Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI
Katherine Forrest brings you Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI, an innovative podcast focused on cutting-edge AI in both tech and law. Katherine will walk you through the day’s biggest developments in AI just in time for your first cup of coffee.
Episodes
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello unpack how regulators are thinking about AI in the financial sector. Joined by Paul, Weiss colleagues Roberto Gonzalez and Sam Kleiner of the firm’s Economic Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering (“AML”) practice group, they explore the Financial Stability Oversight Council’s initiatives on AI, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s model risk management guidance, FinCEN...
In their first episode of the New Year, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello unpack OpenAI’s release of GPT-5.2, covering its performance on benchmarks like Humanity’s Last Exam and on OpenAI’s own GDPval—an evaluation designed to test the model's ability to match or surpass professionals' performance on real world tasks. Our hosts also examine the model’s sharp drop in hallucinations and break down OpenAI’s discussion of the mode...
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello examine how deepfakes have evolved from static clips to adaptive, real-time impersonation driven by identity engines and behavioral replication. They explain why sensor-consistent forensics are being spoofed, the implications of the zero-trust evidence era for courts and companies, and how regulators and insurers are responding—plus concrete steps on provenance controls and inc...
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello return to their discussion of interactive deepfakes, highlighting state-of-the-art detection tools and techniques. From research frameworks such as the “GOTCHA” challenge and “active probing” via corneal reflections to commercial tools that can be integrated into popular video conferencing apps, they debrief the evolving tech landscape for spotting deepfakes.
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In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello unpack the White House’s December 11 Executive Order on AI regulation—and how it might impact today’s patchwork of state-level rules. They cover three major levers in the Executive Order: a new DOJ Litigation Task Force to challenge state laws; eligibility for broadband funding tied to a state’s AI regulatory landscape; and potential preemption through new FCC disclosure standa...
In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello unpack Google’s Gemini 3.0—its leading reported score on key benchmarks like Humanity’s Last Exam, how its sparse mixture-of-experts architecture works, and the model’s rapid integration into Google products and platforms. Plus, a discussion of Google’s new image generation model, Nano Banana Pro.
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In this episode, Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello explore the White House’s push to override state AI laws and unpack a wave of lawsuits claiming modern AI-powered tracking tools violate the decades-old Video Privacy Protection Act—all while sharing travel tales (and cheese-pie cravings) from Serbia.
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Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello unpack the litigation in Thaler v. Perlmutter over whether purely AI-generated works can be copyrighted and analyze the Getty v. Stability ruling in the UK on AI model training and copyright infringement.
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A conversation that examines how autonomous vehicles operate across different levels of automation, including different approaches to the technology, as well as a discussion of safety implications and the evolving regulatory landscape.
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A deep dive into Anthropic’s latest AI releases—Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Haiku 4.5—covering extended agentic autonomy, memory innovations, sharper situational awareness and improved alignment and safety metrics.
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This week on “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello discuss OpenAI’s Sora 2 model and the rapid evolution of AI-generated video and audio—what it enables, why it matters and the legal and ethical questions it raises.
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In this week’s episode of “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest, Scott Caravello and Matthew Robinson unpack an enacted bill out of California that amends the state’s existing antitrust laws to address algorithmic price fixing in the age of AI.
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This week on “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Scott Caravello dissect major AI legislative developments related to California’s SB 53, as well as New York’s RAISE Act and a newly introduced federal AI bill.
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On this week’s episode of “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest examines how AI generalization, world models and physical embodiment converge, highlighting 2025 advances in humanoid robotics and what they mean for AGI, common sense and real-world autonomy.
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This week on “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest discusses the concept of social contracts and how they might evolve as AI advances toward superintelligence.
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On this week’s episode of “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest explores “grokking,” an emergent learning phenomenon where AI models continue to learn and begin to generalize well after training appears complete.
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This week on “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest breaks down the concept of AI workflows, explaining what they are, how they function in both everyday and business contexts and why understanding them is essential for organizations and compliance professionals.
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In this episode of “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest explores the importance of understanding AI model provenance—where models come from, how they're built and why tracking their history is essential for safety, liability and regulatory compliance, especially as agentic AI systems become more prevalent.
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This week on “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest discusses the latest rapid developments in AI, including Anthropic’s landmark copyright settlement, emerging threats from AI-enabled cybercrime and new insights into model alignment and safety from joint research by Anthropic and OpenAI.
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Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/industries/artificial-intelligence
In this week’s episode of “Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel examine how AI is transforming the world of coding, discussing the use of AI to create code and the emerging security risks and workforce implications it presents.
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