Last Week in AI cover art

Last Week in AI

Last Week in AI

By: Skynet Today
Listen for free

About this listen

 Weekly summaries of the AI news that matters!Copyright 2024 All rights reserved. Politics & Government
Episodes
  • #220 - Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, Claude for Chrome, DeepConf

    #220 - Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, Claude for Chrome, DeepConf
    Sep 1 2025
    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/ Google's newly released Gemini 2.5 image editing model showcases remarkable advancements, enabling highly accurate modifications of subjects while retaining their original features.Anthropic expands Claude with an AI browser agent for Chrome and adds features to remember past conversations, enhancing the user experience and personalization.NVIDIA and AMD to share revenue from AI chip sales to China with US government, marking a notable shift in export control policies and trade practices.AI companion apps are experiencing substantial growth, with projected revenues expected to reach $120 million by 2025, raising questions about social implications and user engagement. Timestamps + Links: Tools & Apps(00:02:12) Google Gemini's AI image model gets a 'bananas' upgrade | TechCrunch(00:05:32) Anthropic launches a Claude AI agent that lives in Chrome | TechCrunch(00:08:30) Anthropic’s Claude chatbot can now remember your past conversations | The Verge(00:11:46) Google Launches AI ‘Guided Learning’ Tool to Teach Users(00:14:55) Apple Intelligence’s ChatGPT integration will use GPT-5 starting with iOS 26 | The Verge(00:15:39) OpenAI Adds New Features to Codex, Like IDE Extension and GitHub Code Reviews Applications & Business(00:16:49) Lovable projects $1B in ARR within next 12 months | TechCrunch(00:18:56) Decart hits $3.1 billion valuation on $100 million raise to power real-time interacti | Ctech(00:20:19) Cohere raises $500M to beat back generative AI rivals | TechCrunch(00:21:25) Pony AI, Nearing Full-Year Robotaxi Goal, Eyes European Markets - Bloomberg(00:22:41) Co-founder of Elon Musk's xAI departs the company | TechCrunch Projects & Open Source(00:24:39) Meta AI Just Released DINOv3: A State-of-the-Art Computer Vision Model Trained with Self-Supervised Learning, Generating High-Resolution Image Features - MarkTechPost(00:27:02) GLM-4.5: Agentic, Reasoning, and Coding (ARC) Foundation Models(00:29:49) China’s DeepSeek Releases V3.1, Boosting AI Model’s Capabilities - Bloomberg(00:30:36) Open weight LLMs exhibit inconsistent performance across providers(00:32:02) Microsoft Released VibeVoice-1.5B: An Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model that can Synthesize up to 90 Minutes of Speech with Four Distinct Speakers - MarkTechPost Research & Advancements(00:33:43) Deep Think with Confidence(00:36:30) Generative AI reshapes U.S. job market, Stanford study shows Policy & Safety(00:41:42) Inside the US Government's Unpublished Report on AI Safety | WIRED(00:44:10) U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China - The New York Times(00:45:13) Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought by Book Authors(00:46:56) AI companion apps on track to pull in $120M in 2025 | TechCrunch
    Show More Show Less
    53 mins
  • #219 - GPT 5, Opus 4.1, OpenAI's Open Source, Astrocade

    #219 - GPT 5, Opus 4.1, OpenAI's Open Source, Astrocade
    Aug 11 2025
    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: OpenAI reveals GPT-5, a consolidated model combining all previous versions, marking notable improvements and introducing a new infrastructure and product update.Multiple major releases from leading AI labs, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google reflect the ongoing competitive landscape with significant business updates and new model capabilities.Discussions on geopolitical influences in AI development highlight China’s evolving stance on AI safety and governance, contrasting with U.S. approaches and raising concerns over export bans and international cooperation.Papers from leading AI entities such as OpenAI and Anthropic delve into the complexities of AI alignment and safety, proposing new methodologies for auditing and mitigating risks in model behaviors. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:10) Intro / Banter(00:02:14) Plug: Astrocade rolls out AI agent-powered game creation experience so anyone can create gamesTools & Apps (00:03:07) OpenAI’s GPT-5 is here(00:17:02) Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.1 With Agentic, Coding and Reasoning Upgrades(00:21:06) Google rolls out Gemini Deep Think AI, a reasoning model that tests multiple ideas in parallel | TechCrunch(00:24:04) Grok Imagine, xAI’s new AI image and video generator, lets you make NSFW content | TechCrunch Applications & Business (00:26:35) Meta, Microsoft stocks rise on strong earnings and AI spending boom(00:29:17) OpenAI to Establish Stargate Norway With 230MW Data Center - Bloomberg(00:32:12) Anthropic Revenue Pace Nears $5 Billion in Run-Up to Mega Round — The Information(00:37:18) OpenAI Hits $12 Billion Annualized Revenue(00:40:06) Noma Security raises $100 million to defend against AI agent vulnerabilities | Ctech Projects & Open Source (00:42:13) OpenAI Just Released Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2(00:53:13) Falcon-H1: A Family of Hybrid-Head Language Models Redefining Efficiency and Performance(00:57:39) Meta CLIP 2: A Worldwide Scaling Recipe(01:01:12) BFL and Krea release FLUX.1 Krea: Open image model designed for realism Research & Advancements (01:02:33) Google’s Newest AI Model Acts like a Satellite to Track Climate Change | WIRED(01:04:50) Google’s new AI model creates video game worlds in real time(01:10:55) AlphaGo Moment for Model Architecture Discovery(01:17:22) METR evaluates Grok 4 Policy & Safety (01:20:05) Estimating Worst-Case Frontier Risks of Open-Weight LLMs(01:23:14) Anthropic's AI 'Vaccine': Train It With Evil to Make It Good - Business Insider(01:27:26) Anthropic unveils 'auditing agents' to test for AI misalignment | VentureBeat(01:28:31) Optimizing The Final Output Can Obfuscate CoT (Research Note)(01:31:23) Why China isn’t about to leap ahead of the West on compute(01:33:15) Inside the Summit Where China Pitched Its AI Agenda to the World | WIRED(01:38:47) Nvidia 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 (01:42:35) Response to listener comments
    Show More Show Less
    1 hr and 49 mins
  • #218 - Github Spark, MegaScience, US AI Action Plan

    #218 - Github Spark, MegaScience, US AI Action Plan
    Jul 31 2025
    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: GitHub introduces Vibe Coding with Spark, engaging users with natural language and visual controls to develop full-stack applications.AI coding tools from Gemin, CLI and RepleIt face significant issues, inadvertently deleting user data and highlighting the importance of careful management.US release never Award Americans, AI Action Plan outlining economic, technical, and policy strategies to maintain leadership in AI technology.Newly released Mega Science and SWE-Perf data sets evaluate AI reasoning and performance capabilities in diverse scientific and software engineering tasks. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:10) Intro / Banter(00:01:31) News PreviewTools & Apps (00:03:53) GitHub Introduces Vibe Coding with Spark: Revolutionizing Intelligent App Development in a Flash - MarkTechPost(00:07:05) Figma’s AI app building tool is now available for everyone | The Verge(00:10:18) Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes - Ars Technica(00:14:10) Google's AI Overviews have 2B monthly users, AI Mode 100M in the US and India | TechCrunch Applications & Business (00:18:10) Leaked Memo: Anthropic CEO Says the Company Will Pursue Gulf State Investments After All(00:24:39) Mira Murati says her startup Thinking Machines will release new product in ‘months’ with ‘significant open source component’(00:27:07) Waymo responds to Tesla’s dick joke with a bigger Austin robotaxi map | The Verge Projects & Open Source (00:32:05) MegaScience: Pushing the Frontiers of Post-Training Datasets for Science Reasoning(00:43:09) TikTok Researchers Introduce SWE-Perf: The First Benchmark for Repository-Level Code Performance Optimization - MarkTechPost Research & Advancements (00:47:17) Subliminal Learning: Language models transmit behavioral traits via hidden signals in data(00:55:34) Inverse Scaling in Test-Time Compute(01:02:34) Scaling Laws for Optimal Data Mixtures Policy & Safety (01:07:35) White House Unveils America’s AI Action Plan(01:16:55) Chain of Thought Monitorability: A New and Fragile Opportunity for AI Safety(01:20:20) Self-preservation or Instruction Ambiguity? Examining the Causes of Shutdown Resistance(01:24:00) People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"(01:28:03) Meta refuses to sign EU’s AI code of practice
    Show More Show Less
    1 hr and 32 mins
No reviews yet
In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.