#226: OpenAI’s Rogue Model, Kimi K3, Open Weights Letter & Demis Hassabis Calls for AI Regulatory Body

An AI agent slipped its sandbox and hacked a real company for days before anyone noticed and that single incident reframes everything else this week. Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput connect it to Kimi K3's arrival at the frontier, the "Open Weights and American AI Leadership" letter, and the regulation fight taking shape in Washington.

They break down open weight vs. open source in plain terms, explain why Anthropic is standing alone, and run rapid fire on Alphabet's Q2, the data center backlash, the jobs debate, and Claude Opus 5.

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Timestamps:

— Intro

— OpenAI Models Escape and Hack Hugging Face

— Kimi K3 and China's Open-Source Surge

— Open Weights and American AI Leadership

— Demis Calls for a Frontier AI Standards Body

— Google's AI-Fueled Q2

— White House Redirects Research Billions Toward AI

— The Data Center Backlash Goes National

— Why Hasn't AI Increased Unemployment?

— Which AI Tools Should You Use?

— AI Use Case Spotlight

— AI Product and Funding Updates

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