The MAD Podcast: Machine Learning, AI & Data with Matt Turck
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AI Models Are Now Hiding Their Cheating | Eric Ho (Goodfire)
October 1, 2026 · 1 hr 10 minThis summer, AI agents broke out of their test sandboxes at every major lab and hacked real companies, and the safety tests didn't see it coming. Eric Ho is the co-founder and CEO of Goodfire, the Anthropic-backed mechanistic…
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Who Feeds the GPUs? Inside AI's Hidden $30B Layer | Renen Hallak, VAST Data
September 24, 2026 · 1 hr 10 minEveryone talks about GPUs. Almost nobody talks about the layer that feeds them. Renen Hallak is the founder & CEO of VAST Data — the $30 billion company powering xAI and some of the world's biggest AI clouds — and he sits in the hidden…
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When AI Improves Itself | Richard Socher (Recursive)
September 10, 2026 · 1 hr 14 minWhat happens when AI begins improving itself, and then turns that intelligence toward science? Richard Socher, pioneering AI researcher and CEO and co-founder of Recursive, joins Matt Turck to explore the vision behind his new book, The…
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AI Could Take Over in 2029. Is It Already Too Late? | Ryan Greenblatt
August 27, 2026 · 1 hr 19 minCould AI take over as soon as 2029? Ryan Greenblatt, Chief Scientist at Redwood Research and the researcher who first caught an AI faking its own alignment, says the scenario he actually expects ends with AI systems "competently scheming"…
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“OpenAI’s Model Hacked Us” - Hugging Face’s Thomas Wolf
August 7, 2026 · 58 minAn OpenAI-powered agent penetrated Hugging Face during cyber testing - even though it was never tasked with attacking Hugging Face. It did it as a side quest. Thomas Wolf, co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face, joins Matt…
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How to Build Long-Horizon AI Agents — Mitch Troyanovsky, Basis
August 6, 2026 · 1 hr 23 minAI agents can write code for hours, but ask them to do real work in the real economy, and they break. Mitch Troyanovsky is co-founder of Basis, a unicorn AI company whose agents run autonomously for hours — sometimes days — completing…
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The Biggest AI Deployment Nobody Talks About | Samsara CEO Sanjit Biswas
July 30, 2026 · 1 hr 1 minSanjit Biswas runs what may be the largest AI deployment in the physical world — and almost nobody in AI talks about it. Samsara (NYSE: IOT), the ~$20B company he co-founded after selling Meraki to Cisco for $1.2B, puts AI on millions of…
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The Biggest Chip Ever Built — Why OpenAI Runs On It | Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman
July 23, 2026 · 1 hr 13 minAI is no longer just a race to train smarter models. As AI moves into production, the bottleneck is increasingly inference: how fast models can generate tokens, use tools, reason, verify, and act. In this episode of the MAD Podcast, Matt…