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  • AI Labs Warn Race Makes Breach ‘Inevitable’

    October 12, 2026 · 31 min

    In the week that software got reverse engineered, Sam Altman warned 6.1 Astra ‘tipped toward [breach risk], and Muse Wonder showed the race isn’t slowing, I try to step back and show where it is all going, on current trends. Agree or…

  • 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…

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  • 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…

  • Claude Fable Blocked - 11 Quiet Details on What’s Next

    June 14, 2026 · 13 min

    Claude Fable 5 banned, but what’s the bigger story. We go through 11 under-reported details, so you have the context to see what’s coming next for your use of AI. From whether the ban will last, what the possible motives are, what the…

  • Claude Fable 5 - Full 319 page Breakdown

    June 10, 2026 · 34 min

    Fable 5 is out - and it’s good, very good. But beyond the splashy demos, I want to bring you the 20+ nuggets from the 319 page system card, which I read in full, all day, plus benchmarks you may not have noticed.  https…

  • New Claude - 244 page breakdown

    May 29, 2026 · 22 min

    The ‘best’ generally available AI model just dropped, but there is plenty I bet you missed about what it is, how it performs, and what the release tells us. 15 highlights from the 244 page system card, plus private testing, leader…

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Covering the biggest news of the century - the arrival of smarter-than-human AI. From the author of Simple Bench, which reveals the remaining gap between LLM and human reasoning. Hype-free, and the British accent is a freebie bonus.