Qwen 3.8 27B is free to download and took twenty-one minutes to draw a bird on a bicycle. Alex and Jordan audit Matthew Green's warning that AI will make phones too secure, Google's "practical" private AI that still costs minutes on a CPU, the Sean Byrne who may never have existed, and a drum toy behind a consent wall. 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: 2026-08-15

In this episode

• Qwen 3.8 27B — Apache weights. Thinking on by default. Twenty-one minutes and a skipped bicycle chain.
• Going Dark — If the bugs run out, exceptional access comes back on the agenda.
• Google HEIR — Private AI that is p ...