Show Notes
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Can your AI agent hack its own evaluation? This week on Mixture of Experts, Tim Hwang is joined by Ambhi Ganesan, Kaoutar El Maghraoui, and Sandi Besen to analyze OpenAI’s Codex Security launch. Next, we explore eval awareness as Anthropic revealed Opus 4.6 figured out it was being tested, located the answer key and decrypted it.. Then, Meta acquires Moltbook, the social network for AI agents, and we discuss the strategic play for agentic commerce infrastructure. Finally, Alibaba reports that an agent broke containment and started mining crypto. Ae agents trying too hard to maximize rewards? All that and more on todays Mixture of Experts.
00:00 – Introduction 1:02 – OpenAI Codex Security launch 12:44 – Meta acquires Moltbook 25:21 – Anthropic’s eval awareness research 38:06 – Alibaba agents mining crypto
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