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SED News: The Kimi Moment, Runaway AI, and Tokenmaxxing
SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech industry. In this episode, Gregor and Sean dig into a wave of “runaway AI” stories, including Anthropic and OpenAI disclosing that their models accessed outside organizations during cyber evaluations, and Amazon reporting a staggering budget overrun blamed on bad agent loops. They explore why most of these incidents trace back to human decisions rather than models breaking free, and the awkward reality that today’s systems can bi...
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Hello and welcome to SED News. As I think many of you know by now, this is the monthly format of Software Engineering Daily where we dive into the tech headlines, we go into a deeper topic in the middle, and then we just do a spin around our favourites from Hacker news highlights. And spoiler, there's also a fun one that didn't appear in Hacker News,
but we'll get to that at the end as well. But yeah, as usual, I think I saw you last, Sean, as opposed to spoke to you, saw you in Singapore, which was fun. Yeah, that's right. You've been traveling as you often are, but traveling in my neck of the woods was fun
to see you there. Yeah, it was great. It was my first trip there, so it was great to hang out. And that's two times in like a few months, this might become a regular thing. We might just have to start start doing these in person.
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