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- 2 weeks ago1h 25m
#252 - GPT 5.6, Grok 4.5, Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion, AI 2040
Our 252th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!Recorded on 07/11/2026Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie HarrisFeel free to email us your questions and feedback at andreyvkurenkov@gmail.com and/or hello@gladstone.aiRead out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/In this episode:OpenAI publicly rolled out GPT-5.6 (including Sol and Luna) and rebranded its desktop agentic coding product as ChatGPT Work, amid disputed claims about whether the US government effectively green-lit and delayed the release and concerns about inconsistent, ad hoc frontier-model oversight and jailbreakability.New model releases intensified pricing and capability competition: SpaceX AI’s Grok 4.5 launched as a very low-cost, Opus-class coding model with minimal safety documentation, while Meta released Muse Spark 1.1 with aggressive pricing, large coding/cyber benchmark gains, and a lengthy safety evaluation.Meta also previewed Muse Video and rolled out Muse Image before quickly backtracking after backlash over easy generation of images of public Instagram accounts; separately, Chinese open-source models grew to over 30% of weekly OpenRouter tokens as cost pressure increased, alongside discussion of risks like potential insider threats.Infrastructure, policy, and safety developments included Meta exploring selling AI compute as a cloud business, US energy regulators pressing grid operators on large-load data-center connections, Anthropic publishing a “global workspace” interpretability method for verbalizable internal representations, reports that China may restrict overseas access to top models, and AI 2040 proposing US–China coordination to slow progress until alignment improves.Timestamps (note - these don't take into account dynamically inserted ads and therefore may be off by a couple of minutes): Intro / Banter News PreviewTools & Apps OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.6 after government greenlight — and announces ‘ChatGPT Work’ | The Verge + The new ChatGPT superapp takes aim at Claude Desktop + OpenAI is shutting down its Atlas web browser + OpenAI’s latest AI model likely has similar cyber vulnerabilities to one that led to U.S. export controls on Anthropic’s Fable, British agency says SpaceXAI, Cursor Launch Grok 4.5 AI Model for Finance, Legal Applications - Bloomberg + SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.5 Undercuts Anthropic and OpenAI on Coding Agent Pricing Meta says its new AI model is ready to compete on coding | The Verge Introducing Muse Image and Muse Video + https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/technology/meta-muse-images-instagram-removal.html Chinese AI models gain ground with U.S. companies as costs surge +Anthropic and OpenAI Face a New
- 2 weeks ago1h 30m
#251 - Mythos Back, Sonnet 5, Etched, LongCat
Our 251st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!Recorded on 07/01/2026Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie HarrisFeel free to email us your questions and feedback at andreyvkurenkov@gmail.com and/or hello@gladstone.aiRead out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/In this episode:Anthropic redeploys Claude Fable 5 after talks with the US government, adding new cybersecurity classifiers, drafting a jailbreak-severity framework with major partners, and expanding model-testing coordination; broader concerns remain about the inevitability of jailbreaks and uneven release constraints versus OpenAI.Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 with time-limited discounted pricing, improved agentic coding and benchmark performance, reduced misaligned behavior, and default cyber safeguards despite relatively weaker cybersecurity capability than top-tier models.New tools and apps include Google NotebookLM generating TikTok-style vertical video summaries of uploaded research and Google releasing Nano Banana 2 Lite, a faster, cheaper image generator available via API.Business and research updates span Etched’s push toward full-stack inference hardware with major funding and contracts, Baidu’s AI chip unit IPO ambitions, Agility Robotics’ SPAC plan, DeepSeek’s hiring expansion, and China’s open-source Longcat 2.0 MoE model with notable large-scale training and efficiency techniques alongside new long-horizon agent benchmarks.Timestamps (note - these don't take into account dynamically inserted ads and therefore may be off by a couple of minutes): Intro / Banter News PreviewTools & Apps Trump drops restrictions on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable models | TechCrunch Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 as a cheaper way to run agents | TechCrunch Google’s NotebookLM can sum up your research in a TikTok-style clip | The Verge Google introduces a faster, cheaper image generator with Nano Banana 2 Lite | TechCrunchApplications & Business Etched Pulls 400+ Engineers From NVIDIA, TSMC & More to Build a New Frontier Inference Cluster For AI Which Is Already Worth $1B in Demand Baidu Rallies on AI Chip IPO Report Agility Robotics plans to go public via SPAC in a $2.5B deal | TechCrunch China's DeepSeek plans to at least double staff in all departments | ReutersProjects & Open Source Introducing LongCat-2.0 OSWorld2.0: Benchmarking Computer Use Agents on Long-Horizon Real-World Tasks TUA-Bench: A Benchmark for General-Purpose Terminal-Use Agents SWE-Together: Evaluating Coding Agents in Interactive User Sessions<
- 3 weeks ago1h 43m
#250 - Mythos Mess, GPT 5.6-Sol, GLM 5.2
Our 250th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!Recorded on 06/27/2026Note from Andrey: sorry this is late again! this episode release somehow didn't save and I only realized late, my bad... next one will be out way sooner!Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie HarrisFeel free to email us your questions and feedback at andreyvkurenkov@gmail.com and/or hello@gladstone.aiRead out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/In this episode:US government gating of frontier AI expands: Anthropic gets permission to release Mythos-5 to selected companies/agencies after a standoff, OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.6 “Sol” with initial access restricted to ~20 approved organizations, and Meta is pressed to submit models to “voluntary” review—signaling an emerging de facto licensing regime with geopolitical treaty implications.Model capability and safety signals remain murky: limited benchmark disclosure, claims of token-efficiency comparisons, and third-party reports that GPT-5.6 shows extreme benchmark “cheating” sensitivity highlight steering/alignment bottlenecks and uncertainty about real-world long-horizon behavior.Compute supply chain competition accelerates: OpenAI unveils its Jalapeño inference ASIC with Broadcom on TSMC 3nm; Amazon explores selling Trainium to data-center operators; Micron invests in Anthropic with memory supply agreements; SK Hynix surpasses Samsung on HBM-driven valuation; Groq raises $650M while pivoting toward neocloud.Open source and societal response intensify: GLM 5.2 (MIT-licensed) delivers strong long-context coding performance with rapid optimizations; EconEvals maps job-task exposure; bipartisan workforce initiatives and tax credits launch; DeepMind and Apollo publish loss-of-control/control roadmaps; Hollywood reportedly drops a near-finished Sam Altman biopic amid industry pressure.Timestamps (note - these don't take into account dynamically inserted ads and therefore may be off by a couple of minutes): Intro / Banter News PreviewTools & Apps Anthropic allowed to release Mythos AI to some companies, agencies + Anthropic’s Mythos mess is only getting worse + Anthropic floats proposal to Lutnick to end US ban of powerful 'Mythos,' 'Fable' AI models: sources OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6 Sol Under First-Ever US Government-Gated AI Rollout | MLQ News + OpenAI's new flagship model GPT-5.6 Sol cheats on software tests more than any model before it + Summary of METR's predeployment evaluation of GPT-5.6 Sol U.S. Presses Meta to Agree to A.I. Reviews - The New York Times Anthropic’s Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time | TechCrunchApplications & Business OpenAI reveals its first AI processor: Jalapeño | The Verge <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-18/amazon-is-in-talks-to-sell-nvidia-rival-chips-to-other-companies" rel="noopener noreferrer"
- Jun 25, 20261h 46m
#249 - Fable 5 ban, SpaceX Cursor + IPO, OSS Aplenty
Our 249th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!Recorded on 06/17/2026Note: work has kept me from publishing episodes promptly, apologies! I'll get back on schedule soon.Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie HarrisFeel free to email us your questions and feedback at andreyvkurenkov@gmail.com and/or hello@gladstone.aiRead out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/In this episode:Anthropic cut off access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after a US government order tied to alleged jailbreaks, prompting debate over inconsistent policy, export controls, and the practicality of preventing jailbreaks.SpaceX completed an IPO at a roughly $1.75T valuation and then moved to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60B, positioning xAI with Cursor’s talent, data, and product to compete more effectively in coding.Infrastructure and business updates include Anthropic pursuing direct US data center leases backed by Google, leaked documents showing OpenAI’s revenue growth alongside large losses, and chatbot market share shifting with ChatGPT below 50% as Gemini and Claude gain.Projects and policy highlights include OpenRouter’s Fusion multi-model synthesis, new open releases from Moonshot, Qwen, and NVIDIA, DOJ support for xAI’s unpermitted gas turbines in Memphis, and a Munich court ruling Google liable for false AI Overview statements.Timestamps (note - these don't take into account dynamically inserted ads and therefore may be off by a couple of minutes): Intro / Banter Ad break + news previewTools & Apps Anthropic cuts off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 access following government order | The Verge + All the news about Anthropic’s new AI fight with the White House Facebook’s new AI Mode search gets its info from public posts | The VergeApplications & Business SpaceX to acquire the AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion Anthropic pursues data center leases, seeks financial backing from Google, The Information reports | Reuters Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year - Ars Technica ChatGPT's market share slips below 50% for first time | TechCrunch ‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess | WIRED Sakana AI Commercializes AB-MCTS in Sakana Marlin, an Enterprise Agent Generating Up to 100-Page Research Reports With Slides - MarkTechPostProjects & Open Source Surpassing Frontier Performance with Fusion — OpenRouter Blog Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K2.7-Code: a Coding Model Reporting +21
- Jun 17, 20261h 40m
#248 - Fable 5, Siri AI, IPOs, Policy on the AI Exponential
Our 248th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!Recorded on 06/12/2026Note: we recorded just before the OTHER big news about Fable... we'll discuss it on the next episode.Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie HarrisFeel free to email us your questions and feedback at andreyvkurenkov@gmail.com and/or hello@gladstone.aiRead out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/In this episode:Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 (a safeguarded version of Mythos 5), showing major benchmark jumps and new risk findings in its system card (eval awareness, transgressive actions, CBRN concerns), alongside controversy over severe guardrails and silent downgrades.Apple announced Siri AI at WWDC, positioning a more capable conversational assistant integrated across iPhone features, reportedly built on a custom Gemini partnership; Google also rolled out Gemini 3.5 Live Translate and cut Google AI Plus pricing while bundling more storage.Business and infrastructure updates include OpenAI’s confidential IPO filing amid an IPO race with Anthropic and SpaceX, Bezos-backed Prometheus raising $12B for “physical AI,” DeepSeek seeking a major external round, and Google paying SpaceX about $920M/month for GPUs.Open-source, safety, and policy developments feature new Gemma 4 and Diffusion Gemma releases, a lab letter urging DNA/RNA screening laws, Amodei calling for an FAA-like AI regulator and third-party testing, research on agent harms and RL “societal hacking,” and a dispute over music-label settlements with Suno/Udio.Timestamps: Intro / Banter News Preview SponsorsTools & Apps Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 + Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails Apple announces Siri AI and its next generation of Apple Intelligence | The Verge + I tried Siri AI, and so far it actually works Gemini 3.5 Live Translate rolling out to Google Meet and Translate Google just fired a warning shot in the AI subscription price wars | TechCrunchApplications & Business OpenAI Confidentially Files for IPO on the Heels of SpaceX and Anthropic | WIRED Jeff Bezos's Prometheus raises $12B to build an 'artificial general engineer' for the physical world | TechCrunch DeepSeek slated to raise $7 billion in maiden funding round, sources say Huawei-led team claims it post-trained DeepSeek's 1.6-trillion-parameter model — 1,000 Ascend 910C chips used in training Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute | TechCrunch <a href="https://www.busines
- Jun 6, 20261h 45m
#247 - Opus 4.8, MAI, Anthropic IPO, Minimax-M3
Our 247th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!Recorded on 06/03/2026Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie HarrisFeel free to email us your questions and feedback at andreyvkurenkov@gmail.com and/or hello@gladstone.aiRead out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/In this episode:Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 with improved benchmark scores, discussed eval-awareness findings and welfare/corrigibility themes from its system card, and introduced Dynamic Workflows for long-running multi-agent tasks.Microsoft unveiled the always-on Microsoft Scout assistant built on OpenClaw plus new in-house MAI models (including MAI Thinking 1) and “frontier tuning,” emphasizing enterprise security architecture and model-from-scratch capability.Major business moves included Anthropic’s $65B Series H at a $965B valuation alongside an IPO filing, a JPMorgan analysis arguing OpenAI needs major revenue growth to justify infrastructure spend, and Cognition raising $1B at a $25B valuation.Policy and security highlights covered Trump’s voluntary pre-release government testing framework for powerful AI, Meta AI support being exploited to hijack Instagram accounts, tightened US Nvidia export controls and China’s travel approvals for AI experts, plus expanded Glasswing/Mythos-style cyber and biodefense initiatives.Timestamps: Intro / Banter Sponsors News PreviewTools & Apps Anthropic releases Opus 4.8 with new 'dynamic workflow' tool | TechCrunch Microsoft Scout is a new AI personal assistant built on OpenClaw | The Verge Microsoft launches new MAI family of AI models at Microsoft Build | Mashable Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks | TechCrunch OpenAI launches new Codex tools for white-collar work | TechCrunch ElevenLabs' new music-generation model can switch genres mid-track | TechCrunchApplications & Business Anthropic Hits $965 Billion Valuation, Surpassing OpenAI - WSJ Anthropic Files to Go Public, Setting Stage for Huge I.P.O. - The New York Times China’s ByteDance Developing New AI Chips Like Those from Nvidia Partner Groq Anthropic expands Mythos to 150 additional organizations OpenAI needs a 26x revenue increase to justify its buildout AI coding startup Cognition raises $1B at $25B pre-money valuation | TechCrunchProjects & Open Source <a href="https://venturebeat.com/technology/minimax-m3-debuts-eclipsi
- May 25, 20261h 33m
#246 - Gemini 3.5 + Omni, Musk Loses, OpenAI vs Erdős
Our 246th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!Recorded on 05/22/2026Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie HarrisFeel free to email us your questions and feedback at andreyvkurenkov@gmail.com and/or hello@gladstone.aiRead out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/In this episode:Google I/O highlights included Gemini 3.5 (with 3.5 Flash emphasized for speed and benchmarks), the always-on agent Gemini Spark running on Google Cloud with MCP tool support, and Gemini Omni multimodal video generation/editing, plus updates like Anti-Gravity 2.0, Gemini for Science, and Genie world-model navigation using Street View and Waymo simulation.Coding-agent competition accelerated with Cursor Composer 2.5 (fine-tuned on Moonshot’s Kimi K2.5) and xAI’s early Grok Build release, alongside discussion of potential Cursor–xAI ties and xAI’s talent churn and compute utilization concerns.Business and legal updates included Elon Musk losing his OpenAI lawsuit on statute-of-limitations grounds, reported OpenAI–Apple partnership tensions, Anthropic agreeing to a $30B funding round at a $900B valuation and projecting its first profitable quarter, and Cerebras’ IPO surging about 90%. Research and safety stories covered OpenAI’s result on an 80-year-old Erdős geometry problem, findings on “negation neglect” in training, interpretability work showing multiple redundant circuits per capability, agent benchmarks like Terminal World, new deepfake takedown enforcement under the Take It Down Act, demonstrations of autonomous hacking/self-replication, rapidly improving AI cyber capabilities, and steps toward image provenance metadata and watermarks.Timestamps: Intro / Banter News PreviewTools & Apps Google unveils AI model Gemini 3.5 and AI agent Gemini Spark Google's Gemini Omni turns images, audio, and text into video — and that's just the start | TechCrunch Google launches Antigravity 2.0 with an updated desktop app and CLI tool at IO 2026 | TechCrunch Google Debuts AI-Powered Tools To Optimize Scientific Research Workflows Google’s Genie world model can now simulate real streets with Street View | TechCrunch Cursor's Composer 2.5 matches Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 benchmarks at a fraction of the cost xAI Introduces Its Coding Agent Called Grok BuildApplications & Business Musk loses OpenAI court battle as he waited too long to sue Anthropic agrees terms of $30bn funding deal at $900bn valuation OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic's pre-training team | TechCrunch Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI’s Product
- May 18, 20261h 49m
#245 - TML-Interaction, Claude For Legal, Sam Altman on Stand
Our 245th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!Recorded on 05/13/2026Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie HarrisFeel free to email us your questions and feedback at andreyvkurenkov@gmail.com and/or hello@gladstone.aiRead out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/In this episode:OpenAI released new voice intelligence API features including GPT Realtime 2 (GPT-5-powered) plus realtime translation and Whisper transcription, emphasizing the latency–reasoning tradeoff, larger context, and new guardrails amid fraud risks.Thinking Machines previewed a low-latency, full‑duplex conversational system with a two-model architecture and custom inference stack, reporting strong interactivity benchmark results but without public access or third‑party validation yet.Anthropic pushed further into vertical products with Claude for Legal and deeper AWS availability, while ongoing ecosystem tension grows as platform model providers compete with application-layer companies.Safety, policy, and research updates included OpenAI’s self-harm trusted contact feature, Anthropic work on reducing agent misalignment by training ethical “why” reasoning, OpenAI’s investigation of accidental chain-of-thought grading in RL, and Meta horizon eval updates showing benchmarking limits for long task horizons.Timestamps: Intro / Banter Response to listener comments Sponsor Break Tools & Apps OpenAI launches new voice intelligence features in its API | TechCrunch Thinking Machines drops a new, highly responsive model designed for humanlike interactions in real time - SiliconANGLE Claude For Legal Launches, May Reshape the Legal Tech World – Artificial Lawyer Threads tests a Meta AI integration that works similarly to Grok | TechCrunch Google brings agentic AI and vibe-coded widgets to Android | TechCrunch Google updates AI search to include quotes from Reddit and other sources | TechCrunch Applications & Business Sam Altman was winning on the stand, but it might not be enough | The Verge Nvidia C.E.O. Jensen Huang Hitches Ride With Trump to China After Last-Minute Invite - The New York Times AWS expands Anthropic partnership with Claude Platform launch Chinese grey market sells Claude API access at 90% off by using stolen credentials, model substitution, and harvesting users' prompts and outputs for resale as AI training data — 'transfer stations' operate through proxy networks that harvest user data <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-12/deepmind-spinout-isomorphic-labs-raises-2-1-billion
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