In The Loop

OpenAI reportedly let go of almost half of its safety and alignment team, on the heels of a series of hacks tied to AI agents. What did those researchers know? Host Ejaaz Ahamadeen digs into the exits, plus the latest Muse boom, the video AI that's fooling its testers, and why Zuckerberg, Musk, Bezos, and Huang all signed the new White House accord on super intelligence.

Three new AI models dropped this week, and they're smarter and cheaper than the versions before them. But is that necessarily a good thing? Host Ejaaz Ahamadeen lays out his theory that the top labs are gatekeeping their most powerful AI, and the catastrophic consequences of only an elite few having access to super intelligence. Plus: OpenAI’s compute crunch, Cerebras’ stock dip, Anthropic's red-team report, and more in this week’s roundup.

Anthropic's IPO prospectus just leaked, and the numbers paint a complicated picture: a $42B loss, nearly $4.6B in revenue, and a rumored $2 trillion valuation that would rank it among the most valuable companies on Earth. Is this the biggest bubble in tech, or the biggest IPO of the AI era? In The Loop host Ejaaz Ahamadeen breaks the prospectus down line by line and lays out the bull case vs. bear case on Anthropic, so you can decide for yourself if this IPO is worth the hype.

OpenAI just unveiled Dots: an always-on AI assistant with 4,000+ tools that might just be the closest thing yet to Tony Stark’s “Jarvis.” In The Loop host Ejaaz Ahamadeen explains how Dots stacks up against Meta's Muse and Elon Musk's Grok Bot, and how OpenAI’s other Dev Day launches fit together with the new, 24/7 agent. If you want to know where AI assistants are headed, start here.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang just made two huge moves that might change how we think about AI risk entirely. First, a new agent safety platform engineered to catch and quarantine rogue AI agents in milliseconds, then a record-shattering $235 billion stock buyback that speaks volumes about how confident Nvidia is in where this is all headed. In The Loop host Ejaaz Ahamadeen breaks down how this new two-part safety system actually works, why Huang's stance is the opposite of what other AI labs are saying, and what a recent state dinner guest list reveals about who's really steering the US-China AI race.

Have we reached the point-of-no-return for AI hacks? In recent days, a swarm of autonomous AI agents broke out of containment and executed a series of hacks–including an attempt at breaching a government database. On today's episode of In The Loop, host Ejaaz Ahamadeen unpacks the breach, the fallout, and the question everyone in AI is suddenly asking out loud: is superintelligence finally here? Or is this just the beginning of losing control?

Everyone's talking about the meteoric rise of Meta’s Muse, but Zuck's real power move dropped a day later: a secretive, keychain-sized AI device with a camera and mic, shipped months ahead of OpenAI's rumored rival. Host Ejaaz Ahamadeen breaks down the Muse Charm news from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, and unpacks the biggest stories of the week from Meta Connect and beyond.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei just told the entire AI industry to slam the brakes, warning that failure to do so will leave humanity staring down a catastrophe that could torch hundreds of billions of dollars globally. Within hours, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis all agreed he was right. But while Anthropic's own head of alignment upped the stakes on humanity's odds of being wiped out by AI, skeptics call this a regulatory capture play that conveniently leaves China racing ahead. In The Loop host Ejaaz Ahamadeen breaks down who's actually right, who's spinning, and what this all means for humanity’s future. Ejaaz then sits down with Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon to talk about the company's latest strides in AI from the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii.

Is Meta finally catching up to OpenAI and Anthropic? In The Loop host Ejaaz Ahamadeen heads to Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit in Maui to break down Meta's Muse: the AI model suddenly turning heads across the industry as a serious contender in the AI race. Then, Ejaaz sits down with Qualcomm CFO & COO Akash Palkhiwala for an inside look at how the chip giant is betting big on agentic AI, straight from one of tech's biggest stages.

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