A builder's view of the AI arms race

It's been a wild six weeks for frontier AI models — Mythos launched, got yanked offline by the Department of Commerce over export controls, and came back online with new guardrails, all while Five Eyes agencies warned that AI is months away from reshaping the threat landscape. This week on Safe Mode, Greg Otto talks with Armadin's David Slater, who is building directly on top of these frontier models, creating a platform integrating AI into cybersecurity offense and defense. The two dig into what it was actually like watching America's leading models go dark just as Chinese models — namely GLM 5.2 — closed the ga...