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AI In Review: 2025 -> 2026

A live review of the year in AI and the 2026 takeoff question, with guests across policy, evals, frontier models, benchmarks, and AI commentary.

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AI In Review: 2025 -> 2026

A live review of the year in AI and the 2026 takeoff question, with guests across policy, evals, frontier models, benchmarks, and AI commentary.

Alex BoresAli BehrouzDean BallGreg KamradtPeter WildefordZvi MowshowitzLogan Kilpatrick

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Source Notes

This archive entry is based on the AI:AM Podcast Guest CRM record for the Dec. 17, 2025 live show.

  • Working titles in the scheduling thread included "AI:AM - Takeoff 2026?", "AI In Review: 2025 -> 2026", and "AI 2025 -> 2026 LIVE Show".
  • The broadcast window was Dec. 17, 2025, from 7:30 AM to 12:30 PM Los Angeles time.
  • Logan Kilpatrick's segment was scheduled for 10:20-10:40 AM Pacific.

Guests

  • Alex Bores, New York State Assembly
  • Ali Behrouz, Cornell University
  • Dean Ball, author
  • Greg Kamradt, ARC-AGI / ARC Prize
  • Peter Wildeford, IAPS
  • Zvi Mowshowitz, author and AI commentator
  • Logan Kilpatrick, Google

Topics

The show framed the transition from the 2025 AI cycle into the 2026 takeoff question: policy, benchmark progress, evals, model launches, fine-tuning, API divergence, and what makes AI applications defensible.

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