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:
00:00:00 — Intro
00:07:31 — OpenAI Models Escape and Hack Hugging Face
00:27:49 — Kimi K3 and China's Open-Source Surge
00:50:52 — Open Weights and American AI Leadership
01:07:23 — Demis Calls for a Frontier AI Standards Body
01:12:17 — Google's AI-Fueled Q2
01:15:22 — White House Redirects Research Billions Toward AI
01:17:42 — The Data Center Backlash Goes National
01:21:17 — Why Hasn't AI Increased Unemployment?
01:27:15 — Which AI Tools Should You Use?
01:32:06 — AI Use Case Spotlight
01:36:01 — AI Product and Funding Updates
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