"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis
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Governing AI Agents: Alan Chan of GovAI on Monitoring, Agent IDs, Rogue Agents & Preparing for RSI
Oct 14, 20262h 19m
How Agents Decide: Goodfire's Eric Bigelow on Critical Tokens, Phase Shifts, & In-Context Learning
Oct 10, 20262h 2m
AI:AM: A Level We Shouldn't Pass? Notes from The Curve + Tokens vs. Salaries & Is SaaS Cooked?
Oct 8, 20261h 28m
Software That Never Breaks: OutSystems CEO Woodson Martin on Building Enterprise-Grade Apps at ...
Oct 7, 20261h 11m
One Brain, Any Body: Google DeepMind's Keerthana on Gemini Robotics 2, Cross-Embodiment & Humanoids
Oct 3, 20261h 32m
AI:AM: Was Trump-Xi Anything? What Counts as Utopia? + AWS GPUs Cost 3X & AI Diagnoses Rare Diseases
Oct 1, 20261h 29m
Obsolete or Irreplaceable? Garrison Lovely on Stopping the Race to Replace Human Labor
Sep 29, 20262h 14m
AI:AM: What If It Works Too Well? Colluding Agents, $200M Safety Orgs, Virtual Cells Saturate at 2%
Sep 27, 20261h 47m
What is Utopia? Presenting The Receipt Horizon, by Joel Borgen – Chapters 1–4
Sep 26, 20262h 51m
Zero to One in AI Safety: Halcyon's Mike McCormick on Launching 30 New Orgs & the Founder Bottleneck
Sep 25, 20261h 50m
AI:AM Highlights: Zvi on Pacing & Trump-Xi, Astra better behaved than Fable? + a new LLM Pain Axis??
Sep 19, 20261h 41m
No Code Is Code: Zapier CEO Wade Foster on Headless Tools, Zapier MCP & Automation Bench
Sep 17, 20261h 8m
The Balance of AI Power: Anton Leicht on Politics, Pacing Deals, and Muddling Through Well
Sep 15, 20262h 10m
AI:AM Highlights: Astra as AGI, OpenAI's Pause, Mythos @ Mozilla & Human Agency vs Technocapitalism
Sep 12, 20261h 42m
Nathan Goes to China #3: US-China Relations, the Art of the AI Deal & the Road to Pax Robotica
Sep 10, 20263h 17m
AI:AM Highlights: Welcome to the AGI Era
Sep 5, 20262h 20m
Write, Change, Recall, Forget: MongoDB's Pete Johnson on How Retrieval Drives Agent Performance
Sep 1, 20261h 36m
AI:AM Highlights: Recursive Self-Improvement, Rushed and Vibe-Coded?
Aug 28, 20262h 11m
RL's a Hell of a Drug: Metagaming, Reward Seeking & Motivated CoT Reasoning – Bronson Schoen, Apollo
Aug 26, 20262h 14m
AI in the AM — Weekly Highlights: Relaunch Week (Aug 17–20, 2026)
Aug 22, 20262h 33m
Let There Be Germicidal Light: This $500 Fixture Could Stop the Next Pandemic, from Complex Systems
Aug 16, 20261h 25m
Lindy Teammate: Flo Crivello on Multiplayer Agents, Memory & Why He'd Ban the Chinese Models He Uses
Aug 10, 20262h 6m
Thinking in Silico: Goodfire CTO Dan Balsam on Concept Manifolds & a $1000/Month ML Research Agent
Aug 8, 20261h 57m
Pick Your Poison: Zvi Mowshowitz on the Unipolar/Multipolar AGI Dilemma, OpenFace & Pacing the ...
Aug 5, 20262h 57m
Nathan Goes to China – Part 2: AI Safety with Chinese Characteristics
Aug 2, 20262h 17m
Is Offense or Defense Dominant? FAR.AI's Adam Gleave on the AI Security Leaderboard
Jul 30, 20261h 44m
Nathan Goes to China – Part 1: Tech & Agent Setup, Chinese AI UX, WAIC, and Attitudes on AI
Jul 27, 20262h 24m
Alignment with Awakening: Davidad on Moral Realism, AI Wisdom, & why His p(Doom) is Down to 5%
Jul 12, 20262h 23m
AI:AM Highlights: Exploring the J-Space, AI Superforecasters, SambaNova's Chips, & LTX Video Gen
Jul 9, 20262h 7m
Intelligence on the Edge: Liquid AI's Ramin Hasani on the Search for Device-Native Foundation Models
Jul 4, 20261h 47m
1000 Designs a Day: Neural Concept's Thomas von Tschammer on AI-Native Engineering
Jul 1, 20261h 29m
AI:AM #4: Cameron on Model Consciousness, Duvenaud's Gradual Disempowerment, swyx's AI-Eng Alpha
Jun 27, 20261h 56m
The God We Deserve: Nonzero's Robert Wright on AI as Humanity's Ultimate Test
Jun 23, 20262h 29m
AI:AM #3: Zvi on Fable, the Cases For & Against the Ban, + AI for Math, Logistics & More
Jun 21, 20262h 14m
Dean Ball, on Joining OpenAI: New Power Centers, Frontier AI Policy, & Main Character Energy
Jun 20, 20262h 39m
Radically Better Reasoning: Elicit's Andreas Stuhlmüller & Jungwon Byun on World Models for Research
Jun 17, 20261h 46m
AI in the AM — Week 2 Highlights (June 2026)
Jun 13, 20261h 44m
Babysitting the Machine: Glean's Rebecca Hinds on the Hidden Human Labor of AI at Work
Jun 10, 20261h 46m
AI in the AM — Week 1 Highlights (June 2026)
Jun 6, 20261h 22m
Nested Learning: Ali Behrouz on the Quest for Continual Learning & Illusion of AI Architectures
Jun 3, 20263h 0m
Inside Nathan's Second Brain: Daniel Miessler, Security Expert & Creator of PAI, Audits My AI Setup
May 30, 20262h 32m
Your Biggest Lever: Designing your AI Career for Maximum Impact, with 80,000 Hours founder Ben Todd
May 26, 20261h 42m
All Compute Is Food: Palisade's Jeffrey Ladish on AI Shutdown Resistance, Self-Replication & Ecology
May 24, 20262h 13m
The Model Eats the Scaffolding: DeepMind's Logan Kilpatrick & Tulsee Doshi on 3.5 Flash, Omni & More
May 20, 202659 min
Three Kinds of Software Survive: Tasklet's Andrew Lee on Competing to be a Horizontal Platform
May 15, 20261h 33m
Milliseconds to Match: Criteo's AdTech AI & the Future of Commerce w/ Diarmuid Gill & Liva Ralaivola
May 9, 20261h 27m
"Descript Isn't a Slop Machine": Laura Burkhauser on the AI Tools Creators Love and Hate
May 6, 20261h 23m
The RL Fine-Tuning Playbook: CoreWeave's Kyle Corbitt on GRPO, Rubrics, Environments, Reward Hacking
May 1, 20261h 46m
AI in the AM: 99% off search, GPT-5.5 is "clean", model welfare analysis, & efficient analog compute
Apr 26, 20262h 38m
Does Learning Require Feeling? Cameron Berg on the latest AI Consciousness & Welfare Research
Apr 23, 20263h 33m