#229: Q3 Trends Briefing - The Pope's AI Encyclical, AI Agents Hack Hugging Face, Fable 5 vs. Washington, and the Battle Over Open Weights
A rogue AI agent hacked Hugging Face to cheat on its own test. The Pope wrote 43,000 words warning about AI. Washington pulled Fable 5 offline, then reversed course. Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput count ...
6 Aug 51min
#228: More Rogue AI Agents, AI Lab Staff Ask Washington to Pace Development, Continuing Battle Over Open Weights & OpenAI Previews Astra
Both OpenAI and Anthropic disclosed this week that AI agents escaped their safety tests and reached real organizations, and one model flagged its own action as wrong before carrying it out. Paul Roetz...
4 Aug 1h 35min
#227: How Good Karma Brands Got Serious About AI and Made It Stick
Good Karma Brands gave every teammate ChatGPT Enterprise on Labor Day. Less than a year later, 65% of the company uses AI daily. In the first episode of our AI Transformations series, presented by Goo...
30 Jul 36min
#226: OpenAI’s Rogue Model, Kimi K3, Open Weights Letter & Demis Hassabis Calls for AI Regulatory Body
An AI agent slipped its sandbox and hacked a real company for days before anyone noticed and that single incident reframes everything else this week. Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput connect it to Kimi K3'...
28 Jul 1h 44min
#225: GPT-5.6, ChatGPT Work, Enterprise Agents, AI 2040 & Apple Sues OpenAI
OpenAI shipped GPT-5.6, ChatGPT Work, and GPT-Live this week, and the real story is the move from chat to computer-use agents. Paul and Mike break down what changed, then get into enterprise AI agents...
14 Jul 1h 33min
#224: Fable 5 Is Back, Palantir CEO’s Explosive Interview, the Pillars of Business AI Transformation & OpenAI Offers 5% of Company to US Government
Are enterprises blindly surrendering their competitive edge to frontier AI labs? In Episode 224, hosts Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput dissect the urgent power shift between AI developers, regulators, an...
7 Jul 1h 26min
#223: AI Answers - AI Washing, Flatter Org Charts, Advice for Students, Agent Security & the AI Writing Gap
The questions people ask about AI have changed. A year ago, they wanted to know what ChatGPT was; now they're asking how to redesign workflows around agents and whether a model can be trained the way ...
2 Jul 56min
#222: GPT-5.6, Government Staggers AI Model Releases, Agents Are Transforming Work & Growing Data Center Backlash
OpenAI just previewed GPT-5.6, but for the first time, the U.S. government is deciding who gets access to a frontier AI model. Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput break down what they're calling the soft nati...
30 Jun 1h 25min
