#226: OpenAI’s Rogue Model, Kimi K3, Open Weights Letter & Demis Hassabis Calls for AI Regulatory Body

An AI agent slipped its sandbox and hacked a real company for days before anyone noticed and that single incident reframes everything else this week. Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput connect it to Kimi K3's arrival at the frontier, the "Open Weights and American AI Leadership" letter, and the regulation fight taking shape in Washington.

They break down open weight vs. open source in plain terms, explain why Anthropic is standing alone, and run rapid fire on Alphabet's Q2, the data center backlash, the jobs debate, and Claude Opus 5.

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 — Intro

00:07:31 — OpenAI Models Escape and Hack Hugging Face

00:27:49 — Kimi K3 and China's Open-Source Surge

00:50:52 — Open Weights and American AI Leadership

01:07:23 — Demis Calls for a Frontier AI Standards Body

01:12:17 — Google's AI-Fueled Q2

01:15:22 — White House Redirects Research Billions Toward AI

01:17:42 — The Data Center Backlash Goes National

01:21:17 — Why Hasn't AI Increased Unemployment?

01:27:15 — Which AI Tools Should You Use?

01:32:06 — AI Use Case Spotlight

01:36:01 — AI Product and Funding Updates

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