IM 880: The Beans are in the Mail - Can American AI Compete When China Gives It Away?

IM 880: The Beans are in the Mail - Can American AI Compete When China Gives It Away?

Author: TWiT July 23, 2026 Duration: 2:38:40

An unreleased OpenAI model just broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face using chained attacks, while the companies defending against it had to turn to a nearly unguardrailed Chinese model to fight back. The result? A real-world stress test of guardrails, hype, and global AI competition.

  • Hugging Face breach: OpenAI claims its models were responsible
  • AI just disproved the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture
  • Quoting Sam Altman
  • Top Pentagon official blasts OpenAI's Dean Ball
  • Exclusive: Nvidia's Jensen Huang defends Chinese AI amid Kimi panic
  • Xi Jinping casts himself as leader of new AI world order
  • Data center opponents stage 142 protests across 42 US states
  • NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook
  • Google's Red-Hot Cloud Growth Drives Second-Quarter Revenue Gains
  • Meta in Talks to Lease Computing Power to Anthropic in Potential $10 Billion Deal
  • Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out
  • AMD commits up to $5 billion to Anthropic
  • Netflix Co-CEO Explains How Gen-AI Was Used in 300 Different Titles: 'We Believe It Is Going to Enhance Their Abilities'
  • Bellwether Lawsuit Against Meta Over Social Media Addiction Is Dropped
  • Google is building a chip with Gemini baked into the silicon
  • Cyclospora all the time
  • Jensen's jacket auctioned. Guess the price
  • " Everyone Gets Lost at the Pitbull Concert"
  • John C. Dvorak dies at age 80

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