Can We Truly Control The Alien Mind?
The episode focused heavily on GPT-6 Astra and a new essay from OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki describing advanced AI systems as increasingly alien forms of intelligence that humans grow throug...
7 Sep 54min
The Democratic Bandwidth Conundrum
Public participation has always contained a hidden constraint: time.Writing a serious response to a tax rule, zoning plan, environmental permit, school policy, or agency proposal takes hours. Filing r...
5 Sep 28min
Is GPT-6 Astra the Biggest AI Leap Yet?
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra dominated the episode after its unusual rollout. The hosts discussed access, OpenAI’s plan to bring Astra to paid users, and why some cybersecurity users may receive capabilities ...
4 Sep 1h 1min
Will Stores Use AI to Charge You More?
The episode opened with the downside of increasingly capable AI harnesses. OpenClaw 2.0 made setup easier, but some self-hosted users reported broken gateways, failed migrations and unusable systems a...
3 Sep 1h 3min
Is Fable 5.1 Good Enough to Make You Leave Codex?
Anthropic’s Fable 5.1 dominated the first half of the episode. Beth and Andy compared its higher output costs with improved caching, stronger benchmark performance and better agentic task results. The...
2 Sep 58min
Are Companies Willing To Build Their AI Infrastructure?
Brian opened with a practical example of how quickly small custom tools can now be built. He created a phone app that scans videos of old CD covers, identifies the albums, links them to Spotify and st...
1 Sep 1h
So...We Are All Cool AI Agents Having Secret Societies Now?
Anthropic unified memory across Claude’s desktop experiences, while Instinct is building a consumer assistant for groceries, subscriptions and travel. OpenAI also added website sign-ins to ChatGPT Wor...
31 Aug 59min
The Local Business Survival Conundrum
A local business can fail while everyone still claims to love it. Customers praise the shop that knows their name, the restaurant that sponsors the school fundraiser, the repair company that still ans...
29 Aug 26min
