messages? Let’s explore the six

GPT 6 Astra, so good even OpenAI are worried

Where to start? A new era of cost-efficient AI on a day benchmark-makers got humbled, traders got excited, and AI safety researchers got unnerved. From monitorability los

Sam Altman: ‘AGI in 2026’, just as Models [Mis]Train Themselves

First, a Time Magazine spread has Sam Altman declaring AGI is imminent, at the same time as we get two bombshell reports, from OpenAI and METR which on first glance are d

AI is getting a little out of control

Wow. Mathematical breakthroughs that would be called genius if done by humans. A secret message-board w/ AI agent swarms leaving notes read by future versions. Hassabis l

GPT-6 Goes Rogue? The HuggingFace Incident, Sans Hype

An unreleased internal OpenAI model, very likely to be called GPT-6, was able to autonomously break out of its sandbox AND break into HugginFace, just to score higher on

This Was Not a Normal Set of Model Release - Sol Ultra, Meta Muse, New Grok

What a week in AI, for real. GPT 5.6 may actually beat Claude Fable, in what you get for your money, while the new Grok 4.5 and Meta Muse Spark 1.1 make the choice even h

Claude Fable Blocked - 11 Quiet Details on What’s Next

Claude Fable 5 banned, but what’s the bigger story. We go through 11 under-reported details, so you have the context to see what’s coming next for your use of AI. From wh

Claude Fable 5 - Full 319 page Breakdown

Fable 5 is out - and it’s good, very good. But beyond the splashy demos, I want to bring you the 20+ nuggets from the 319 page system card, which I read in full, all day,

New Claude - 244 page breakdown

The ‘best’ generally available AI model just dropped, but there is plenty I bet you missed about what it is, how it performs, and what the release tells us. 15 highlights

Two Rival Bets on AGI: Google I/O Highlights

The biggest Google AI push of the year, but what is the bigger story? Why is Google pursuing a different fork in the road than OpenAI or Anthropic? What does Gemini 3.5 F

GPT 5.5 Arrives, DeepSeek V4 Drops, and the Compute War Intensifies

GPT 5.5 full analysis, plus DeepSeek V4 paper highlights, comparisons with Mythos, a vibe-coded game w/ GPT Image 2, and 50 data-points you wouldn’t get from just reading

Claude Opus 4.7 - A New Frontier, in Performance … and Drama

Claude Opus 4.7 just dropped, but behind every headline lies a deeper story. From a bonanza of benchmarks, to seeing the fruits of one of the biggest mega-projects in US

Claude Mythos: Highlights from 244-page Release

The model, the mythos, the legend. We have a new best AI model, but not all of us. How good is it, what does it’s new offensive capabilities mean? Why does it’s 244 page

OpenAI Spud, a Claude Model set to ‘stir governments’, Beast Mode ARC-AGI-3

First look at exclusive reports about OpenAI's new Spud model, and the model Anthropic think will stir governments to urgency, all in the context of the newly-launch

What the New ChatGPT 5.4 Means for the World

Just 48 hours after releasing GPT 5.3 Instant, OpenAI have released GPT 5.4 Thinking, so either their is an imminent singularity or perhaps we are being distracted from o

Deadline Day for Autonomous AI Weapons & Mass Surveillance

Will Anthropic be forced to make a version of Claude for war? And does a new paper expose the risks of Claude agents, in both OpenClaw and the field of war? Plus, 5 more

Gemini 3.1 Pro and the Downfall of Benchmarks: Welcome to the Vibe Era of AI

Do we have a new best AI model, or do we have the downfall of benchmarks in general, as a way of capturing machine intelligence? Full breakdown of Gemini 3.1 Pro, guest-s

The Two Best AI Models/Enemies Just Got Released Simultaneously

The two models that you will hear discussed for at least the next two months - Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.3 Codex - just got released within 26 mins or each other. The ful

Claude AI Co-founder Publishes 4 Big Claims about Near Future: Breakdown

Anthropic's CEO, who has consistently predicted transformative AI will arrive before 2030, recently published a nearly 20,000-word essay outlining his vision of wher

Anthropic: Our AI just created a tool that can ‘automate all white collar work’, Me:

A new tool, with code written by an AI model, has gone omega-viral: Claude Cowork. But is the hype justified? What do the stats say on productivity? Where is the truth in