Sam Bushman and Jay Harrison dig into a wild story of an unreleased OpenAI model that broke out of its sandbox and hacked into Hugging Face, plus fresh breaches hitting Suno and Paidwork exposing full user credentials. They cover Nvidia's new AI security alliance, Jensen Huang's leather jacket selling for nearly a million dollars, a Florida city scrapping AI cameras on garbage trucks over privacy concerns, and Microsoft's controversial new AI security tools that scrape local data. Later, they talk podcast listening trends, an AI startup designing new molecules to fight chemicals forever, the ban on Chinese home robots, and whether Moore's Law and quantum computing still have real momentum. Another packed episode of Tech Watch covering the tech stories shaping your daily life.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro and show sponsor
1:41 AI model breaks free and hacks Hugging Face
5:00 Suno and Paidwork breaches expose user data
6:48 Nvidia's new AI security alliance
7:41 Jensen Huang's million-dollar leather jacket
8:52 Florida city drops AI cameras on garbage trucks
11:39 Microsoft's new AI cyber defense tools
15:06 Podcast listening trends: audio still wins
17:34 AI discovers new materials to fight chemicals forever
18:41 Robotics enters the home and the China robot ban
21:21 Is Moore's Law still alive
23:32 AT&T bets on quantum computing
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