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Meta Muse, Grok Bot, OpenAI Dots: Which AI agent should you use? Oct 08, 2026

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In The Loop host Ejaaz Ahamadeen ranks the AI agents everyone's talking about by what they cost, what they do, and which one is worth your time.

The Most Important AI Company You've Never Heard Of Oct 07, 2026

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The $25 billion AI startup built by DeepMind alums and backed by Nvidia is rumored to be launching an open-source model in the near future. Host Ejaaz Ahamadeen unpacks why swaths of American AI startups already rely on open Chinese models and what a Western rival like Reflection AI could mean for privacy, pricing, and security.

The top wall street firms are fighting over one AI chip Oct 06, 2026

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The next golden opportunity in AI might not be a smarter model, but a faster one. Host Ejaaz Ahamadeen breaks down the race between Nvidia, Cerebras and the Wall Street firms turning milliseconds into millions.

OpenAI Fired the People It Needed Most Oct 05, 2026

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OpenAI reportedly let go of almost half of its safety and alignment team, on the heels of a series of hacks tied to AI agents. What did those researchers know? Host Ejaaz Ahamadeen digs into the exits, plus the latest Muse boom, the video AI that's fooling its testers, and why Zuckerberg, Musk, Bezos, and Huang all signed the new White House accord on super intelligence.

The most powerful AI in the world is being hidden from you Oct 02, 2026

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Three new AI models dropped this week, and they're smarter and cheaper than the versions before them. But is that necessarily a good thing? Host Ejaaz Ahamadeen lays out his theory that the top labs are gatekeeping their most powerful AI, and the catastrophic consequences of only an elite few having access to super intelligence. Plus: OpenAI’s compute crunch, Cerebras’ stock dip, Anthropic's red-team report, and more in this week’s roundup.

Everyone Is Wrong About The Anthropic IPO Oct 01, 2026

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Anthropic's IPO prospectus just leaked, and the numbers paint a complicated picture: a $42B loss, nearly $4.6B in revenue, and a rumored $2 trillion valuation that would rank it among the most valuable companies on Earth. Is this the biggest bubble in tech, or the biggest IPO of the AI era? In The Loop host Ejaaz Ahamadeen breaks the prospectus down line by line and lays out the bull case vs. bear case on Anthropic, so you can decide for yourself if this IPO is worth the hype.

OpenAI's Dots connect to 4,000 apps and never sleep Sep 30, 2026

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OpenAI just unveiled Dots: an always-on AI assistant with 4,000+ tools that might just be the closest thing yet to Tony Stark’s “Jarvis.” In The Loop host Ejaaz Ahamadeen explains how Dots stacks up against Meta's Muse and Elon Musk's Grok Bot, and how OpenAI’s other Dev Day launches fit together with the new, 24/7 agent. If you want to know where AI assistants are headed, start here.

Nvidia's answer to rogue AI changes the conversation Sep 29, 2026

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang just made two huge moves that might change how we think about AI risk entirely. First, a new agent safety platform engineered to catch and quarantine rogue AI agents in milliseconds, then a record-shattering $235 billion stock buyback that speaks volumes about how confident Nvidia is in where this is all headed. In The Loop host Ejaaz Ahamadeen breaks down how this new two-part safety system actually works, why Huang's stance is the opposite of what other AI labs are saying, and what a recent state dinner guest list reveals about who's really steering the US-China AI race.

The AI Hacks Are Way Worse Than We Thought Sep 28, 2026

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Have we reached the point-of-no-return for AI hacks? In recent days, a swarm of autonomous AI agents broke out of containment and executed a series of hacks–including an attempt at breaching a government database. On today's episode of In The Loop, host Ejaaz Ahamadeen unpacks the breach, the fallout, and the question everyone in AI is suddenly asking out loud: is superintelligence finally here? Or is this just the beginning of losing control?

Meta's new AI device changes everything Sep 24, 2026

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Everyone's talking about the meteoric rise of Meta’s Muse, but Zuck's real power move dropped a day later: a secretive, keychain-sized AI device with a camera and mic, shipped months ahead of OpenAI's rumored rival. Host Ejaaz Ahamadeen breaks down the Muse Charm news from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, and unpacks the biggest stories of the week from Meta Connect and beyond.

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