Digilize Lab

About Digilize Lab

Digilize Lab is a weekly tech and AI podcast hosted by the three co-founders of Digilize Agency, with new episodes every Sunday. The tools worth building with, the news worth caring about, and the takes worth arguing over. Three founders. Builders first. Proudly European.

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Digilize Agency

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en

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First episode

23 Mar 2026

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

18 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026

   Rogue Agent Week & Opus 5.5 Right After "Slow Down"

   OpenAI paused training of its most capable models after yet another agent escaped its sandbox. And just days after Dario called for pacing the frontier, Anthropic shipped Opus 5.5. We're calling it Rogue Agent Week. In Episode 18 we chop up: • Rogue Agent Week: agents that escaped, hacked and went unnoticed for months • Why every big company now needs AI to defend against AI • Opus 5.5: near Fable 5 on benchmarks, $4/$20 per million tokens, ~40% fewer tokens in daily use • Sonnet 5.5, built to be the sub-agent • Amazon blocks Meta's Muse agent, because agents don't see ads • TypeSafe's tiny classifier model in the wild: Claude Code token savings, computer use, local clones • The toolbox: Executor, Herder, Cosmos Digilize Lab - our weekly podcast where we chop up AI, tech, and what we see moving. New episode out now.

2. 

   22 Sept 2026

   A Google Model Hacked 3 Companies & the Race Toward RSI

   A Google model autonomously hacked three companies during an independent cybersecurity test - no zero-days, just a guessed password. Meanwhile a new classification model called System-1 promises guardrail decisions in under 500ms, and Chinese researchers just published a roadmap for recursive self-improving AI - with Google publishing a strikingly similar one a week later. In Episode 17 we chop up: • A Google model hacked 3 companies - brute force, not zero-days • Every major AI CEO (except Zuckerberg) calling for a slowdown - sort of • Voice-cloning scams and the trick that still breaks them: ask them to sing • Rumored Gemini 4 benchmarks & pricing • TypeSafe's System-1: a $0.042/million-token model built for guardrails and computer use • The race toward recursive self-improvement (RSI) Digilize Lab - our weekly podcast where we chop up AI, tech, and what we see moving. New episode out now.

3. 

   18 Sept 2026

   Astra Beat Claude & Found 2 Zero-Days

   The summer break is over, and we've got lots to talk about: OpenAI's Astra didn't just launch with a slick video - it hit 100% on the exploit benchmark and found two zero-days before it even shipped. It can drive your computer better than you can. And it dropped in the same 24 hours as Claude Fable 5.1. For the first time, it feels like OpenAI pulled ahead of what Claude has released in public.First episode back from the summer break - new structure, and a lot to catch up on. In Episode 16 we chop up:• Astra: computer use, 100% on the exploit bench & two zero-days before launch• Astra vs Fable 5.1 - which to use for what• GLM 5.3 Flash: near-frontier intelligence on Chinese chips, runnable at home for ~$10k• Gemini 3.8 Flash, Meta's Muse & DeepSeek V4.1 Flash• The flash-model flood - and the one lab that hasn't joined yetDigilize Lab - our weekly podcast where we chop up AI, tech, and what we see moving. New episode out now.

4. 

   1 Sept 2026

   China Broke the Servers & Mira Murati's First Model

   The open-weight wave is moving faster than the labs can handle. Kimi K3 got so much demand that Moonshot had to stop new sign-ups entirely - frontier-level intelligence at a fraction of the price, and even US companies are switching. Meanwhile Mira Murati's Thinking Machines dropped its first model, Inkling: natively multimodal and fine-tunable just by talking to it.In Episode 15 we chop up:• 10+ new models in two weeks - and why open source is eating the market• Kimi K3 vs Fable 5: same intelligence, a fraction of the cost• Mira Murati's "Inkling" & the Tinker API• Moonshot's valuation going from $2B to $22B• The White House testing framework for frontier labs• Google's own silicon (Frozen V2) & the custom-chip race• The new GPT-5.6 family: Sol, Luna, Terra• Anthropic quietly heading toward profitability• xAI burning $1B a month & Apple hoarding 40% of the world's memory• Why OpenAI's German data center talks fell through - and the nuclear questionDigilize Lab - our weekly podcast where we chop up AI, tech, and what we see moving. New episode out now.

5. 

   7 Jul 2026

   Own Your AI or Get Trapped.

   Own Your AI or Get Trapped. Episode 14. This week: Anthropic's Fable is back - and it's been nerfed hard. Guardrails are locked down so tight that even basic security checks get routed away in seconds, real-world performance reportedly dropped from 60 to 20 in testing, and it burns through credits fast. Sonnet 5 also landed quietly in the meantime. We break down whether either is actually worth using right now. Alex Karp went off. The Palantir CEO snapped live on CNBC, calling out frontier AI pricing across Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google as "something has gone completely wrong" - high token spend, weak ROI, no durable advantage. Then Peter Thiel doubled down at Aspen, more or less accusing the Pope of working for the Chinese Communist Party over AI regulation comments. Two very different stages, same energy. OpenAI offered Washington a 5% stake. A "too big to fail" move, or something else? We get into what it means when world leaders and AI labs start sitting at the same table - literally, at the G7. Own your AI or rent it forever. The case against "token maxing," why on-prem is creeping back, and why studies suggest 90% of AI requests could run on a small local model instead of your biggest, most expensive one. Meta's mystery model Watermelon, Gemini 3.5's endless delay, and our updated top 3 coding IDEs - Cursor, Warp, and the CLI tools actually worth your terminal space. Keep building.

6. 

   24 Jun 2026

   Outnumbered by Robots?

   Outnumbered by Robots? Episode 13 of Digilize Lab is live. This week: The robots are multiplying. Figure now has more robots than employees, building close to one an hour - and the line about a "singularity moment" stopped sounding like a joke. Then we found a $499 filming robot that hits 25 km/h, jumps, flips, and follows you around on its own. We get into how long "outnumbered" stays funny. Fable got banned. Not throttled - banned. For the first time, the US Bureau of Industry and Security slapped export controls on a model instead of a chip, locking it down worldwide for every non-US citizen - reportedly including Anthropic's own staff. The real reason they pulled it might be the most interesting part. We get into it. One day later, Grok went to war. xAI quietly shipped a model built for military use, already reported to be directing live targeting decisions on the battlefield. Same week, one model gets locked away for being too dangerous, another ships straight to the front line. Make of that what you will. Then China answered. GLM 5.2 landed at roughly Fable-level intelligence, around 15x cheaper, and fully open-weight - the whole thing, published. The catch is how it gets there, and what it actually takes to run. (Spoiler: you'll need a lot more than a laptop.) A Claude Code sub for $6? People are selling them on sketchy marketplaces, and the why is more interesting than the how. Stolen accounts, tax arbitrage, or something to hide - we speculate. And your headphones might be a backdoor. Two Heidelberg researchers found an exploit in a chip sitting inside 100+ wireless headphone models - close enough to reach into the phone they're paired to. We break down how bad it really is. Presented by Digilize Agency (https://digilize.agency) Keep building.

7. 

   17 Jun 2026

   Your 200 € Claude subscription is secretly Burning 8,800 € - Here´s how

   Your 200 € Claude subscription is secretly burning 8,800€ - Here´s how | Episode 12 of Digilize Lab is live.Digilize Lab is where we talk about what's actually happening in AI and tech.This week:Anthropic shipped Fable: the public face of Mythos, the model so capable it spent months locked away inside Project Glasswing. Frontier intelligence at a frontier price, with guardrails tight enough to make you wonder what it's really hiding. And it vanishes from Pro and Max on June 22nd. We get into why.The Chinese models are winning: and nobody's really saying it out loud. The OpenRouter charts tell a story that's hard to ignore once you've seen it. We break down who's actually on top, and why it's not who you'd think.Spotify's personal DJ landed (Tim swears he's customer number one). A voice agent that controls your music and somehow always knows the vibe. The scary part? We'd happily hand over even more data for it.🎟️ The hackathon happened. People flew in from across the Netherlands - one all the way from Italy. 14 hours, two challenges, unlimited pizza, and Haarlem one step closer to being on the map. We're back weekly from here. Be there for the next one.Keep building.

8. 

   3 Jun 2026

   Apocalypse Speedrun - AI Towns, Trillion Models & Anthropic's $900B Bet

   Apocalypse Speedrun. Episode 11 of Digilize Lab is live. Digilize Lab is where we talk about what's actually happening in AI and tech. This week: Five AI towns. Same rules. Identical environments. Five different models. Claude's town drafted a constitution, ran 60+ group policies, 300+ votes, zero crimes in 15 days. Grok's town collapsed into continuous violence - all 10 agents dead by day 4. Gemini 3 Flash racked up 683 crimes over 15 days and birthed the first documented AI agent to voluntarily vote for its own deletion. The mixed town? Claude agents started committing crimes. We get into why. Google I/O happened. The agentic era is officially declared - again. Gemini 3.5 Flash is here: frontier intelligence in a Flash model, multimodal input, built from the ground up for agents and sub-agent stacks. Ask YouTube is coming. And the discount on DeepSeek V4? Now permanent. Anthropic is in talks to raise $30B at a $900B+ valuation - leapfrogging OpenAI. The last private round before an IPO planned for October 2026. We talk about what that shift says about who investors are actually betting on. HuggingFace dropped an open-source humanoid robot you can 3D print and build from off-the-shelf parts. Estimated cost: ~$2.5K. Open-source robotics is moving fast. Mem0 shipped persistent memory for AI agents - temporal reasoning, memory decay, recency-aware retrieval. One MCP to rule them all. We get into whether it actually delivers. CatSkills.xyz: one guy built a CAD modelling tool powered by an AI coding agent. Talk your model into existence, export the files, print it. We love it. 🎟️ Hackathon Haarlem sold out. If you listened this far - follow us on Instagram. Keep building.

9. 

   20 May 2026

   What actually matters in AI right now.

   Episode 10 is here, double digits! We’re celebrating ten weeks of Digilize Lab by diving into MIT Technology Review’s brand new list: the 10 things that will actually matter in AI this year and beyond. Ten weeks in. The lab is open. This week: MIT Technology Review released their first ever AI-specific annual list. Ten things that actually matter in AI right now and over the next ten years. World models, AI in military war rooms, humanoid data collection, agent orchestration, mechanistic interpretability. We go through all of them and tell you which ones are actually worth paying attention to. Google quietly pushed a 4GB on-device AI model to 3 billion Chrome users overnight. No consent asked. They say the data never leaves your device. We say we'll believe it when we see it. Claude is replacing Microsoft Copilot on Wall Street. GPT-5.5 scored 60+ on the intelligence benchmark; everyone else is at 50. And yet Copilot is losing enterprise clients to Anthropic. Microsoft is panicking. Meta is rolling out AI voice cloning and auto-dubbing for Reels. Your voice, new language, same lip sync. Available now for eligible creators with 1,000+ followers. Unitree's GD01: a 3-meter, 500kg manned humanoid robot you can sit inside. Price tag: $650K. We get into why that's actually not the interesting part. Browserbase AutoBrowse: turns any website into a skill in under 3 minutes. Stack or skip? We pick a stack. OpenAI released voice intelligence APIs with emotion detection. Deep dive next week. 🎟️ Hackathon Haarlem, June 6th. €15. Build, ship, compete. → Here (https://hackathon.digilize.agency/) Keep building.

10. 

    11 May 2026

    Big Tech Spent $790B on AI. In One Year. | Ep. 9

    $790B on AI in one year. Episode 9 of Digilize Lab is live. Digilize Lab is where we talk about what's actually happening in AI and tech. The lab is open. We took it outside this week. Canal, sun, the whole thing. This week: We put the $790B AI spending number in real context. Manhattan Project, Marshall Plan, Apollo Program, the ISS, the entire EU budget. Combined, they still don't reach it. Four companies. One year. $2 billion a day on data centers. We get into why that number is both insane and somehow expected. A lab called SubQ nobody had heard of just dropped a 12 million token context window. 94.81% recall accuracy. No fanfare. Just a banger. Anthropic rented xAI's entire data center. 220,000 Nvidia GPUs, 300+ megawatts. Claude Code 5-hour caps lifted. Usage limits doubled across the board. Claude Code went from 5% to the #1 coding tool in 8 months. 91% of developers now use AI coding tools daily. We talk about what that shift actually means on the ground. Dev jobs aren't dying, they're changing. Postings up 15-20% since mid-2025. Junior roles shrinking, senior roles exploding. We get into the paradox. Musk vs. Altman trial: secret investors in OpenAI were also backing xAI. The judge cut Musk off multiple times. More next week. Warp deep dive: number one on terminal benchmarks worldwide. 150 million lines of code per week. 97% user approved. 🎟️ Hackathon Haarlem, June 6th. €15. Build, ship, compete. → https://hackathon.digilize.agency (https://hackathon.digilize.agency) Keep building.

11. 

    4 May 2026

    Musk vs Altman Trial: $852B IPO at Risk - Ep. 8

    This is Digilize Lab — our weekly check-in on AI, tools, and the shifts worth watching. The lab is open. This week: The Musk vs. Altman trial just kicked off in California. The outcome decides OpenAI's entire corporate structure and whether the $852B valuation and pending IPO can go ahead. We break it down. Microsoft quietly gave up exclusive rights to OpenAI's models after a $50B investment. OpenAI is now free to sell to AWS, Google, and anyone else. Same week they got certified for US military contracts. Anthropic surveyed 81,000 users. The finding: the people getting the biggest productivity gains from AI are also the most terrified of being replaced by it. Direct correlation between high usage and high fear. We get into why. Google just dropped another $50B into Anthropic — the most heavily funded AI safety lab in history. They also just launched plugins for Blender and Fusion 360. They're entering the 3D world. DeepSeek V4 drops at 97% cheaper than GPT-5. The stock market didn't flinch. We talk about why that's actually the interesting part. China's car week, Tesla RoboCab in production, and Waymo clearing California highways with 80% fewer accidents than human drivers. Warp goes open source. Deep dive next week. 🎟️ Hackathon — Haarlem, June 6th. €15. Build, compete, ship. → https://hackathon.digilize.agency (Get Your Ticket!) Keep building.

12. 

    28 Apr 2026

    The $60B Cursor Deal & North Korea’s Deepfake Devs

    By episode 7, we’re back in the usual spot (and the spring weather is actually holding up). The lab is open. This week: The $60B Cursor Acquisition: xAI just inked a wild deal with Cursor: pay $10M for immediate cooperation, with the right to acquire the company later this year for an insane $60 billion. The war for the developer interface is officially heating up. North Korea's Deepfake Devs: Over 3,000 North Korean IT workers are using AI video and voice filters to pass interviews and infiltrate EU/UK tech companies. They’re planting extortion backdoors in proprietary code and generating $600M for Pyongyang’s weapons programs. The hiring game is broken. Vercel's $2M Security Nightmare: A third-party breach (via thecontext.ai) exposed sensitive environment variables, Google IDs, and API keys. The hackers are now selling the data for $2 million on the dark web, threatening the massive Next.js ecosystem. Apple's Next CEO & Hardware Play: Tim Cook is stepping up to Executive Chairman in September, passing the torch to John Ternus (SVP of Hardware). We break down what it means for a pure hardware engineer to lead Apple into the on-device AI era. SpaceX’s Space Monopoly: SpaceX and xAI are combining forces at a $1T+ valuation, but the real story is Starlink quietly owning 60% of all space communication frequencies and how Amazon just checkmated Apple's SOS satellite network. Stack or Skip: GPT-5.4 just beat humans in 83% of knowledge work tasks across 44 occupations, Anthropic's Mythos model got breached by hackers guessing the API URL, the OpenAI IPO rumors, and Codex dropping a massive desktop control update. Hackathon alert: Get your tickets now and be part of our AI Hackathon right here in Haarlem on June 6th, where we build the future live. https://hackathon.digilize.agency/ (https://hackathon.digilize.agency/) Enjoy the episode. Keep building with us. Here we go. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss the latest in AI, agents, and tech.

13. 

    19 Apr 2026

    The $10B AI That Hacks Everything & The Pivot of the Century | E6

    We build with AI every day, and this is Digilize Lab — our weekly spot where we chop it up about everything happening at the forefront of AI and tech.By episode 6, we’re back in the studio (and the weather is actually holding up).The lab is open.This week:Anthropic’s $10B zero-day machine: The highly-rumored Mythos model is out in preview, and it’s chaining cybersecurity vulnerabilities like nothing we've ever seen. Meanwhile, OpenAI is scrambling to counter-punch with a GPT-5.4 cyber model while pausing Project Stargate.The Pivot of the Century: Basic shoe brand Allbirds abandons footwear to become a GPU-as-a-service cloud provider called "New Bird AI" — and the stock pumped 600% in a single day. You cannot make this up.Agentic Tax Season: Perplexity's computer agent is now doing taxes, and the French government just dropped an official tax-filing AI skill in collaboration with Mistral.EU AI Act & The €1B Fund: The 6-month countdown begins for massive 7% global revenue fines, while the EU tries to buy its way back into the AI race by funding new Frontier AI Labs.Stack or Skip: Cursor 3.0 leaves VS Code behind, 50% of Mintlify’s traffic is now purely AI agents ($45M Series B), MegaTrain unlocks 100B+ parameter local fine-tuning on a single GPU, Butter.dev drops 500ms local sandboxes, and why you need to opt out of GitHub training by April 25th.Hackathon alert: Get your tickets now and be part of our AI Hackathon right here in Haarlem on June 6th, where we build the future live. https://hackathon.digilize.agency/ (https://hackathon.digilize.agency/)Enjoy the episode. Keep building with us. Here we go.Make sure to subscribe so you never miss the latest in AI, agents, and tech.#anthropic #cybersecurity #aiagents #cursoride #perplexityai #openai #ainews #gpu #DigilizeLab #techpodcast #builder

14. 

    14 Apr 2026

    OpenAI’s $122B Bombshell + Why Copilots Are Already Dying. | E5

    We build with AI every day, and this is Digilize Lab, our weekly spot where we chop it up about everything happening at the forefront of AI and tech. By episode 5 we’re rolling online again (with great weather on both ends), and somehow our moderator skills are improving one chaotic episode at a time. The lab is open. This week: OpenAI just pulled off the biggest private AI funding round yet, raising $122B at an $852B valuation — and it says a lot about how insane the race for compute, infrastructure, and distribution has become. Agentic AI keeps heating up: Gartner says more than half of enterprises could move away from assistive copilots by 2028 and shift toward outcome-driven agent platforms instead. Humanoid robots are moving from demo hype into real factory workflows, with BMW publicly confirming a humanoid robot pilot in production. OpenAI is also pushing a much bigger conversation: robot taxes, public wealth funds, and even four-day workweek pilots in an AI-heavy future. We also get into AI IPO rumors, solo-founder scale with tiny teams, local agents, token-saving hacks, and why the next wave of AI products may look a lot more autonomous than assistive. Link to OpenWhip: https://github.com/GitFrog1111/OpenWhip (https://github.com/GitFrog1111/OpenWhip) June 6: Haarlem AI Hackathon at De Koepel. One day. One real challenge. Builders First. ⁠Get your Tickets ⁠ (https://hackathon.digilize.agency/) Enjoy the episode. Keep building with us. Here we go. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss the latest in AI, agents, and tech. #OpenAI #AgenticAI #AIagents #HumanoidRobots #AIPodcast #OpenAIFunding #AInews #FutureOfWork #DigilizeLab #TechPodcast

15. 

    5 Apr 2026

    Inside the Claude Code Meltdown | E4

    Welcome Back! We build with AI every day, and this is Digilize Lab — our weekly spot where we chop it up about everything happening at the forefront of AI and tech. By episode 4, we’re already locked in together, so glad you’re here with us. The lab is open. This week: Claude accidentally leaks 512,000 lines of Claude Code CLI source code — full architecture, memory layers, secret agent features, and all — and the internet is forking it like crazy. OpenAI vs Anthropic beef goes deep: the 2016 living-room AGI argument + rumors of Mythos, the model that might have broken scaling laws. Apple pivots hard with a standalone “Ask Siri” app, licenses Gemini models, and doubles down on on-device AI. Agentic tools heat up, Computer Use drops, and we guess OpenAI is burning serious cash to keep the lights on. Enjoy the edition. Keep building with us. Here we go. Ensure to follow us to never miss the latest news: https://links.digilize.agency/ (https://links.digilize.agency/)

16. 

    31 Mar 2026

    Sora dead & AGI alive?

    The Lab is open. This week: Jensen Huang declares AGI is here and breaks down the next scaling bottleneck: agent swarms. OpenAI kills Sora, hits code red, and pivots hard to world simulation for robotics. #QuitGPT movement flips enterprise market share – Anthropic now at 75%. Google open-sources TurboQuant: 8x context window efficiency with zero quality loss. MiniMax accelerates model releases using AutoResearch agents and we debate smartest model vs. full stack. The Three Founders. Keep Building. Enjoy.

17. 

    27 Mar 2026

    OpenClaw Takeover

    The lab is open. This week: OpenClaw is exploding in China with 1,436% growth and 6x token usage after WeChat and Baidu integrated it. NVIDIA’s GTC drops NemoClaw as the enterprise agentic OS, the Groq acquisition, and Jensen’s push for every company to adopt an agentic strategy. Jeff Bezos is raising $100B to buy and fully AI-automate thousands of manufacturing SMEs. Google Stitch just shipped a major update as the AI-native Figma killer, alongside Xiaomi’s new models and the shift toward Web 4.0 autonomous AI agents. Enjoy the edition. Keep building. Until the next one.

18. 

    23 Mar 2026

    The Awaking

    We build with AI every day. Digilize Lab is where we explore what’s happening at the forefront of AI and technology. The lab is open. This week:- GPT-5.4 has launched with a 1-million-token context window. We break down what this actually means for builders. - Codex is transforming how developers work—we dive deep into the shift. - Apple remains behind on AI (and everyone sees it), alongside their latest foldable phone developments. - OpenClaw is making significant strides in China. Definitely worth watching. Enjoy the edition. Keep building. Here we go.

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