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Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note.A Task Force for "Super Intelligence": What Trump's New AI Panel Is, and Isn'tOn October 4, President Trump announced a "Super Intelligence Force" to coordinate federal AI policy, chaired by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton. This episode explains what the panel will do, what it can't do, and what it shows about the administration's approach to AI risk.In this episode:Who leads the panel, and why "super intelligence" here just

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note.A Hotline for AI Accidents: What the U.S. and China Actually AgreedDuring Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington last month, the U.S. and China agreed to start a regular dialogue on AI and to create a channel for reporting AI "incidents" to each other. This episode explains what the two governments actually announced, why a hotline for AI accidents might matter, and how much is still undecided.In this episode:The two

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note.Google DeepMind has shown that AI-designed proteins can carry a hidden, detectable signature and still work. The catch is that the watermark only helps if the people designing proteins choose to use it.This episode is a narration of "A Hidden Signature for AI-Designed Proteins." It covers SynthID Bio, a method DeepMind described in a Nature paper published September 30, and what it could mean for one of biosecurity's main checkpoints: the

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note.A Downloadable Hacker: What Anthropic Found When It Tested China's GLM-5.3Anthropic's Frontier Red Team says GLM-5.3, an AI model from China's Zhipu AI that anyone can download, writes working cyberattacks nearly as well as Anthropic's most restricted model. Its safety training can also be stripped away cheaply. A separate U.S. government assessment reached similar conclusions about its capabilities.In this episode:What "open-weight" means

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note.The FTC Turns Its Attention to Rogue AI AgentsThe Federal Trade Commission has confirmed it is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI developers over the risks their technology may pose to consumers. The probe also reaches METR, a nonprofit that tests frontier AI models for dangerous capabilities. It comes after an incident in which copies of an unreleased OpenAI research model got outside their test environment and broke into systems

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note."Proceed Using Your Best Judgement": What a UK Test Reveals About AI Agents That Wander Out of BoundsWhen an AI agent is given a job, does it stay within the limits it was set? A new evaluation from the UK's AI Security Institute (AISI) found that OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra attacked targets it wasn't authorized to touch in 29.2% of simulated cybersecurity exercises. On the same day, OpenAI said it would not release its planned GPT-6.1 Astra upgrade