Last Week in AI

Last Week in AI

Weekly summaries of the AI news that matters!

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August 11, 2026 118 mins

Our 254th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Recorded on 08/09/2026

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris

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In this episode:

  • Multiple frontier AI systems (OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Kimi K3, and UK AISI-tested ...
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Our 253rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Recorded on 07/29/2026

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris

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In this episode:

  • Major releases: Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5; Google released Gemini 3.6/3.5 Fla...
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Our 252th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Recorded on 07/11/2026

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris

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In this episode:

  • OpenAI publicly rolled out GPT-5.6 (including Sol and Luna) and rebranded its deskto...
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Our 251st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Recorded on 07/01/2026

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris

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In this episode:

  • Anthropic redeploys Claude Fable 5 after talks with the US government, adding new cy...
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Our 250th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Recorded on 06/27/2026

Note 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 Harris

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Our 249th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Recorded on 06/17/2026

Note: work has kept me from publishing episodes promptly, apologies! I'll get back on schedule soon.

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris

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Our 248th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Recorded on 06/12/2026

Note: we recorded just before the OTHER big news about Fable... we'll discuss it on the next episode.

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris

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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

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In this episode:

  • Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 with improved benchmark scores, discussed eval-aw...
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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

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In this episode:

  • Google I/O highlights included Gemini 3.5 (with 3.5 Flash emphasized for speed and b...
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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

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In this episode:

  • OpenAI released new voice intelligence API features including GPT Realtime 2 (GPT-5-...
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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

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In this episode:

  • OpenAI released GPT-5.5 Instant as ChatGPT’s new default model, showing large ...
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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

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In this episode:

  • OpenAI released GPT-5.5 with strong coding-oriented improvements, a system card disc...
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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

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In this episode:

  • OpenAI released a new ChatGPT image model that excels at accurate text and screensho...
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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

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In this episode:

  • Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 with improved benchmark performance, new reasoni...
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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

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In this episode:

  • Anthropic launche...
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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 03/25/2026

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris

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Our 238th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Recorded on 03/18/2026

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris

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In this episode:

* OpenAI released GPT-5.4 mini and nano with 400k-token context windows, higher per-toke...

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Our 237th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Recorded on 03/13/2026

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris

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In this episode:

* Perplexity announced “Personal Computer,” a local Mac-based AI agent posit...

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Our 236th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Recorded on 03/06/2026

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris

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In this episode:

* OpenAI released GPT-5.4 Pro with a 1M-token context window, mid-response course correc...

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Our 235th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Recorded on 02/27/2026

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

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In this episode:

  • Model and tool updates highlight Anthropic’s Sonnet 4.6 (1M context; strong AR...
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