Presentation decks and articles used in our episodes.
Two events collided in the same week — a paper that lifts frontier models' hidden reasoning wholesale, and Claude's invisible watermark stamped into everything it generates. The spear and shield of the 'distillation war' that flared up after the open-weights letter, tied together with Korean web fiction's 'metal taste.'
8/14/2026
The 'Open Weights and American AI Leadership' letter, unveiled in Jensen Huang's first-ever X post, grew from 25 signatories to 235 in a week. What the letter actually says, and the story of the holdouts — Anthropic and ElevenLabs — checked against primary sources.
7/31/2026
Presentation notes on the official Hugging Face security disclosures, Kimi K3, Qwen3.8, Claude Opus 5, agent usage growth, promotions, and go-to-market strategy.
7/25/2026
What makes research good, and can we reward it? The Hugging Face challenge where agents reproduce ICML papers, Ralphthon where AI wrote papers and AI reviewed them, and the Grant Sanderson and Adam Brown episodes of the Dwarkesh Podcast — thoughts on how research changes in the age of AI.
7/17/2026
Industry's influence on academia keeps growing. The sponsor booths at ICML 2026 Seoul filled an entire exhibition hall — big tech, neoclouds and inference, data companies, and the booths that left an impression, with photos.
7/10/2026