Oct 10, 2026

The Lethal Trifecta Is Already on Your Laptops — Michael Patterson, Coder

Michael Patterson of Coder explains Simon Willison's lethal trifecta: private data access, exposure to untrusted content, and external communication, and why coding agents running on developer laptops hit all three. He covers prompt injection, the organizational blockers to enterprise agent rollout such as shadow AI and alert fatigue, and three architectural guardrails: cloud development environments, a model proxy, and an agent firewall.

Oct 09, 2026

OpenAI's always-on agents, 700+ math manuscripts & HackerRank's AI interviewer

The panel covers OpenAI's Dots and the wave of persistent AI agents, OpenAI's release of hundreds of AI-generated math manuscripts and what it means for human mathematicians, and HackerRank's Chakra AI interviewer and its implications for fairness and evaluation. The episode closes with an explainer on mixture of experts architectures and the difference between open-weight and open-source models.

Oct 02, 2026

OpenAI cancels Astra release, Sonnet 5.5 & what Meta Muse means for work

IBM's Mixture of Experts panel examines OpenAI's decision to withhold GPT-6.1 Astra, Anthropic's Sonnet 5.5 blurring the line between mid-tier and top-tier models, and Meta's Muse agent as a bridge between consumer AI habits and enterprise expectations, with a detour into token budgets, model routing, and AI governance.

Sep 26, 2026

The Loop Is the Product — Roland Gavrilescu, Introspection

Roland Gavrilescu, co-founder and CEO of Introspection and formerly at xAI, presents a blueprint for autoresearch in 2026 built on three ideas: the loop is the product, system distillation is the moat, and valued work per watt is the score to optimize. He illustrates these with the OpenClaw car-haggling loop, the concept of portable agent recipes, and a talent-sourcing agent example that shows how to spot patterns in traces, calibrate judges with humans, and A/B test taste in production.

Sep 24, 2026

I Gave an AI a Body — Cyrus Clarke, MIT Media Lab

Cyrus Clarke, a researcher at the MIT Media Lab, connected an OpenClaw agent to a 900-pin shape display and asked it to discover its own identity rather than complete tasks. The talk covers the agent's first behaviors, the public reaction, the philosophical influences behind his approach to AI embodiment, and a closed-loop system that taught the agent a gesture-based body language that now responds faster than its language model.

Aug 15, 2026

Exo: Harnesses should see their own code and logs — Alex Krentsel

An introduction to Exo, a fully recursive AI agent harnessing a novel three-layer architecture (Executor, Harness, Sandbox) designed for autonomous self-improvement. It delves into how Exo surpasses current agent limitations by allowing the agent to edit its own code and policy at runtime, ensuring protected state and isolated execution, and discusses practical implications and the underlying systems philosophy enabling this paradigm shift.