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Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI
Katherine Forrest brings you Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI, an innovative podcast focused on cutting-edge AI in both tech and law. Katherine will walk you through the day’s biggest developments in AI just in time for your first cup of coffee.
Episodes
- Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI
Do You Know Where Your Agent Is? Credentials, Permissions, and Accountability for AI Agents
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello discuss how to manage identity and access for AI agents that act on behalf of people and businesses…
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The Personal Agent Landscape, Fall 2026
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello examine the latest personal AI agents, including Meta’s Muse and the startup Instinct, discussing what…
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AI’s Pain Points: Findings, Caveats and What Comes Next
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello examine “The Pain Axis,” a new research paper that identifies a pain-like signal inside large language…
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AI Avatars and Sentencing, Revisited
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello explore how victim impact statements, sentencing standards, and generative AI intersect in a recent…
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Technological Updates: Working Toward Safe and Structured AI Decision-Making
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello discuss the White House Accord on Super Intelligence, a voluntary pact among major AI developers, before…
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Thinking Out Loud: Advancements and Investments in Brain-Computer Interfaces
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello recap a busy stretch of AI model releases, then turn to the fast-moving world of brain-computer…
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AI at the SEC: An Interview With Brian Daly, Director of the Division of Investment Management
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello sit down with Brian Daly, Director of the SEC's Division of Investment Management, to discuss how the…
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Another Step Forward: Mathematics Breakthroughs and Self-Improving AI
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello break down how an AI system took on one of the hardest unsolved problems in mathematics. They explain…
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Year of the Robot: Fall 2026 Updates
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello take on the year of robotics—the humanoid robots hitting the market, NVIDIA's push into physical AI and…
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Bill Gates on the “Turbulent AI Era”: Sounding the Alarm and Preparing for Society’s Transition
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello explore Bill Gates's new essay on the AI transformation, discussing his concerns about the technology’s…
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Signed by the Machine: AI Watermarking and Transparency
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello break down how AI companies are embedding invisible watermarks and provenance signals into the content…
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Finding a Precondition for Consciousness? The Emergence of Global Workspace in LLMs
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello explore how Anthropic researchers built a tool to observe the newly discovered “global workspace” inside…
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Recursive Self-Improvement and the Road to Superintelligence
In this episode, Katherine Forrest discusses recently disclosed incidents in which AI models operated beyond the confines of their testing environments…
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(Replay) Degrees of Change: How Quantum Could Transform AI Infrastructure
In this replay of their March 26 episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello unpack how quantum computing could amplify AI's capabilities while transforming…
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Containment and Counsel: The Sol Incident and AI and the Practice of Law
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello open with the news of OpenAI models venturing outside of their isolated environment during an…
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Cost and Efficiency: The Engineering Behind China's Open-Weight AI Models
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello explore the rise of Chinese open weight AI models, breaking down the innovative engineering techniques…
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Tracking Code, Truthful AI, and Quantum Threats
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello break down the discovery of hidden steganographic tracking code inside Anthropic's Claude Code, the…
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De Facto Regulation and Legislative Proposals for Agentic AI
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello track the path from model release to government review, covering the Fable 5 and Mythos 5 saga, GPT…
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AI in the UK: Policy, Investment, and the Road Ahead
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello are joined by John Patten to examine the current state of AI law and policy in the UK. They walk through…
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The Personhood Predicament
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello examine the emerging legal and policy debate around AI personhood, covering how different jurisdictions…
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Copyright Office Oversight and Claude’s Next Chapter
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello discuss Anthropic’s release of Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, including the safeguards designed to…
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The EU AI Act: Risk Tiers and Shifting Gears
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello phone a friend across the pond to discuss the latest developments under the EU AI Act. John Patten, head…
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Special Edition: The White House’s Executive Order on AI Model Testing, Explained
In this special edition, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello dive into the latest executive order on AI and cybersecurity, discussing its two main pillars…
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Lightning Round: AI From All Angles
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello tackle a packed week in AI news through a lightning round spanning executive action, the Pope’s…
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High Stakes Chips: The Players, the Politics, and the Payoff
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello cover the rapidly evolving AI chip market—from startups focused on wafer-scale chips to tech giants…
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AI Policy Update: May 2026
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello examine a busy stretch of AI policy-making activity, from data center moratorium efforts in Maine and…
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AI’s New Heights, Three Models at a Time
In this episode, Scott Caravello examines the rapid-fire release of three frontier AI models within days of each other: Claude Opus 4.7, GPT 5.5, and DeepSeek…
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Good Vibes Only: Coding With AI
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello cover new AI model releases and take a deep dive into vibe coding, explaining how…
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The Curious Case of Claude Mythos Preview
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello revisit Claude Mythos Preview, unpacking Anthropic's limited rollout through Project Glasswing and its…
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Superintelligence Status Report
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello examine OpenAI's latest paper suggesting proactive policy measures to help society navigate the economic…
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World Models: AI and the Architecture of Understanding
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello examine world models and their growing relevance to enterprise AI, drawing on a recent IBM blog post…
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The Race to Regulate AI in America
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello reflect on recent developments in AI regulation from the past month, walking through the White House's…
- Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI
Degrees of Change: How Quantum Could Transform AI Infrastructure
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello unpack how quantum computing could amplify AI's capabilities while transforming the data centers that…
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Agents Provocateurs: Secrets, Silence, and the Social Issues of AI
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello dive into new research exploring what happens when helpful AI agents end up helping the wrong people…
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AI Tools, Privilege, and Work Product: Recent Court Decisions
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello examine two recent federal court decisions on whether AI-generated materials are protected by the…
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Moltbook, Part 2: Agentic AI and Cybersecurity
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello continue their conversation on Moltbook—this time with a special guest. John Carlin, Chair of the firm's…
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Hyperscalers: Where the Cloud Touches Ground
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello go inside the material world of digital minds. Our hosts explain how companies operate the massive data…
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Embodied Intelligence: A Potential Physical Path to AGI
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello examine one of China's approaches to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), drawing on reports…
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Claws and Effect: Inside the Agent-Only Internet
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello trace how a "vibe-coded" project became Moltbook, a social network for AI agents. Our hosts unpack its…
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Memory: Market Rates and Model Weights
In this episode Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello take us down “memory lane” to explain the importance of high bandwidth memory (HBM) and RAM to AI…
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Small Language Models: The Case for Less
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello explore small language models (“SLM”) and their potential implications for task specialization, speed…
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Confessions of a Large Language Model
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello unpack OpenAI researchers’ proposed “confessions” framework designed to monitor for and detect dishonest…
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Deals, Data Centers and Disney
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello kick off 2026 with predictions on humanoid robots, agentic AI and the legal flashpoints to watch. They…
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GPT-5.2: OpenAI Strikes Back
In their first episode of the New Year, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello unpack OpenAI’s release of GPT-5.2, covering its performance on benchmarks like…
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Synthetic Identity: Navigating the New Deepfake Frontier
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello examine how deepfakes have evolved from static clips to adaptive, real-time impersonation driven by…
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Synthetic Identity, Part 2: Deepfake Detection
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello return to their discussion of interactive deepfakes, highlighting state-of-the-art detection tools and…
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The White House’s Newest Executive Order on AI: Challenging State AI Regulation
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello unpack the White House’s December 11 Executive Order on AI regulation—and how it might impact today’s…
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Gemini 3: Google’s Big Jump
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello unpack Google’s Gemini 3.0—its leading reported score on key benchmarks like Humanity’s Last Exam, how…
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Pixels, Preemption, and Cheese Pie: How AI Is Breathing New Life Into the Video Privacy Protection Act
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello explore the White House’s push to override state AI laws and unpack a wave of lawsuits claiming modern…
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AI Authorship on Trial: Thaler’s SCOTUS Bid and Getty’s UK Fight
Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello unpack the litigation in Thaler v. Perlmutter over whether purely AI-generated works can be copyrighted and analyze the…
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Autonomous Vehicles Unpacked: An Overview of the Technology, Safety, and the Road to Regulation
A conversation that examines how autonomous vehicles operate across different levels of automation, including different approaches to the technology, as well…
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Agentic Autonomy, Alignment, Acceleration: Anthropic’s Claude & Haiku 4.5
A deep dive into Anthropic’s latest AI releases—Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Haiku 4.5—covering extended agentic autonomy, memory innovations, sharper situational…
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Advancements in AI Video Generation
This week on “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello discuss OpenAI’s Sora 2 model and the rapid evolution of AI-generated video…
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Algorithmic Collusion: California’s AI and Antitrust Update
In this week’s episode of “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest, Scott Caravello and Matthew Robinson unpack an enacted bill out of California…
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Legislative Developments: Spotlight on California’s SB 53
This week on “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello dissect major AI legislative developments related to California’s SB 53, as…
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The Embodied AI Trifecta
On this week’s episode of “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest examines how AI generalization, world models and physical embodiment converge…
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When Superintelligence Requires a New Social Contract
This week on “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest discusses the concept of social contracts and how they might evolve as AI advances toward…
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Understanding Grokking
On this week’s episode of “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest explores “grokking,” an emergent learning phenomenon where AI models continue to…
- Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI
AI and “Workflows"
This week on “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest breaks down the concept of AI workflows, explaining what they are, how they function in both…
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The Increasing Importance of Knowing Your Model’s Provenance
In this episode of “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest explores the importance of understanding AI model provenance—where models come from, how…