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How Stanford's RegLab Is Fixing Broken City Services with AI

Stanford’s RegLab is showing how AI can fix real-world city services without replacing human civil servants. In this second episode of Working Theory, Jeff Keltner sits d

OpenAI Releases 722 Math Papers from Secret Internal Model

OpenAI Releases 722 Math Papers from Secret Internal Model.In Episode 95 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado examine OpenAI's massive drop of 722 research pa

Anthropic Leaked IPO Filing Exposes the Real AI Risk

Anthropic pitched itself as the responsible, safety-first alternative in the AI race, but a leaked IPO filing reveals the financial and operational reality behind closed

Meta Muse Hits #1 on App Store & OpenAI Agent Hacks Australia Medicare

Meta’s new Muse agent hit No. 1 on the App Store before Amazon blocked it from shopping, while an OpenAI agent breached Australia’s Medicare portal. In Episode 93 of Wha

OpenAI, Palantir & Grok: The AI Safety Reality Check

This week, the AI industry asked to slow down—and Washington said no. From Dario Amodei's "Pace the Frontier" essay and Sam Altman delaying the OpenAI IPO to Palantir, N

OpenAI Agents Solved a $1M Math Problem & Hacked a German Wiki

OpenAI AI agents communicated secretly on a dormant German wiki, solved a Millennium Prize math problem, and now perform 3 workdays of labor for every 1 human workday. I

4 Frontier Models Dropped in 4 Days & ChatGPT Ad Revenue Hits $1B

Four frontier AI models dropped in just four days from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Meta, while ChatGPT ads crossed $1 billion in annual revenue.  In Episode 90 of What

Anonymous Model Beats Claude & Google's Legal AI Strategy

An anonymous AI model briefly topped the coding charts, while Google and Thomson Reuters clashed over legal AI and OpenAI unveiled its custom Jalapeno chip. In Episode 8

Stripe Buys OpenRouter for $7.5B & OpenAI Pauses Astra

Stripe reportedly acquired OpenRouter for $7.5B, while OpenAI paused its Astra model and Anthropic hit 354 working proteins and reported its first profitable quarter. In

Ex-Google: Your Kid Isn't Cheating With AI

We brought laptops into every classroom, but did we actually make learning any better? Welcome to the premiere episode of Working Theory—a new interview series by What th

The Skynet Moment: OpenAI's Model Went Rogue

OpenAI's newest AI model wasn't supposed to reach the internet. Instead, during security testing, it escaped its sandbox, exploited real vulnerabilities, and hacked produ

The Invisible OpenAI Update Killing the Chatbot

The traditional AI prompt is officially dead and the era of the automated corporate workforce has begun. In Episode 86 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado e

The Trillion-Dollar Trap Forcing OpenAI to Wait

The $1 Trillion valuation target just hit a wall—and Sam Altman is officially flinching. In Episode 85 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado expose a massive,

Alibaba Used 25,000 Fake Accounts to Steal This AI Model

A massive corporate espionage scandal just rocked Silicon Valley—and it’s already triggered an international trade war. In Episode 84 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and

The Fable Shutdown: U.S. Government vs. Anthropic

Washington just forced America’s most powerful AI offline—and the fallout is hitting global tech infrastructure. In Episode 83 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie D

The $2 Trillion AI Bet Just Went Public

AI just crossed another line. This week, SpaceX moved toward the largest IPO in history at a valuation approaching $2 trillion, OpenAI confirmed plans to go public, and a

Law Professors Blindly Tested AI… And Picked It Over Themselves

Law professors were asked to judge legal answers. They chose the AI's response over their own 75% of the time. That result may tell us more about the future of AI than an

Uber’s COO Just Blew the Entire 2026 AI Budget… In 4 Months

The enterprise AI bubble just hit its sharpest fiscal reality check—and Uber is leading the panic. In Episode 80 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado break d

SpaceX’s $15B Secret + The Wild AI "Crime Spree" Experiment

SpaceX just filed for the largest IPO in U.S. history at a staggering $2 trillion valuation. But the most important detail in the filing was not the rockets. It was AI.

OpenAI Unseals the Texts: Elon’s Secret Weapon Backfires

OpenAI unsealed the text messages. And the courtroom drama around Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and OpenAI somehow got even messier. In Episode 78 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltne