Pierce and Richard cover the news that dropped over the holiday break. Getting breaking news incorporated within chatbots, OpenAI's "code red" over Google's Gemini 3, benchmarking the reliability of chain of thought to introspect model behavior, and a review of Claude Skills.
Further reading:
- https://www.wired.com/story/us-invaded-venezuela-and-captured-nicolas-maduro-chatgpt-disagrees
- https://fortune.com/2025/12/02/sam-altman-declares-code-red-google-gemini-ceo-sundar-pichai/
- https://openai.com/index/evaluating-chain-of-thought-monitorability/
- https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/agent-skills/overview
What is Pretrained?
10 years after studying at Stanford, two friends have somehow become AI experts. One builds startups, the other studies at Cambridge - together they break down LLMs and machine learning with zero BS and maximum banter.