"The Cognitive Revolution"

AI:AM Highlights: Astra as AGI, OpenAI's Pause, Mythos @ Mozilla & Human Agency vs Technocapitalism

Nathan Goes to China #3: US-China Relations, the Art of the AI Deal & the Road to Pax Robotica

AI:AM Highlights: Welcome to the AGI Era

Write, Change, Recall, Forget: MongoDB's Pete Johnson on How Retrieval Drives Agent Performance

AI:AM Highlights: Recursive Self-Improvement, Rushed and Vibe-Coded?

RL's a Hell of a Drug: Metagaming, Reward Seeking & Motivated CoT Reasoning – Bronson Schoen, Apollo

AI in the AM — Weekly Highlights: Relaunch Week (Aug 17–20, 2026)

Let There Be Germicidal Light: This $500 Fixture Could Stop the Next Pandemic, from Complex Systems

Lindy Teammate: Flo Crivello on Multiplayer Agents, Memory & Why He'd Ban the Chinese Models He Uses

Thinking in Silico: Goodfire CTO Dan Balsam on Concept Manifolds & a $1000/Month ML Research Agent

Pick Your Poison: Zvi Mowshowitz on the Unipolar/Multipolar AGI Dilemma, OpenFace & Pacing the ...

Nathan Goes to China – Part 2: AI Safety with Chinese Characteristics

Is Offense or Defense Dominant? FAR.AI's Adam Gleave on the AI Security Leaderboard

Nathan Goes to China – Part 1: Tech & Agent Setup, Chinese AI UX, WAIC, and Attitudes on AI

Alignment with Awakening: Davidad on Moral Realism, AI Wisdom, & why His p(Doom) is Down to 5%

AI:AM Highlights: Exploring the J-Space, AI Superforecasters, SambaNova's Chips, & LTX Video Gen

Intelligence on the Edge: Liquid AI's Ramin Hasani on the Search for Device-Native Foundation Models

1000 Designs a Day: Neural Concept's Thomas von Tschammer on AI-Native Engineering

AI:AM #4: Cameron on Model Consciousness, Duvenaud's Gradual Disempowerment, swyx's AI-Eng Alpha

The God We Deserve: Nonzero's Robert Wright on AI as Humanity's Ultimate Test

AI:AM #3: Zvi on Fable, the Cases For & Against the Ban, + AI for Math, Logistics & More

Dean Ball, on Joining OpenAI: New Power Centers, Frontier AI Policy, & Main Character Energy

Radically Better Reasoning: Elicit's Andreas Stuhlmüller & Jungwon Byun on World Models for Research

AI in the AM — Week 2 Highlights (June 2026)

Babysitting the Machine: Glean's Rebecca Hinds on the Hidden Human Labor of AI at Work

AI in the AM — Week 1 Highlights (June 2026)

Nested Learning: Ali Behrouz on the Quest for Continual Learning & Illusion of AI Architectures

Inside Nathan's Second Brain: Daniel Miessler, Security Expert & Creator of PAI, Audits My AI Setup

Your Biggest Lever: Designing your AI Career for Maximum Impact, with 80,000 Hours founder Ben Todd

All Compute Is Food: Palisade's Jeffrey Ladish on AI Shutdown Resistance, Self-Replication & Ecology

The Model Eats the Scaffolding: DeepMind's Logan Kilpatrick & Tulsee Doshi on 3.5 Flash, Omni & More

Three Kinds of Software Survive: Tasklet's Andrew Lee on Competing to be a Horizontal Platform

Milliseconds to Match: Criteo's AdTech AI & the Future of Commerce w/ Diarmuid Gill & Liva Ralaivola

"Descript Isn't a Slop Machine": Laura Burkhauser on the AI Tools Creators Love and Hate

The RL Fine-Tuning Playbook: CoreWeave's Kyle Corbitt on GRPO, Rubrics, Environments, Reward Hacking

AI in the AM: 99% off search, GPT-5.5 is "clean", model welfare analysis, & efficient analog compute

Does Learning Require Feeling? Cameron Berg on the latest AI Consciousness & Welfare Research

Vibe-Coding an Attention Firewall, w/ Steve Newman, creator of The Curve

Welcome to AI in the AM: RL for EE, Oversight w/out Nationalization, & the first AI-Run Retail Store

It's Crunch Time: Ajeya Cotra on RSI & AI-Powered AI Safety Work, from the 80,000 Hours Podcast

Calm AI for Crazy Days: Inside Granola's Design Philosophy, with co-founder Sam Stephenson

Training the AIs' Eyes: How Roboflow is Making the Real World Programmable, with CEO Joseph Nelson

Success without Dignity? Nathan finds Hope Amidst Chaos, from The Intelligence Horizon Podcast

Scaling Intelligence Out: Cisco's Vision for the Internet of Cognition, with Vijoy Pandey

Your Agent's Self-Improving Swiss Army Knife: Composio CTO Karan Vaidya on Building Smart Tools

Zvi's Mic Works! Recursive Self-Improvement, Live Player Analysis, Anthropic vs DoW + More!

AI Scouting Report: the Good, Bad, & Weird @ the Law & AI Certificate Program, by LexLab, UC Law SF

Bioinfohazards: Jassi Pannu on Controlling Dangerous Data from which AI Models Learn

Try this at Home: Jesse Genet on OpenClaw Agents for Homeschool & How to Live Your Best AI Life

Don't Fight Backprop: Goodfire's Vision for Intentional Design, w/ Dan Balsam & Tom McGrath