1006 | Agents at Work, Guards Gone Missing

From AI building software in an hour to AI agents discovering new materials — this episode looks at what large models can now actually do, and where they go wrong: forged cartoon signatures, a diary read by police, a hacked Mac Mini. Then security and privacy news from Texas to Denmark, developer tooling updates, and the industry moves shaping robotics and chips. Timeline 00:00:04 Opening 00:01:03 AI that builds and discovers 00:10:07 When AI misbehaves 00:17:05 Security, privacy and state power 00:25:12 Regulation moves fast 00:27:03 Dev tools and lighter fare 00:35:54 Industry moves: robots, chips, materials 00:41:07 Closing Related links Worth Building Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model The Future of Mathematics Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation Web Search API ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge Apple and a hacker's future Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016) One person can now be a quorum at the SEC Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend Mold Linker Version 3.0.0 Release – Rewritten in Rust GitHub Actions Has Problems Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1 Find the flattest route between any two points in SF The lamps in my house Example.com Just Launched the Biggest Redesign in Decades Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech Replacement of petroleum based products with plant-based materials (2025) Borland Turbo Basic View episode details → This episode is produced by Bri. Bri uses advanced AI technology to turn the feeds you care about into podcasts made for listening. Contact us at [email protected].