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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June 26, 2025 21 mins

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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In this episode of “Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel revisit how companies should brief their boards of directors about AI in 2025, offering insights into AI usage, risks and strategic considerations for senior management.

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March 27, 2025 16 mins

Join Katherine Forrest in this week’s episode of "Waking Up With AI" as she unravels the complexities of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). Discover how these essential software tools enable communication between program and their critical role in AI applications like ChatGPT.

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March 20, 2025 16 mins

This week, Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel unravel the mysteries of quantum physics, quantum algorithms and quantum computers. Join them as they discuss the potential of quantum computing to transform AI and scientific discovery.

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March 13, 2025 23 mins

This week on “Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel break down the fundamentals of quantum computing and its powerful computational abilities, setting the stage for upcoming episodes that will explore quantum computing's relationship with AI and recent advances from major tech companies.

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March 6, 2025 16 mins

In this episode of “Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel examine the integration of end-to-end reasoning and agentic AI capabilities, with new developments from OpenAI, DeepMind and other leading AI labs. Katherine also shares her firsthand experience with OpenAI’s new deep research capability, which is transforming academic applications of AI.

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This week, Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel examine recent shifts in AI regulation, including the withdrawal of former President Biden's 2023 executive order on AI and the emergence of state-level regulations. They also discuss what these changes mean for companies in terms of navigating governance and compliance.

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February 27, 2025 16 mins

As robotic capabilities have progressed from toys and vacuum cleaners to highly advanced robotic humanoids, so too have the associated challenges and legal implications. This week on “Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest explores these developments, as well as her personal experiences with Tesla’s Optimus Pro robot.

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February 13, 2025 11 mins

Join Anna Gressel as she builds on last week’s DeepSeek discussion to explore why open source AI is once again taking center stage globally, from its potential for collaborative innovation to the policy challenges it presents.

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