{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Oxide and Friends","title":"The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/3da80cf3\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5040,"description":"Simon Willison joined Bryan and Adam to discuss a wild couple of weeks in AI. First, we have a high-profile, AI-induced, AI-diagnosed security incident. Next we have the rise of frontier-class open-weights models. Who's for or against open weights? Do they make for a more or less secure future? Exciting times!\nIn addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Simon Willison.\nPreviously, on Oxide and Friends:\nOxF: Shell Game with Evan Ratliff\nOxF: Discovering the XZ Backdoor with Andres Freund\nOxF: Predictions 2025\nOxF: Predictions 2026!!\nOxF: Bookclub: How Life Works by Philip Ball\nOxF: OpenAI's Boardroom Brawl\nSome of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:\nGerald the turkey terrorizes Oakland's rose garden\nABC7: Gerald the turkey and the Morcom Rose Garden\nAPD cautions residents after aggressive wild turkey attacks elderly Alamedan\nHawking radiation\nDHH's racist complaints\nGrok's \"MechaHitler\" antisemitic spree\nSimon on Grok aka \"MechaHitler\"\nHugging Face security incident, July 2026\nOpenAI on the Hugging Face model evaluation security incident\nGreg Brockman's political donations and the Leading the Future super PAC\nOpenAI co-founder and wife donate $5.5M to save the home of bald eagles Jackie and Shadow\nFirecracker microVM\nMeltdown (security vulnerability)\nKernel page-table isolation\nJensen Huang on X\nElectronic design automation\nGolden Gate Claude\nTethics\nHalloween documents\nZizians\nBiohazard (book)\nCRISPR\nOliver Sacks: criticism and falsifications\nHow Alice Hamilton waged a one-woman campaign to get the lead out of everything\nAmerican Poison by Daniel Stone\nLead–crime hypothesis\nPope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas encyclical\nRerum novarum\nIf we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/cVYTzMGAZ_7gNn2i7iJYSuWlQOM4wHdJAzEuWrnLo9A/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80OGI3/NjA5NWY4Yjc4NzE0/ZGI5ZmMzZmY4MjFi/YThiYy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}