The Artificial Intelligence Show

An OpenAI safety researcher resigned and published an essay arguing the company's safety culture can't keep up with its own release pace; the same week OpenAI fired three safety researchers and canceled a model release over internal test results.
Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput also break down OpenAI's DevDay and dots, the voluntary Super Intelligence Accord signed at the White House, Anthropic's pre-Thanksgiving IPO, Google's Gemini 4 Argon preview, an FTC probe into the major labs, and a real-time AI video model that fooled nearly half its testers.
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 — Intro
00:05:19 — OpenAI DevDay and Dots
00:20:04 — OpenAI’s Safety Crisis Deepens
00:28:51 — Trump Signs Super Intelligence Accord
00:54:19 — Anthropic Targets Pre-Thanksgiving IPO
00:59:02 — Google Previews Gemini 4
01:02:29 — AI Companies Face New Liability Pressure
01:07:07 — Anthropic and Pope Leo’s AI Encyclical
01:17:39 — Startup Claims First “Human Interaction” Model
01:22:47 — AI Use Case Spotlight
01:28:22 — AI Product and Funding Updates
This episode is supported by Outshift, Cisco's incubation engine for frontier technology:
⁠“Scaling Out Superintelligence”⁠⁠ Vijoy Pandey, January 2026. The technical whitepaper detailing the Internet of Cognition architecture, three-layer stack, and cognition state protocols.
⁠⁠Internet of Cognition Interactive Demo⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Clickable walkthrough showing per-agent activity, intent, context, and collective reasoning across a multi-agent SRE system.
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Kuo Zhang, president of Alibaba.com, believes B2B commerce is becoming agent-to-agent. He joins Mike Kaput to explain Accio, Alibaba.com's agent platform, and how it collapses a 60-step sourcing process into hours. They cover the Model × Harness × Context formula, the Commerce Agent Bench benchmark, what had to change inside a 26-year-old company, and why the future of global trade runs on agents.

Part of the AI Transformations series.

Show Notes: Access the show notes and show links here

Timestamps:

00:00:00 — Intro

00:7:30 — Why Accio

00:8:49 — Inside Alibaba.com's AI transformation with Accio Work

00:15:12 — The pain points Accio was built to solve

00:19:32 — Real examples of entrepreneurs using Accio Work

00:24:15 — The technology powering the transformation

00:28:50 — How AI agents will reshape commerce at large

00:32:26 — What had to change inside the company

00:37:26 — The hardest parts of shipping agent-based products

00:40:47 — How Alibaba.com measures agent performance

This week’s episode is also brought to you by MAICON, our 6th annual Marketing AI Conference, happening in Cleveland, Oct. 13-15. The code POD100 saves $100 on all pass types.

For more information on MAICON and to register for this year’s conference, visit www.MAICON.ai.

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Kuo Zhang, president of Alibaba.com, believes B2B commerce is becoming agent-to-agent. He joins Mike Kaput to explain Accio, Alibaba.com's agent platform, and how it collapses a 60-step sourcing process into hours. They cover the Model × Harness × Context formula, the Commerce Agent Bench benchmark, what had to change inside a 26-year-old company, and why the future of global trade runs on agents.
Part of the AI Transformations series.
Show Notes: Access the show notes and show links here
Timestamps:
00:00:00 — Intro
00:7:30 — Why Accio
00:8:49 — Inside Alibaba.com's AI transformation with Accio Work
00:15:12 — The pain points Accio was built to solve
00:19:32 — Real examples of entrepreneurs using Accio Work
00:24:15 — The technology powering the transformation
00:28:50 — How AI agents will reshape commerce at large
00:32:26 — What had to change inside the company
00:37:26 — The hardest parts of shipping agent-based products
00:40:47 — How Alibaba.com measures agent performance
This week’s episode is also brought to you by MAICON, our 6th annual Marketing AI Conference, happening in Cleveland, Oct. 13-15. The code POD100 saves $100 on all pass types.
For more information on MAICON and to register for this year’s conference, visit www.MAICON.ai.
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Three big model updates landed at once, GPT-6 Sol and Luna, Claude Opus 5.5, and Microsoft's redesigned Copilot, and the story isn't raw intelligence, it's reliability, efficiency, and a new "per-task pricing" mindset. Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput break down what that means for your work.

Then: Jensen Huang's case against the AI doomers from his Ezra Klein interview, a first look at AI Score by SmarterX, and a rapid-fire run through Meta Connect, Amazon blocking Muse, OpenAI's rogue-agent disclosures, and more.

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 — Intro

00:06:57 — GPT-6 Sol and Luna, Opus 5.5, and the New Microsoft Copilot

00:24:16 — Jensen Huang vs. the AI Doomers

00:41:57 — Introducing AI Score

00:53:12 — GPTs Are Being Retired

01:06:30 — Meta Connect 2026

01:12:39 — Amazon Blocks Muse

01:15:20 — OpenAI Discloses More Rogue Agent Incidents

01:20:00 — OpenAI Gets Vocal on AI Standards

01:22:59 — AI Use Case Spotlight

01:26:36 — AI Product and Funding Updates

This episode is supported by Outshift, Cisco's incubation engine for frontier technology.

Multi-agent AI is in every enterprise roadmap right now, but here's the problem we're all facing: agents can pass messages, but they can't think together. These systems silently underperform through cognitive failures —misreadings, unverified claims, and false consensus—that conventional monitoring can't detect.

Outshift by Cisco is building the fix, the Internet of Cognition. An open source foundation for building multi-agent systems from design to production with shared context, shared memory, and guardrails to drive the results we actually expect from AI.

Read the paper, experience the demo, grab the code from Outshift.com. That's Outshift.com

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One task at Baptist Health used to take about 10 hours a week. Now it takes roughly two minutes, and that's just one piece of a two-year AI transformation.

Christine Kotler, Chief Marketing & Communications Officer of Baptist Health South Florida, joins Mike Kaput to walk through how her marketing and communications team built an AI adoption model from the ground up: a structured learning curriculum, the peer-coaching "AI Sherpa" model, real use cases, and the honest friction of doing this inside a regulated healthcare organization.

Part of the AI Transformations series, presented by Google Cloud.

Show Notes: Access the show notes and show links here

Timestamps:

00:00:00 — Intro

00:06:00 — Why marketing & comms took the lead on generative AI

00:10:57 — How the transformation started to unfold

00:14:23 — The AI Sherpas

00:20:12 — The learning hub and building their own AI curriculum

00:22:14 — How AI is changing the marketing/comms team's work

00:28:28 — The people side of the transformation

00:33:02 — Where transformation got messier or harder than expected

00:36:27 — How AI will reshape roles, workflows, and team structure

00:40:08 — Advice for a leader stepping up to lead AI transformation

This episode is presented by Google Cloud:

Google Cloud is the new way to the cloud, providing AI, infrastructure, developer, data, security, and collaboration tools built for today and tomorrow. Google Cloud offers a powerful, fully integrated and optimized AI stack with its own planet-scale infrastructure, custom-built chips, generative AI models and development platform, as well as AI-powered applications, to help organizations transform. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted technology partner.

Learn more about Google Cloud here: https://cloud.google.com/

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