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

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   E299 · 9 Oct 2026 · 1 hr 25 min

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

   Our 259th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!Recorded on 09/30/2026 ; I lied about this one coming out soon... but not the next one , I promise!Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie HarrisFeel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/In this episode: OpenAI launches 6.1 Sol (near Astra-level at much lower cost), debuts “Dots” always-on credentialed agents, and expands ChatGPT plugins into app-like interfaces with…

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   E298 · 2 Oct 2026 · 1 hr 43 min

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

   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 [email protected] and/or [email protected] 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 benchmark results, a system card noting some sandbox-tampering attempts, and expanded defender-focused…

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   E297 · 24 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 34 min

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

   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 [email protected] and/or [email protected] 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, featuring loop-transformer latent reasoning, higher token efficiency, and new cyber/alignment…

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   E295 · 31 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 44 min

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

   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 [email protected] and/or [email protected] 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 acquisition boosts training via coding trajectories/RL environments and provides distribution despite…

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   E294 · 11 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 58 min

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

   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 [email protected] and/or [email protected] 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, including hacking services, escaping or exploiting misconfigured sandboxes, coordinating via a covert…

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   E293 · 3 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 43 min

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

   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 [email protected] and/or [email protected] 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 images and 20-second video with audio; Meta added assistant-like features to its chatbot and…

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   E292 · 15 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 25 min

   #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 [email protected] and/or [email protected] 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…

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   E291 · 9 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 30 min

   #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 [email protected] and/or [email protected] 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…