# July 14 2026 - Sutton’s Oak Lab & TRACE: Smarter, Continuous AISutton’s Oak Lab & TRACE: Smarter, Continuous AI

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Podcast: [The AI Signal & The AI Noise](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ai-signal-the-ai-noise-7399318)
Published: 2026-07-14T03:20:54+00:00
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Duration seconds: 581

## Resource

Richard Sutton launches Oak Lab to pursue continuous, self-supervised RL and challenge frozen LLMs. Stanford's TRACE turns agent failures into targeted training patches. Also: Nobel-backed warnings about AI's economic risks and Gemini bringing voice reports to Waze.

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