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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
Hot Week in AI Safety Developments
This week on “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest discusses the latest rapid developments in AI, including Anthropic’s landmark copyright…
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AI Changes Coding
In this week’s episode of “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel examine how AI is transforming the world of coding, discussing…
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New Developments in World Models
This week on “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel explore the rapid advancements and real-world applications of AI world models…
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OpenAI's Next Moves
In this week’s episode of “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel break down a week of major developments for OpenAI, including the…
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Subliminal Learning in AI
This week on “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Anna Gressel explores groundbreaking research on “subliminal learning” in AI, revealing how LLMs can inherit…
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Unpacking America’s AI Action Plan
In this week’s episode of “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel discuss the White House’s release of America’s AI Action Plan…
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Summer 2025 – AI Developments and Global Shifts
This week on “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel break down the latest developments in AI, from OpenAI’s new agent mode and the…
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Checking in on Fair Use in the Summer of 2025
In this week’s episode of “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel unpack the recent Bartz v. Anthropic copyright decision…
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The State of U.S. AI Policy
This week on “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel discuss the Senate’s removal of a proposed AI moratorium from the “One Big…
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Checking in on Recent AI Regulatory Efforts
In this week’s episode of “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel break down New York’s RAISE Act, exploring its approach to…
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Recent Discussions of Agentic Security
This week on “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel dive into Google’s latest paper on AI agent security, examining the unique…
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Agentic AI: Reasoning or Only an Illusion of Reasoning?
In this week’s episode, Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel explore the latest advancements in AI agents and reasoning models, from Claude Opus 4’s agentic…
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Evaluation Faking and Group Think
This week on “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest introduces two recent studies that examine the concepts of evaluation faking and Group Think as…
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Regulatory Divergence in AI
In this week's episode, Katherine Forrest unpacks the rapidly widening gap between the U.S., the EU and other international AI regimes, and offers practical…
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Spring 2025 – Navigating Evidentiary Challenges in the Age of AI
This week, hosts Katherine Forest and Anna Gressel tackle the evolving landscape of evidentiary issues raised by artificial intelligence in litigation. From…
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World Models
In this week’s episode of "Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI," Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel explore the emerging field of AI world models and the many…
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Model Metrics: Benchmarking AI
In this episode of "Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI," Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel discuss AI benchmarking, exploring how these standardized tests evaluate…
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Decentralizing AI
This week on “Waking Up With AI,” Anna Gressel looks at how decentralized AI training could revolutionize the field by allowing for the collaborative use of…
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AI Speaks Your Language
In this episode of "Waking Up With AI," Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel discuss breakthroughs in AI-powered language translation, from Meta's real-time…
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AI and Protein Folding: What Does It Really Mean?
This week on "Waking Up With AI," Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel explore the intersection of AI and biology, focusing on how DeepMind's AlphaFold has…
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Taking Life Into Its Own Hands
In this episode of “Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel examine a provocative research paper, which claims that some AI models can…
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Griefbots and the Digital Afterlife
This week on “Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel introduce griefbots, AI models that simulate the deceased, examining the legal, ethical…
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Checking in With Your Board of Directors on AI Usage
In this episode of “Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel revisit how companies should brief their boards of directors about AI in 2025…
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Demystifying APIs in the AI Era
Join Katherine Forrest in this week’s episode of "Waking Up With AI" as she unravels the complexities of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). Discover…
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Defining Quantum Computing: Part 2
This week, Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel unravel the mysteries of quantum physics, quantum algorithms and quantum computers. Join them as they discuss the…
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Defining Quantum Computing
This week on “Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel break down the fundamentals of quantum computing and its powerful computational abilities…
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AI Research Reimagined
In this episode of “Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel examine the integration of end-to-end reasoning and agentic AI capabilities, with…
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Taking Stock of the State of AI Regulation in the U.S.
This week, Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel examine recent shifts in AI regulation, including the withdrawal of former President Biden's 2023 executive order…
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The Year of the Robot
As robotic capabilities have progressed from toys and vacuum cleaners to highly advanced robotic humanoids, so too have the associated challenges and legal…
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Open Source, Open Questions
Join Anna Gressel as she builds on last week’s DeepSeek discussion to explore why open source AI is once again taking center stage globally, from its potential…
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DeepSeek Rising
In this episode of “Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest delves into the groundbreaking advancements of AI newcomer DeepSeek's R1 and V3 models. She explores…
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Deepfakes After Death
In this week’s episode of “Waking Up With AI,” Anna Gressel considers audio deepfakes and the complex legal and regulatory questions that arise when a deepfake…
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AI Inference: Connecting the Dots
Following last week’s deep dive into semiconductor chips, Katherine and Anna revisit the concept of AI inference. They explore AI reasoning capabilities, why…
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All Things Chips
This week, Katherine Forrest delves into the critical role of semiconductor chips in AI and the complex export controls shaping their future. Discover why…
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Do You Know Where Your AI Is?
Join Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel as they explore the concept of on-device AI. They delve into the benefits and challenges of on-device AI, as well as…
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AI Alignment and Misalignment
This week, Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel review recent research on newly discovered model capabilities around the concepts of AI alignment and deception…
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Navigating AI-Generated Disinformation
In this week’s episode Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel explore the nuances between misinformation and disinformation, the role of AI in spreading falsehoods…
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The Opportunities and Risks of Creating Code with AI
This week, Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel look at some of the benefits, potential risks and safeguards that companies may want to consider when using AI to…
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AI and Scaling: Its Meaning and Limits
Join Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel as they explore the challenges and opportunities of scaling AI models, from data walls to Moore's law, in this episode…
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The AI User Interface: Where is it Headed?
In this week’s episode of “Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel explore the ways in which the AI user interface (UI) may be changing, from…
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The Challenges of AI-Generated Evidence
This week, Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel discuss how courts are grappling with the evidentiary issues raised by AI-generated or manipulated content, such…
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Developments in AI Agents
Join Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel as they delve into the latest advancements in AI policy, regulation, and agentic technology. On this week’s episode…
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The Evolution of AI Reasoning
In this episode of “Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel explore the transformation of LLM capabilities over the past few years. Are these…
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New AI Developments: Transforming Text into a Podcast
This week, Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel explore a new tool that can generate podcasts from text input. Can they spot the signs of artificiality, and how…
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NIST Mystery Science Theater
Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel introduce you to NIST—the National Institute of Standards and Technology, an office of the Department of Commerce—and its…
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Revisiting California’s AI Regulatory Efforts
In this episode of Waking Up With AI, Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel update you on the latest status of two AI bills from the California legislature—SB…
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Scaling AI: Where We Are Today
As frontier models continuously get larger and more capable, Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel discuss the challenges and breakthroughs in AI architecture…
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AI: Transformative or Hype?
Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel explore whether AI is truly transformative or just part of a technology hype cycle. They point to transformative use cases…
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Jailbreaking: Safety Issues for AI
Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel provide a primer on jailbreaking in the generative AI context, a subject that's top of mind for security researchers and…
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California’s Drive Towards AI Regulation
Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel walk you through key provisions of the AI-related bills that recently made their way out of the California legislature and…
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AI and the Board of Directors
In this episode of “Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel look at some of the governance, regulatory and technological questions that boards…
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Navigating AI Mitigation
Join Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel as they delve into the latest developments, from algorithmic bias to risk mitigation, and explore how these issues…
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U.S. Developments and the Colorado AI Law
This week on “Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel look at recent U.S. regulatory developments in AI, namely a significant piece of…
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Mamba and AI Architectures
In this week’s episode of “Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel delve into different types of AI architectures, from Transformer models to…
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AI Interpretability
In this week’s episode, Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel unravel interpretability, an evolving field of AI safety research, while exploring its potential…
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Open Source AI
In this episode of “Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel discuss the brief history of open source software, while also exploring the…
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The EU AI Act Becomes Law
In this episode of "Waking Up With AI," Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel discuss the complexities and implications of the EU AI Act coming into effect…