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Our 239th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!FYI: this one has pretty out of date news, I was traveling last week and failed to upload...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 03/25/2026Hosted 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 is discontinuing the Sora iPhone app and seemingly shutting down its video generation API, while retaining internal video world-modeling work; the…

Last Week in AI

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

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  2. E281 · 23 Apr 2026 · 2 hr

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

    Our 241st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!Recorded on 04/18/2026Hosted 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 4.7 with improved benchmark performance, new reasoning controls, better vision and memory, and a detailed system card discussing deception risk, evaluation-awareness steering, and a training bug that accidentally supervised…

  3. E280 · 16 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 45 min

    #240 - Project Glasswing, Claude Mythos, GLM-5.1, emotion concepts

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  4. E278 · 26 Mar 2026 · 2 hr 1 min

    #238 - GPT 5.4 mini, OpenAI Pivot, Mamba 3, Attention Residuals

    Our 238th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!Recorded on 03/18/2026Hosted 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 GPT-5.4 mini and nano with 400k-token context windows, higher per-token prices but claimed token-efficiency gains in Codex; nano is API-only and pitched for high-volume classification/data extraction despite a major price increase.*…

  5. E277 · 16 Mar 2026 · 2 hr 27 min

    #237 - Nemotron 3 Super, xAI reborn, Anthropic Lawsuit, Research!!!

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  6. E276 · 12 Mar 2026 · 1 hr 29 min

    #236 - GPT 5.4, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite, Supply Chain Risk

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  7. E299 · 9 Oct 2026 · 1 hr 25 minNew

    #259 - Dots, Sonnet, Self-Safety, Rogue AI

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  8. E298 · 2 Oct 2026 · 1 hr 43 min

    #258 - Opus 5.5, Sol and Luna, Muse, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, Xi

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  9. E297 · 24 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 34 min

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

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  10. E296 · 8 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 14 min

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

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