About this episode

Simon Willison joins Bryan and Adam to discuss recent developments in AI, including security incidents and the implications of open weights models.

Simon Willison joined Bryan and Adam to discuss a wild couple of weeks in AI. First, we have a high-profile, AI-induced, AI-diagnosed security incident. Next we have the rise of frontier-class open-weights models. Who's for or against open weights? Do they make for a more or less secure future? Exciting times! In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , our special guest was Simon Willison . Previously, on Oxide and Friends: OxF: Shell Game with Evan Ratliff OxF: Discovering the XZ Backdoor with Andres Freund OxF: Predictions 2025 OxF: Predictions 2026!! OxF: Bookclub: How Life Works by Philip Ball OxF: OpenAI's Boardroom Brawl Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them: Gerald the turkey terrorizes Oakland's rose garden ABC7: Gerald the turkey and the Morcom Rose Garden APD cautions residents after aggressive wild turkey attacks elderly Alamedan Hawking radiation DHH's racist complaints Grok's "MechaHitler" antisemitic spree Simon on Grok aka "MechaHitler" Hugging Face security incident, July 2026 OpenAI on the Hugging Face model evaluation security incident Greg Brockman's political donations and the Leading the Future super PAC OpenAI co-founder and…

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