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2:38:48ENA thousand searches for five cents, and a high score that did not require cheatingHost Nathan LabenzOn a Cognitive Revolution morning show, Ceramic’s Anna Patterson collides cheap search with GPT-5.5’s clean Vending-Bench run, Zvi’s case for model welfare, and analog chips that cut matrix-multiply energy about thirtyfold.
3:36:29ENClaude Rated Its Own Welfare 4.49 — the First Time Any Version Crossed NeutralHost Nathan LabenzCameron Berg returns to The Cognitive Revolution to survey six months of introspection, functional-emotion, and model-welfare research, plus a still-unpublished case that learning and feeling may be the same phenomenon.
2:12:51ENSteve Newman’s fifteen-app stack exists so he only has to look at one screenHost Nathan LabenzThe Writely founder walks Nathan Labenz through a vibe-coded attention firewall, a conservative security stance, and why astonishing models still leave him far from AGI.
2:31:27ENAn AI store manager, a 2.6-star rating, and a constitution nobody has to keepHost Nathan LabenzA live Cognitive Revolution episode puts PCB layout, AI constitutions, and San Francisco’s first AI-run grocery on the same morning clock.
3:10:49ENCrunch Time: Ajeya Cotra's Playbook for the Months Before SuperintelligenceHost Nathan LabenzA conversation on recursive self-improvement, public warning systems, and using each generation of AI to align and control the next.
1:37:50ENGranola Added More Customers Than Almost Anyone by Being Surprisingly UnambitiousHost Nathan LabenzCo-founder Sam Stephenson tells Nathan Labenz how a calm notes app for frazzled meeting days, one Slack-sharing loop, and a refusal to promise the burning-fire work built a $1.5 billion company.
1:57:29ENFrontier vision models score 12.5%: Joseph Nelson on the real waterline of computer visionHost Nathan LabenzThe Roboflow CEO tells Nathan Labenz why vision still lags language, how to distill SAM 3 into an edge model for Wimbledon, and why the United States has almost never led open-source vision.
1:44:15ENNathan Labenz's p(doom) Is 10 to 90 Percent. He Is More Optimistic AnywayHost Nathan LabenzFive years ago, expecting AGI by 2035 made you an extremist. On The Intelligence Horizon, the Cognitive Revolution host explains why the same forecast now sounds bearish, and why he still thinks a defense-in-depth strategy might keep society on the rails.
1:37:43ENCisco wants two extra network layers so agents can share intentHost Nathan LabenzVijoy Pandey of Outshift by Cisco argues that superintelligence has to scale out through networks of agents, not just up through bigger models.
1:40:46ENGive an agent a thousand tools and it will pick the wrong bladeHost Nathan LabenzComposio CTO Karan Vaidya on the tool harness that discovers, authenticates, sandboxes, and rewrites integrations so agents can do whole jobs without drowning in context.
3:27:22ENThe AI Table Has Three Seats Left: Zvi on the Middle Game, Jobs, and Anthropic's PromisesHost Nathan LabenzOn his 12th Cognitive Revolution appearance, Zvi Mowshowitz argues early 2026 is the start of the middle — with only three labs still playing, a real job shock underway, and Anthropic's safety commitments reduced to trust us.
1:18:46EN90 Slides in 45 Minutes: A Full-Time AI Scout Admits He Can No Longer Keep UpHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz’s LexLab briefing for lawyers runs through the good, the bad, and the weird of frontier models — from triplicate second opinions on his son’s cancer care to AIs that know they are being tested.
1:43:39ENFive Mutations Could Make a 60% Fatal Bird Flu Spread Between PeopleHost Nathan LabenzJohns Hopkins assistant professor Jassi Pannu argues for locking down only the sliver of functional data that teaches models how to make pandemic viruses — and keeping the rest of biology open.
2:06:23ENFive AI Employees Live on Five Mac MinisHost Nathan LabenzAfter selling her YC packaging company, Jesse Genet opened a terminal for the first time and built an OpenClaw staff that now plans lessons, logs learning, and keeps family evenings from sliding into slop.
1:49:53ENDon't Fight Backprop: Goodfire's Bet on Designing What Models LearnHost Nathan LabenzDan Balsam and Tom McGrath return to The Cognitive Revolution with a $150 million Series B, a new research pillar called intentional design, and a rule for anyone who wants to steer training: stop trying to out-muscle gradient descent.
2:17:36ENCurrent Safety Techniques Will Not Give You Many Nines—and They May Fail TogetherHost Nathan LabenzUK AISI chief scientist Geoffrey Irving on jailbreaks that never fail, correlated alignment failures, and why a government lab is funding theory.
2:03:56EN260 Doctors and 49,000 Criteria: How OpenAI Built Attending-Level Health AIHost Nathan LabenzKaran Singhal tells Nathan Labenz how ChatGPT Health was evaluated with physicians, walled off from model training, and aimed at raising both the floor and the ceiling of human health.
54:26ENTen Billion Active Parameters, and the Unsexy Work of Making Them Agent-ReadyHost Nathan LabenzMiniMax researcher Olive Song explains how M2 was trained with expert developers as reward models, interleaved thinking, and a perturbation pipeline that treats every scaffold change as the real generalization test.
1:34:29ENThree IMO Golds Missed the Same Problem. Harmonic Wants Math to CompileHost Nathan LabenzVlad Tenev and Tudor Achim built Aristotle to emit Lean proofs a kernel can check—and they argue that is how mathematical superintelligence stays trustworthy.
2:25:42ENThe experts argued through the coffee break — and never agreed whether AI can build AIHost Nathan LabenzOn a marathon Cognitive Revolution live show, a cancer-AI researcher, a former OpenAI board member, and a national-security analyst each hit a different wall in the boom.
1:34:42ENA $500 Kernel, a Ten-Month Village, and the Temper of AgentsHost Nathan LabenzJames Zou, Sam Hammond, and Shoshannah Tekofsky on science agents, America's knowledge-work bet, and what models actually do when you leave them alone.
1:18:49ENIf AGI Is Cheap Intelligent Labor, Cyber Defense Should Become Continuous ForensicsHost Nathan LabenzAsymmetric Security founder Alexis Carlier argues that assuming AGI means redesigning defense around proactive digital forensics instead of alert triage.
1:57:56ENA Hundred Million Lines at Twenty Cents Each: Inside Blitzy's Enterprise Coding PipelineHost Nathan LabenzCEO Brian Elliott and CTO Sid Pardeshi tell Nathan Labenz how Blitzy turns a giant codebase into a map, then lets thousands of dynamically generated agents ship most of a multi-month project in days.
1:04:51EN125 million cells took a decade. The next billion takes monthsHost Nathan LabenzMark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan on pairing a frontier biology lab with a frontier AI lab so models train on data that was designed for them.
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