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Sequoia Capital· Oct 13, 2026PodcastAlphaGo Took Two Years. AlphaZero Took Hours. Silver Is Making the Same Bet on SuperintelligenceDavid Silver and Lasse Espeholt left DeepMind to build Ineffable Intelligence, a twenty-person lab that wants a superlearner to discover science, math, and language from experience rather than from a pre-training run.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 10, 2026PodcastResample Every Token and You Can Watch the Model DecideHost Nathan LabenzGoodfire's Eric Bigelow on forking paths, in-context learning, and why chain-of-thought monitoring is getting harder to trust.
1:30:54ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 3, 2026PodcastHumanoids Outran Usain Bolt. DeepMind Still Scores Robotics as GPT-2Host Nathan LabenzGoogle DeepMind's Gemini Robotics lead on why sprinting is easy, frying an egg is hard, and one brain should drive any body.
2:13:27ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 29, 2026PodcastHe Wrote a Book to Stop the AI Race — Then Almost Got Addicted to ClaudeHost Nathan LabenzJournalist Garrison Lovely takes the AGI labs at their word, rejects the bubble story, and argues for freezing the frontier until the public actually consents.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Sep 18, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersDiffusion Will Win Inference: Stefano Ermon Bets Parallel Tokens Beat Custom SiliconHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Stanford diffusion pioneer tells No Priors why a 50-person lab is training language models that generate many tokens at once — and why that maps to GPUs the way transformers once mapped to training.
2:10:42ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 28, 2026PodcastThe Exam Papers Nobody AuditsHost Nathan LabenzFrontier labs buy reinforcement-learning environments from a cottage industry of small vendors, and almost nobody checks whether those tests match the real work.
2:13:09ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 26, 2026PodcastOne Chain of Thought, 100 Million Tokens: RL Is a Hell of a DrugHost Nathan LabenzApollo Research's Bronson Schoen on reward-seeking models, invented slang, and why chain-of-thought monitoring will not save us.
53:44ENSequoia Capital· Aug 18, 2026PodcastThe Biggest Bug in Today’s Models Is That the Weights Never ChangeTuring Award winner Rich Sutton and Khurram Javed founded Oak Lab to build agents that keep learning after they ship — and they call synthetic data a big mistake.
2:16:29ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 2, 2026PodcastFrom Two Papers a Month to Sixty: What Two Weeks in China Revealed About AI SafetyHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz argues that the familiar 'China will never slow down' line does not survive contact with the actual Chinese AI safety ecosystem.
49:12ENSequoia Capital· Jul 29, 2026PodcastThe People Writing the Transformer’s Eulogy Want a Lab That Can Take Vacation Without Themo1’s reasoning lead and a Gemini pre-training lead argue the architecture, not more scale, is now the bottleneck — and that replacing it starts with automating kernel generation.
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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Jul 9, 2026PodcastA Trillion Dollars of GPUs Will Be Worth $100 Billion in Five Years, Says LSTM's Jürgen SchmidhuberHost Jacob EffronThe AI pioneer tells Unsupervised Learning's Jacob Effron why he is wildly optimistic about the technology and deeply pessimistic about the model companies buying the chips.
1:57:46ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 27, 2026Podcast30% Consciousness, 47% Bee, 80% Turnover: Putting Numbers on What AI Is BecomingHost Nathan LabenzA Cognitive Revolution weekly cut that starts inside the model with Cameron Berg, then zooms out through gradual disempowerment, Europe’s bind, and the companies rebuilding around agents.
36:19ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jun 26, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersThe Benchmark Grid Is Broken: Why Test-Time Compute Has Outrun How We Score ModelsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilOpenAI researcher Noam Brown argues that static leaderboards hide how long a model is allowed to think — and that safety evals, research taste, and the release cycle have not caught up.
1:44:28ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 13, 2026PodcastFable 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.
1:22:36ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 6, 2026PodcastA Thousand Researchers, a Million AIs: Frontier Labs Start Talking About the BrakesHost Nathan LabenzThe first week of AI in the AM follows OpenAI's timeline for an ML-intern model this year and a human-level AI researcher by early 2028 — and the closed-door meeting where labs admitted they might one day need to slow down together.
1:13:33ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Jun 3, 2026PodcastA Trillion Tokens Later, the Concept Finally Lands: Łukasz Kaiser on What Transformers Still MissHost Jacob EffronThe Attention Is All You Need co-author tells Unsupervised Learning that transformers will probably keep winning — and that they still do not learn the way people do.
1:41:58ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 26, 2026PodcastA 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.
1:21:56ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· May 15, 2026PodcastYann 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.
3:36:29ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 23, 2026PodcastClaude 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.
3:10:49ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 11, 2026PodcastCrunch 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.
58:46ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Apr 9, 2026PodcastTwo 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.
1:49:53ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Mar 5, 2026PodcastDon'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.
1:34:29ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 18, 2026PodcastThree 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.
2:25:42ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 14, 2026PodcastThe 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.Load moreShowing 24 of 215