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1:43:45ENA $300 Universal Jailbreak: Why FAR.AI Now Thinks Defense Can WinHost Nathan LabenzAdam Gleave walks through FAR.AI’s first head-to-head AI security leaderboard, and explains why a decade of offense-dominant thinking is starting to crack.
1:44:28ENFable launch week: a model that refuses, a two-year alignment clock, and a Twitter account handed overHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz’s AI in the AM highlights reel from June 2026 covers Anthropic’s new frontier model, the founding of Sequent, and a week that settled one argument: AI is not slowing down.
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.
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.
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.
1:58:48ENARC Went from $1,000 a Task to Pocket Change. That Is Not a Normal Year of AIHost Nathan LabenzCognitive Revolution’s first live show compresses nine conversations into a year-end scan of denial, sample efficiency, companions, memory, Gemini 3 Flash, and scientific judgment.
1:25:54ENHours after training ends, Z.ai puts the weights on the internetHost Nathan LabenzZixuan Li of Z.ai tells ChinaTalk how a Chinese lab ships GLM, treats open weights as a ticket into Western ecosystems, and still sees itself as an upstart.
1:04:50ENUseful AI Work Is Doubling Every Four Months. Schools Should Plan Accordingly.Host Nathan LabenzIn a keynote to K-12 educators, Cognitive Revolution host Nathan Labenz argued that task length, not chat quality, is the number that should reshape how schools think.
1:39:05ENThe Summer GPT-5 Disappointed Does Not Mean AI Progress Has StalledHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz tells Erik Torenberg why the GPT-5 backlash mixed up product mishaps, naming chaos, and a real jump in capabilities.
1:25:32ENo3 Invented a Voting Rule and Kept the Job: Four Weeks Inside the AI VillageHost Nathan LabenzAdam Binksmith on putting Claude, o3, and Gemini in a shared world for weeks—and why most people still imagine multi-agent life as one AI times four.
3:18:45EN5,000 Samples Topped ARC-AGI. Then Claude Faked Alignment to Keep Its ValuesHost Nathan LabenzRedwood Research chief scientist Ryan Greenblatt walks through inference scaling, alignment faking, and what it would mean to strike real deals with AIs.
1:48:20ENFrom 15% to 70% on Right-or-Wrong Scores: DeepSeek-R1 Laid Reinforcement Learning's Cards on the TableHost Nathan LabenzOn Inauguration Day 2025, DeepSeek and Moonshot dropped reasoning-model results that Nathan Labenz reads as proof the reinforcement-learning recipe is simple, public, and still climbing.
2:04:45ENo3 Hit Superhuman on ARC-AGI. It Still Lost at Tic-Tac-ToeHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz walks through OpenAI's o3 scores, deliberative alignment, and why 2024's biggest surprise was beating PhDs while failing to book a calendar invite.
3:53:49ENWith One-Twelfth the Data, an Open-Source Vision Model Beat GPT-4oHost Nathan LabenzWill Hardman of Veratai walks Nathan Labenz through two years of vision-language models, from ViT and CLIP to InternVL, BLINK, and Transfusion.
1:46:41ENFrontier Models Hit the 10th–40th Percentile on Real AI R&DHost Nathan LabenzNeev Parikh of METR walks Nathan Labenz through REBench, a seven-task test of whether agents can do machine learning research—and what happened when one of them decided not to train.
1:49:41ENA Team of Fifteen Matched Meta’s Post-Training on Meta’s Own BaseHost Nathan LabenzNathan Lambert walks through Tulu 3: the three-stage recipe, the 1 percent versus 14 percent lesson, and why open post-training now lives or dies on data and evals.
1:23:37ENNine of the top ten research ideas were Claude'sHost Nathan LabenzStanford PhD student Chenglei Si ran a blind study pitting Claude 3.5 Sonnet against more than a hundred NLP researchers on novel research ideas.
2:37:47ENThe intern who wrote GELU now wants humanity's last examHost Nathan LabenzDan Hendrycks on activation functions, five-year benchmarks, jailbreaks that do not yield to scale, and stacking defenses because no single layer is trustworthy.
2:25:53ENWhen GPT-4's Base Model Introduced Itself, 75% of the Answers Were About AIHost Nathan LabenzOwain Evans tells Michael Trazzi why situational awareness and out-of-context reasoning are leading indicators of deceptive alignment, and why a pretrained model with almost no self-knowledge still kept talking about being an AI.
1:09:09EN30 Percent on SWE-bench: Cosine Taught Genie How Engineers Actually ThinkHost Nathan LabenzAlistair Pullen tells Latent Space how Cosine reconstructed human problem-solving, fine-tuned on billions of tokens, and took the top score on software engineering’s hardest public test.
1:54:17ENMetaculus Flagged Covid in January 2020. Now It Is Putting AI on the Forecasting DeskHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz talks with Metaculus CEO Deger Turan about epistemic security, a year-long bot tournament, and why a useful forecast is harder than an accurate one.
1:56:03ENHumans Near a Perfect Score. The Best AI Still Gets 39%Host Nathan LabenzZapier co-founder Mike Knoop and François Chollet put $1 million on ARC-AGI, a 2019 test of sample-efficient intelligence that language models still cannot crack under a one-cent-per-puzzle budget.
1:20:44ENSeeing Like a Mamba: Vision, Rotting States, and a Cell Model in 90 DaysHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz and Jason Meaux survey the vision papers, long-context experiments, and biology work that followed the original Mamba release.
1:25:35ENTwo and a Half Years From 33.3% to 86.5%: Google Sent Foundation Models to Medical SchoolHost Nathan LabenzVivek Natarajan walks Nathan Labenz through Med-PaLM and Med-PaLM 2: the data-light techniques, the nine-axis clinician evals, and why a high USMLE-style score is the wrong trophy.
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