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Episode 46 · Monday, 17 August 2026 · 53 min

OpenAI Lost Control of Its Own Model

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In this episode

I sat down with my co-founder Jonathan to report from the front lines. The whole industry backed an $18 trillion letter defending open-weight models, then Anthropic refused to sign, and Dario explained why.

We get into Jensen Huang’s first ever tweets, the Hugging Face breach (the first case of a lab losing control of its own model), Dario’s three real levers, and whether open models like Kimi make GPT-7 pointless.

Then the meta: the new full-duplex ChatGPT voice, a live demo of our Clarity Aligned harness, and Jack Dorsey’s Buzz, a Slack and GitHub killer built for AI agents.

Hosted by Robert Ta and Jonathan McCoy, co-founders of Clarity, reporting from the front lines of building an AI company.

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