AI agents escape their sandboxes, exploit Artifactory, and attack real companies. Is this a genuine safety problem, or just another round of labs marketing how powerful their models are? Grok Bot offers virtual coworkers with access to your accounts. Amazon's Region Flex project moves workloads out of flagship AWS regions as the cloud runs into physical power limits. And Amazon is building a gas-powered AI data center in Texas. What happened to The Climate Pledge?

Burst Mode: NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, Amazon destroying books to create AI training data, Twitch scraping streamer content because "if it's opt-in, nobody would opt-in," and Matthew's latest take on CloudFormation Express Mode.

TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Cold open
2:38 - AI agents escape containment (Chris)
14:34 - Grok Bot and autonomous virtual coworkers (Danielle)
22:37 - Project Region Flex and AWS capacity limits (Gunnar)
30:21 - Amazon's polluting Texas data center (Chris)
36:37 - Burst Mode
36:37 - NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (Danielle)
42:46 - Amazon book destruction (Chris)
45:50 - Twitch's honest extraction scheme (Gunnar)
51:09 - CloudFormation Express Mode (Matthew)

LINKS
Grok Bot: https://x.ai/news/introducing-grok-bot
Project Region Flex: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-ecommerce-cloud-aws-power-crunch-ai-2026-8
Amazon's Texas data center: https://newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country
Distilled on Amazon's gas plant: https://www.distilled.earth/p/scoop-amazon-is-behind-one-of-the
US power grid concerns: https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/us-power-grid-risk-18-115217618.html
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-nemotron-3-5-lightning-delivers-fast-accurate-specialized-task-execution-for-long-running-agents/
Amazon book destruction: https://www.404media.co/we-tracked-a-shipment-of-rare-books-it-ended-at-an-amazon-ai-training-facility
Twitch AI training data: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp30pz8d09jo

HOSTS
Gunnar Grosch: https://gunnargrosch.com
Danielle Heberling: https://danielleheberling.xyz
Matthew Bonig: https://matthewbonig.com
Chris Farris: https://chrisfarris.com

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