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The Neuron: AI Explained

The Neuron

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Frequency: 1 episode/7d. Total Eps: 124

The Neuron is a daily newsletter with 700,000+ readers that covers the latest AI developments, trends and research; this is our podcast, hosted by Grant Harvey and Corey Noles. We aim to create digestible, informative and authoritative takes on AI that get you up to speed and help you become an authority in your own circles. Available Wednesdays and Sundays on all podcasting platforms and YouTube. Subscribe to our newsletter: https://www.theneurondaily.com/subscribe

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BONUS: A Beginner’s Guide to GitHub, LIVE with Cassidy Williams

Friday, September 18, 2026 • Duration 01:58:15

UPDATE: Blog version here https://theneuron.ai/explainer-articles/github-for-beginners-how-to-use-it-with-ai-coding-agents/

GitHub can feel intimidating if you didn’t come up as a developer, especially now that AI coding agents can build software before you’ve learned what a repo, branch, or pull request even is.

That’s why The Neuron is going LIVE with Cassidy Williams from GitHub for a beginner-friendly walkthrough of how GitHub actually works.

📅 Thursday, September 10

⏰ 12 PM CT / 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET

What we’ll cover:

- What GitHub is and why you’d use it

- How to create an account and navigate GitHub

- Repos, pushing, pulling, merging, cloning, and forking

- How to connect AI coding agents to GitHub

- How to safely push and merge code

- How to work on multiple features using worktrees

- Best practices for keeping projects private and organized

- GitHub Actions, key management, deployment, and more

The goal:

Take you from “AI built me an app, now what?” to actually understanding how to manage, collaborate on, and safely ship your code with GitHub.

Cassidy will lead the walkthrough, while The Neuron’s Grant Harvey and Corey Noles jump in with beginner questions and audience Q&A throughout.

🔔 Hit Notify Me so you don’t miss it, and bring your GitHub questions. We’ll be answering them live.

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GPT-6 Astra One-Shot Demos

Season 1 · Episode 74

Wednesday, September 16, 2026 • Duration 01:05:12

Corey and Grant put GPT-6 Astra through six identical one-shot build tests to see what it can create with almost no follow-up instruction. The episode covers an interactive black hole lab, a Blender scene, a physics game, a photo-to-sci-fi-world reconstruction, a mechanical sound diagnostic prototype, and the latest version of Cat Doom.

The biggest through-line is how much capability now comes out of a single prompt, while the remaining weaknesses show up in taste, UI restraint, game balancing, and reliability.

The episode ends by looking at how far Cat Doom has progressed across models over the past year.

Sponsored by Dell Technologies and NVIDIA. Learn more at https://www.techrepublic.com/hubs/the-enterprise-guide-to-scalable-ai/

Subscribe to The Neuron newsletter: https://theneuron.ai

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BONUS: Apple’s AI Era Starts Now? Meta’s Free AI Agent + OpenAI’s $1M Math Fight

Friday, September 11, 2026 • Duration 01:35:28

We’re going LIVE after Apple’s biggest event of the year to break down John Ternus’s first major keynote as CEO and the big question: Is Apple finally entering its AI era?

We’ll unpack what Apple revealed around Siri, Apple Intelligence, and its broader AI strategy, plus what feels different under Ternus.

Then, we’re breaking down a packed day of AI news:

🍎 Apple’s AI era: What the announcements tell us about Apple’s AI strategy.

🧮 OpenAI’s $1M math fight: OpenAI says a massive AI effort made progress on Navier-Stokes, one of mathematics’ Millennium Prize Problems, followed by a fight over credit.

🤖 Meta Muse: Meta launched its personal AI agent with a huge free usage tier.

⚠️ Anthropic’s AI-risk estimate: One Anthropic scientist put the chance of AI causing human extinction above 10.

🔐 Microsoft security: Microsoft patched a record 972 vulnerabilities, including 112 rated critical.

🇺🇸 U.S. vs. Chinese AI labs: U.S. agencies warned that Chinese companies are distilling Western AI systems at an industrial scale.

🎮 Plus, Sam Altman is apparently very excited about an Ocarina of Time remake.

Apple event:https://www.apple.com/apple-events/

OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes claim:https://www.theneuron.ai/news/inside-openais-navierstokes-claim-the-proof-the-ai-effort-and-the-credit-fight/

Meta Muse:https://about.fb.com/news/2026/09/introducing-muse-personal-ai-agent/

Get started with Muse:https://www.theneuron.ai/explainer-articles/how-to-get-started-with-meta-muse/

OpenAI Astra, Local AI, and the Hardware Race

Season 1 · Episode 73

Wednesday, September 9, 2026 • Duration 01:34:40

What happens when AI models get powerful enough that the bottleneck stops being the model, and starts becoming the computer, the power grid, or the safeguards around it?

Corey Noles and Grant Harvey break down a packed week in AI, starting with OpenAI’s expected Astra model and the controversy around recurrent-depth reasoning, chain-of-thought monitoring, and critical cybersecurity capabilities. They also dig into Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash and Flash Cyber, and why benchmark charts increasingly matter less than what a model can actually do in real work.

Then the conversation moves from models to machines: a $399 open-source robot duck, Dyson’s wildly overengineered CameraJet toothbrush, the return of the CPU as AI agents increasingly operate computers directly, and Apple’s increasingly data-center-like Mac Studio hardware for local AI workloads.

Finally, Corey and Grant unpack the fight over AI data centers in Texas, what communities should demand in exchange for hosting them, and why ChatGPT’s advertising business may become a major new piece of OpenAI’s economics.

Subscribe to The Neuron at theneuron.ai for a daily briefing on the AI stories that actually matter.

The Neuron: https://www.theneuron.ai/

The Neuron Academy: https://www.neuronacademy.com/

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BONUS: Claude Fable 5.1 LIVE: Testing Anthropic’s New AI Agent

Friday, September 4, 2026 • Duration 01:00:02

Anthropic just released Claude Fable 5.1, its newest frontier model for long-running coding, research, and agentic work.

So naturally, we’re putting it to the test LIVE. 🤖

Early testing suggests Fable 5.1 is faster, easier to work with, and capable of handling massive coding projects, long-form writing, and autonomous agent tasks more efficiently. Every even found that it used less than half as many tokens as Opus 5 in one internal test.

But it has some quirks too. It can blow past word counts, create unnecessary subagents, and occasionally keep working when you tell it to stop.

Today, Grant and Corey from The Neuron are testing those claims for themselves.

We’re putting Fable 5.1 through:

🧠 Complex research and knowledge work

💻 Coding and long-running agent workflows

✍️ Writing, editing, and instruction following

🤖 Autonomous tasks where Claude runs on its own

🛑 Constraint, budget, and STOP tests

🆚 Whatever else the live chat wants us to try

Anthropic also cut cached-input pricing by 75%, potentially making long-running Claude agents significantly cheaper to operate.

Can Fable 5.1 actually become the model you hand a giant task and walk away from?

Let’s find out live.

Where Does AI Agent Security Actually Live?

Season 1 · Episode 72

Friday, August 28, 2026 • Duration 54:50

AI companies spend enormous effort making models safer, but the model tested in the lab isn't necessarily the system a company eventually deploys.

Alice CEO and co-founder Noam Schwartz joins Corey and Grant to explain why prompts, tools, memory, permissions, data, and agent-to-agent interactions create an entirely new security surface.

They dig into the growing “trust gap” around enterprise AI, why prompt injection may become a permanent cat-and-mouse game, what open-weight models change for defenders, and why Schwartz believes the real security boundary has to exist at every layer of an AI system.

The bigger takeaway: as AI moves from answering questions to taking actions, traditional cybersecurity may need to merge with fraud prevention, threat intelligence, and trust and safety.

OpenAI security incident: https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/

Alice: https://alice.io/

Alice on agentic AI security: https://alice.io/blog/key-security-risks-posed-by-agentic-ai-and-how-to-mitigate-them

Alice open-weight research: https://alice.io/blog/okay-here-is-how-to-build-a-bomb-millions-download-dangerous-llms

Subscribe to The Neuron newsletter: https://theneuron.ai

Sponsored by Dell Technologies and NVIDIA. Learn more at https://www.techrepublic.com/hubs/the-enterprise-guide-to-scalable-ai/

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BONUS: AI Tool Roundup: What’s Actually Worth Trying?

Friday, August 21, 2026 • Duration 01:51:32

AI tools are shipping faster than most normal humans can figure out what half of them actually do.

So Thursday, August 20 at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET, we’re going LIVE to translate this week’s biggest AI launches into plain English. 😸

The goal: understand what these tools actually are, who they’re for, what’s useful vs. hype, and which ones are worth trying.

No three developers yelling model benchmarks at each other for an hour. Instead, we’re covering:

🤖 Qwen 3.8: What a powerful open model is, why you might use one instead of ChatGPT or Claude, and when that makes sense.

💻 Unsloth Studio: Run and experiment with AI models on your own computer, even if you’ve never touched a terminal.

⌨️ Cursor Origin: Cursor wants to host your code too. Here’s what that could mean for people building websites, apps, and internal tools with AI.

🛠️ DeepSeek Harness: What an “agent harness” is, why everyone keeps talking about them, and whether they matter outside hardcore coding circles.

💬 Buzz: Imagine Slack or Discord, except AI agents can join the workspace, collaborate with humans, and do work.

🐦 Berd: One desktop home for your AI agents, projects, skills, tools, and models. You can also give your agents little animated bodies. Please emotionally prepare yourself.

Plus, we’ll cover the other notable models and tools that dropped this week.

This AI model will run the economy in 2030 w/ Alexandre Pasquiou

Season 1 · Episode 71

Wednesday, August 19, 2026 • Duration 45:53

AI can write code, summarize documents, and hold a conversation. But it still struggles with the structured data businesses rely on to predict churn, fraud, demand, pricing, and risk.

Alexandre Pasquiou explains why language models flatten the relationships inside spreadsheets, how tabular foundation models learn from rows and columns, and why Neuralk believes one general model could replace hundreds of custom predictive systems.

The conversation also covers Seldon, AI agents, enterprise adoption, and Alexandre’s prediction that tabular foundation models will power every predictive workload by 2030.

Learn more about Neuralk: https://www.neuralk.ai/

Subscribe to The Neuron newsletter: https://theneuron.ai

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BONUS: Learn Video Prompting for TOTAL Beginners w/ NEW LTX-2.5 + LTX Team

Friday, August 14, 2026 • Duration 58:52

Want to make better AI videos but have absolutely no idea what you’re doing?

Perfect. Neither did most of us at first. 😹

Join The Neuron LIVE this Thursday at 10 AM PT for a total beginner’s guide to AI video generation and video prompting, featuring the team behind the newly announced LTX-2.5.

We’re going hands-on with the new model while learning the fundamentals of actually prompting video models effectively.

What we’ll cover:

🎬 How video prompting is different from image prompting

✍️ How to write your first good AI video prompt

🎥 How to control shots, motion, subjects, and scenes

🧠 What video models actually understand when you describe a scene

🛠️ A live demo of the brand-new LTX-2.5

❓ Live Q&A with members of the LTX team

No previous AI video experience required.

If you can describe the video you want to make, we’ll show you how to turn that idea into a much better prompt.

And because this is live, bring your weird prompts, difficult questions, and video ideas. We’ll put the model through its paces together.

📅 Thursday, August 13

⏰ 10 AM PT

Learn more about LTX-2.5

AI Can Now Write DNA. What Does This Promise, And What Could Go Wrong? With Eric Nguyen, co-founder and CEO of Radical Numerics

Wednesday, August 12, 2026 • Duration 51:17

AI can now read DNA like language, generate working biological sequences, and help scientists identify disease-related mutations. Radical Numerics CEO Eric Nguyen explains how genome language models work, why his earlier model Evo helped scientists design CRISPR systems and bacteriophage genomes, and how the company’s newer model, Omnii, combines DNA with RNA, proteins, and other biological signals. The conversation explores personalized medicine, gene therapy, AI-designed biological threats, “deepfake viruses,” and whether the same technology that creates new biology can also defend against it.

Learn more about Radical Numerics: https://www.radicalnumerics.ai/

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