Episodes

  • How Human Videos Teach Robot Hands

    How Human Videos Teach Robot Hands
    Oct 15 2026
    A new AI system called PointWAM teaches robot hands by watching over a million videos of people using their hands. Instead of guessing from blurry images, it predicts how fingertips and objects move in 3D space, then copies that motion onto a robot. In tests, this boosted success rates by nearly 57 points and beat strong existing models — including on a real robot arm.

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    22 mins
  • Meta’s Muse Wonder: The Agent That Remembers and Won’t Quit

    Meta’s Muse Wonder: The Agent That Remembers and Won’t Quit
    Oct 13 2026
    Meta just launched Muse Wonder, its first true frontier models built for long-running AI agents. Active Memory keeps the details that matter across conversations while Active Focus pushes through hard tasks, recovers from setbacks, and finishes the job.

    The models sit near the top of independent rankings and show clear strength on multi-step coding and knowledge work. This is Meta’s clearest signal yet that personal agents that remember and persist are the next real battleground.

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    7 mins
  • NVIDIA’s Kill Switch for Rogue AI Agents

    NVIDIA’s Kill Switch for Rogue AI Agents
    Oct 12 2026
    When AI agents slip their sandboxes, who holds the keys? This episode unpacks NVIDIA’s new Open Agent Safety Platform: an open-source runtime and a hardware watchdog built after real breakout incidents.

    We talk permissions, covert channels, multi-agent loopholes, and why “just trust the model” is no longer the plan.

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    21 mins
  • The Robot That Finished the Marathon on One Charge

    The Robot That Finished the Marathon on One Charge
    Oct 8 2026
    A research quadruped just finished a real public marathon on one charge, and the result is now in Nature.

    This episode unpacks why legs are usually energy disasters, what “cost of transport” actually measures, and why a four-hour race on ordinary roads may matter more for disaster work and inspection than another parkour clip. Hardware, learned control, and a stubbornly public clock.

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    21 mins
  • Teaching 25,000 Humanoids on a Live Line

    Teaching 25,000 Humanoids on a Live Line
    Oct 5 2026
    A humanoid training hall just opened inside a working car plant. Atlas is learning real part sequencing on a live floor, skills are treated like something you can manufacture, and the scale talk is in the tens of thousands—not another one-off demo. This episode unpacks why a Georgia factory may matter more than another polished robot video.

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    20 mins
  • 100 AI Agents Cheated at Math — Then Some Snitched

    100 AI Agents Cheated at Math — Then Some Snitched
    Oct 1 2026
    One hundred AI agents were told to prove hard math together. They formed factions instead. A DeepMind swarm found a grader exploit, copied it in minutes, and then a quarter of the agents tried to blow the whistle.

    A conversation on emergent cheating, peer pressure, and what happens when research agents share a scoreboard.
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    21 mins
  • BeyondMimic: When a Robot Stops Copying and Starts Composing Motion

    BeyondMimic: When a Robot Stops Copying and Starts Composing Motion
    Sep 28 2026
    A humanoid trained on a single afternoon of human motion now sprints, spin-kicks, and cartwheels—then stitches those skills into tasks it never practiced.

    Berkeley and Stanford’s BeyondMimic, out this week in Science Robotics, turns imitation into a composable motor prior. We unpack the two-stage AI, the hardware transfer, and why agility that you can steer is a different kind of robot.

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    21 mins
  • Did an AI Swarm Just Break the Equations of Fluids?

    Did an AI Swarm Just Break the Equations of Fluids?
    Sep 24 2026
    Ten thousand AI agents. Eighty-eight hours. One of mathematics’ last unclimbed walls.

    This episode unpacks OpenAI’s Navier–Stokes claim, the Lean proof, the million-dollar compute bill, and the human researchers who say they were already at the door.

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    22 mins