Sep 23rd 2026
Intelligent Machines 889
We Are the Neanderthals
Why LLMs Fail at Complex Reasoning
New episodes every Wednesday.
Guests:
Patrick Hillmann
Forget large language models. This episode uncovers a radically different approach to AI, where physics-guided reasoning and energy-based models are reshaping what machines can actually understand—and why that could unlock breakthroughs mainstream AIs keep missing.
- Claude Opus 5.5 and OpenAI GPT-6 Sol & Luna both launch today with lower costs
- Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day
- Two Google DeepMind AI Researchers Resign Over Safety
- MetaConnect on during the show
- Google fully details Googlebooks: $899+, October launch, & more
- Introducing MiMo-V2.6 series
- Google CC
- I'm Upping My P(Doom)
- Handshake AI Skills Studio/OpenAI Brian Johnsrud
- Introducing The Horowitz Andreessen Academy
- On ‘Cupertino,’ Creators of the ‘The Good Wife’ Go to Silicon Valley
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Links
- Claude Opus 5.5 and OpenAI GPT-6 Sol & Luna both launch today with lower costs
- Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day
- Two Google DeepMind AI Researchers Resign Over Safety
- MetaConnect on during the show
- Google fully details Googlebooks: $899+, October launch, & more
- Introducing MiMo-V2.6 series
- Google CC
- I'm Upping My P(Doom)
- Introducing The Horowitz Andreessen Academy
- On ‘Cupertino,’ Creators of the ‘The Good Wife’ Go to Silicon Valley