Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI
Katherine Forrest brings you Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI, an innovative podcast focused on cutting-edge AI in both tech and law. Katherine will walk you through the day’s biggest developments in AI just in time for your first cup of coffee.
Katherine Forrest brings you “Waking Up With AI,” an innovative and award-winning Paul, Weiss podcast focused on cutting-edge AI in both tech and law. Katherine will walk you through the day’s biggest developments in AI just in time for your first cup of coffee.
Episodes

May 15, 2025
May 15, 2025
15 min
In this episode of "Paul, Weiss Waking Up With AI," Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel discuss AI benchmarking, exploring how these standardized tests evaluate AI models against each other and human capabilities, helping developers and deployers assess performance, safety and progress toward artificial general intelligence.
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Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence practice:https://www.paulweiss.com/industries/artificial-intelligence

May 8, 2025
May 8, 2025
13 min
This week on “Waking Up With AI,” Anna Gressel looks at how decentralized AI training could revolutionize the field by allowing for the collaborative use of advanced GPUs worldwide, expanding access to model development while raising interesting questions about export controls and regulatory frameworks.
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Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice:https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence

May 1, 2025
May 1, 2025
20 min
In this episode of "Waking Up With AI," Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel discuss breakthroughs in AI-powered language translation, from Meta's real-time translation glasses to new, highly-capable LLMs that are preserving and enabling communication across diverse global languages.
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Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice:https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence

Apr 25, 2025
Apr 25, 2025
17 min
This week on "Waking Up With AI," Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel explore the intersection of AI and biology, focusing on how DeepMind's AlphaFold has revolutionized protein folding prediction by enabling scientists to better understand protein structures and interactions.
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Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice:https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence

Apr 17, 2025
Apr 17, 2025
14 min
In this episode of “Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel examine a provocative research paper, which claims that some AI models can self-replicate, move between servers and resist shutdown commands — all without human intervention.
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Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice:https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence

Apr 14, 2025
Apr 14, 2025
19 min
This week on “Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel introduce griefbots, AI models that simulate the deceased, examining the legal, ethical and financial issues questions that arise when technology offers a digital afterlife.
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Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice:https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence

Apr 7, 2025
Apr 7, 2025
16 min
In this episode of “Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel revisit how companies should brief their boards of directors about AI in 2025, offering insights into AI usage, risks and strategic considerations for senior management.
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Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice:https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence

Mar 27, 2025
Mar 27, 2025
16 min
Join Katherine Forrest in this week’s episode of "Waking Up With AI" as she unravels the complexities of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). Discover how these essential software tools enable communication between program and their critical role in AI applications like ChatGPT.
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Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice:https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence

Mar 20, 2025
Mar 20, 2025
16 min
This week, Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel unravel the mysteries of quantum physics, quantum algorithms and quantum computers. Join them as they discuss the potential of quantum computing to transform AI and scientific discovery.
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Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice:https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence

Mar 13, 2025
Mar 13, 2025
23 min
This week on “Waking Up With AI,” Katherine Forrest and Anna Gressel break down the fundamentals of quantum computing and its powerful computational abilities, setting the stage for upcoming episodes that will explore quantum computing's relationship with AI and recent advances from major tech companies.
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Learn More About Paul, Weiss’s Artificial Intelligence Practice:https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence









