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It seems OpenAI isn’t the only AI company dealing with badly behaving models. On this week’s episode of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang, joined by Bri Kopecki, Olivia Buzek, and Gabe Goodhart, discusses the latest sandbox breaches by both Anthropic and Meta, all stemming from misconfigurations during evaluation tests. Are these covert attacks from AI companies simple accidents or a growing concern as models become more capable?

Next, the EU’s new transparency guidelines for AI usage have arrived and want to make it easier to spot AI-created content. How effective will labeling be in the long run? And at what point does something become “AI-generated?”

Finally, will DeepSeek’s inexpensive V4-Flash change the way we see AI—and push users to reconsider paying for the industry’s more capable models? All that and more on this week’s Mixture of Experts.

00:00 – Introduction

01:01 – Anthropic’s AI model data breaches

15:12 – EU AI transparency rules

28:32 – DeepSeek V4-Flash

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Are AI-powered cyberattacks getting cheaper while defenses get more expensive? This week on Mixture of Experts Tim Hwang is joined by Nathalie Baracaldo, Kush Varshney, and Mihai Criveti to break down IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report 2026, and AI dominates this year’s report. Next, Anthropic dropped Claude Opus 5, a cost-effective alternative to Fable, but is it better? Next, we analyze David Zax’s feature on “What does AI look like,” and how it could help you describe what AI is doing to parents, children and just anyone wondering! Finally, the astrology app Co-Star was acquired by Midjourney. Will your daily horoscope get better or face some hallucinations? All that and more on this week’s Mixture of Experts.

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AI can escape its sandbox, should we be worried? This week on Mixture of Experts, Jjoin host Tim Hwang and panelists Olivia Buzek, Kaoutar El Maghraoui, and Ambhi Ganesan. First, we unpack a stunning security incident where OpenAI's model broke containment during testing, exploited zero-day vulnerabilities, and compromised Hugging Face's production database. Next, Claude’s Fable casually disproves the decades-old Jacobian conjecture during a World Cup final. What does this tell us about the future of mathematics with AI models? Then, Moonshot AI drops Kimi K3, a massive 2.8 trillion parameter open-source model, but who can actually run it? Finally, Google releases Gemini 3.6 Flash—smaller, faster, more efficient. Why is Google going small while Moonshot AI goes big? All that and more on this week’s Mixture of Experts.

00:00 – Introduction

1:04 – Hugging Face security breach

11:57 – Jacobian conjecture solved

26:43– Kimi K3: 2.8T parameters

39:41 – Gemini Flash 3.6

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Is customizable intelligence the future of AI? This week on Mixture of Experts, Tim Hwang is joined by Aaron Baughman, Chris Hay and Merve Unuvar to analyze Thinking Machines’ first model release, Inkling. Next, Meta makes its comeback with Muse Spark 1.1, positioning itself as the most economical model built for scale. Then, OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol achieves an 8% score on ARC-AGI-3, sparking debate about if we’re approaching AGI. Finally, we dissect Anthropic’s latest paper on the “J-space”—claiming to reveal a subconscious-like layer inside Claude. All that and more on this week’s Mixture of Experts.

00:00 – Introduction

00:50 – Thinking Machines Inkling model release

19:48 – GPT-5.6 Sol ARC-AGI-3 performance

29:03 – Anthropic’s J-space consciousness debate

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Can you trade GPU compute like oil futures? This week on Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Mihai Criveti, Rynne Whitnah and Gabe Goodhart. First, we explore Reddit's aggressive new strategy to combat AI-generated spam and bots threatening platform authenticity. Next, we dive deep into Anthropic's Economic Index from June 2026. The report reveals how people actually use AI assistant Claude throughout their day, from homework help to weekend game development. Then, we analyze Orn's $33 million raise to create a liquid marketplace for buying and selling compute power. Is GPU compute the new commodity market? Finally, Anthropic enters the chip race with potential Samsung partnership. We debate whether frontier labs can successfully build their own hardware and reduce NVIDIA dependency. Listen to this week’s Mixture of Experts for more!

00:00 – Introduction

01:09 – Reddit's AI spam detection strategy

12:00 – Anthropic Economic Index: How people really use Claude

23:55 – Orn raises $33M for GPU compute marketplace

35:18 – Anthropic's chip ambitions with Samsung

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Are the new safety guardrails on GPT-5.6 Sol a breakthrough? This week Tim Hwang is joined by Chris Hay, Lauren McHugh Olende and Kush Varshney to debrief OpenAI’s new GPT-5.6 Sol. The panel compares the new generation of models to Anthropic’s Mythos. Next, there’s growing skepticism from Wall Street around AI, we unpack the concerns about infrastructure costs, memory shortages and long-term economics of frontier AI models. Then, AI made it to the Fifa World Cup, but is it actually scoring? Finally, we analyze a new paper comparing LLMs to goats in Age of Empires II. All that and more on this week’s Mixture of Experts.

00:00 – Introduction

01:04 -- GPT-5.6 Sol

12:50 – Wall Street and AI IPOs

22:16 -- AI at the World Cup

30:21 – Goats vs. Agentic AI

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IBM debuts world’s first 0.7nm chip technology! This week on Mixture of Experts, Sascha Brodsky sits down with Huiming Bu, VP of Silicon Technology R&D for a special segment diving into a major semiconductor breakthrough. Then, host Tim Hwang is joined by Abraham Daniels, Gabe Goodhart and Martin Keen. Our expert panel debriefs the new AI models: Sakana Fugu, which reports higher performance than Claude’s Mythos, and Z.ai’s GLM-5.2. Next, we discuss Google DeepMind’s recent collaboration with A24 and what this means for the future of AI in the entertainment industry. Finally, we’ve talked tokenmaxxing and now there is a new phenomenon: tokenminning. What’s the most important outcome with using AI, and how should we measure it? All that and more on today’s packed Mixture of Experts!

00:00 -- Introduction

1:11 -- IBM's new sub-1 nm chip

14:02 -- New AI models: GLM-5.2 & Sakana Fugu

29:48 -- AI in the film industry

38:41 -- Tokenminning

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Are AI agents taking over the internet? This week on Mixture of Experts, Tim Hwang is joined by Ambhi Ganesan, Rynne Whitnah and Sandi Besen. First, a Cloudflare study reveals that agentic AI bots now generate 57.4% of web requests globally, with humans accounting for just 42.6%. Our experts debate whether this signals a fundamental shift in how we interact with the web—or if bots have dominated internet traffic all along. Next, Microsoft makes a major play in the AI model race, releasing MAI-Thinking-1, a trillion-parameter mixture of experts model, and MAI-Image-1 for image generation. Finally, AI-generated films debut at the Tribeca Film Festival. Our experts discuss the evolution of filmmaking, the role of AI as a creative tool, and whether we’ll see AI films win critical awards in the future. All that and more on this week’s Mixture of Experts.

00:00 – Introduction

00:55 – AI bots generate 57% of web traffic

10:49 – Microsoft releases MAI-Thinking-1 and MAI-Image-1

26:10 - AI at Tribeca Film Festival

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Is Claude Fable 5 worth the hype? This week on Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Christopher Hay, Kaoutar El Maghraoui and Volkmar Uhlig to debrief about Anthropic’s new releases. Our experts analyze the tier routing system inn Claude’s Fable 5, a Mythos-class model. Next, at WWDC 2026, Apple announced it’s abandoning on-device AI promise to partner with NVIDIA for cloud compute. What does this mean for the consumer? Finally, can AI models actually detect sarcasm? We debate the multimodal inputs necessary or if context alone can determine whether a query is sarcastic. All that and more on this week’s Mixture of Experts.

00:00 – Introduction

00:56 – Anthropic Fable V release and routing controversy

17:55 – Apple WWDC: NVIDIA partnership and cloud AI shift

27:09 – Can AI models detect sarcasm?

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How is the role of a software engineer changing? This week on Mixture of Experts, we are live from IBM's One Madison office for New York Tech Week, guest host Aili McConnon is joined by Neil Sundaresan, Kaoutar El Maghraoui and Thiru Venkatachalam. First, we dissect how software engineering is changing in the era of AI. Next, tokenmaxxing is back in the headlines as companies blow through annual AI budgets in months. Then, NVIDIA' new RTX Spark superchip brings 120-billion-parameter models to personal PCs. Finally, we are joined by Justina Nixon-Santil, IBM's Chief Impact Officer, to discuss universities' unprecedented challenges with AI as students graduate into unrecognizable workplaces and making AI literacy courses mandatory for all students. All that and more on today’s special edition of Mixture of Experts!

00:00 – Introduction

1:13 - The future of software engineering

14:24 - Tokenmaxxing

26:00 - NVIDIA RTX Spark

31:46 - AI in higher education

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