// The Bleeding Edge Podcast
AI news. Without the hype.
Weekly briefings on what changed in AI, what it means, and what to ignore. Hosted by Ralph Behnke and Emile Ogier. Read the manifesto
// TODAY — 2026-08-15
refreshed daily by the pipelineVideo generation stack sized to run on a single desk. Open weights plus NVIDIA acceleration moves studio-grade synthesis out of the data center.
- 02Ramp index: Fable 5 is 6% of business token spend on AnthropicCorroboratedThe Neuron, citing Ramp AI Index
Ramp's August index shows enterprise buyers still routing most spend to older models. Frontier launches do not move corporate budgets on release day.
Capability shipped today. Procurement did not. The gap between what the models can do and what companies actually buy is the story worth tracking.
// GitHub today
- openclaw/openclaw ★ 386.3k
Self-hosted personal AI assistant that runs on any OS. Pushed again today; currently the most-starred agent project on GitHub.
- NousResearch/hermes-agent ★ 230.7k
Nous Research's open agent built around state that carries across sessions. Commits landed this morning.
- ShawnPana/phone-harness ★ 1.8k
Lets an agent drive your phone directly. Small and early, but the clearest mobile counterpart to desktop computer-use tooling.
// Technology of the day
Open-weights world models for video
Video models that track scene state rather than emit independent frames, released as downloadable weights. LTX-2.5 fits the pipeline onto one NVIDIA workstation.
last 30 days
Statistical text watermarking · Autoformalization · Physical adversarial patches · In-boundary agent deployment · Genome language models · Cross-harness skill transfer · Persuasion attacks on coding agents · Deterministic training megakernels · Durable execution for agents · Remote MCP servers · Native-audio video generation · Agentic economic simulations as model evals · Multi-robot collaboration · Persistent agent memory · RL environments for agents · Agent harness engineering · Agent Skills · High-throughput BPE tokenization · Computer-use agents (GUI-driving coworkers) · Unified audio stacks for voice agents · Trillion-scale open Mixture-of-Experts · Masked diffusion autoencoders · Delta attention · Model distillation · Dexterous manipulation · Cross-embodiment action spaces · Causal world models · Speculative decoding (DeepSeek DSpark)
// Spotlight
Sam Altman
Said AI is unlikely to deliver a shorter workweek, cutting against the productivity-dividend pitch his own industry has been making.
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// Latest from the show
This was the week the frontier labs stopped filing research papers and started filing paperwork
This was the week the frontier labs stopped filing research papers and started filing paperwork. Anthropic is reported to have confidentially submitted IPO documents to the SEC, confirmed it is standing up an in-house AI chip team, and continued to be linked to third-party GPU ca…
Anthropic Files Confidentially: What an S-1 Would Finally Make Public
A confidential SEC submission costs almost nothing and commits to almost nothing — but the document it eventually produces would be the first audited look inside a frontier lab's cost structure.