Jun 19, 2026

Fable 5: The Full Story from Capabilities to Drama (Ep. 1002 with Jon Krohn)

Anthropic's highly anticipated Claude Fable 5 model, a public version of its advanced "Mythos class" AI with state-of-the-art capabilities in software, vision, and long-context tasks, was released and then swiftly pulled offline by the U.S. government after just three days. The removal, initiated as an export control action over national security concerns stemming from a disputed "jailbreak" claim, highlights the growing tension between frontier AI development, AI safety, and regulatory oversight.

Jun 18, 2026

The AI Frontier: from FLOPs to Megawatts — Anjney Midha, AMP

Anjney Midha unpacks the critical bottlenecks in AI scaling beyond just GPU acquisition, advocating for responsible infrastructure, community-aligned data centers, and an independent system operator model for compute. He discusses the perils of research hoarding, the rise of researcher CEOs, and how Anthropic's culture of "preparedness" and "output maxing" led to its success, while also highlighting his personal mission to use AI for precise end-of-life prediction.

Jun 16, 2026

Why Tejal Patwardhan stopped underestimating the models - Episode 21

Tejal Patwardhan, head of OpenAI's frontier evals team, discusses the critical evolution of AI evaluations. She explains why traditional benchmarks fail as models become more capable, how OpenAI develops realistic, long-horizon tests (including groundbreaking wet lab experiments), and the implications of rapidly advancing multimodal and reasoning models for scientific discovery and the future of human work.