The Neuron: AI Explained

AI is finding software vulnerabilities faster than organizations can patch them. OpenAI reported 948 Linux vulnerabilities with working privilege-escalation exploits. Should we be worried

Join The Neuron's Corey Noles LIVE with Mark Stockley, Cybersecurity Evangelist at ThreatDown and host of The AI Fix podcast, to explore what AI-powered vulnerability discovery means for businesses, developers, and everyday users.

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From OpenAI's Linux research to PHP2Shell and Anthropic's Project Glasswing, we'll separate the real risks from the hype.What We'll Cover:
- OpenAI's 948 findings: What was actually demonstrated?
- PHP2Shell: Why PHP flaws can threaten web servers.
- The Patch Tsunami: Can defenders keep up with AI discovery?
- Claude Mythos: Why access to some AI models is restricted.
- AI cybercrime: Could attackers exploit the patching gap?
- CVE counts: Does more disclosure mean less security?
- Next steps for users, developers, and security teams.

Guest & Resources:
- ThreatDown: https://www.threatdown.com/
- The AI Fix: https://theaifix.show/
- The Patch Tsunami: https://www.threatdown.com/blog/the-patch-tsunami/
- OpenAI research: https://openai.com/index/a-thousand-fewer-paths-to-root/
- PHP updates: https://www.php.net/
- Project Glasswing: https://www.anthropic.com/project/glasswing

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Mark Stockley joins Corey Noles to examine the real-world implications of automated hacking. We analyze whether the current patch tsunami is a manageable challenge or an existential threat to modern web security. The discussion covers why OpenAI research and other automated tools are finding flaws at an unprecedented scale, and what developers must prioritize to maintain system integrity.

We also separate genuine cybercrime risks from marketing noise, including the technical reality behind PHP vulnerabilities and restricted AI model access. By understanding these patterns, security teams can better defend against potential exploits.

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Corey and Grant walk backward through roughly four years of modern generative AI, starting with late-2026 frontier models and agents and tracing the path back to ChatGPT’s November 2022 launch and the 2017 Transformer paper.

The episode focuses on what changed at each stage: reasoning, tools, multimodality, long context, agents, open-source competition, and the shift from chatbots toward long-running computer work. They also revisit their own first encounters with ChatGPT, debate open access versus AI safety, and close with long-term predictions about robotics, machine labor, scientific progress, and who should have access to increasingly capable systems.

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Corey talks with Napster CEO John Acunto about the company’s pivot from music into AI agents and what Napster calls “streaming intelligence.” Acunto lays out a four-part customer-data framework, capture, learn, act, own, and argues that companies should use conversational agents to learn directly from customers while keeping control of the resulting data and models. The conversation covers photorealistic video agents, edge compute, Microsoft Azure / Foundry, robotics, data portability, customer conversion, and Napster’s broader bet that the next interface for AI will feel more like talking to a person than typing into a box.

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Standard Bots CEO Evan Beard explains why industrial robots are finally starting to move beyond brittle point-by-point programming. Instead of teaching a robot one exact path, teams can increasingly describe a task, demonstrate it through teleoperation or guided motion, and let the system learn how to handle variation in the real world.

The conversation covers natural-language robot programming, learning by demonstration, ugly factory edge cases, the reliability bar for production, and why the most important robotics progress may look less like a humanoid stunt and more like a machine that can handle a shifted part without calling an engineer.

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Neurosurgeon-scientists Alex Ksendzovsky and Jon Pomeraniec explain how The Biological Computing Company uses living neurons as a research platform for AI. Their team grows roughly 150,000 cells on a 4,096-electrode array, sends in patterns such as handwritten digits, records how the neurons respond, and models useful computational behaviors in software. They say those neuron-inspired techniques are already helping GPU-based video-generation systems run about 5x faster with roughly 80% lower inference cost, while their longer-term work explores robots, world models, and real-time biological compute.

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Sponsored by Outshift:“Scaling Out Superintelligence” Vijoy Pandey, January 2026. The technical whitepaper detailing the Internet of Cognition architecture, three-layer stack, and cognition state protocols. https://outshift.cisco.com/internet-of-cognition/whitepaper?utm_campaign=fy27q1_outshift_ww_paid_ioc-neuron-wp_podcast&utm_channel=podcast&utm_source=podcast

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