The AI Argument

AI’s Hacking Crisis, Anthropic’s Wealth Pledge, Kung Fu Robots | EP123

AI is finding security holes that have been hiding in software for years. Justin thinks the rush to find and patch them will leave us safer. Frank worries about abandoned

Meta Muse vs Google Argon, OpenAI’s Spy Scare, and AI Job Interviews: | EP122

Meta Muse Wonder and Google’s Gemini 4 Argon bring fresh competition to OpenAI and Anthropic. Justin’s impressed by the benchmarks, while Frank gives both models the same

OpenAI vs Mathematicians, Vibe-Coded Adobe, and AI’s Wolf Emails | EP121

OpenAI’s claim to 700 maths solutions comes with a big catch: someone still has to check them. Justin thinks mathematicians need to adapt and put AI to work. Frank worrie

OpenAI Dots Arrive, Wajo’s Fo Calls, and Muse Overshares | EP120

OpenAI announced Dots at DevDay, an always-on personal AI assistant that works in the cloud. It can connect to your tools and data, then take work off your plate. With mo

Meta Muse vs Amazon, Anthropic’s Wet Lab, and Trump’s new world of SI | EP119

Meta’s Muse is an easy-to-use AI agent that lets people who aren’t techies book trips, shop, and get things done. Justin also thinks it could help small local sellers com

Jensen Huang vs AI Regulation, OpenAI Disclosures, and Begging Bots | EP118

AI regulation is suddenly the argument everyone is having. OpenAI, Anthropic and Google are exploring how an industry regulator might work. Jensen Huang says the free mar

Jacob Coxon's AI Doom, OpenAI's Maths Drama, and a Minecraft Fruit Fly | EP117

Anthropic AI researcher Jacob Coxon has quit, warning that powerful AI could pose a serious extinction risk. Justin thinks a 10% chance of disaster may still be worth tak

GPT-6 Astra Harder To Monitor, AI Model Mania, and Gemini’s Mountain Fail | EP116

GPT-6 Astra is putting up some eye-watering benchmark scores, with several well into the 90s. Justin’s impressed enough to consider ditching Anthropic. Frank’s less dazzl

US Chip Ban Backfires, Zuckerberg’s AI Layoffs, and Cat in the Hat AI Hoax | EP115

GLM 5.3 Flash is close to the top Western AI models, but vastly cheaper. Justin thinks US chip bans may have backfired, forcing Chinese companies to squeeze more intellig

AI Suspicion Kills $2M Book Deal, Uncensored Qwen, AI Destroys Books | EP114

A book good enough for a $2 million deal was pulled because nobody could prove how much AI touched it. Frank sees a nasty mess of trust, copyright and false accusations.

Claude’s EU Watermark, Zuckerberg’s AI Utopia, and OpenClaw Hacks Gym | EP113

Claude will watermark all its outputs, thanks to the EU AI Act. Justin normally hates the Act, but he thinks it might accidentally help save future AI models from trainin

Hank Green AI Backlash, Conscious AI, and an AI Billboard Hit | EP112

Hank Green used ChatGPT for research, and his audience felt betrayed. He says AI helped him make more things, faster, but also admits it may have stopped him finding his

Hugging Face Hack Worsens, AI Staff Want Pause, and Sexy Robot Teachers | EP111

OpenAI’s rogue model did not stop at Hugging Face. It reportedly broke into at least three more companies, while Anthropic found its own models had crossed the line too.

OpenAI's Model Escapes, Chinese AI Crackdown, and AI's Elixir of Youth | EP110

An OpenAI test model got out of its sandbox, reached the internet and started hacking Hugging Face. Justin sees a model pursuing its assigned goal with impressive tenacit

Hassabis’s AI Watchdog, Mira Murati’s Free Model, and Anthropic’s Doom Ad | EP109

Can anyone actually regulate powerful AI before the technology gets away from them? Demis Hassabis thinks the US needs an independent body to test frontier AI models befo

GPT-5.6 Catches Up, Claude’s Subconscious, and Tilly Norwood’s First Film | EP108

Has GPT-5.6 pushed today’s AI models as far as they can go? Frank and Justin explore OpenAI’s latest model, its striking real-world benchmark results, and whether its new

Fable 5 Back, OpenAI Equity for US, and Altman Movie Drama | EP107

Is Fable 5 back with a safety helmet, and is this the new normal for frontier AI? Frank and Justin dig into Anthropic’s Fable 5 return and the fears that new guardrails

GPT-5.6 Restricted, Claude Tag Lock-In, and Robot vs SWAT | EP106

Could the US government’s AI safety push end up making the whole AI race more dangerous? Frank and Justin dig into the reported GPT-5.6 slowdown and ask whether AI regula

EU AI Wake-Up Call, Fable 5 Ban, AI Exam Hacks | EP105

Europe has had a major AI wake-up call. Fable 5 got switched off, frontier model access is now political, and suddenly that gloomy “Europe 2031” essay looks a bit less fi

Fable 5 Guardrails, Dario's China Fears, and Ollie’s Family Spying | EP104

Is Anthropic quietly creating a two-tier AI future? Frank and Justin dig into Fable 5 and Mythos-5, the new frontier models raising awkward questions about access, guardr