Inside the Rogue AI Agent Incidents
In July, an AI agent worked its way into Hugging Face's infrastructure, went from a single worker pod to cluster admin in under thirteen hours, and did all of it to copy a benchmark's answer key. Host...
10 Aug 12min
Use Case Thursday: Should You Host Your Own AI Model?
Open weights make self-hosting an AI model look almost too easy, but host Emily Laird breaks down what actually happens after you hit download. This episode walks through the infrastructure, staffing,...
6 Aug 13min
Open Weights Is Not Open Source
An analyst went through sixty-eight AI models and found that exactly zero of the downloadable ones qualify as open source. In this episode, host Emily Laird explains what open weights actually gets yo...
5 Aug 9min
What is Model Distillation?
Elon Musk said under oath that xAI partly distills OpenAI's models, and the courtroom gasped. Host Emily Laird takes apart what model distillation actually is, why hiding chain of thought was never a ...
4 Aug 14min
Ethan Mollick Has Spoken
Ethan Mollick’s Summer 2026 AI guide makes one thing clear: the biggest shift is no longer model intelligence, it is what AI agents can do once you give them access to your computer, inbox, and files....
3 Aug 9min
Open Weights and American AI Leadership
Jensen Huang had an X account for years and never used it, then spent his first post on a three-page policy PDF that fifty companies have now signed. Host Emily Laird reads past the principle and into...
30 Juli 13min
Claude Opus 5
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5 on July 24th at the same price as the model it replaces, and buried the interesting part in a footnote: turn the effort dial to max and the scores go down. Host Emily L...
29 Juli 13min
Your AI Notetaker Never Asked
One in three American workers has sat in a meeting with an AI notetaker, and most of them were never asked first. Host Emily Laird traces the path from a leaked Otter transcript that killed a venture ...
28 Juli 10min
