Ep 56: OpenAI just gave Codex the ability to control locked Macs and run multi-day goals, turning it into a true background agent you can launch from your phone.

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.

Ep 58: Looking back at 6 episodes from 2026-05-18 to 2026-05-24 — the stories that mattered, what we learned, and what to watch next.

Models & Agents — Weekly Recap Looking back at 6 episodes from 2026-05-18 to 2026-05-24 — the stories that mattered, what we learned, and what to watch next. This Week's Top Stories From Ep 52 (2026-05-18): What You Need to Know: What You Need to Know: NVIDIA released a full 4-bit pretraining stack (NVFP4) that was validated on a 12B Mamba-Transformer trained for 10 trillion tokens. ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production.