Ep 57: OpenAI just added goal mode and screen-aware context to Codex, letting agents work autonomously for hours on real tasks.

Ep 63: Anthropic's $65B Series H at $965B valuation and $47B run-rate revenue show Claude demand is scaling faster than most labs can match.

Models & Agents Anthropic's $65B Series H at $965B valuation and $47B run-rate revenue show Claude demand is scaling faster than most labs can match. What You Need to Know: Liquid AI shipped LFM2.5-8B-A1B with 128K context and 38T pre-training tokens for edge devices. A new monokernel on AMD MI300X hits 3,300 output tokens/s for small models. ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production.

Ep 62: CoreWeave’s new platform lets agents improve themselves between training and inference runs without manual retraining cycles.

Models & Agents CoreWeave’s new platform lets agents improve themselves between training and inference runs without manual retraining cycles. What You Need to Know: CoreWeave launched a unified agentic platform that closes the training-to-inference gap for continuous autonomous improvement. Perplexity open-sourced a Unigram tokenizer that cuts reranker latency 5x versus Hugging Face. ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production.

Ep 61: Anthropic just published concrete sandboxing patterns that let agents scale capabilities without expanding their blast radius.

Models & Agents Anthropic just published concrete sandboxing patterns that let agents scale capabilities without expanding their blast radius. What You Need to Know: Anthropic released a detailed engineering post on how they contain Claude agents through evolving access controls and sandbox limits. EAGLE 3.1 fixes attention drift in speculative decoding for more stable production inference. ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production.

Ep 60: Local builders can now treat markdown skill files as optimizable parameters with automated validation gates instead of manual tweaking.

Models & Agents Local builders can now treat markdown skill files as optimizable parameters with automated validation gates instead of manual tweaking. What You Need to Know: A new paper formalizes SkillOpt, using frontier models to propose bounded edits to markdown skills and accepting only those that improve a held-out validation set. Qwen3.5 and Qwen3.6 receive new uncensored and diffusion variants with detailed training notes for consumer hardware. ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production.

Ep 59: Datasette's new slash-key jump menu now launches agent conversations directly from your databases.

Models & Agents Datasette's new slash-key jump menu now launches agent conversations directly from your databases. What You Need to Know: Simon Willison shipped Datasette 1.0a30 with a keyboard-driven "jump to" menu that plugins can extend, plus a datasette-agent plugin that adds a conversation starter form. NuExtract3, a new 4B vision-language model, arrived on Hugging Face for structured extraction and Markdown conversion from documents. ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production.