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Weekly summaries of the AI news that matters!

297 episodes

#258 - Opus 5.5, Sol and Luna, Muse, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, Xi 2 Oct 2026 · 1 hr 43 min 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!…

#257 - GPT 6 Astra, AI Extinction, Security Incidents 24 Sept 2026 · 1 hr 34 min 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 Kur…

#256 - Fable 5.1, Astra Tease, Gemini 3.8 Flash 8 Sept 2026 · 1 hr 14 min 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…

#255 - Gemini 3.7, Jalapeño, Qwen 3.8, Drones 31 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 44 min Our 255th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 08/26/2026 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Feel free to email us your question…

#254 - Rogue AI hacking, bio-weapons, Dean & Hassabis out 11 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 58 min 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 Feel free to email us your question…

#253 - Opus 5, Gemini 3.6, Kimi K3, Hugging Face Hack 3 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 43 min 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 Feel free to email us your question…

#252 - GPT 5.6, Grok 4.5, Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion, AI 2040 15 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 25 min 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 Feel free to email us your question…

#251 - Mythos Back, Sonnet 5, Etched, LongCat 9 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 30 min 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 Feel free to email us your question…

#250 - Mythos Mess, GPT 5.6-Sol, GLM 5.2 7 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 43 min 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…

#249 - Fable 5 ban, SpaceX Cursor + IPO, OSS Aplenty 25 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 47 min 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 ba…

#248 - Fable 5, Siri AI, IPOs, Policy on the AI Exponential 17 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 41 min 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…

#247 - Opus 4.8, MAI, Anthropic IPO, Minimax-M3 6 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 45 min 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 question…

#246 - Gemini 3.5 + Omni, Musk Loses, OpenAI vs Erdős 25 May 2026 · 1 hr 34 min 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 question…

#245 - TML-Interaction, Claude For Legal, Sam Altman on Stand 18 May 2026 · 1 hr 49 min 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 question…

#244 - GPT-5.5 Instant, Grok 4.3, OpenAI vs Musk 11 May 2026 · 1 hr 55 min 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 question…

#243 - GPT 5.5, DeepSeek V4, AI safety sabotage 3 May 2026 · 1 hr 52 min 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 question…

#242 - ChatGPT Images 2.0, Qwen 3.6 Max, Kimi-K2.6 29 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 31 min 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 question…

#241 - Opus 4.7, Muse Spark, GPT-5.4-Cyber, HY-World 2.0 23 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 60 min 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 question…

#240 - Project Glasswing, Claude Mythos, GLM-5.1, emotion concepts 16 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 45 min 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 And…

#239 - RIP Sora, Claude Openclaw, HyperAgents 6 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 38 min 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.…

#238 - GPT 5.4 mini, OpenAI Pivot, Mamba 3, Attention Residuals 26 Mar 2026 · 2 hr 1 min 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 Feel free to email us your question…

#237 - Nemotron 3 Super, xAI reborn, Anthropic Lawsuit, Research!!! 16 Mar 2026 · 2 hr 27 min 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 Feel free to email us your question…

#236 - GPT 5.4, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite, Supply Chain Risk 12 Mar 2026 · 1 hr 29 min 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 Feel free to email us your question…

#235 - Sonnet 4.6, Deep-thinking tokens, Anthropic vs Pentagon 3 Mar 2026 · 1 hr 42 min 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 question…

#234 - Opus 4.6, GPT-5.3-codex, Seedance 2.0, GLM-5 16 Feb 2026 · 1 hr 31 min Our 234th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 02/02/2026 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Feel free to email us your question…

#233 - Moltbot, Genie 3, Qwen3-Max-Thinking 6 Feb 2026 · 1 hr 21 min Our 233rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 01/30/2026 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Feel free to email us your question…

#232 - ChatGPT Ads, Thinking Machines Drama, STEM 28 Jan 2026 · 1 hr 41 min Our 232st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 01/23/2026 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Feel free to email us your question…

#231 - Claude Cowork, Anthropic $10B, Deep Delta Learning 21 Jan 2026 · 1 hr 43 min Our 231st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 01/16/2026 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Feel free to email us your question…

#230 - 2025 Retrospective, Nvidia buys Groq, GLM 4.7, METR 7 Jan 2026 · 1 hr 38 min Our 230th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 01/02/2026 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Feel free to email us your question…

#229 - Gemini 3 Flash, ChatGPT Apps, Nemotron 3 25 Dec 2025 · 1 hr 27 min Our 229th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 12/19/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Feel free to email us your question…