ABOUT THIS EPISODE
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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