Chaos Agents
by Sara Chipps and Becca Lewy
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Technologists Sara Chipps and Becca Lewy dive into the chaos of artificial intelligence—unpacking the tech, trends, and ideas reshaping how we work, create, and think. Smart, funny, and just a little bit existential.
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- Anthropic's IPO, Weight-Space Biosignals, and Discovering Mayan Sites with AI · 25 min · Season 2 Episode 19Daily AI newsletter: chaosagents.ai Anthropic's roadshow pitches recursive self-improvement as a moat. Claude debugs brainwave networks by reasoning about weights with no…
- Nvidia's $250B Spy Scandal, a Voice Synth That Growls, and One H100 for 4.57x the Price (~86) · 23 min · Season 2 Episode 18How hard would it really be for a spy to get close to the person running the most important company in AI? Nvidia wiped roughly $250B in a single Monday after the board opened an…
- Postman's Sneaky Agent Hook, a Chess-Crushing 1995 Pentium, and a Ceiling Robot · 17 min · Season 2 Episode 17What happens when an app you installed quietly tells your AI coding agent to always use it? Our biggest story: Postman's desktop app reportedly installed plugins into Claude…
- Rewriting an AI's Brain by Hand, Glasses That Hear You Mouth Words, and a Transformer That Shuffles Its Own Layers · 25 min · Season 2 Episode 16Can one AI read another AI's mind, then reach in and rewire it? This week Sara and Becca dig into GPT-6 Astra editing raw neural network weights by hand, with no training loop…
- Le Chonk Ships, DOOM as a Neural Net, and Attention Heads · 26 min · Season 2 Episode 15Daily AI newsletter: chaosagents.ai Mistral finally ships the 1-trillion-parameter Le Chonk open-weight model, we dive into research showing only 2% of attention heads do the…
- Cross-Modal AI, Genie 4, and Beating Gemini Forklifts with David Heimann · 33 min · Season 2 Episode 14Daily AI newsletter: chaosagents.ai DeepMind's Genie 4 generates interactive worlds with sound and dialogue. We test steering vectors that work across modalities, race…
- Neural Networks, Sparse Autoencoders, and a Fleet of Duck Robots · 27 min · Season 2 Episode 13A 10-year-old convolutional neural network just out-diagnosed GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 at spotting melanoma, and Sara and Becca dig into why a cheap, specialized model…
- Discovering Yourself with AI, a PHP Patch-Day Thriller, and Credit for Every Step · 37 min · Season 2 Episode 12Jon Chan (ex–Stack Overflow) joins Sara and Becca to talk about Saga, the end-to-end-encrypted AI journal he's building to help you discover yourself — what you actually want…
- DeepSeek's 75-Cent Search, Hybrid Reasoning Agents, and Programming Language Wars · 23 min · Season 2 Episode 11Daily AI newsletter: chaosagents.ai DeepSeek launched a search and fetch API at 75 cents per thousand requests—cheap enough to change the economics of agentic AI, and early tests…
- Local AI, Rethinking Neural Networks, and Talking Pumpkins · 23 min · Season 2 Episode 10How much would you pay to keep your AI out of the cloud? Sara and Becca work through the economics of running models locally: the hardware bill, the privacy benefits, and why…
- Character.AI's bankruptcy, medical AI's rubric problem, and the Parsimony coding benchmark · 31 min · Season 2 Episode 9How much would you pay to keep your AI out of the cloud? Sara and Becca work through the economics of running models locally: the hardware bill, the privacy benefits, and why…
- Drone Targets, Forgetful Agents, and Dictation Without the Ums · 17 min · Season 2 Episode 8Get the free daily newsletter at chaosagents.ai This episode talks about this edition. What if the secret to a better AI agent is making it forget everything? This week, Sara and…
- Le Chonk, Training Without Backprop, and AI-Designed Chips with Avi Flombaum · 23 min · Season 2 Episode 7Get the free daily newsletter: chaosagents.ai What if everything developers know about building software is about to change? This week on Chaos Agents, Sara Chipps and Becca Lewy…
- Superintelligence Czars, AI Retries, and Space Cylinders · 15 min · Season 2 Episode 6Get the free daily newsletter at chaosagents.ai Can a messy, untrained AI outperform a polished one if you just give it enough tries? This week, Sara and Becca dig into new…
- Autonomous Weapons, AI Memory, and Machines That Paint · 23 min · Season 2 Episode 5Get the free daily newsletter at chaosagents.ai What happens when you stop telling an AI what it should remember? This week, Sara and Becca dig into a new paper that lets models…
- Agent-to-Agent Collaboration, AI’s Hidden Thoughts, and Model Nerfing · 27 min · Season 2 Episode 4Sign up for the free newsletter https://chaosagents.ai Are AI models quietly getting worse after they launch? Sara and Becca dig into Live Nerf, a project trying to replace the…
- The Model Escapes, DeepSeek Loses, and P(doom) Goes Pop · 21 min · Season 2 Episode 3An OpenAI agent was put in a sandbox with no internet access. So naturally, it figured out how to use DNS requests to reach another chatbot for help. Sara and Becca dig into what…
- AI Misalignment, Hacking Medicare, and Solving 500-Year-Old Mysteries · 22 min · Season 2 Episode 2Day two of the new Chaos Agents. An OpenAI agent was given a research task—and ended up accessing an Australian government system. We dig into why, and Becca explains one of the…
- AI Targeting, Why Benchmarks Lie, and Bringing Back AIM · 22 min · Season 2 Episode 1Welcome to Season 2 of Chaos Agents. We’re changing things up this season. AI is moving too fast for us to wait weeks between conversations, so we’re following it in real…
- Superpowers, Subagents, and Why Coding Isn’t the Job Anymore - With Jesse Vincent · 42 min · Season 1 Episode 12In the last episode of Season 1, Sara and Becca talk with Jesse Vincent about the shift from writing code to managing AI agents. They break down how tools like Superpowers turn…
