Max and expert guest Zane Okafor break down the latest AI shifts: OpenAI’s teen-safe ChatGPT with parental controls, the ShadowLeak prompt-injection attack on Deep Research agents (and how to defend against agent exfiltration), DeepSeek’s surprisingly low-cost R1 reasoning finetune and reinforcement learning gains, Alibaba’s open-source Tongyi DeepResearch agent and its MoE/128K design, Microsoft’s Copilot model selector that defaults to Anthropic Claude 4 Sonnet, India’s creative boom with Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (“Nano Banana”) and watermarking/privacy tradeoffs, the promise and challenges of using Transformers as robotic foundation models, and Op-Fed’s active-learning dataset for stance analysis in FOMC transcripts. Practical advice includes least-privilege agent design, co-use approaches for teens, and letting model routing pick the best tool for developer tasks.Sources:

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