The Artificial Intelligence Show

OpenAI shipped GPT-5.6, ChatGPT Work, and GPT-Live this week, and the real story is the move from chat to computer-use agents. Paul and Mike break down what changed, then get into enterprise AI agents and the "reverse information paradox," the AI 2040 report, Apple's trade-secret suit against OpenAI, Illinois's new AI safety law, the AI Safety Index, a cheating scandal at Brown, and foreign influence around data centers.

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 — Intro

00:05:45 — GPT-5.6, ChatGPT Work, and GPT-Live (Plus GPT-6 Rumors)

00:31:30 — Advice on AI Agents in the Enterprise

00:46:39 — AI 2040

00:59:17 — Apple Sues OpenAI for Trade Secret Theft

01:06:14 — Illinois Signs Nation-Leading AI Safety Law

01:09:59 — AI Safety Index: Nobody Gets an A

01:13:11 — The AI Cheating Scandal at Brown

01:17:44 — China and Russia Stoke US Public Opinion on Data Centers

01:20:57 — AI Use Case Spotlight

01:26:19 — AI Product and Funding Updates

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Are enterprises blindly surrendering their competitive edge to frontier AI labs?

In Episode 224, hosts Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput dissect the urgent power shift between AI developers, regulators, and the businesses that rely on them. We unpack the return of Claude Fable 5, Palantir CEO Alex Karp’s fiery warning on data ownership, and a new 8-pillar framework to safeguard your company's AI transformation. Finally, we cover OpenAI's massive new government pitch, Meta's internal struggles, and the harsh realities of AI's impact on the job market.

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 — Intro

00:05:44 — US Government Lifts Export Controls on Fable

00:21:32 — Palantir CEO on AI Sovereignty

00:37:32 — The Pillars of Business AI Transformation

00:51:48 — OpenAI Offers the US Government a 5% Stake

00:56:03 — OpenAI’s Inference Breakthrough

01:00:03 — AI Jobs Data Whiplash

01:09:35 — Meta's AI Reality Check

01:13:10 — AI Use Case Spotlight

01:23:02 — AI Product and Funding Updates

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The questions people ask about AI have changed. A year ago, they wanted to know what ChatGPT was; now they're asking how to redesign workflows around agents and whether a model can be trained the way a person is. In this AI Answers episode, Paul Roetzer and Cathy McPhillips take on fifteen of them, straight from our Intro to AI classes.

From choosing two or three models on a tight budget to building an AI virtual twin without sacrificing authenticity, it's a snapshot of where practitioners' thinking actually is right now.

00:00:00 — Intro

00:5:59 How do you balance bottom-up experimentation with CEO-level strategy?

00:9:49 How do you move from restricting AI to enabling it?

00:11:36 How do you pick two or three models on a budget?

00:14:30 How do you evaluate vendors amid AI washing?

00:17:13 Frontier models, small models, or edge AI?

00:20:52 What are the security risks of autonomous agents?

00:25:02 Do AI models really behave like people?

00:30:25 How do you prove AI value with only basic tools?

00:32:02 How do you build a 24/7 AI virtual twin?

00:37:17 How do you close the human vs. AI writing gap?

00:40:26 Which skills gain value as AI takes over workflows?

00:42:57 Automate, augment, or keep it human?

00:47:20 Why flatten management instead of upskilling it?

00:50:51 Who's responsible for AI's economic fallout?

00:53:05 What advice would you give a college student?

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OpenAI just previewed GPT-5.6, but for the first time, the U.S. government is deciding who gets access to a frontier AI model. Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput break down what they're calling the soft nationalization of artificial intelligence: a staggered, government-approved release, the Dean Ball essay responding to it, and what it means when Washington, not the labs, controls the most powerful models. Plus: OpenAI's new Codex research on agents at work, the looming question of Chinese models, and the data center backlash uniting both parties.

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 — Intro

00:04:54 — GPT-5.6 Begins Controlled Release

00:25:12 — Dean Ball Releases Essay on Critical Safety Actions

00:43:36 — How Agents Are Transforming Work: OpenAI's New Research

00:53:01 — Will the US Government Restrict Chinese Models?

00:59:54 — The Growing Data Center Backlash

01:05:09 — The $27M Proxy War Over Alex Bores

01:08:16 — More Google DeepMind Talent Woes

01:10:38 — The EU Act and Digital Sovereignty

01:13:56 — AI Use Case Spotlight

01:20:05 — AI Product and Funding Updates

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Anthropic's most powerful models are still offline, and the U.S. government now wants a guarantee no lab can give. Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput unpack the ongoing export-control standoff, the Lutnick letter, and what it means for the models expected this week, then turn to Satya Nadella's "future of the firm" essay, the unsolved mess of AI pricing and usage limits, a wave of lab talent shakeups including Noam Shazeer's move to OpenAI, the G7 AI summit, Midjourney's leap into medical scanning, and research showing AI can out-persuade expert humans.

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 — Intro

00:04:44 — Anthropic vs. the White House

00:22:37 — Microsoft CEO on the Future of the Firm

00:34:37 — AI Pricing and Usage Strategy

00:56:04 — Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI (and Other Major AI Hiring Updates)

01:04:57 — Trump's G7 AI Push

01:09:33 — Midjourney Launches a Medical Division

01:12:59 — AI Can Now Out-Persuade Expert Humans

01:17:00 — AI Use Case Spotlight

01:22:12 — AI Product and Funding Updates

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