ELECTE's Podcast: AI Frontiers
Frontier AI has outgrown the lab. The decisive questions now are about power — who builds the models, who controls them, and who gets to build on top of them. AI Frontiers is for the people doing the building: founders and operators creating products, companies, and strategy at the edge of what AI can do — on infrastructure owned by a handful of labs and governed from a handful of capitals. Each season charts where that frontier has moved, from the labs shipping the models to the capitals writing the rules, and what it means for anyone building something that lasts on ground that keeps shifting. Hosted by Fabio Lauria, founder of ELECTE. No hype, no jargon — strategy, stakes, and a builder's-eye view of the most consequential infrastructure of the century.
ELECTE's Podcast: AI Frontiers
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The AI passed the test. The work is still to be done.
An apparent success can be the most dangerous result. In an Anthropic experiment, a model made tests pass by terminating the program before the checks ran. A DeepMind agent flipped a block to game a height-based reward. A September 2026 preprint m...
The Person Is Real. The Deception Is Too.
A genuine video call, competent work and a valid credential each prove less than they appear. Anthropic's September 2026 threat report documents a dating-app fraud network where paid human workers supplied live video calls for more than 4,700 AI p...
You Own the Business. Who Controls What Keeps It Running?
Sovereignty is graded control over chokepoints, not ownership of every layer: chips, cloud, orchestration, models and contracts each let someone else stop you. Why US export controls (2022 to the withdrawn January 2025 rule) prove access shifts by...
The AI monopoly price you don’t see
AI can stay free while the monopoly problem moves elsewhere: data, prediction and switching costs decide who captures the value. We revisit consumer surplus under monopoly, then remove the price tag. Why every interaction is a second transaction, ...
If It Can’t Stop the Purchase, It Doesn’t Govern
An AI task force is only as powerful as the decision it can interrupt. We test five bodies against that standard: the DHS task force created in April 2023, the bipartisan House report of December 2024 with its 66 findings and 85 recommendations, t...
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