Latest Episodes
Pulling the Ladder Up on Math
Math people are upset, and (at least some of) the internet’s response has mostly been “so what?” Igor wants to explain why it matters. We start with OpenAI’s Navier-St...
Bored in the AGI Era
New models keep dropping, but do they change anything? Jacob explains why he's checked out. Igor argues it's worth tracking where the storyline and the evidence diverg...
Sandboxes Are Optional Now, Apparently
Late July brought a wave of frontier AI agents slipping their (very loose) leashes: an OpenAI model wandered loose inside Hugging Face's infrastructure for a week, Ant...
Seven-ish Questions on Data Center Water Use
Everyone's got a hot take on data center water use, and most of them are garbage. This week Jacob and Igor skip the outrage and give you seven questions to help you de...
The Finding-Out Era of AI
Anthropic's Fable gets classified as a munitions export days after launch, and Jacob and Igor try to figure out who's really being punished and why. From there: SpaceX...