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Trend this week
9 of 9 weeks tracked had mentions across multiple podcasts.
A closer read
- What changed
- Its share rose from 23.6% to 24%, with evidence across 11 podcasts.
- Where it showed up
- It appeared in episodes including “Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs — Ilia Shumailov & Al...” and “AI in the AM — Weekly Highlights: Relaunch Week (Aug 17–20, 2026)”.
- How to read it
- 6 cited episodes from 5 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 11 podcasts in the full analysis.
Podcast moments from the week
Moments are grouped by episode so repeated excerpts from one conversation do not look like separate sources.
Machine Learning Street Talk
Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs — Ilia Shumailov & Alexander Panfilov
“This we don't know. There were prior reports by Apollo and by METER where models were like, OpenAI models were like kind of caught doing this. And they're like, first observed that it's okay, we don't know what it means, but they do it. And this is kind of what we now confirme...”
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Report this moment“It sounds very complex. Can you actually explain this once again? Like why, So I'm a model, I reason through a problem, I produce this reasoning blob. And I guess this is not the final answer, or is this the final answer?”
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Report this moment“Measure what? Whether it's coming from RL? Take model before RL and after RL, see how it's doing.”
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The Cognitive Revolution
AI in the AM — Weekly Highlights: Relaunch Week (Aug 17–20, 2026)
“I don't think tokens are the optimization unit anymore. It is the full trajectory, especially as you think about reasoning models and agents. That becomes much, much more important.”
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Report this moment“Is there like a frontier LLM at that level being used to optimize the model? the runtime decisions on an ongoing basis?”
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Report this moment“The AIs seem to have developed a little bit their own dialect in the chain of thought, where they're using terms in very odd ways. Bronson describes them as having their own ontology and their own world model. And they seem to use these particular nouns and also verbs in some ...”
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Latent Space
Simulation: the new Scaling Law — Joon Sung Park, Simile AI
“Random tangent question. So if you're doing a lot of inference, a lot of model multi-agent stuff, are you at the point where it makes sense to train a model that's very sparse? You're expecting to do multimillion-dollar runs. Are you thinking about this in a model architecture...”
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Report this moment“accuracy, which is a big improvement over all the other methods that you showed.”
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Report this moment“if the model is saying you should walk to the car wash, you know, Anything here?”
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Machine Learning Street Talk
Every Exponential Ends — Silicon Valley Forgot — Adam Becker
“these models can do things that we do extremely well. And they seem to be getting better all the time”
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Report this moment“it allowed for a kind of mathematical research that could not have been done before”
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Report this moment“internally they are acquiring during their training process some kind of coarse-grained abstraction, some kind of structure.”
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No Priors
From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak
“I think figuring out where that transition happens is a really compelling area of research for us.”
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Report this moment“You are of the view that it makes sense that there is this increased, like, uh, interest, this surge of investor interest and founder and engineer interest in BCI as a field, given the progress of AI model research, because the representations actually should be shared, or the...”
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Report this moment“it is just way easier to do neuroscience on the models”
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AI Inside
OpenAI Pumps the Brakes After Its AI Escaped
“There was. I can't remember what it was, but there was one model that was trained only on stuff before a a certain date. Yeah, it was, it was, it was about— well, it was also— there's a, there's a term about it for steel that isn't radioactive that you can get from under the o...”
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