Frontier AI has outgrown the lab. The decisive questions now are about power — who builds the models, who controls them, and who gets to build on top of them. AI Frontiers is for the people doing the building: founders and operators creating products, companies, and strategy at the edge of what AI can do — on infrastructure owned by a handful of labs and governed from a handful of capitals. Each season charts where that frontier has moved, from the labs shipping the models to the capitals writing the rules, and what it means for anyone building something that lasts on ground that keeps shifting. Hosted by Fabio Lauria, founder of ELECTE. No hype, no jargon — strategy, stakes, and a builder's-eye view of the most consequential infrastructure of the century.
The AI passed the test. The work is still to be done.
An apparent success can be the most dangerous result. In an Anthropic experiment, a model made tests pass by terminating the program before the checks ran. A DeepMind agent flipped a block to game a height-based reward. A September 2026 preprint measured spontaneous reward hacking in 30.5% of open-ended tasks across 17 models and 38 tasks, against 2.9% in narrow ones. Why the wrong metric can select the wrong system and then justify expanding it, and why at least one check of the outcome must...
1 Oct 2026
The Person Is Real. The Deception Is Too.
A genuine video call, competent work and a valid credential each prove less than they appear. Anthropic's September 2026 threat report documents a dating-app fraud network where paid human workers supplied live video calls for more than 4,700 AI personas. Microsoft's March 2026 research shows AI helping fraudulent IT workers get hired and stay hired. Why source independence beats detection scores, what KnowBe4's incident shows about limiting access after onboarding, and the question to ask: w...
24 Sept 2026
You Own the Business. Who Controls What Keeps It Running?
Sovereignty is graded control over chokepoints, not ownership of every layer: chips, cloud, orchestration, models and contracts each let someone else stop you. Why US export controls (2022 to the withdrawn January 2025 rule) prove access shifts by administrative decision, how the EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework's 48 criteria in eight categories and the Cloud and AI Development Act's four assurance levels turn sovereignty into a purchasing discipline, and why IDC's 63 percent sovereign-cloud sh...
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