Last Week in AI

Our 231st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 01/16/2026 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ In this episode: Timestamps: Anthropic’s new Cowork tool offers Claude Code without the code | TechCrunchGoogle’s Gemini AI will use what it knows about you from Gmail, Search, and YouTube | The VergeGoogle removes some AI health summaries after investigation finds “dangerous” flaws - Ars TechnicaGmail is getting a Gemini AI overhaulSlackbot is an AI agent now | TechCrunchAnthropic Raising $10 Billion at $350 Billion ValueElon Musk xAI raises $20 billion from Nvidia, Cisco, investorsNVIDIA Needs a Supply Chain ‘Miracle’ From TSMC as China’s H200 AI Chip Orders Overwhelm Supply, Triggering a BottleneckOpenAI signs deal, worth $10B, for compute from Cerebras | TechCrunchCoreWeave in focus as it amends credit agreementLMArena lands $1.7B valuation four months after launching its product | TechCrunchNemotron-Cascade: Scaling Cascaded Reinforcement Learning for General-Purpose Reasoning ModelsmHC: Manifold-Constrained Hyper-ConnectionsIQuest_Coder_Technical_ReportTII Abu-Dhabi Released Falcon H1R-7B: A New Reasoning Model Outperforming Others in Math and Coding with only 7B Params with 256k Context Window - MarkTechPostDeep Delta LearningRecursive Language ModelsConditional memory via scalable lookupExtending the Context of Pretrained LLMs by Dropping their Positional EmbeddingsConstitutional Classifiers++: Efficient Production-Grade Defenses against Universal JailbreaksNvidia CEO says purchase orders, not formal declaration, will signal Chinese approval of H200China AI Leaders Warn of Widening Gap With US After $1B IPO WeekJake Sullivan is furious that Trump removed Biden’s AI chip export controls | The VergeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Our 230th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 01/02/2026 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ In this episode: Timestamps: OpenAI bets big on audio as Silicon Valley declares war on screens | TechCrunch Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20 billion, biggest dealExclusive | Meta Buys AI Startup Manus, Adding Millions of Paying Users - WSJCursor continues acquisition spree with Graphite deal | TechCrunchMicron Hikes CapEx to $20B with 2026 HBM Supply Fully Booked; HBM4 Ramps 2Q26Chinese fabs are reportedly upgrading older ASML DUV lithography chipmaking machines — secondary channels and independent engineers used to soup up Twinscan NXT series Z.AI launches GLM-4.7, new SOTA open-source model for codingEvaluating AI’s ability to perform scientific research tasks Large Causal Models from Large Language ModelsUniversally Converging Representations of Matter Across Scientific Foundation ModelsMETA-RL INDUCES EXPLORATION IN LANGUAGE AGENTSAre the Costs of AI Agents Also Rising Exponentially?METR eval for Opus 4.5How to game the METR plot New York governor Kathy Hochul signs RAISE Act to regulate AI safety | TechCrunchActivation Oracles: Training and Evaluating LLMs as General-Purpose Activation ExplainersMonitoring MonitorabilitySam Altman is hiring someone to worry about the dangers of AI | The VergeX users asking Grok to put this girl in bikini, Grok is happy obliging - India TodaySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Our 229th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 12/19/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ In this episode: Timestamps: Google launches Gemini 3 Flash, makes it the default model in the Gemini app | TechCrunchChatGPT launches an app store, lets developers know it's open for business | TechCrunchIntroducing GPT-5.2-Codex | OpenAIMeta partners with ElevenLabs to power AI audio across Instagram, Horizon - The Economic Times OpenAI to End Equity Vesting Period for Employees, WSJ SaysHow China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chipsChina’s Huawei, SMIC Make Progress With Chips, Report FindsOpenAI in Talks to Raise At Least $10 Billion From Amazon and Use Its AI ChipsAmazon has a new leader for its ‘AGI’ group as it plays catch-up on AI | The VergeBroadcom reveals its mystery $10 billion customer is AnthropicVibe-coding startup Lovable raises $330M at a $6.6B valuation | TechCrunchFal nabs $140M in fresh funding led by Sequoia, tripling valuation to $4.5B | TechCrunch Nvidia Becomes a Major Model Maker With Nemotron 3 | WIREDMeta introduces new SAM AI able to isolate and edit audio • The Register[2512.14856] T5Gemma 2: Seeing, Reading, and Understanding LongerAnthropic makes agent Skills an open standard - SiliconANGLE Budget-Aware Tool-Use Enables Effective Agent ScalingRethinking Thinking Tokens: LLMs as Improvement OperatorsWhat if AI capabilities suddenly accelerated in 2027? How would the world know? Update to GPdfT-5 System Card: GPT-5.2Neural Chameleons: Language Models Can Learn to Hide Their Thoughts from Unseen Activation MonitorsAsync Control: Stress-testing Asynchronous Control Measures for LLM AgentsGoogle is powering a new US military AI platform | The VergeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Our 228th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 12/12/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ In this episode: Timestamps: GPT-5.2 is OpenAI’s latest move in the agentic AI battle | The VergeRunway releases its first world model, adds native audio to latest video model | TechCrunchGoogle says it will link to more sources in AI Mode | The VergeChatGPT can now use Adobe apps to edit your photos and PDFs for free | The VergeTencent releases Hunyuan 2.0 with 406B parametersChina set to limit access to Nvidia’s H200 chips despite Trump export approvalDisney investing $1 billion in OpenAI, will allow characters on SoraUnconventional AI confirms its massive $475M seed roundSlack CEO Denise Dresser to join OpenAI as chief revenue officer | TechCrunchThe state of enterprise AI[2512.10791] The FACTS Leaderboard: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Large Language Model FactualityClaude 4.5 Opus' Soul Document[2512.08296] Towards a Science of Scaling Agent SystemsEvaluating Gemini Robotics Policies in a Veo World SimulatorGuided Self-Evolving LLMs with Minimal Human SupervisionMartingale Score: An Unsupervised Metric for Bayesian Rationality in LLM Reasoning[2512.07783] On the Interplay of Pre-Training, Mid-Training, and RL on Reasoning Language ModelsStabilizing Reinforcement Learning with LLMs: Formulation and PracticesGoogle’s AI unit DeepMind announces UK 'automated research lab'Trump Moves to Stop States From Regulating AI With a New Executive Order - The New York Times[2512.09742] Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMsForecasting AI Time Horizon Under Compute SlowdownsAI Security Institute focuses on AI measurements and evaluationsNvidia AI Chips to Undergo Unusual U.S. Security Review Before Export to ChinaU.S. Authorities Shut Down Major China-Linked AI Tech Smuggling NetworkRSL 1.0 has arrived, allowing publishers to ask AI companies pay to scrape content | The Verge See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Our 227th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 12/05/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ In this episode: Timestamps: Deepseek 3.2 : New AI Model is Faster, Cheaper and SmarterBlack Forest Labs launches Flux.2 AI image models to challenge Nano Banana Pro and MidjourneySora and Nano Banana Pro throttled amid soaring demand | The VergeMistral closes in on Big AI rivals with new open-weight frontier and small models | TechCrunchKling's Video O1 launches as the first all-in-one video model for generation and editingRunway rolls out Gen 4.5 AI video model that beats Google, OpenAINVIDIA’s Partners Are Beginning to Tilt Toward Google’s TPU Ecosystem, with Foxconn Reportedly Securing TPU Rack OrdersAmazon releases an impressive new AI chip and teases an Nvidia-friendly roadmap | TechCrunchOpenAI declares ‘code red’ as Google catches up in AI race | The VergeAnthropic reportedly preparing for massive IPO in race with OpenAI: FTBlack Forest Labs raises $300M at $3.25B valuation | TechCrunchParis-based AI voice startup Gradium nabs $70M seed | TechCrunchOpenAI announced a 1 GW Stargate cluster in Abu DhabiOpenAI’s investment into Thrive Holdings is its latest circular dealOpenAI to acquire Neptune, an AI model training assistance startupAnthropic acquires developer tool startup Bun to scale AI codingMicrosoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas - Ars Technica[2511.22570] DeepSeekMath-V2: Towards Self-Verifiable Mathematical ReasoningEvo-Memory: Benchmarking LLM Agent Test-time Learning with Self-Evolving MemoryNested Learning: The Illusion of Deep Learning ArchitectureMulti-Agent Deep Research: Training Multi-Agent Systems with M-GRPOState of AI: An Empirical 100 Trillion Token Study with OpenRouterTrump signs executive order launching Genesis Mission AI projectOpenAI has trained its LLM to confess to bad behavior | MIT Technology ReviewUS senators seek to block Nvidia sales of advanced chips to ChinaSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Our 226th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 11/24/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and co-hosted by Michelle Lee Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ In this episode: Timestamps: Google launches Gemini 3 with new coding app and record benchmark scores | TechCrunchGoogle launches Nano Banana Pro powered by Gemini 3Anthropic releases Opus 4.5 with new Chrome and Excel integrations | TechCrunchOpenAI releases GPT-5.1-Codex-Max to handle engineering tasks that span twenty-four hoursChatGPT launches group chats globally | TechCrunchGrok Claims Elon Musk Is More Athletic Than LeBron James — and the World’s Greatest LoverWhat AI bubble? Nvidia's strong earnings signal there's more room to growAlphabet stock surges on Gemini 3 AI model optimismSunday Robotics emerges from stealth with launch of ‘Memo’ humanoid house chores robotRobotics Startup Physical Intelligence Valued at $5.6 Billion in New Funding - BloombergWaymo permitted areas expanded by California DMV - CBS Los AngelesWaymo enters 3 more cities: Minneapolis, New Orleans, and Tampa | TechCrunchMeta AI Releases Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM 3) for Promptable Concept Segmentation in Images and Videos - MarkTechPost[2511.16624] SAM 3D: 3Dfy Anything in Images[2511.13998] LoCoBench-Agent: An Interactive Benchmark for LLM Agents in Long-Context Software Engineering[2511.08544] LeJEPA: Provable and Scalable Self-Supervised Learning Without the Heuristics[2511.13720] Back to Basics: Let Denoising Generative Models DenoiseEurope is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws | The VergeFrom shortcuts to sabotage: natural emergent misalignment from reward hacking[2511.15304] Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language ModelsDisrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaignOpenAI Locks Down San Francisco Offices Following Alleged Threat From Activist | WIREDWarner Music Group Settles AI Lawsuit With UdioSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Our 225th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 11/16/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and co-hosted by Michelle Lee Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ In this episode: Timestamps: OpenAI says the brand-new GPT-5.1 is ‘warmer’ and has more ‘personality’ options | The VergeBaidu Unveils ERNIE 5.0 and a Series of AI Applications at Baidu World 2025, Ramps Up Global PushByteDance’s Volcano Engine debuts coding agent at $1.3 promo priceGoogle will let users call stores, browse products, and check out using AI | The VergeFei-Fei Li's World Labs speeds up the world model race with Marble, its first commercial product | TechCrunchOpenAI says it's fixed ChatGPT's em dash problem | TechCrunchAnthropic announces $50 billion data center plan | TechCrunchBaidu teases next-gen AI training, inference accelerators • The RegisterMeta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to exit and launch own start-upAmazon Demands Perplexity Stop AI Tool From Making Purchases - BloombergAI PowerPoint-killer Gamma hits $2.1B valuation, $100M ARR, founder says | TechCrunchInception raises $50 million to build diffusion models for code and text | TechCrunchCoding assistant Cursor raises $2.3B 5 months after its previous round | TechCrunchChina's Baidu says it's running 250,000 robotaxi rides a week — same as Alphabet's WaymoDriverless Tech Firm Pony AI Raises $863 Million in HK ListingMoonshot's Kimi K2 Thinking emerges as leading open source AI[2510.26787] Remote Labor Index: Measuring AI Automation of Remote WorkOpenAI Researchers Train Weight Sparse Transformers to Expose Interpretable Circuits - MarkTechPostKimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention ArchitectureWatch Google DeepMind’s new AI agent learn to play video games | The VergearXiv Changes Rules After Getting Spammed With AI-Generated 'Research' PapersStability AI largely wins UK court battle against Getty Images over copyright and trademark | AP NewsCourt rules that OpenAI violated German copyright law; orders it to pay damages | TechCrunchMicrosoft's $15.2B UAE investment turns Gulf State into test case for US AI diplomacy | TechCrunchAn AI-Generated Country Song Is Topping A Billboard Chart, And That Should Infuriate Us All | Whiskey RiffXania Monet is the first AI-powered artist to debut on a Billboard airplay chart, but she likely won’t be the last | CNNElevenLabs’ new AI marketplace lets brands use famous voices for ads | The VergeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Our 224th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 10/31/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and co-hosted by Gavin Purcell (check out AI For Humans and AndThen!) Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ In this episode: Timestamps: Cursor 2.0 shifts to in-house AI with Composer model and parallel agentsAnthropic brings Claude Code to the web | TechCrunchMicrosoft's Mico is a 'Clippy' for the AI era | TechCrunchAnthropic’s Claude catches up to ChatGPT and Gemini with upgraded memory features | The VergeCanva launches its own design model, adds new AI features to the platform | TechCrunchElon Musk’s Grokipedia launches with AI-cloned pages from Wikipedia | The VergeOpenAI completed its for-profit restructuring — and struck a new deal with Microsoft | The VergeQualcomm announces AI chips to compete with AMD and NvidiaAmazon launches AI infrastructure project, to power Anthropic's Claude model | ReutersGoogle and Anthropic announce cloud deal worth tens of billionsGoogle partners with Ambani's Reliance to offer free AI Pro access to millions of Jio users in India | TechCrunchMiniMax Releases MiniMax M2: A Mini Open Model Built for Max Coding and Agentic Workflows at 8% Claude Sonnet Price and ~2x Faster - MarkTechPost[2510.25741] Scaling Latent Reasoning via Looped Language ModelsOpenAI’s gpt-oss-safeguard enables developers to build safer AI - Help Net Security[2510.15103] Continual Learning via Sparse Memory Finetuning[2510.18091] Accelerating Vision Transformers with Adaptive Patch Sizes[2510.18871] How Do LLMs Use Their Depth?AMD, Department of Energy announce $1 billion AI supercomputer partnership | The VergeUniversal partners with AI startup Udio after settling copyright suit | The VergeOpenAI loses bid to dismiss part of US authors' copyright lawsuit | ReutersSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Our 223st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 10/17/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and co-hosted by Michelle Lee Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ In this episode: Timestamps: Anthropic launches new version of scaled-down ‘Haiku’ modelEverything OpenAI announced at DevDay 2025: Agent Kit, Apps SDK, ChatGPT, and more | ZDNETAnthropic turns to ‘skills’ to make Claude more useful at work | The VergeMicrosoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word | The VergeGoogle releases Veo 3.1, adds it to Flow video editor | TechCrunchSlack is turning Slackbot into an AI assistant | The VergeSalesforce announces Agentforce 360 as enterprise AI competition heats up | TechCrunchBroadcom stock pops 9% on OpenAI custom chip deal, adding to Nvidia and AMD agreementsHow ByteDance Made China’s Most Popular AI Chatbot | WIREDAmazon's Zoox Robotaxis Have Arrived In Las Vegas - Here's What Riders Are ExperiencingWaymo’s robotaxis are coming to London | The VergeReflection AI raises $2B to be America's open frontier AI lab, challenging DeepSeek | TechCrunchGeneral Intuition lands $134M seed to teach agents spatial reasoning using video game clips | TechCrunchSupabase nabs $5B valuation, four months after hitting $2B | TechCrunchNeuphonic Open-Sources NeuTTS Air: A 748M-Parameter On-Device Speech Language Model with Instant Voice Cloning - MarkTechPostAnthropic AI Releases Petri: An Open-Source Framework for Automated Auditing by Using AI Agents to Test the Behaviors of Target Models on Diverse Scenarios - MarkTechPost[2510.13786] The Art of Scaling Reinforcement Learning Compute for LLMs[2510.01171] Verbalized Sampling: How to Mitigate Mode Collapse and Unlock LLM Diversity[2510.12635] Memory as Action: Autonomous Context Curation for Long-Horizon Agentic Tasks[2510.07364] Base Models Know How to Reason, Thinking Models Learn When[2510.12402] Cautious Weight DecayCalifornia becomes first state to regulate AI companion chatbots | TechCrunchOver 50 Percent of the Internet Is Now AI Slop, New Data FindsOpenAI Reverses Stance on Use of Copyright Works in Sora - WSJCharacter.AI removes Disney characters from platform after studio issues warningSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Our 222st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 10/03/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and co-hosted by Jon Krohn Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ In this episode: ChatGPT parent company OpenAI announces Sora 2 with AI video appAnthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.5 in latest bid for AI agents and coding supremacy | The VergeMeta launches 'Vibes,' a short-form video feed of AI slop | TechCrunchOpenAI launches ChatGPT Pulse to proactively write you morning briefs | TechCrunchOpenAI rolls out safety routing system, parental controls on ChatGPT | TechCrunchThe Latest Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview is Now the Fastest Proprietary Model (External Tests) and 50% Fewer Output Tokens - MarkTechPostMicrosoft just added AI agents to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - how to use them | ZDNET OpenAI takes on Google, Amazon with new agentic shopping system | TechCrunchExclusive: Mira Murati’s Stealth AI Lab Launches Its First Product | WIREDOpenAI is the world's most valuable private company after private stock sale | TechCrunchElon Musk’s xAI accuses OpenAI of stealing trade secrets in new lawsuit | Technology | The GuardianFormer OpenAI and DeepMind researchers raise whopping $300M seed to automate science | TechCrunch [2509.16941] SWE-Bench Pro: Can AI Agents Solve Long-Horizon Software Engineering Tasks? [2509.17196] Evolution of Concepts in Language Model Pre-Training[2509.19284] What Characterizes Effective Reasoning? Revisiting Length, Review, and Structure of CoT[2507.02954] Advanced Financial Reasoning at Scale: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Large Language Models on CFA Level III[2509.24552] Short window attention enables long-term memorization SB 53, the landmark AI transparency bill, is now law in California | The VergeElon Musk's xAI offers Grok to federal government for 42 cents | TechCrunchCharacter.AI removes Disney characters from platform after studio issues warningSpotify's Attempt to Fight AI Slop Falls on Its FaceSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Our 221st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 09/19/2025 Note: we transitioned to a new RSS feed and it seems this did not make it to there, so this may be posted about 2 weeks past the release date. Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and co-hosted by Michelle Lee Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ In this episode: Timestamps: OpenAI upgrades Codex with a new version of GPT-5Google Injects Gemini Into Chrome as AI Browsers Go Mainstream | WIREDAnthropic’s Claude can now make you a spreadsheet or slide deck. | The VergeLuma AI's New Ray3 Video Generator Can 'Think' Before Creating - CNETOpenAI secures Microsoft's blessing to transition its for-profit arm | TechCrunchMicrosoft to lessen reliance on OpenAI by buying AI from rival Anthropic | TechCrunchFigure AI passes $1B with Series C funding toward humanoid robot development - The Robot ReportChina’s Unitree plans $7 billion IPO valuation as humanoid robot race heats upTesla's robotaxi plans for Nevada move forward with testing permit | TechCrunchAmazon's Zoox jumps into U.S. robotaxi race with Las Vegas launchReplit hits $3B valuation on $150M annualized revenue | TechCrunchPerplexity reportedly raised $200M at $20B valuation | TechCrunch[2509.07604] K2-Think: A Parameter-Efficient Reasoning System[2509.09614] LoCoBench: A Benchmark for Long-Context Large Language Models in Complex Software Engineering[2509.15155] Self-Improving Embodied Foundation Models[2509.13805] Towards a Physics Foundation Model[2509.12129] Embodied Navigation Foundation ModelAnthropic endorses California's AI safety bill, SB 53 | TechCrunchWarner Bros. Sues Midjourney, Joins Studios' AI Copyright BattleRolling Stone Publisher Sues Google Over AI Overview Summaries See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Our 221st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 09/19/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and co-hosted by Michelle Lee Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ In this episode: Timestamps: OpenAI upgrades Codex with a new version of GPT-5Google Injects Gemini Into Chrome as AI Browsers Go Mainstream | WIREDAnthropic’s Claude can now make you a spreadsheet or slide deck. | The VergeLuma AI's New Ray3 Video Generator Can 'Think' Before Creating - CNET OpenAI secures Microsoft's blessing to transition its for-profit arm | TechCrunchMicrosoft to lessen reliance on OpenAI by buying AI from rival Anthropic | TechCrunchFigure AI passes $1B with Series C funding toward humanoid robot development - The Robot ReportChina’s Unitree plans $7 billion IPO valuation as humanoid robot race heats upTesla's robotaxi plans for Nevada move forward with testing permit | TechCrunchAmazon's Zoox jumps into U.S. robotaxi race with Las Vegas launchReplit hits $3B valuation on $150M annualized revenue | TechCrunchPerplexity reportedly raised $200M at $20B valuation | TechCrunch [2509.07604] K2-Think: A Parameter-Efficient Reasoning System[2509.09614] LoCoBench: A Benchmark for Long-Context Large Language Models in Complex Software Engineering [2509.15155] Self-Improving Embodied Foundation Models[2509.13805] Towards a Physics Foundation Model[2509.12129] Embodied Navigation Foundation Model Anthropic endorses California's AI safety bill, SB 53 | TechCrunchWarner Bros. Sues Midjourney, Joins Studios' AI Copyright BattleRolling Stone Publisher Sues Google Over AI Overview Summaries

Our 220th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 08/30/2025 Check out Andrey's work over at Astrocade , sign up to be an ambassador here Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and co-hosted by Daniel Bashir Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Timestamps + Links: Google Gemini's AI image model gets a 'bananas' upgrade | TechCrunchAnthropic launches a Claude AI agent that lives in Chrome | TechCrunchAnthropic’s Claude chatbot can now remember your past conversations | The VergeGoogle Launches AI ‘Guided Learning’ Tool to Teach UsersApple Intelligence’s ChatGPT integration will use GPT-5 starting with iOS 26 | The VergeOpenAI Adds New Features to Codex, Like IDE Extension and GitHub Code ReviewsLovable projects $1B in ARR within next 12 months | TechCrunchDecart hits $3.1 billion valuation on $100 million raise to power real-time interacti | CtechCohere raises $500M to beat back generative AI rivals | TechCrunchPony AI, Nearing Full-Year Robotaxi Goal, Eyes European Markets - BloombergCo-founder of Elon Musk's xAI departs the company | TechCrunchMeta AI Just Released DINOv3: A State-of-the-Art Computer Vision Model Trained with Self-Supervised Learning, Generating High-Resolution Image Features - MarkTechPostGLM-4.5: Agentic, Reasoning, and Coding (ARC) Foundation ModelsChina’s DeepSeek Releases V3.1, Boosting AI Model’s Capabilities - BloombergOpen weight LLMs exhibit inconsistent performance across providersMicrosoft Released VibeVoice-1.5B: An Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model that can Synthesize up to 90 Minutes of Speech with Four Distinct Speakers - MarkTechPostDeep Think with ConfidenceGenerative AI reshapes U.S. job market, Stanford study showsInside the US Government's Unpublished Report on AI Safety | WIREDU.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China - The New York TimesAnthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought by Book AuthorsAI companion apps on track to pull in $120M in 2025 | TechCrunch

Our 219th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 08/08/2025 Check out Andrey's work over at Astrocade , sign up to be an ambassador here Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ In this episode: Timestamps + Links: Astrocade rolls out AI agent-powered game creation experience so anyone can create games OpenAI’s GPT-5 is hereAnthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.1 With Agentic, Coding and Reasoning UpgradesGoogle rolls out Gemini Deep Think AI, a reasoning model that tests multiple ideas in parallel | TechCrunchGrok Imagine, xAI’s new AI image and video generator, lets you make NSFW content | TechCrunch Meta, Microsoft stocks rise on strong earnings and AI spending boomOpenAI to Establish Stargate Norway With 230MW Data Center - BloombergAnthropic Revenue Pace Nears $5 Billion in Run-Up to Mega Round — The InformationOpenAI Hits $12 Billion Annualized RevenueNoma Security raises $100 million to defend against AI agent vulnerabilities | Ctech OpenAI Just Released Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2Falcon-H1: A Family of Hybrid-Head Language Models Redefining Efficiency and PerformanceMeta CLIP 2: A Worldwide Scaling RecipeBFL and Krea release FLUX.1 Krea: Open image model designed for realism Google’s Newest AI Model Acts like a Satellite to Track Climate Change | WIREDGoogle’s new AI model creates video game worlds in real timeAlphaGo Moment for Model Architecture DiscoveryMETR evaluates Grok 4 Estimating Worst-Case Frontier Risks of Open-Weight LLMsAnthropic's AI 'Vaccine': Train It With Evil to Make It Good - Business InsiderAnthropic unveils 'auditing agents' to test for AI misalignment | VentureBeatOptimizing The Final Output Can Obfuscate CoT (Research Note)Why China isn’t about to leap ahead of the West on computeInside the Summit Where China Pitched Its AI Agenda to the World | WIREDNvidia H20 GPUs reportedly caught up in U.S. Commerce Department's worst export license backlog in 30 years — billions of dollars worth of GPUs and other products in limbo due to staffing cuts, communication issues | Tom's Hardware

Our 218th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 07/25/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/. In this episode: Timestamps + Links: GitHub Introduces Vibe Coding with Spark: Revolutionizing Intelligent App Development in a Flash - MarkTechPostFigma’s AI app building tool is now available for everyone | The VergeTwo major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes - Ars TechnicaGoogle's AI Overviews have 2B monthly users, AI Mode 100M in the US and India | TechCrunch Leaked Memo: Anthropic CEO Says the Company Will Pursue Gulf State Investments After AllMira Murati says her startup Thinking Machines will release new product in ‘months’ with ‘significant open source component’Waymo responds to Tesla’s dick joke with a bigger Austin robotaxi map | The Verge MegaScience: Pushing the Frontiers of Post-Training Datasets for Science ReasoningTikTok Researchers Introduce SWE-Perf: The First Benchmark for Repository-Level Code Performance Optimization - MarkTechPost Subliminal Learning: Language models transmit behavioral traits via hidden signals in dataInverse Scaling in Test-Time ComputeScaling Laws for Optimal Data Mixtures White House Unveils America’s AI Action PlanChain of Thought Monitorability: A New and Fragile Opportunity for AI SafetySelf-preservation or Instruction Ambiguity? Examining the Causes of Shutdown ResistancePeople Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"Meta refuses to sign EU’s AI code of practice

Our 217th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 07/17/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/. In this episode: Timestamps + Links: Tools & Apps OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent can control an entire computer and do tasks for youAlibaba-backed Moonshot releases new Kimi AI model that beats ChatGPT, Claude in coding — and it costs lessAmazon targets vibe-coding chaos with new 'Kiro' AI software development tool – GeekWireAnthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code – without telling usersMistral's Le Chat chatbot gets a productivity push with new ‘deep research' mode | TechCrunchI spent 24 hours flirting with Elon Musk’s AI girlfriendUber is close to completing its quest to become the ultimate robotaxi app | The Verge Applications & Business OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off — and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google | The VergeCognition, maker of the AI coding agent Devin, acquires Windsurf | TechCrunchAnthropic hired back two of its employees — just two weeks after they left for a competitor. | The VergeAnother High-Profile OpenAI Researcher Departs for Meta | WIREDMeta Hires Two Key Apple (AAPL) AI Experts After Poaching Their Boss - BloombergMira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is worth $12B in seed round | TechCrunchLovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch | TechCrunchSpaceX commits $2 billion to xAI as Musk steps up AI ambitions: Report | World News - Business Standard Research & Advancements A former OpenAI engineer describes what it’s really like to work there | TechCrunchReasoning or Memorization? Unreliable Results of Reinforcement Learning Due to Data Contamination Policy & Safety Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, xAI granted up to $200 million from DoDCalifornia State Senator Scott Wiener Pushes Bill to Regulate AI Companies - BloombergAI 'Nudify' Websites Are Raking in Millions of Dollars | WIREDInside ICE’s Supercharged Facial Recognition App of 200 Million Images Synthetic Media & Art Video game actors' strike officially ends after AI deal

Our 216th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 07/11/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/. In this episode: Timestamps + Links: Tools & Apps Elon Musk's xAI launches Grok 4 alongside a $300 monthly subscription | TechCrunchElon Musk’s AI chatbot is suddenly posting antisemitic tropesPerplexity launches Comet, an AI-powered web browser | TechCrunchOpenAI is reportedly releasing an AI browser in the coming weeks | TechCrunchReplit Launches New Feature for its Agent, CEO Calls it ‘Deep Research for Coding’Cursor launches a web app to manage AI coding agentsCursor apologizes for unclear pricing changes that upset users | TechCrunch Applications & Business Lovable on track to raise $150M at $2B valuationAmazon built a massive AI supercluster for Anthropic called Project Rainier – here's what we know so farElon Musk confirms xAI is buying an overseas power plant and shipping the whole thing to the U.S. to power its new data center — 1 million AI GPUs and up to 2 Gigawatts of power under one roof, equivalent to powering 1.9 million homesMicrosoft's own AI chip delayed six months in major setback — in-house chip now reportedly expected in 2026, but won't hold a candle to Nvidia BlackwellIlya Sutskever becomes CEO of Safe Superintelligence after Meta poached Daniel GrossOpenAI’s Stock Compensation Reflect Steep Costs of Talent Wars Projects & Open Source Hugging Face Releases SmolLM3: A 3B Long-Context, Multilingual Reasoning Model - MarkTechPostKimi K2: Open Agentic IntelligenceKyutai Releases 2B Parameter Streaming Text-to-Speech TTS with 220ms Latency and 2.5M Hours of Training Research & Advancements Does Math Reasoning Improve General LLM Capabilities? Understanding Transferability of LLM ReasoningMeasuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer ProductivityMitigating Goal Misgeneralization with Minimax RegretCorrelated Errors in Large Language ModelsWhat skills does SWE-bench Verified evaluate? Policy & Safety Evaluating Frontier Models for Stealth and Situational AwarenessWhen Chain of Thought is Necessary, Language Models Struggle to Evade MonitorsWhy Do Some Language Models Fake Alignment While Others Don't?Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papersGoogle faces EU antitrust complaint over AI OverviewsThe transfer of user data by DeepSeek to China is unlawful': Germany calls for Google and Apple to remove the AI app from their storesVirology Capabilities Test (VCT): A Multimodal Virology Q&A Benchmark

Our 215th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 07/04/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/. In this episode: Timestamps + Links: Tools & Apps Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data ScrapersRunway is going to let people generate video games with AIGoogle embraces AI in the classroom with new Gemini tools for educators, chatbots for students, and moreNo one likes meetings. They’re sending their AI note takers instead.Google launches Doppl, a new app that lets you visualize how an outfit might look on youGoogle's Imagen 4 text-to-image model promises 'significantly improved' boring images Applications & Business Mark Zuckerberg announces his AI ‘superintelligence’ super-groupAnthropic Revenue Hits $4 Billion Annual Pace as Competition With Cursor IntensifiesAs job losses loom, Anthropic launches program to track AI’s economic falloutOpenAI says it has no plan to use Google's in-house chipNvidia stakes new startup that flips script on data center powerTSMC Arizona Chips Are Reportedly Being Flown Back to Taiwan For Packaging; U.S. Semiconductor Supply Chain Still Remains Dependent on Taiwan Projects & Open Source Baidu releases open source model family ERNIE 4.5Tencent Open Sources Hunyuan-A13B: A 13B Active Parameter MoE Model with Dual-Mode Reasoning and 256K ContextTogether AI Releases DeepSWE: A Fully Open-Source RL-Trained Coding Agent Based on Qwen3-32B and Achieves 59% on SWEBenchGLM-4.1V-Thinking: Towards Versatile Multimodal Reasoning with Scalable Reinforcement LearningDiffuCoder: Understanding and Improving Masked Diffusion Models for Code Generation Research & Advancements Wider or Deeper? Scaling LLM Inference-Time Compute with Adaptive Branching Tree SearchThe Automated LLM Speedrunning Benchmark: Reproducing NanoGPT ImprovementsClaude 4 Opus and Sonnet reach 50%-time-horizon point estimates of about 80 and 65 minutes, respectivelyPerformance Prediction for Large Systems via Text-to-Text RegressionDoes Math Reasoning Improve General LLM Capabilities? Understanding Transferability of LLM ReasoningCorrelated Errors in Large Language Models Policy & Safety Forecasting Biosecurity Risks from LLMsAI Task Length Horizons in Offensive CybersecurityInside Tech's Risky Gamble to Kill State AI Regulations for a DecadeDenmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features

Our 214th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 06/27/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/. In this episode: Timestamps + Links: Tools & Apps Google is bringing Gemini CLI to developers’ terminalsAnthropic now lets you make apps right from its Claude AI chatbot Applications & Business Sam Altman takes his ‘io’ trademark battle publicHuawei Matebook Contains Kirin X90, using SMIC 7nm (N+2) TechnologyAMD deploys its first Ultra Ethernet ready network card — Pensando Pollara provides up to 400 Gbps performanceAmazon joins the big nuclear party, buying 1.92 GW for AWSNvidia goes nuclear — company joins Bill Gates in backing TerraPower, a company building nuclear reactors for powering data centersMira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab closes on $2B at $10B valuationMeta hires key OpenAI researcher to work on AI reasoning models Research & Advancements Google’s new AI will help researchers understand how our genes workDirect Reasoning Optimization: LLMs Can Reward And Refine Their Own Reasoning for Open-Ended TasksFarseer: A Refined Scaling Law in Large Language ModelsLLM-First Search: Self-Guided Exploration of the Solution Space Policy & Safety Unsupervised Elicitation of Language ModelsTaiwan Imposes Technology Export Controls on Huawei, SMICYour Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task Synthetic Media & Art Judge Rejects Authors’ Claim That Meta AI Training Violated CopyrightsGetty drops key copyright claims against Stability AI, but UK lawsuit continues

Our 213nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 06/21/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/. In this episode: Timestamps + Links: Midjourney launches its first AI video generation model, V1Google’s Gemini AI family updated with stable 2.5 Pro, super-efficient 2.5 Flash-LiteGoogle’s AI Mode can now have back-and-forth voice conversationsYouTube to Add Google’s Veo 3 to Shorts in Move That Could Turbocharge AI on the Video Platform The ‘OpenAI Files’ will help you understand how Sam Altman’s company worksOpenAI drops Scale AI as a data provider following Meta dealAmazon’s Zoox opens its first major robotaxi production facility LiveCodeBench Pro: How Do Olympiad Medalists Judge LLMs in Competitive Programming?AbstentionBench: Reasoning LLMs Fail on Unanswerable QuestionsMiniMax-M1: Scaling Test-Time Compute Efficiently with Lightning Attention Scaling Laws of Motion Forecasting and Planning -- A Technical Report Universal Jailbreak Suffixes Are Strong Attention HijackersOpenAI found features in AI models that correspond to different ‘personas’OpenAI wins $200 million U.S. defense contract