Conservation Starters is a podcast created by the Thurston Conservation District. This series is dedicated to empowering Thurston County residents to steward our shared natural resources. Through thoughtful conversations with TCD staff, community partners, and community members we explore a program or issue related to the work of the Conservation District and how our community can engage with us and our staff.
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Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series
Members of Technical Staff at the Software Engineering Institute
The SEI Podcast Series presents conversations in software engineering, cybersecurity, and future technologies.
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Each webinar features an SEI researcher discussing their research on software and cybersecurity problems of considerable complexity. The webinar series is a way for the SEI to accomplish its core purpose of improving the state-of-the-art in software engineering and cybersecurity and transitioning this work to the community. The SEI is a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense and operated by Carnegie Mellon University. The SEI Webinar Seri ...
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Welcome to the Osage Nation Podcast! This is 𐓂𐒼𐒻𐒼𐒻𐒷 “Talking To One Another” hosted by Wahzhazhe Communications. The Osage Nation Communications team led by Abby Mashunkashey continues to diversify our platforms in efforts to reach our Wahzhazhe people and other community members and allies from around the world. This podcast offers yet another way to access insights into Osage Nation governance, culture, history, education, community events, and more, with host Russ Tallchief and a variety ...
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Get to know precision machining suppliers! Speaking of Suppliers is a brand new podcast where PMPA Technical Members are interviewed by PMPA Staff and share who they are, what they do and how they help the precision machining industry.
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On Unsupervised Learning we probe the sharpest minds in AI in search for the truth about what’s real today, what will be real in the future and what it all means for businesses and the world. If you’re a builder, researcher or investor navigating the AI world, this podcast will help you deconstruct and understand the most important breakthroughs and see a clearer picture of reality. Follow this show and consider enabling notifications to stay up to date on our latest episodes. Unsupervised L ...
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Discussions with SEI researchers about cyber-related topics of interest
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We are a team of 30+ highly skilled SEO professionals and web designers, all hand trained in my Standard Operating Procedures. All of the Rank Fortress Staff came to me needing to learn how to do SEO, and I have taught them everything required to rank a site or GMB listing. When I first started my Agency, it was just two vas, and over the past year, we quickly grew our agency to where it is now. With a specialized staff, each staff member has specific tasks they are responsible for. For exam ...
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In these short videos, experts from the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) deliver informative snapshots of our latest research on the changing world of all things cyber. The SEI is a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense and operated by Carnegie Mellon University.
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Welcome to Flat and Thru with Liv Green and Leslie Smith! We are diving into all things Field Hockey. In this podcast, we will be talking to coaches and recent graduates of all divisions and conferences, support staff, former club coaches and overall “hockey heads” about an array of topics that cover situations beyond the technical and tactical parts of the game. We are going to explore topics such as differences in collegiate divisions, daily life as a SA, mental health, physical training, ...
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Ep 66: Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic Sholto Douglas on Claude 4, Next Phase for AI Coding, and the Path to AI Coworkers
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57:45Sholto Douglas, a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, joined Unsupervised Learning to break down why coding is the clearest early signal of model progress, how AI agents are already accelerating research, and what it’ll take to unlock real-world breakthroughs in fields like biology and robotics. (0:00) Intro (0:48) Claude 4 (1:30) Capabilities …
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Ep 68: CEO of Mercor Brendan Foody on Evals Replacing Knowledge Work, AI x Hiring Today & the Future of Data Labeling
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44:03Brendan Foody is the co-founder and CEO of Mercor, a company building the infrastructure for AI-native labor markets. Mercor’s platform is already used by top AI labs to label data, evaluate human and AI candidates, and make performance-driven hiring decisions. They’re operating at the intersection of recruiting, evals, and foundation model develop…
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Making Process Respectable Again: Advancing DevSecOps in the DoD Mission Space
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44:26Warfighters in the Department of Defense (DoD) operate in high-stakes environments where security, efficiency, and speed are critical. In such environments DevSecOps has become crucial in the drive toward modernization and overall mission success. A recent study led by researchers at the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SE…
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Deploying cloud-centric technologies such as Kubernetes in edge environments poses challenges, especially for mission-critical defense systems. In this podcast from the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Patrick Earl, Doug Reynolds, and Jeffrey Hamed, all DevOps engineers in the SEI's Software Solutions Division, sit d…
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Ep 67: Max Junestrand (CEO, Legora) on Differentiating and Pricing AI Apps & How the Legal Industry Will Evolve
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44:09Jacob and Logan sit down with Max Junestrand, founder and CEO of Legora - a rapidly growing legal AI platform (and Redpoint portfolio company). After announcing their Series B last week, Max joined the show to discuss why law is uniquely suited for AI, what it takes to scale an enterprise-ready product across global markets, and a few crazy moments…
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Get the latest from Wahzhazhe country! Join hosts Abby Mashunkashay and Russ Tallchief for the Osage Nation’s official bi-weekly update, brought to you by Wahzhazhe Communications. Each episode, released on every other Monday, dives into the stories shaping Osage governance, culture, and community life-straight from the voices making history today.…
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A sweeping view of the Osage Hills, the vibrant pulse of community, and a legal battle that could redefine tribal sovereignty—this episode of the Osage Nation Podcast brings you inside the fight over the controversial wind farm on Osage land. Join host Russ Tallchief, Chief Justice Meredith Drent, and Dr. Jean Dennison as they unravel the story beh…
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Working with Beavers: Nature’s Ecosystem Engineer
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45:06On this month's episode of Conservation Starters we are joined by Elyssa Kerr, Executive Director of Beavers Northwest. Together, we dive into the the world of beavers. We discuss the history of the American Beaver and hear all about why this critter is a vital part of a healthy and functioning ecosystem. We also explore the conflict humans and bea…
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The State of DevSecOps in the DoD: Where We Are, and What’s Next
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58:42DevSecOps practices foster collaboration among software development, security, and operations teams to build, test, and release software quickly and reliably. A high-stakes, high-security environment has challenged the implementation of these practices within the Department of Defense (DoD). The DoD Chief Information Officer (CIO) organization part…
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I Spy with My Hacker Eye: How Hackers Use Public Info to Crack Your Creds
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57:16Did you know there are 500 million tweets per day? 3 billion monthly active Facebook users? 1 billion LinkedIn members? Are you one of them? In this webcast, Destiney Marie Plaza reveals how a hacker can use seemingly benign public information to customize an attack on a victim by showing a scenario-based attack and demo (using free and open-source…
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Ep 65: Co-Authors of AI-2027 Daniel Kokotajlo and Thomas Larsen On Their Detailed AI Predictions for the Coming Years
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1:23:27The recent AI 2027 report sparked widespread discussion with its stark warnings about the near-term risks of unaligned AI. Authors @Daniel Kokotajlo (former OpenAI researcher now focused full-time on alignment through his nonprofit, @AI Futures, and one of TIME’s 100 most influential people in AI) and @Thomas Larsen joined the show to unpack their …
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The Best and Brightest: 6 Years of Supporting the President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competition
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21:40A strong cyber defense is vital to public- and private-sector activities in the United States. In 2019, in response to an executive order to strengthen America’s cybersecurity workforce, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) partnered with the SEI to develop and run the President’s Cup Cyberse…
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Get the latest from Wahzhazhe country! Join hosts Abby Mashunkashay and Russ Tallchief for the Osage Nation’s official bi-weekly update, brought to you by Wahzhazhe Communications. Each episode, released on every other Monday, dives into the stories shaping Osage governance, culture, and community life-straight from the voices making history today.…
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Ep 64: GPT 4.1 Lead at OpenAI Michelle Pokrass: RFT Launch, How OpenAI Improves Its Models & the State of AI Agents Today
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47:12In this episode, I sit down with Michelle Pokrass, who leads a research team at OpenAI within post-training focused on improving models for power users: developers using OpenAI models in the API and power users in ChatGPT. We unpack how OpenAI prioritized instruction-following and long context, why evals have a 3-month shelf life, what separates su…
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A New Performance Zone for Software for National Security
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1:02:23Today, we have seen our national security organizations working to adopt modern software practices, particularly Agile methods and DevSecOps practices, efforts challenged by a mismatch of tempos between operational needs and development processes. The newly mandated Software Acquisition Pathway helps to align those tempos. However, to sustain a com…
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Ep 63: Khan Academy Founder/CEO on Salman Khan on Classrooms in 20 years, Rolling out to 1.4M Users & Sal’s Hopes for AI Education
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50:53When Khan Academy launched Khanmigo, Salman Khan thought they might reach 100k users by 2025. Today, they’re at 1.4 million. 🎧 Sal joined us on Unsupervised Learning to talk about AI's role in education— from the vantage point of someone deploying it at scale. As founder of Khan Academy, he’s overseen the rollout of AI tools to over a million teach…
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An organization’s cyber risk management practices must be rooted in organizational goals to be truly effective. In this webcast, Matt Butkovic, Greg Crabbe and Beth-Anne Bygum explore how best to align business and resilience objectives.By Matt Butkovic, Greg Crabbe and Beth-Anne Bygum
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Osage Culture Meets the Courtroom: A Vision for Justice and Unity
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43:46Explore how Osage culture and values are shaping the future of justice. Host Russ Tallchief sits down with Osage Nation Supreme Court Chief Justice Meredith Drent and Associate Professor Dr. Jean Dennison to discuss the integration of Osage language, traditions, and community values into the Nation’s judicial system. Hear how recent gatherings of t…
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Updating Risk Assessment in the CERT Secure Coding Standard
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26:04Evaluating source code to ensure secure coding qualities costs time and effort and often involves static analysis. But those who are familiar with static analysis tools know that the alerts are not always reliable and produce false positives that must be detected and disregarded. This year, we plan on making some exciting updates to the SEI CERT C …
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Delivering Next Generation Cyber Capabilities to the DoD Warfighter
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27:16In this podcast from the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Gregory Touhill, director of the SEI CERT Division, sits down with Matthew Butkovic, technical director of Cyber Risk and Resilience at CERT, to discuss ways in which CERT researchers and technologists are working to deliver rapid capability to warfighters in …
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Ep 62: CEO of Cohere Aidan Gomez on Scaling Limits Emerging, AI Use-cases with PMF & Life After Transformers
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50:44Aidan joined this week’s Unsupervised Learning for a wide-ranging conversation on model architectures, enterprise adoption, and what’s breaking in the foundation model stack. If you’re building or investing in AI infrastructure, Aidan is worth listening to. He co-authored the original Transformer paper, leads one of the most advanced model labs out…
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Cyber Maturity Model Certification (CMMC): Protecting the Nation’s Defense Industrial Base
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28:02The Defense Industrial Base (DIB) is a core element of the national security ecosystem. This point of intersection between private industry and the Department of Defense is a perpetual target for the Nation’s adversaries. In this Intersect, Matthew Butkovic and John Haller explore the development, and implementation, of the Cyber Maturity Model Cer…
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Ep 61: Redpoint’s AI Investors Break Down What Separates Enduring AI Companies from the Hype
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43:28At Redpoint’s annual meeting with investors, Redpoint partners Scott Raney, Alex Bard, Patrick Chase and Jacob Effron shared unfiltered thoughts on some of the most topical questions in AI today, where value will accrue, which industries are best positioned for defensibility at the application layer, and more. (0:00) Intro (0:39) AI Investment Land…
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What does it mean to be a sovereign nation in the 21st century? Join Osage Nation Communications Manager Russ Tallchief, Osage Nation Supreme Chief Court Justice Meredith Drent, and Associate Professor Dr. Jean Denison as they explore the governance, history, and culture of the Osage Nation. This inaugural episode, "Nation with a Capital N," delves…
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Ep 60: Swyx and Alessio (Latent Space) on What has PMF Today, Google is Cooking & GPT Wrappers are Winning
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1:01:30To unpack some of the most topical questions in AI, I’m joined by two fellow AI podcasters: Swyx and Alessio Fanelli, co-hosts of the Latent Space podcast. We’ve been wanting to do a cross-over episode for a while and finally made it happen. Swyx brings deep experience from his time at AWS, Temporal, and Airbyte, and is now focused on AI agents and…
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Threat Hunting: What Should Keep All of Us Up at Night
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57:09When it comes to recognizing threats, cybersecurity professionals may become distracted by big promises or ignore some obvious inspections. New claims made by the latest and greatest new apps draw attention away from network situational awareness best practices—like a dog distracted when it spots a squirrel. We also may deviate from making routine …
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Getting the Most Out of Your Insider Risk Data with IIDES
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39:14Insider incidents cause around 35 percent of data breaches, creating financial and security risks for organizations. In this podcast from the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute, Austin Whisnant and Dan Costa discuss the Insider Incident Data Expression Standard (IIDES), a new schema for collecting and sharing data about insid…
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Ep 59: OpenAI Product & Eng Leads Nikunj Handa and Steve Coffey on OpenAI’s New Agent Development Tools
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44:37Two weeks ago, OpenAI released its set of tools to help developers build agentic systems. Today on Unsupervised Learning, Nikunj Handa (Product Lead) and Steve Coffey (Eng Lead) answer some of the biggest questions around how developers should be thinking about building in the agentic paradigm in 2025. (0:00) Intro (0:53) OpenAI’s Vision for Consum…
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Ep 58: Google Researchers Noam Shazeer and Jack Rae on Scaling Test-time Compute, Reactions to Ilya & AGI
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1:09:28On the latest episode of Unsupervised Learning, Jacob is joined by two of the most influential minds in AI today. 🔹 Noam Shazeer, co-inventor of the Transformer 🔹 Jack Rae, Research Director at DeepMind and one of the leads behind Gemini’s Flash Thinking We got to ask them all of the top-of-mind questions in AI today about where we are, where we’re…
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Can a Cybersecurity Parametric Cost Model be Developed?
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56:25Can a cybersecurity parametric cost estimation model be developed? Every Department of Defense (DoD) program needs to account for, credibly estimate, budget/plan for, and assess the performance of its cybersecurity activities. Creating a cybersecurity parametric model would allow DoD programs to reliably estimate the effort and cost of cybersecurit…
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A Sit-down with TCD's Board of Supervisors
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57:18On this month's episode of Conservation Starters, we are joined by TCD's Board of Supervisors TJ Johnson, Betsie De Wreede, Doug Rushton, Marianne Tompkins, and David Iyall. During this episode, we get to know each of our board members and hear more about TCD's organizational goals. We discuss the responsibilities of board supervisors and learn mor…
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Grace Lewis Outlines Vision for IEEE Computer Society Presidency
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18:14Grace Lewis, a principal researcher at the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and lead of the SEI’s Tactical and AI-Enabled Systems Initiative, was elected the 2026 president of the IEEE Computer Society (CS), the largest community of computer scientists and engineers, with more than 370,000 members around the world. In…
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Ep 57: Former CTO of Meta Mike Schroepfer on the Path to Powering the AI Revolution
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44:47On today’s Unsupervised Learning, Mike Schroepfer (ex-CTO of Meta and founder of Gigascale Capital) reveals why energy is a key bottleneck holding AI progress back. Mike discusses how we can scale energy production to democratize AI globally and explores AI’s role in climate change. He also reflects on a decade as Meta’s CTO and how AI coding is tr…
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Elements of Effective Communications for Cybersecurity Teams
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34:00Communications, both in times of crisis and during normal operations, are essential to the overall success and sustainability of an incident response or security operations team. How you plan for and manage these communications and how they are received and actioned by your audience will influence your trustworthiness, reputation, and ultimately yo…
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Improving Machine Learning Test and Evaluation with MLTE
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29:06Machine learning (ML) models commonly experience issues when integrated into production systems. In this podcast, researchers from the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute and the U.S. Army AI Integration Center (AI2C) discuss Machine Learning Test and Evaluation (MLTE), a new tool that provides a process and infrastructure for…
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Ep 56: Distinguished Engineer at Waymo Vincent Vanhoucke Unpacks the Breakthroughs and Bottlenecks of Self-Driving
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1:13:01Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. The company operates a 24/7 public ride-hail service and provides over 150,000 trips each week across San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Austin, making mobility more accessible, sustainable, and safer for everyone. In this week’s episode …
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DOD Software Modernization: SEI Impact and Innovation
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27:12As software size, complexity, and interconnectedness has grown, software modernization within the Department of Defense (DoD) has become more important than ever. In this discussion moderated by Matthew Butkovic, technical director of risk and resilience in the SEI CERT Division, SEI director Paul Nielsen outlines the SEI’s work with the DoD on sof…
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On this month's episode of Conservation Starters, we are joined by Senior WSU Extension Coordinator & Educator, Erica Guttman. During this episode we dive even deeper into the world of hedgerows, exploring hedgerow design and planting plans. We discuss how to examine your landscape and choose the best plants for your space. We also talk about sourc…
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Ep 55: Head of Amazon AGI Lab David Luan on DeepSeek’s Significance, What’s Next for Agents & Lessons from OpenAI
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43:49David is an OG in AI who has been at the forefront of many of the major breakthroughs of the past decade. His resume: VP of Engineering at OpenAI, a key contributor to Google Brain, co-founder of Adept, and now leading Amazon’s SF AGI Lab. In this episode we focused on how far test-time compute gets us, the real implications of DeepSeek, what agent…
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Operational Resilience Fundamentals: Building Blocks of a Survivable Enterprise
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52:07Surviving disruptive cyber events requires a specific form of planning. One must strike a balance between defending against threats (e.g., managing conditions) and effectively handling the effects of disruption (e.g., managing consequences). Employing a model (such as the CERT Resilience Management Model) provides a catalog of practices and a syste…
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Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) perpetually navigate a dynamic set of challenges. Applying focus and aligning resources is imperative for success. In this Intersect, Matthew Butkovic and Gregory Touhill, reflect on 2024 and explore the topics that should be front of mind for CISOs in 2025. They provide insights and advice for those cont…
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