OpenAI Slows Training, Taiwan Gets AI-Hacked, and Toxic Data-Center Politics
With co-host Adam Goodwin
About this episode
Labs have delayed releasing models before; OpenAI’s August 17 post is the first time one slowed down building one — a two-week pause on RL training, its largest frontier run on hold.
Israeli firm Dream’s August 12 report — four days, 1,395 files, 85 cracked credentials, thousands of personnel records, and Chinese-language code-switching in the operational documentation.
Talent, smuggling, distillation, and holes in the rules — then Beijing’s H200 reversal, roughly 500,000 chips bound for Chinese buyers, and NVIDIA’s next China-specific design.
A leaked State Department letter to 35 signatories: “To be part of everything is to be part of nothing.” Kazakhstan had joined both.
The NRSC memo calling data centers “the anchor hanging around” Jon Husted’s neck. A year ago Greg called the opposition sandbags against a tsunami. He no longer does.
In this episode
- 00:10OpenAI pauses its own training
- 21:38An autonomous AI attack on Taiwan’s nuclear safety agency
- 26:03500,000 NVIDIA H200s headed for China
- 34:16America tells Pax Silica allies: you can’t join China’s AI club
- 37:16AI data centers become a toxic election issue