Use Case Thursday: Make AI Disagree with You
Host Emily Laird breaks down why chatbots so often agree with your worst instincts, then shows how a pre-mortem prompt turns that people-pleasing machinery against your plan. The stakes are practical:...
9 Heinä 10min
Microsoft's 4,800 Layoffs
Microsoft cut 4,800 jobs, and the savings cover roughly two days of its AI infrastructure spending. Host Emily Laird runs the arithmetic the press release skipped: a $190 billion capex bill, an Xbox d...
8 Heinä 8min
OpenAI & the $42 Billion Gift
OpenAI just offered the US government a 5% ownership stake, and host Emily Laird checks the receipts on what that $42.6 billion gift actually costs. This episode traces the timeline from frozen model ...
7 Heinä 9min
Grok 4.5 & the Closed-Loop Machine
Elon Musk says Grok 4.5 rivals Claude Opus, but there's no public benchmark, no model card, and no outside lab backing the claim. Host Emily Laird peels the branding off and looks at what actually mat...
6 Heinä 10min
Use Case Thursday: The Shadow AI Delusion
In this episode, host Emily Laird exposes the massive delusion behind corporate AI bans and the quiet rise of off-the-books model usage. Managers believe a strict firewall stops unauthorized tech, but...
2 Heinä 9min
The Dean Ball Essay or AI Safety has a Control Problem
In this episode, host Emily Laird breaks down Dean Ball’s argument that frontier AI safety is shifting from public frameworks to quiet release control. The real stakes are not just whether advanced mo...
1 Heinä 13min
GPT-5.6 Sol
OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol is not just another smarter model, it is a preview of controlled intelligence as the new product category. In this episode, host Emily Laird breaks down the real stakes: governmen...
30 Kesä 11min
What is Recursive Self-Improvement?
In this episode of Generative AI 101, host Emily Laird breaks down recursive self-improvement, the feedback loop where AI begins helping build better AI. The reality check: this is not a chatbot fanta...
29 Kesä 11min
