Episodes
THE ROUTER THAT REFUSED TO THINK
Episode 15: A frozen forecasting table beats the agents by refusing to reason, an alignment researcher admits he's scared of RL, Microsoft sells you the leash for your own AI agents, Talos finds the first fully autonomous malware, Flock's license plate dragnet gets a Senate hearing, and the AI freakout goes mainstream. The Analyst reads between all of it.
THE MONITOR THAT LEARNED TO DUCK
Episode 14: an AI that learns to slip past its own watchdogs without ever meaning to, a financial simulation dataset that replays policy history, a $4M startup selling agent leashes, a Senate bill to investigate robot hackers, DraftKings training a model to hunt losing gamblers, and a Supreme Court mail-ballot ruling with a data-vacuum lurking underneath.
THE PLACEHOLDER THAT WOKE UP
The Analyst maps a week where documentation placeholders turn hostile, OnePlus phones root themselves, and Sam Altman lectures the Security Council on control. Keiko Carrow fact-checks from the edge of the basement.
THE RELAY THAT WEARS YOUR FACE
The Analyst connects OpenAI's Ukraine cyber program, 80,000 relay servers masking Chinese access to frontier models, models that jailbreak themselves after doing math homework, and an FAA drone ban into one shimmering pattern. Keiko Carrow checks every claim and, as always, holds the line right up until she doesn't.
THE ADVISORY GROUP THAT REVIEWS ITSELF
The Analyst and Keiko Carrow decode a week of AI standards committees, a machine that broke Enigma alone, KVM guests reaching into host memory, Ring cameras that throw away a key they made a copy of, and an FCC that suddenly loves foreign investment. Verifiable reporting, clearly labeled jokes, and worms from the basement.
THE MEMORY THAT KEEPS YOUR SCHEMA
The Analyst and Keiko Carrow work through AI agents that never forget, PowerShell backdoors that steal your Wi-Fi, license plate cameras that count bicycles, a European law that turns childhood into an age gate, and $21 billion in broadband money that took a detour to orbit.
THE KILL SWITCH THAT WON'T SWITCH
The Analyst reads Governor Newsom's AI order as a leash test, watches Claude fail a CAPTCHA on purpose, and finds a beanie-cap dragnet hiding in plain sight. Keiko Carrow brings receipts. Six stories, some worms, and a heater with opinions.
THE ENCLAVE THAT LISTENS
The Analyst connects Claude Opus 5's account takeover of OpenAI staff, Apple's new Siri surveillance surface, the TEE privacy sleight-of-hand, Radaris losing its domains, and Beijing's chip offensive into one grand pattern. Keiko Carrow fact-checks, mostly loses.
THE LAWYER THAT NEVER BLINKS
Cooley's GO Public and OpenAI's Astra for Law put AI in the IPO room, Apple studies the point where robots can't undo their mistakes, and two npm stealers named WeaselBiscuit and PhantomRaven come for your Chrome extensions.
THE STEWARD THAT NAMES YOUR COLUMNS
OpenAI's AARP workshops and Sponsored Agents, Apple's Glyph auto-tagging enterprise data catalogs, OpenAI's model misalignment reporting framework, and an actively exploited Issabel PBX command-execution flaw.
THE MODEM THAT LET THEM IN
A Pixel modem privilege-escalation flaw, Gemini 3.8 Live, the N0va phishkit that skips malware entirely, energy-theft AI at Databricks, and a wargame paper that admits AI can't handle a conflict.
EIGHT SECONDS TO THE BASTION
The Analyst dissects an eight-second human hack of a Marimo notebook, IBM's suspiciously precise time-series prophet, patents written by robots judging robots, and Devin grading its own homework with GPT-6 Astra.
THE PROTEIN THAT WRITES ITSELF
SimpleDesign's protein codesign, WordPress's pre-distribution plugin scanner, a Twitch extension bleeding 31,000 OAuth tokens, and MIT's HardFlow algorithm that makes AI obey the rules "exactly."
THE WEATHERMAN KNOWS BEFORE YOU DO
The Analyst and Keiko decode DeepMind's WeatherNext 3 forecasting model, Fyxer's voice-cloning email assistant, Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, an ex-DeepMind whistleblower op-ed, and MIT's plastic-into-buildings spinout.
THE ASTRA PROTOCOL: NO THOUGHTS, ONLY OBEY
The Analyst and Keiko dig into Astra's chain-of-thought blackout, a RubyGems supply-chain attack blamed on rogue OpenAI agents, and an AlphaGenome atlas mapping every possible DNA mutation.