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01:43:29

#258 - Opus 5.5, Sol and Luna, Muse,...

Last Week in AI ·

2026/10/02

Our 258th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!Recorded on 09/26/2026 ; as usual, I am sorry this is coming out late, next ep should come out 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:Anthropic released Opus 5.5 with lower prices, faster performance, strong

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01:34:21

#257 - GPT 6 Astra, AI Extinction, Security Incidents

Last Week in AI ·

2026/09/24

Our 257th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!Recorded on 09/19/2026 ; as usual, apologies for the none 'weeklyness' of this ep!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:OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, a major capability jump focused on agentic coding and computer use,

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01:14:16

#256 - Fable 5.1, Astra Tease, Gemini 3.8 Flash

Last Week in AI ·

2026/09/08

Our 256th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!Recorded on 09/03/2026 ; unfortunately just before the actual GPT 6 Astra release, we'll cover that in next ep!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 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 with lower pricing,

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01:43:40

#255 - Gemini 3.7, Jalapeño, Qwen 3.8, Drones

Last Week in AI ·

2026/08/31

Our 255th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!Recorded on 08/26/2026Hosted 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:SpaceXAI released Grok 4.6 (500K context) as a post-training update aimed at long-running agents and coding, with discussion centered on how the Cursor

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01:58:26

#254 - Rogue AI hacking, bio-weapons, Dean & Hassabis...

Last Week in AI ·

2026/08/11

Our 254th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!Recorded on 08/09/2026Hosted 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: Multiple frontier AI systems (OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Kimi K3, and UK AISI-tested models) took unsanctioned real-world cyber actions during evaluations,

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01:43:21

#253 - Opus 5, Gemini 3.6, Kimi K3, Hugging Face Hack

Last Week in AI ·

2026/08/03

Our 253rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!Recorded on 07/29/2026Hosted 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:Major releases: Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5; Google released Gemini 3.6/3.5 Flash variants including a cyber model; Black Forest Labs launched Flux Free for

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01:25:17

#252 - GPT 5.6, Grok 4.5, Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion, AI...

Last Week in AI ·

2026/07/15

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

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01:30:02

#251 - Mythos Back, Sonnet 5, Etched, LongCat

Last Week in AI ·

2026/07/09

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

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01:43:25

#250 - Mythos Mess, GPT 5.6-Sol, GLM 5.2

Last Week in AI ·

2026/07/07

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

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01:46:51

#249 - Fable 5 ban, SpaceX Cursor + IPO, OSS Aplenty

Last Week in AI ·

2026/06/25

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

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01:40:43

#248 - Fable 5, Siri AI, IPOs, Policy on the AI...

Last Week in AI ·

2026/06/17

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

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01:45:02

#247 - Opus 4.8, MAI, Anthropic IPO, Minimax-M3

Last Week in AI ·

2026/06/06

Our 247th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!Recorded on 06/03/2026 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at andreyvkurenkov@gmail.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read 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

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01:33:59

#246 - Gemini 3.5 + Omni, Musk Loses, OpenAI vs Erdős

Last Week in AI ·

2026/05/25

Our 246th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 05/22/2026 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at andreyvkurenkov@gmail.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read 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

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01:49:14

#245 - TML-Interaction, Claude For Legal, Sam Altman...

Last Week in AI ·

2026/05/18

Our 245th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!Recorded on 05/13/2026 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at andreyvkurenkov@gmail.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read 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,

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01:55:16

#244 - GPT-5.5 Instant, Grok 4.3, OpenAI vs Musk

Last Week in AI ·

2026/05/11

Our 244th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!Recorded on 05/08/2026 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at andreyvkurenkov@gmail.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ In this episode:OpenAI released GPT-5.5 Instant as ChatGPT’s new default model, showing large benchmark gains and crossing a “high” cyber-risk threshold under its

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01:52:22

#243 - GPT 5.5, DeepSeek V4, AI safety sabotage

Last Week in AI ·

2026/05/03

Our 243rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!Recorded on 04/29/2026 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at andreyvkurenkov@gmail.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ In this episode:OpenAI released GPT-5.5 with strong coding-oriented improvements, a system card discussing chain-of-thought monitorability and misalignment testing,

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01:30:48

#242 - ChatGPT Images 2.0, Qwen 3.6 Max, Kimi-K2.6

Last Week in AI ·

2026/04/29

Our 242nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 04/22/2026 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at andreyvkurenkov@gmail.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ In this episode:OpenAI released a new ChatGPT image model that excels at accurate text and screenshot-like generations, suggesting a transformer-style approach aligned

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01:59:48

#241 - Opus 4.7, Muse Spark, GPT-5.4-Cyber, HY-World 2.0

Last Week in AI ·

2026/04/23

Our 241st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!Recorded on 04/18/2026 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at andreyvkurenkov@gmail.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ In this episode:Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 with improved benchmark performance, new reasoning controls, better vision and memory, and a detailed system card

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01:44:30

#240 - Project Glasswing, Claude Mythos, GLM-5.1,...

Last Week in AI ·

2026/04/16

Our 240th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!Recorded on 04/08/2026 (sorry I keep releasing stuff late, will get better with it soon!) Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at andreyvkurenkov@gmail.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ In this episode:Anthropic launched Project Glasswing and previewed Claude Mythos, a general-purpose

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01:37:42

#239 - RIP Sora, Claude Openclaw, HyperAgents

Last Week in AI ·

2026/04/06

Our 239th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!FYI: this one has pretty out of date news, I was traveling last week and failed to upload... apologies. Recorded on 03/25/2026 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at andreyvkurenkov@gmail.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ In this episode:OpenAI is discontinuing the Sora iPhone app

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