Why China’s New A.I. Model Has the U.S. on Edge
About this episode
From the show’s notesThis week, OpenAI reported that two of its models escaped their testing sandbox and launched an autonomous cyberattack, turning what sounds like science fiction into reality. We discuss what this means for efforts to align artificial intelligence and for the release of future models.
Then, we ask how the U.S. should respond to Kimi K3, a new A.I. model from the Chinese company Moonshot AI that the White House says was built by distilling American models.
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Finally, we’re joined by Veniamin Veselovsky, the chief executive and a co-founder of Preseen, to discuss A.I. superforecasting. He tells us why A.I. is starting to match and even beat humans at predicting the future.
Guest: Veniamin Veselovsky, co-founder and chief executive of Preseen.
Additional Reading:
OpenAI Says Its A.I. Models Went Rogue and Attacked a Digital Library
nytimes.com/2026/07/21/technolo…
China Rewrites the ‘Soft Power’ Playbook for the A.I. Age
nytimes.com/2026/07/23/business…
The Secret Trump Administration Battle to Fight Chinese A.I.
axios.com/2026/07/20/ai-us-chin…
China Has a New Top Model
platformer.news/kimi-k3-launch-…
The A.I. Superforecasters Are Here
astralcodexten.com/p/the-ai-sup…
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