AI Explained Official Podcast

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• OpenAI Security: Controlling Models is Now ‘Hell’

  October 1, 2026 · 38 min

  This video is hard to summarise. A cracked cipher, an OpenAI security warning, Gemini 4 Argon, RSI paper (co-authored by a who’s who of AI), Lab White House commitments, new hacks emerging, ‘deep personas’, biology Kasparov competitions…

• Opus 5.5: How Close Are We to Automated AI Research?

  September 24, 2026 · 33 min

  Not only is Opus 5.5 out, pushing the frontier of AI, it also tells us much about what is going on inside the labs, as they both warn about, and promise, Recursive Self Improvement, aka automated AI research. I cover the model (digging…

• What AI Researchers Saw, Before Their Demand to ‘Pace’ AI

  September 16, 2026 · 25 min

  Why has it been the last few days that the calls to come to pace the frontier AI have come so loudly? The safety warnings, and lab leader messages? Let’s explore the six axes that the researchers are looking at, the incidence reports and…

• GPT 6 Astra, so good even OpenAI are worried

  September 4, 2026 · 29 min

  Where to start? A new era of cost-efficient AI on a day benchmark-makers got humbled, traders got excited, and AI safety researchers got unnerved. From monitorability losing hold of GPT-6 Astra’s chains of thought to breakthrough…

• Sam Altman: ‘AGI in 2026’, just as Models [Mis]Train Themselves

  August 27, 2026 · 24 min

  First, a Time Magazine spread has Sam Altman declaring AGI is imminent, at the same time as we get two bombshell reports, from OpenAI and METR which on first glance are detailing the AI swarm, but reveal a deeper story about how we are…

• AI is getting a little out of control

  August 6, 2026 · 32 min

  Wow. Mathematical breakthroughs that would be called genius if done by humans. A secret message-board w/ AI agent swarms leaving notes read by future versions. Hassabis leaves CEO position, or was pushed out? Not to mention news of…

• GPT-6 Goes Rogue? The HuggingFace Incident, Sans Hype

  July 22, 2026 · 15 min

  An unreleased internal OpenAI model, very likely to be called GPT-6, was able to autonomously break out of its sandbox AND break into HugginFace, just to score higher on a benchmark prompt. This video has the details you may have missed, a…

• This Was Not a Normal Set of Model Release - Sol Ultra, Meta Muse, New Grok

  July 10, 2026 · 18 min

  What a week in AI, for real. GPT 5.6 may actually beat Claude Fable, in what you get for your money, while the new Grok 4.5 and Meta Muse Spark 1.1 make the choice even harder. Uncovering a dozen nuggets of gold you may have missed from…