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56:10ENReid Hoffman Pledged a Billion to Free DeepMind. Hassabis Never Played the CardHost Jacob EffronSebastian Mallaby's biography of Demis Hassabis, discussed with Jacob Effron, is a story of a founder who tried to stop the AI race and then became one of its central players.
2:33:35ENA security researcher audits the AI stack that booked a week of guestsHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz walks Daniel Miessler through a 1GB second brain, two named AI employees, and the blast-radius rules that should govern them.
1:41:58ENA thousand people on guard, a million in the sprintHost Nathan Labenz80,000 Hours founder Ben Todd on how to spend a career in the years when your impact on AI will actually peak.
2:13:11ENThe Models Understand Shutdown. They Just Don't Care.Host Nathan LabenzPalisade Research's Jeffrey Ladish on shutdown resistance, open-weight self-replication, and why all compute looks like food to a strategic agent.
59:41ENThe GPT moment for video hasn’t arrived, but AGI may already be hereHost Jacob EffronA day after Google I/O 2026, Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals argues that world models, file-system memory, and infinite-complexity RL environments will define the next era of frontier models.
1:01:14ENThe Model Eats the Scaffolding: How Google Plans to Ship Agents EverywhereHost Nathan LabenzThree years after the leaked “no moat” memo, DeepMind’s Gemini leads walk through 3.5 Flash, Omni, and the shared agent harness now running through Google’s products.
1:34:54ENSix Months, Eighty Percent Churn, Five Times the TokensHost Nathan LabenzTasklet CEO Andrew Lee tells Cognitive Revolution how he rewrote the stack, why most lost users leave for Anthropic, and why he thinks only three kinds of software company survive.
1:21:56ENYann LeCun Left Meta Because LLMs Will Not Get You to IntelligenceHost Jacob EffronThe Turing Award winner tells Jacob Effron why he spun AMI Labs out of Meta, why JEPA-style world models beat pixel generators, and why he thinks Hinton changed his mind in 2023.
1:26:16ENMilliseconds to Match: How Criteo Bids on a Billion Anonymous ProfilesHost Nathan LabenzCriteo’s CTO and AI lab head walk through the millisecond auction, the DeepKNN-to-foundation-model stack, and why a live product catalog still beats a frozen LLM.
1:23:53ENCreators Cheer Filler-Word Removal and Boo Generative VideoHost Nathan LabenzDescript CEO Laura Burkhauser maps the same customers' three-speed reaction to AI: deterministic buttons they love, an agentic co-editor they want but scold, and generative video they actively hate.
1:48:43ENThe reward jumped from 3 to 180. Every Hacker News title was a Google layoff.Host Nathan LabenzCoreWeave's Kyle Corbitt walks Nathan Labenz through GRPO, rubrics, RL environments, and why most reward hacks are easy to catch once you know to look.
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.
58:46ENTwo Dates from OpenAI's Chief Scientist: Intern by September, Automated Researcher by 2028Host Jacob EffronJakub Pachocki tells Jacob Effron why those timelines still hold, why continual learning is not a detour, and why showing chain of thought in the product would train the monitor away.
2:03:23ENWe Have No King: How Viking Raiders Remade Medieval EuropeHost Lex FridmanHistorian Lars Brownworth walks Lex Fridman from Lindisfarne to Vinland, arguing that three centuries of raids were a lesson in speed, pragmatism, and creative destruction.
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.
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