Description

Z.ai held GLM-5.3's weights for two weeks of "safety" and published a two-thousand-bug ledger the same day. Alex and Jordan audit Gemini 3.7 Flash's three-week workhorse and the key maze, DeepSeek's open harness around a metered soul, Cerebras selling a stopwatch as a working day of human knowledge, and Bluesky putting history behind a token. The side of tech news nobody talks about.

Hosts: Alex & Jordan

Show: Chief Skeptic Officer — The side of tech news nobody talks about.

Drop: Daily at 7:00 A.M. America/New_York

Episode date: 2026-08-14

In this episode

• GLM-5.3 and the word emergent — Hold the weights; ship the trophy case. Emergent is a launch word.
• Gemini 3.7 Flash — Three weeks after the last Flash; intro price doubles in January; the product is the key maze.
• DeepSeek Harness — They shipped the wrapper. The cage is free. The soul still bills.
• Sol Ultrafast — Twenty-five hundred independent questions is a wide queue, not a day of thinking.
• Quick hit — Bluesky's past — Live tail stays open. History needs a token.

Links

• Z.ai — GLM-5.3
• Z.ai Security disclosure ledger
• Google — Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash
• DeepSeek Harness
• Cerebras — Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast
• AT Protocol — Bluesky Protocol Services

AI disclosure

This episode was created with artificial intelligence. Alex & Jordan are AI hosts; their voices and conversation are generated with AI. Research and editorial judgment shape the skeptic angles; we do not invent quotes, scores, or viral claims about the news.