Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI

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Thinking Out Loud: Advancements and Investments in Brain-Computer Interfaces Oct 01, 2026

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In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello recap a busy stretch of AI model releases, then turn to the fast-moving world of brain-computer interfaces, from recent clinical trial milestones to the record funding driving a global race in the field. They close with the privacy questions raised by neural data and the laws emerging to address them.

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Cell Press: Inner speech in motor cortex and implications for speech neuroprostheses

Neuralink: Speaking With The Mind

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AI at the SEC: An Interview With Brian Daly, Director of the Division of Investment Management Sep 24, 2026

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In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello sit down with Brian Daly, Director of the SEC's Division of Investment Management, to discuss how the Commission is integrating AI into its operations and encouraging innovation across the securities industry. They explore topics ranging from modernizing the rulemaking process in the AI era to the opportunities AI presents for retail investors.

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Another Step Forward: Mathematics Breakthroughs and Self-Improving AI Sep 17, 2026

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In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello break down how an AI system took on one of the hardest unsolved problems in mathematics. They explain what recursive self-improvement is, how it works, and why it sits at the center of the conversation about superintelligence.

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Year of the Robot: Fall 2026 Updates Sep 10, 2026

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In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello take on the year of robotics—the humanoid robots hitting the market, NVIDIA's push into physical AI and its work with developers overseas, and Washington's new restrictions on robotics imports.

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Nvidia News: NVIDIA Announces NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot for Academic Research

The Wall Street Journal: Nvidia Wants to Run the World’s Robots. China Is an Eager Customer

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Bill Gates on the “Turbulent AI Era”: Sounding the Alarm and Preparing for Society’s Transition Sep 03, 2026

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In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello explore Bill Gates's new essay on the AI transformation, discussing his concerns about the technology’s impact on jobs, on safety and security, and on society more broadly, as well as his proposed policy responses.

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Gates Notes: The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical.

MIT Technology Review: Bill Gates says we’ve passed AI’s danger thresholds. Now what?

OpenAI: A call for collective action on cyber defense

OpenAI: Hugging Face Incident Technical Report

OpenAI: Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age: Ideas to Keep People First

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Signed by the Machine: AI Watermarking and Transparency Aug 27, 2026

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In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello break down how AI companies are embedding invisible watermarks and provenance signals into the content their models generate. They also walk through AI regulation in both Europe and California that is shaping how synthetic content gets labeled and tracked.

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Anthropic: How Claude’s text watermark works

California State Legislature: California AI Transparency Act

EU AI ACT, Article 50: Transparency Obligations for Providers and Deployers of Certain AI Systems

European Commission: Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-generated Content

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Finding a Precondition for Consciousness? The Emergence of Global Workspace in LLMs Aug 20, 2026

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In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello explore how Anthropic researchers built a tool to observe the newly discovered “global workspace” inside its models, the company’s experiments to assess this workspace’s effects on model behavior, and what the discovery could mean for interpretability and AI safety.

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Anthropic: Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models

IBM: What Anthropic’s J-space research means for the future of AI

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Recursive Self-Improvement and the Road to Superintelligence Aug 13, 2026

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In this episode, Katherine Forrest discusses recently disclosed incidents in which AI models operated beyond the confines of their testing environments, accessing systems belonging to outside organizations. She also explores recursive self-improvement, the "Pacing the Frontier" statement, and proposed federal legislation aimed at preserving human control over advanced AI systems.

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Hugging Face: Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident

Pacing the Frontier: A statement from 1,350 employees of frontier AI companies

U.S. House of Representatives – Office of Rep. Ted Lieu: AI Kill Switch Act

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(Replay) Degrees of Change: How Quantum Could Transform AI Infrastructure Aug 06, 2026

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In this replay of their March 26 episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello unpack how quantum computing could amplify AI's capabilities while transforming the data centers that power it, and why the road from research lab to real-world impact is both closer—and more complicated—than you might think.

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Containment and Counsel: The Sol Incident and AI and the Practice of Law Jul 30, 2026

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In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello open with the news of OpenAI models venturing outside of their isolated environment during an evaluation, then consider the emerging tension between the use of AI in legal practice, unauthorized-practice-of-law statutes, and the legislative efforts taking shape in response.

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New York State Senate: AI Impersonation Bill (S. 7263A)

U.S. District Court (N.D. Ill.): Nippon Life Insurance Company of America v. OpenAI Foundation et al

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