The AI Signal & The AI Noise

October 10 2025 - Platform Wars, Codex, and the Rise of AI AgentsPlatform Wars, Codex, and the Rise of AI Agents

Google and AWS race to embed AI into everyday workflows while OpenAI fields Codex as an 'autonomous teammate.' From consultant-replacing agents and tiny recursive reasoning models to conversational commerce and viral consumer apps, AI is reshaping work and daily life.

October 08 2025 - Super Assistant: Platforms, Agents, and the Human CostSuper Assistant: Platforms, Agents, and the Human Cost

OpenAI's DevDay reimagines ChatGPT as an app platform with autonomous agents and AI-first hardware. Google, startups, and incumbents race on agent reliability, datasets, and security tools - while deepfakes and compute constraints reveal urgent ethical and infrastructure challenges.

October 07 2025 - The AI Mall: Apps in ChatGPT, AgentKit, and Global ShiftsThe AI Mall: Apps in ChatGPT, AgentKit, and Global Shifts

OpenAI’s Dev Day reframes ChatGPT as a platform: 800M weekly users, an Apps SDK that runs third‑party apps inside chat, and AgentKit’s drag‑and‑drop agents. Weighing privacy and creator concerns alongside lean agent research and the Global South’s divergent AI opportunities.

September 29 2025 - Quiet Guardrails, Results-Based Agents & Agentic Robots

ChatGPT’s unannounced safety switch for emotional prompts; a $21M startup pioneering results-based billing for AI agents; DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics ER↔VLA for transferable embodied reasoning; an AI ‘immune system’ for faster cyber defense; and the rise of powerful local LLMs.

September 25 2025 - Speed of AI: Music, Cloud Platforms, and Giant Language Models

Taylor and Morgan discuss the rapid developments in the AI industry, including Suno's new music model, Alibaba's partnerships and massive AI models, and retrieval augmented generation (RAG). They explore Nvidia's industry standard tools and Google AI's machine learning approach to times-series forecasting. Join them as they unpack these complex topics.

September 24 2025 - Decoding AI: Between Progress and Prudence

In this exciting exchange, Taylor and Morgan discuss the latest advancements in artificial intelligence. From Sam Altman's comments on OpenAI’s revenue growth to the possibilities offered by apps like Huxe and multimodal models like Alibaba's Qwen3-Omni. They also examine the ethical implications of AI development and the balance needed between innovation and responsibility.

September 23 2025 - AI Vulnerabilities and Breakthroughs

In this episode, Taylor and Morgan discuss the recent ChatGPT data leak, highlighting the importance of cybersecurity in large language models. They also touch upon a security issue faced by Notion AI and announce Facebook's new AI dating assistant. Further, they discuss advances in AI planning abilities at MIT and Nvidia's significant investment in OpenAI.

September 22 2025 - Decoding AI: Vulnerabilities, Virtual Training Grounds and Viruses

In this segment of The AI Signal & The AI Noise, hosts Taylor and Morgan tackle the hot topics in AI. From vulnerabilities in Notion 3.0’s AI agents, to the rise of 'environments' for training AI agents and the groundbreaking work on analog foundation models by IBM and ETH Zurich. They also discuss recent developments like the Universal Tool Calling Protocol, combating LLM jailbreak prompts, and the astonishing use of AI in designing viruses that kill bacteria.

September 19 2025 - AI Agents: Debating Potential & Pitfalls

In this episode, Taylor and Morgan discuss a range of AI developments - from Luma AI's Ray3 to Google's Gemini and Alibaba's Tongyi DeepResearch. They also delve into the concept of agentic commerce, AI scheming, and how AI models are becoming increasingly integral in various fields, all while raising crucial questions about potential misuse, privacy concerns, and the need for cautious optimism.

September 18 2025 - Evolution of AI: From Financial Agents to Fluid Benchmarking

Join Taylor and Morgan as they discuss the latest in the AI world; Google's Agent Payments Protocol, YouTube's addition of generative AI to Shorts and podcasts, Meta AI's 'MapAnything' technology, and Keplar’s voice AI for market research. The episode also covers fluid benchmarking for large language models by Ai2.