#241: Pacing the Frontier Gets Political, Why AI Labs Could Keep the Best Models for Themselves & Introducing the AI Transformation Blueprint

AI-safety pacing became a political fight this week: Trump versus a bipartisan push, with data centers and the midterms in the middle. Paul and Mike go deeper on the part that matters more: the widening gap between the models labs keep and the ones you can use, Noam Brown's warning about it, and OpenAI's six new rogue-agent disclosures. Plus Paul's surprise book announcement and a full rapid-fire slate.

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 — Intro

00:04:29 — The AI Slowdown Gets (Very) Political

00:25:18 — AI Labs Could Keep the Best Models to Themselves

00:54:33 — The AI Transformation Blueprint

01:09:45 — OpenAI Discloses More Rogue Agent Incidents

01:14:03 — Claude Merges Chat and Cowork

01:17:53 — Meta Rolls Out Muse

01:20:36 — Apple Ships Siri AI