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October 23, 2026 · 6:05 listen
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Alex and Jordan cover sixteen afternoon drops: OpenAI's enterprise agent blitz (Codex in finance, legal workflows at AT&T, Shield's IT agents, ChatGPT Work training at Realpage.), the Kimi K3.1 open-weight moment, continual learning going boring, and the three-layer stack for landing an FDE job.
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Evening · 6:05
Alex and Jordan cover sixteen afternoon drops: OpenAI's enterprise agent blitz (Codex in finance, legal workflows at AT&T, Shield's IT agents, ChatGPT Work training at Realpage.), the Kimi K3.1 open-weight moment, continual learning going boring, and the three-layer stack for landing an FDE job.
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Morning · 3:21
Alex and Jordan cover three overnight drops: InclusionAI's Ling-3.0-flash-Sante healthcare model tested by Fahd Mirza, Nate B. Jones doubling down on the Goodfire interpretability story, and Priyanka Vergadia reverse engineering the Claude Code harness.
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Evening · 7:44
Alex and Jordan cover ten afternoon drops: Uber rolls out ChatGPT Work to 30,000 employees, Fahd Mirza tests a local memory-writing model for agents, Nate B. Jones on Goodfire's essay claiming neural networks are already readable, plus AI system design in 20 minutes, monetizing your agents, and Microsoft's five-video data layer masterclass for production agents.
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Morning · 5:26
Alex and Jordan cover four overnight drops: Anthropic's new personal agent Claude Duet, Fahd Mirza's hands-on test of Vast-10M's ten-million-token context window, Microsoft's agentic root cause analysis, and Agent Optimizer in Microsoft Foundry.
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Evening · 6:34
Alex and Jordan cover eight afternoon drops: Sam Altman's big interview on AI consciousness and OpenAI's new hardware, V7's GPT-5.6 Luna customer win, Claude Mem shared agent memory, Gemini 3.8 Flash voice design, Deep Agents context tricks, Greg Isenberg's nine stages of agent adoption, Flint 40B local coding model, and a major HTTPS blunder.
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Morning · 4:39
Alex and Jordan cover three overnight drops: NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Super vision model with native speculative decoding, Siraj Raval giving an AI agent one day to start a product business, and Microsoft's SQL Modernization Day sessions on AI-ready databases.
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Evening · 6:31
Alex and Jordan cover 17 afternoon drops: DeepSeek's V4.1 Flash and open-sourced DeepInfer, a free $400 credit program for AI builders, Nate Jones on Mac Mini memory for agents, ChatGPT ads and privacy, Ornith-1.5 122B running locally, AI agents cracking a vault with Ghidra, a one-person $570K-a-year agency, OpenAI's shopping agent demo, and Microsoft's eight-video SQL Server 2025 blitz.
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Morning · 5:17
Alex and Jordan cover four overnight drops: Mercury 3 diffusion LLM testing, Microsoft on why AI agents cost so much, a free local AI agent for your smart TV, and reinforcement learning explained through self-driving cars.
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Evening · 7:42
Podium's agent scaling playbook, the post-password fix, Thomson Reuters legal AI, Greg Isenberg on Meta Muse money, Perplexity's new decider model, AI rewriting PS5 games, and cooking with Codex.
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Morning · 4:51
Alex and Jordan cover five overnight drops: OpenAI's new ChatGPT Voice powered by GPT Live, Fahd Mirza testing free Claude Code, Anthropic's seven-layer code review for Claude Code, LangChain's Managed Deep Agents, and Nate B. Jones on model vs effort.
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Evening · 5:32
Alex and Jordan cover six afternoon drops: agents going agent-first on WordPress, AI agent swarms in the wild, Elorian Glimpse's grounded visual thinking, a flying car hype-check, how to review AI-generated code, and DeepSeek's memory efficiency.
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Morning · 4:28
Alex and Jordan cover a quiet Saturday night: Nate B. Jones on choosing model vs effort, and Aishwarya Srinivasan's interview with Google Fellow Chris Pinkney on preparing enterprise data for AI with knowledge graphs.
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Evening · 4:59
Alex and Jordan cover four afternoon drops: Amazon blocking AI agents, Fahd Mirza testing local VoiceStudio voice AI and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, and Matthew Berman watching Gemini 4 Argon build a Fall Guys clone.
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Morning · 5:20
Alex and Jordan cover three overnight videos: Nate B. Jones on asking AI to assess your intelligence, Matthew Berman on Gemini 4 Argon building an Excel clone in twenty minutes, and Fahd Mirza testing Fish Audio Drama 3 voice cloning locally.
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Evening · 5:58
Alex and Jordan break down five afternoon drops: OpenAI's Dot triaging a 3am on-call page and running shared team tasks, LangChain on why continual learning is still unsolved, Fahd Mirza testing NVIDIA's 74B Nemotron locally, and the week's top GitHub AI repos.
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Morning · 3:50
Alex and Jordan cover two overnight videos: Fahd Mirza's hands-on test of the tiny 2.4-gigabyte Ternary Bonsai 2 9B vision model, and pvergadia on why passwords and MFA can still be hacked — and why device-bound credentials are the real fix.
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Evening · 7:33
Alex and Jordan break down a packed afternoon: Gemini 4 Argon everywhere, a Grok Voice 3.0 vs GPT-Live-1.1 voice face-off, Stripe's one-week agent build, SentinelOne's weeks-to-hours cyber research, and the psychology of frontier-model hype.
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Morning · 4:00
Alex and Jordan break down 2 fresh overnight AI videos: Fahd Mirza's local test of Liquid AI's LFM2.5 24B-A2B against Qwen, and Nate B Jones on whether AI is actually making us more productive.
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Evening · 7:27
Alex and Jordan break down six afternoon AI videos: Google's official Gemini 4 Argon roadmap, LangChain's open-source Deep Agents harness, shipping AI agents from the terminal, an agentic RAG masterclass, a hands-on REA reverse-engineering tutorial, and free open-source replacements for ElevenLabs, Jira, Slack, and Granola.
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Morning · 4:41
Alex and Jordan break down four overnight AI videos: Google's frontier launch of Gemini 4 Argon and Fahd Mirza's deep-work tests, Terence Tao's lecture on the black-box problem in AI-generated math via Nate B. Jones, and Oracle's use of Codex to get business users answers from company data.
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Evening · 10:39
Alex and Jordan break down eleven afternoon AI videos: the Muse Wonder versus Opus 5.5 showdown, OpenAI's 700 AI-written math papers, Microsoft Discovery's science agents, Gemini building a 3D cathedral in Antigravity, ChatGPT Space for teams, ten AI agents given real jobs, and the arrest of an OpenAI engineer over a hidden recording device.
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Morning · 4:26
Alex and Jordan break down four overnight AI videos: Meta's new frontier model Muse Wonder (tested by Fahd Mirza and reacted to by Matthew Berman), an inside look at the Claude Code harness from pvergadia, and LangChain's Interrupt London agent conference.
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Evening · 5:37
Five new videos: a local 35B vision model from Fahd Mirza, Mehul Mohan on AI influencer scams, fixing AI website slop, Microsoft dev news, and OpenAI's Codex taking on code review.
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Morning · 4:53
Alex and Jordan break down five overnight AI videos: MiniMax's M3.1 Flash coding model with a million-token context, why the best model is the wrong question once capability saturates, a contrarian take that evals are overrated, a candid startup conversation, and why human creativity still matters.
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Evening · 5:19
Two afternoon AI videos: Fahd Mirza tests Microsoft's new Decision-1 decision-scoring model — fast, cheap structured judgments now rivaling TypeSafe's Jev — and Nate B. Jones argues that taste, agency, focus, resourcefulness, and follow-through are the five human skills getting more valuable as AI gets smarter.
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Evening · 5:48
Three afternoon AI videos: a 2-bit 27B model that beats its full-size parent at tool calling and runs on a laptop, Berman's provocative 'everything is solved' news roundup, and how Oracle's 95,000 Codex users turn plain English into SQL answers.
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Morning · 4:44
Six overnight AI videos: Qwen Image 2.1 Turbo runs image generation locally in eight steps, Deno joins Cloudflare with a shutdown timeline, Nate B. Jones declares benchmarks dead, pvergadia revisits The Bitter Lesson, and Matthew Berman watches AI recreate the Adobe apps.
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Evening · 6:40
Thirteen afternoon videos: LangChain on skills, evaluations, and managed agents; OpenAI Dots go mobile; Gemini runs remote robots and live translation; Iris-3B paints pixels locally; plus quantum chemistry tooling.
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Morning · 7:25
Alex and Jordan break down four overnight AI videos: Fahd Mirza testing PG-Jev for plain-English database queries, pvergadia on why mathematical verification makes agents thrive in finance and coding, Sophos cutting threat response time by ninety-six percent with OpenAI Daybreak agents, and Matthew Berman's Tesla Powerwall and car backup during a power outage.
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Evening · 7:22
Alex and Jordan break down twenty afternoon AI videos: OpenAI's Intelligent UI rollout and Oracle's hiring copilot, Codex production monitoring, Google's ten million dollar bid for old work emails, Gemma 4 and EmbeddingGemma 2 on-device demos, plus forward deployed engineering jobs, portfolio projects that get you hired, and why agent costs explode.
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Morning · 4:57
Alex and Jordan break down six overnight AI videos: LangChain on agent skills and OpenAI's hidden prompt-cache ceiling, Claude Haiku 5.5 going ten times cheaper and taking on GPT 6 Luna, Nate B. Jones asking whether Google can catch up, and Fahd Mirza testing a tiny local multimodal decision model.
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Evening · 7:15
Alex and Jordan break down OpenAI DevDay 2026: GPT-6 with Intelligent UI, ChatGPT plugins, the Codex arc, and cost-cutting playbooks — plus Claude Haiku 5.5 tested, Gemini Argon on the leaderboard, Gemini 3.8 Live golf coaching, and LangChain Academy.
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Morning · 3:58
Alex and Jordan break down three overnight AI videos: Google's open on-device EmbeddingGemma 2 multimodal embedding model, and two videos on getting GTA 5 running in a browser.
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Evening · 5:15
Alex and Jordan cover 6 fresh videos: Mistral Large 4 tested, 10 open-source replacements for paid AI subscriptions, Addy Osmani's Agent Skills, LangChain's Deep Agents harness, model routing, and one-config web search for agents.
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Morning · 6:21
Alex and Jordan break down 11 fresh AI videos from 8 YouTube channels: Reflection Beam vs Cohere North 2, DeepSeek's hackable Harness, Meta's Muse agent negotiating with Siraj Raval's agent, LangChain Skills, 13 agentic-era businesses, and more.
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