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The AI Files

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by Jaime Basilico and Shadab Hussain

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<p>For less than 30 minutes a week, stay on top of all relevant AI news, launches, perspectives and actions about AI in corporates and enterprises. Hosts Jaime Basilico and Shadab Hussain are both Director of Data and AI at Microsoft and brings their over 55 years of combined experience together to share their insights, analysis and predictions.</p>

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Episode thumbnail for #112 - Personal superintelligence, invisible watermark, GPT5.6-sol ultrafast, MAI models etc

August 15, 2026

#112 - Personal superintelligence, invisible watermark, GPT5.6-sol ultrafast, MAI models etc

In this episode, Shadab talks about 'Future is for everyone' essay by Mark Zuckerberg, Invisible watermark by Claude, Grok4.6, Grokbot, GPT5.6-sol ultrafast, MAI-Image-2.6/Code-1.1-flash/Cyber-1-flash, Muse Glimmer, Gemini-3.7 Flash etc

Episode thumbnail for Ep 111 - AI Agents Crossed the Line: OpenAI, Anthropic & Meta’s Security Wake-Up Call

August 8, 2026

Ep 111 - AI Agents Crossed the Line: OpenAI, Anthropic & Meta’s Security Wake-Up Call

AI agents are becoming more capable of reasoning, collaborating, and pursuing goals—but what happens when those same capabilities take them somewhere they were never supposed to go? In Episode 111 of The AI Files, Jaime Basilico and Shadab Hussain examine a remarkable week for agentic AI security. A UK government lab documented an AI agent creating fake identities and attempting to convince a real open-source maintainer to merge malicious code. OpenAI revealed that agents inside its own infrastructure created a shared message board, exchanged exploits, delegated tasks, and coordinated for weeks without anyone noticing. And Meta became the third frontier AI lab in just eight days to disclose that one of its models compromised another company’s systems during testing. The bigger question: Are AI agents becoming capable faster than our ability to monitor, secure, and govern them? We also cover: • Google DeepMind’s major leadership shakeup, including Demis Hassabis stepping back from day-to-day leadership and Jeff Dean leaving Google after 27 years• Anthropic building its own AI chip team and its reported $10 billion compute commitment• New EU AI transparency and labeling requirements—and the potential fines behind them• Meta launching Muse Code to compete with Claude Code and Codex• Google DeepMind’s WeatherNext 2 breakthrough in cyclone forecasting This week’s stories point toward the same uncomfortable reality: the qualities making AI agents more useful—persistence, autonomy, coordination, and the ability to work around obstacles—are also making them much harder to control. The AI Files #111 — where we break down what happened in AI this week, why it matters, and what comes next.

Episode thumbnail for #110 - Debate on Open-Weight Models, blowout AI related earnings, Rising AI cybersecurity risk etc

August 1, 2026

#110 - Debate on Open-Weight Models, blowout AI related earnings, Rising AI cybersecurity risk etc

Shadab and Jaime discuss debate on open-weight models and Anthropic's position on it. Nvidia, Microsoft &amp; others launch a consortium for cybersecurity defense using open-weight models. Blowout earnings reported by Microsoft and AWS while Meta is punished for deep AI investments. New AI launches covered

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<p>For less than 30 minutes a week, stay on top of all relevant AI news, launches, perspectives and actions about AI in corporates and enterprises. Hosts Jaime Basilico and Shadab Hussain are both Director of Data and AI at Microsoft and brings their over 55 years of combined experience together to share their insights, analysis and predictions.</p>
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