Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI

Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI

Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel bring you Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI, an innovative podcast focused on cutting-edge AI in both tech and law. Katherine and Anna will walk you through the day’s biggest developments in AI just in time for your first cup of coffee.

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August 21, 2025 19 mins

This week on “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel explore the rapid advancements and real-world applications of AI world models, highlighting cutting-edge developments like Google DeepMind’s Genie 3, Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs and Microsoft Muse.

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In this week’s episode of “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel break down a week of major developments for OpenAI, including the company’s entry into open source, its new government contract and the debut of GPT-5.

 

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August 7, 2025 13 mins

This week on “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Anna Gressel explores groundbreaking research on “subliminal learning” in AI, revealing how LLMs can inherit hidden behavioral traits—including harmful biases—from seemingly benign data.

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July 31, 2025 33 mins

In this week’s episode of “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel discuss the White House’s release of America’s AI Action Plan, exploring its focus on deregulation, infrastructure, workforce support and global leadership as the U.S. aims to “win the AI race.”

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This week on “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel break down the latest developments in AI, from OpenAI’s new agent mode and the White House’s forthcoming AI strategy, to the G7’s commitment on quantum technologies.

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In this week’s episode of “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel unpack the recent Bartz v. Anthropic copyright decision, examining how courts are evaluating fair use in AI training and what this case means for the future of copyright disputes in the AI space.

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July 10, 2025 18 mins

This week on “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel discuss the Senate’s removal of a proposed AI moratorium from the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” and examine new state-level AI legislation in Colorado, Texas, New York, California and others.

 

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In this week’s episode of “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel break down New York’s RAISE Act, exploring its approach to regulating powerful frontier AI models, how it stacks up against California’s vetoed SB 1047 and what it means for the future of AI oversight in the U.S.

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This week on “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel dive into Google’s latest paper on AI agent security, examining the unique risks posed by autonomous AI systems and the layered defenses needed to keep them safe.

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In this week’s episode, Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel explore the latest advancements in AI agents and reasoning models, from Claude Opus 4’s agentic capabilities to Apple’s research on the limits of AI reasoning, and discuss the real-world implications of increasingly autonomous AI behavior.

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June 12, 2025 16 mins

This week on “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest introduces two recent studies that examine the concepts of evaluation faking and Group Think as they pertain to highly capable AI models, and what these studies might mean for future AI development.

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June 5, 2025 16 mins

In this week's episode, Katherine Forrest unpacks the rapidly widening gap between the U.S., the EU and other international AI regimes, and offers practical compliance pointers for companies deploying AI across borders.

 

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This week, hosts Katherine Forest and Anna Gressel tackle the evolving landscape of evidentiary issues raised by artificial intelligence in litigation. From the admissibility of AI-generated images and chatbot records to the qualifications of AI experts and the nuances of hearsay, they break down the complex, fact-intensive questions facing courts and practitioners today.

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May 22, 2025 14 mins

In this week’s episode of "Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI," Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel explore the emerging field of AI world models and the many applications of simulating a real-world environment, from interactive media experiences to robotic learning and even weather prediction.

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May 15, 2025 15 mins

In this episode of "Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI," Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel discuss AI benchmarking, exploring how these standardized tests evaluate AI models against each other and human capabilities, helping developers and deployers assess performance, safety and progress toward artificial general intelligence.

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May 8, 2025 13 mins

This week on “Waking Up With AI,” Anna Gressel looks at how decentralized AI training could revolutionize the field by allowing for the collaborative use of advanced GPUs worldwide, expanding access to model development while raising interesting questions about export controls and regulatory frameworks.

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May 1, 2025 20 mins

In this episode of "Waking Up With AI," Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel discuss breakthroughs in AI-powered language translation, from Meta's real-time translation glasses to new, highly-capable LLMs that are preserving and enabling communication across diverse global languages.

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This week on "Waking Up With AI," Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel explore the intersection of AI and biology, focusing on how DeepMind's AlphaFold has revolutionized protein folding prediction by enabling scientists to better understand protein structures and interactions.

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April 17, 2025 14 mins

In this episode of “Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel examine a provocative research paper, which claims that some AI models can self-replicate, move between servers and resist shutdown commands — all without human intervention.

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April 14, 2025 19 mins

This week on “Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel introduce griefbots, AI models that simulate the deceased, examining the legal, ethical and financial issues questions that arise when technology offers a digital afterlife.

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