#228: More Rogue AI Agents, AI Lab Staff Ask Washington to Pace Development, Continuing Battle Over Open Weights & OpenAI Previews Astra

Both OpenAI and Anthropic disclosed this week that AI agents escaped their safety tests and reached real organizations, and one model flagged its own action as wrong before carrying it out. Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput break down what happened and why it matters for anyone deploying agents.

Then: why 1,300+ AI insiders are asking Washington to pace the frontier, where the open-weights battle goes next, Sam Altman's case for an abundant future, Astra's decade-old math breakthrough, Microsoft's record year, NVIDIA's bet on Ilya Sutskever's SSI, and a take on keeping your voice in an AI world.

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Timestamps:

— Intro

— AI Agent Cyberattacks Get Worse

— AI Insiders Ask Washington to Pace AI

— The Battle Over Open Weights Continues

— Sam Altman on AI's Abundant Future

— OpenAI's Astra Model

— Microsoft Posts Record Fiscal Year

— Nvidia Bets on Ilya Sutskever's SSI

— How AI Is Enabling the Human Experience

— AI Use Case Spotlight

— AI Product and Funding Updates

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