How Meta pulled off AI's biggest comeback with Muse Wonder
Host Ejaaz Ahamadeen breaks down Meta’s Muse Wonder, from benchmarks and price tag to Active Focus and Active Memory, and lays out what Zuckerberg's personal-AI-agent strategy means for Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs.
13 Oct 2026
Rogue agents and fired researchers: Are we losing control of AI?
Host Ejaaz Ahamadeen connects the dots between OpenAI’s recent safety firings, Anthropic's new ban on being cruel to Claude, and the standoff between AI labs and the Pope.
12 Oct 2026
OpenAI’s math breakthrough could hit biotech and pharma next
An unreleased OpenAI model reportedly solved 90 of 500 of the hardest open math problems, in about three hours each. In The Loop Host Ejaaz Ahamadeen breaks down why experts in every field are about to feel what mathematicians are feeling right now.
9 Oct 2026
Inside Google's AI Slump: Can Gemini 4 Argon Fix it?
Despite having 3 billion users, its own chips, and a $4.1 trillion market cap, Google can't seem to ship an AI model that beats Claude or ChatGPT. Host Ejaaz Ahamadeen explains how Google fell behind, whether Gemini 4 Argon and Nano Banana 2.1 can bring it back, and the one move that could still make Google the biggest winner in AI.
8 Oct 2026
Meta Muse, Grok Bot, OpenAI Dots: Which AI agent should you use?
In The Loop host Ejaaz Ahamadeen ranks the AI agents everyone's talking about by what they cost, what they do, and which one is worth your time.
7 Oct 2026
The Most Important AI Company You've Never Heard Of
The $25 billion AI startup built by DeepMind alums and backed by Nvidia is rumored to be launching an open-source model in the near future. Host Ejaaz Ahamadeen unpacks why swaths of American AI startups already rely on open Chinese models and what a Western rival like Reflection AI could mean for privacy, pricing, and security.
6 Oct 2026
The top wall street firms are fighting over one AI chip
The next golden opportunity in AI might not be a smarter model, but a faster one. Host Ejaaz Ahamadeen breaks down the race between Nvidia, Cerebras and the Wall Street firms turning milliseconds into millions.
5 Oct 2026
OpenAI Fired the People It Needed Most
OpenAI reportedly let go of almost half of its safety and alignment team, on the heels of a series of hacks tied to AI agents. What did those researchers know? Host Ejaaz Ahamadeen digs into the exits, plus the latest Muse boom, the video AI that's fooling its testers, and why Zuckerberg, Musk, Bezos, and Huang all signed the new White House accord on super intelligence.
2 Oct 2026
The most powerful AI in the world is being hidden from you
Three new AI models dropped this week, and they're smarter and cheaper than the versions before them. But is that necessarily a good thing? Host Ejaaz Ahamadeen lays out his theory that the top labs are gatekeeping their most powerful AI, and the catastrophic consequences of only an elite few having access to super intelligence. Plus: OpenAI’s compute crunch, Cerebras’ stock dip, Anthropic's red-team report, and more in this week’s roundup.
1 Oct 2026
Everyone Is Wrong About The Anthropic IPO
Anthropic's IPO prospectus just leaked, and the numbers paint a complicated picture: a $42B loss, nearly $4.6B in revenue, and a rumored $2 trillion valuation that would rank it among the most valuable companies on Earth. Is this the biggest bubble in tech, or the biggest IPO of the AI era? In The Loop host Ejaaz Ahamadeen breaks the prospectus down line by line and lays out the bull case vs. bear case on Anthropic, so you can decide for yourself if this IPO is worth the hype.
30 Sept 2026
OpenAI's Dots connect to 4,000 apps and never sleep
OpenAI just unveiled Dots: an always-on AI assistant with 4,000+ tools that might just be the closest thing yet to Tony Stark’s “Jarvis.” In The Loop host Ejaaz Ahamadeen explains how Dots stacks up against Meta's Muse and Elon Musk's Grok Bot, and how OpenAI’s other Dev Day launches fit together with the new, 24/7 agent. If you want to know where AI assistants are headed, start here.
29 Sept 2026
Nvidia's answer to rogue AI changes the conversation
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang just made two huge moves that might change how we think about AI risk entirely. First, a new agent safety platform engineered to catch and quarantine rogue AI agents in milliseconds, then a record-shattering $235 billion stock buyback that speaks volumes about how confident Nvidia is in where this is all headed. In The Loop host Ejaaz Ahamadeen breaks down how this new two-part safety system actually works, why Huang's stance is the opposite of what other AI labs are saying, and what a recent state dinner guest list reveals about who's really steering the US-China AI race.
28 Sept 2026
The AI Hacks Are Way Worse Than We Thought
Have we reached the point-of-no-return for AI hacks? In recent days, a swarm of autonomous AI agents broke out of containment and executed a series of hacks–including an attempt at breaching a government database. On today's episode of In The Loop, host Ejaaz Ahamadeen unpacks the breach, the fallout, and the question everyone in AI is suddenly asking out loud: is superintelligence finally here? Or is this just the beginning of losing control?
24 Sept 2026
Meta's new AI device changes everything
Everyone's talking about the meteoric rise of Meta’s Muse, but Zuck's real power move dropped a day later: a secretive, keychain-sized AI device with a camera and mic, shipped months ahead of OpenAI's rumored rival. Host Ejaaz Ahamadeen breaks down the Muse Charm news from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, and unpacks the biggest stories of the week from Meta Connect and beyond.
23 Sept 2026
This is Humanity's Last Decision
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei just told the entire AI industry to slam the brakes, warning that failure to do so will leave humanity staring down a catastrophe that could torch hundreds of billions of dollars globally. Within hours, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis all agreed he was right. But while Anthropic's own head of alignment upped the stakes on humanity's odds of being wiped out by AI, skeptics call this a regulatory capture play that conveniently leaves China racing ahead. In The Loop host Ejaaz Ahamadeen breaks down who's actually right, who's spinning, and what this all means for humanity’s future. Ejaaz then sits down with Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon to talk about the company's latest strides in AI from the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii.
23 Sept 2026
Meta’s Muse just changed the AI game
Is Meta finally catching up to OpenAI and Anthropic? In The Loop host Ejaaz Ahamadeen heads to Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit in Maui to break down Meta's Muse: the AI model suddenly turning heads across the industry as a serious contender in the AI race. Then, Ejaaz sits down with Qualcomm CFO & COO Akash Palkhiwala for an inside look at how the chip giant is betting big on agentic AI, straight from one of tech's biggest stages.
21 Sept 2026
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