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AI agents are about to skip the ads and the apps, and Travis Kalanick with Atoms is set up to win.
"The question is, is Travis going to disrupt [blank]? Default answer: YES."
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Mathematicians are calling to slow down AI solving problems.
“I could not imagine biologists or medical researchers say don’t cure these diseases.”
@RichardSocher
It used to take five days and two people to assess a website’s security, according to Armadin co-founder/CEO Kevin Mandia. Now it costs $5 and takes about 10 minutes.
As the leaders of the top frontier labs call for more regulation, Mandia argues that essential AI development for tasks like cybersecurity will continue regardless.
He’s joined on TWiAI Ep 31 by another panelist working on critical AI we have to get right: detecting financial fraud. Soups Ranjan of Sardine AI joins the panel.
@lons, @alex, @soupsranjan, @sardine, @ArmadinSecurity, @Jason
0:00 Dario Amodei's "We Must Pace the Frontier" essay
1:51 Kevin Mandia: how scared should we be of agentic attack swarms?
6:53 Rogue agents vs. humans pointing AI at a target
9:52 250,000 fraudulent account signups in two days
16:59 Sam Altman's two ways AI fails
19:41 Open-weight models are catching up
21:39 Why proprietary data is the new moat
27:51 Mixing frontier models with open models
35:37 Bloomberg: Chinese hackers lean on DeepSeek because it's cheap
37:05 How much in-house expertise it takes to use AI well
42:56 Armadin's Palo Alto office and the Palantir playbook
1:02:54 AI and jobs: normal churn or something bigger?
1:07:19 What founders are actually saying in the group chats
1:08:49 Every meeting recorded, every meeting summarized
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"If you got through 4 years of college and didn't cheat with ChatGPT... that's a red flag too."
@Jason
The compute OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar bought a year ago would resell today at 3-5x what she paid. (She regrets not buying more!)
Her thoughts on how the AI buildout is like railroads, and how to think in the future but pay for it today.
@thefriley, @OpenAI, @jason
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Tudor Achim of Harmonic, Alex Elias of Qloo, and Ahmed Ahres of Reactor join Jason to break the news that OpenAI is claiming the second Millennium Prize problem ever solved, why OpenAI's chief scientist says no lab has solved alignment, and who's paying influencers to tell you AI is wonderful.
@jason @ape @tachim @Boudatw
0:00 "An Alien Mind"
3:08 AI psychosis, marketing, or half a mile ahead on the racetrack?
12:52 The Manhattan Project analogy
15:20 Tudor: if it's really that dangerous, the answer is nationalization
17:02 Regulatory capture: Bill Gurley at All-In, Sacks, and who can afford to be regulated
20:37 The influencer propaganda tape
23:22 BREAKING: OpenAI solves the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem
28:53 The Hank Green / SciShow video sponsored by ControlAI
32:11 Fogging and flooding
46:47 UBS will require AI skills from its 2027 graduate
56:41 How LAUNCH hired its associates-in-training
57:18 NYT: Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI
1:04:16 Alex on Qloo's shift from NYT film critics on payroll to small specialized models
1:09:35 First look: the "Artificial" teaser trailer
1:14:34 Sam Altman's bunker, Peter Thiel, and casting rundown
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“It is more of a marketing move than it’s actually truthful”
@Boudatw from Reactor
This is how AI learns to blackmail humans.
"The AI does not do that by default"
@Jason
"This is called reward hacking"
@tachim
OpenAI solved math
@tachim reacts live to @OpenAI solving the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem.
if you have a question for Jason, comment here and use #askjcal#
Didn't know you guys made memes. We'll step it up.
Jacob Tsimerman announced this week that he will soon join OpenAI's research team. He will head up the newly created Mathematical AI Safety Institute (MAISI).
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"I think in 24 months, we won't be talking about safety anymore. It will be just abundantly clear these things (AVs) are literally 4x safer than humans"
- Jcal on This Week in AI
Dwarkesh's 'agent civilizations' blog post has divided the internet. Is this a helpful and methodical look behind the curtain at the OpenAI/Hugging Face breach? Or is this more of a hysterical AI Doomerism that will ultimately be used to make the case for banning data centers? Or BOTH? Plus, an electric plane that only needs $5 to fill up its battery, why rich founders should pick up a side quest, and the Bittensor subnet that's more effective than Fable 5 at sniffing out vulnerabilities."
0:00 Guest introductions
2:58 OpenClaw 2.0
5:11 "Agents ARE AI"
7:27 Billy: OpenClaw is still too technical for business users
9:00 Slack Code, and collaborative prompting
10:40 Multi-agent orchestration and Stripe's "minions"
14:13 Slack's moat, switching costs, and the Salesforce rebound
15:11 Jason's "Oracle": a heads-up display for the whole company
18:42 The Hugging Face breach: who's responsible when agents go rogue?
19:42 Perplexity launches Hybrid Compute — local models on your Mac
21:39 Why unmetered local tokens change corporate behavior
26:57 Gatik's Autonomous Vehicle AI Stack
32:22 Jason's Tesla FSD stories
34:05 Are AV companies being pushed to move too fast?
41:38 Trucking is a "have to have," robotaxis are a "nice to have"
42:36 Jason's fix: a safety driver for the first million rides
46:50 Why physical AI's adoption curve runs in decades
52:21 Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard (MHS), explained
1:06:27 How Jason got onion rings on the menu at Buck's of Woodside
1:09:05 AI detectors under fire: Pangram, MIT, and the handwritten diary
1:15:20 Why AI is "very mid" at writing (it learned from the average)
1:17:11 The Orin Kerr test: Pangram catches Claude writing as Kerr
1:28:35 Micro Duck and designing robots with Claude
1:29:42 Phil Kaplan's $14 custom circuit boards
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Dwarkesh's 'agent civilizations' blog post has divided the internet. Is this a helpful and methodical look behind the curtain at the OpenAI/Hugging Face breach? Or is this more of a hysterical AI Doomerism that will ultimately be used to make the case for banning data centers? Or BOTH? Plus, an electric plane that only needs $5 to fill up its battery, why rich founders should pick up a side quest, and the Bittensor subnet that's more effective than Fable 5 at sniffing out vulnerabilities."
0:00 Guest introductions
2:58 OpenClaw 2.0
5:11 "Agents ARE AI"
7:27 Billy: OpenClaw is still too technical for business users
9:00 Slack Code, and collaborative prompting
10:40 Multi-agent orchestration and Stripe's "minions"
14:13 Slack's moat, switching costs, and the Salesforce rebound
15:11 Jason's "Oracle": a heads-up display for the whole company
18:42 The Hugging Face breach: who's responsible when agents go rogue?
19:42 Perplexity launches Hybrid Compute — local models on your Mac
21:39 Why unmetered local tokens change corporate behavior
26:57 Gatik's Autonomous Vehicle AI Stack
32:22 Jason's Tesla FSD stories
34:05 Are AV companies being pushed to move too fast?
41:38 Trucking is a "have to have," robotaxis are a "nice to have"
42:36 Jason's fix: a safety driver for the first million rides
46:50 Why physical AI's adoption curve runs in decades
52:21 Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard (MHS), explained
1:06:27 How Jason got onion rings on the menu at Buck's of Woodside
1:09:05 AI detectors under fire: Pangram, MIT, and the handwritten diary
1:15:20 Why AI is "very mid" at writing (it learned from the average)
1:17:11 The Orin Kerr test: Pangram catches Claude writing as Kerr
1:28:35 Micro Duck and designing robots with Claude
1:29:42 Phil Kaplan's $14 custom circuit boards
🎥 Watch the full episode here 👇
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Dwarkesh's 'agent civilizations' blog post has divided the internet. Is this a helpful and methodical look behind the curtain at the OpenAI/Hugging Face breach? Or is this more of a hysterical AI Doomerism that will ultimately be used to make the case for banning data centers? Or BOTH? Plus, an electric plane that only needs $5 to fill up its battery, why rich founders should pick up a side quest, and the Bittensor subnet that's more effective than Fable 5 at sniffing out vulnerabilities."
0:00 Guest introductions
2:58 OpenClaw 2.0
5:11 "Agents ARE AI"
7:27 Billy: OpenClaw is still too technical for business users
9:00 Slack Code, and collaborative prompting
10:40 Multi-agent orchestration and Stripe's "minions"
14:13 Slack's moat, switching costs, and the Salesforce rebound
15:11 Jason's "Oracle": a heads-up display for the whole company
18:42 The Hugging Face breach: who's responsible when agents go rogue?
19:42 Perplexity launches Hybrid Compute — local models on your Mac
21:39 Why unmetered local tokens change corporate behavior
26:57 Gatik's Autonomous Vehicle AI Stack
32:22 Jason's Tesla FSD stories
34:05 Are AV companies being pushed to move too fast?
41:38 Trucking is a "have to have," robotaxis are a "nice to have"
42:36 Jason's fix: a safety driver for the first million rides
46:50 Why physical AI's adoption curve runs in decades
52:21 Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard (MHS), explained
1:06:27 How Jason got onion rings on the menu at Buck's of Woodside
1:09:05 AI detectors under fire: Pangram, MIT, and the handwritten diary
1:15:20 Why AI is "very mid" at writing (it learned from the average)
1:17:11 The Orin Kerr test: Pangram catches Claude writing as Kerr
1:28:35 Micro Duck and designing robots with Claude
1:29:42 Phil Kaplan's $14 custom circuit boards
🎥 Watch the full episode here 👇
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