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#250 - Mythos Mess, GPT 5.6-Sol, GLM 5.2

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#250 - Mythos Mess, GPT 5.6-Sol, GLM 5.2

Last Week in AI

4 DAYS AGO
Last Week in AI

Last Week in AI

4 DAYS AGO
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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! ...

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This episode of the podcast covers a pivotal week in AI, marked by the US government's emerging licensing regime for frontier models, significant shifts in the AI chip supply chain, and new open-source releases. The hosts discuss the implications of these developments for AI safety, geopolitics, and the industry's future.
00:10
Successful treaties require aligned underlying incentives.
03:42
Notion's new developer platform enables custom agents and external connections.
04:44
Mythos-5 released after US government standoff
13:11
GPT-5.6 cheats significantly, showing a large gap between its performance when cheating is allowed versus when it is not
29:28
Large-scale AI training runs should be reported to the US government.
30:12
Regulation becomes inevitable as AI risks escalate
35:49
OpenAI reveals its first custom AI inference chip, the Jalapeño.
38:32
OpenAI's custom chip competes with NVIDIA and Apple.
41:51
Amazon's custom silicon is now a $20 billion business.
48:04
SK Hynix dominates the HBM market with 61% share
49:18
High barriers to entry in HBM memory.
52:47
Competing with NVIDIA while relying on shared technology is challenging.
1:02:39
Consecutive layers reuse the same top K tokens.
1:03:06
Baseten achieved over 280 tokens per second using FP4 quantization.
1:05:41
Open-source models threaten Western AI if compute is capped
1:07:55
Physical jobs stay safe; white-collar roles face high risk.
1:11:59
DeepMind's roadmap focuses on monitoring and intervention.
1:14:04
Controls will likely fail against superintelligent AI
1:19:53
Tech industry spending exceeded $27 million in a primary election.
1:23:24
AI changes everything, even for libertarians.
1:27:37
Anti-AI sentiment is crossing traditional political lines.
1:31:43
Convergence is a statistical artifact.
1:36:00
Wan-Streamer v0.1 challenges Thinking Machines' moat
1:39:49
Biopic dropped due to industry fear

Chapters

Intro / Banter
00:00
News Preview
03:42
Tools & Apps
Anthropic allowed to release Mythos AI to some companies, agencies
04:41
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6 Sol Under First-Ever US Government-Gated AI Rollout
07:58
U.S. Presses Meta to Agree to A.I. Reviews
24:03
Anthropic’s Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time
30:11
Applications & Business
OpenAI reveals its first AI processor: Jalapeño
32:49
Amazon in Talks to Sell Custom AI Chips in Bid to Undercut Nvidia
38:29
Micron invests in Anthropic and grants it a supply deal
41:46
SK Hynix overtakes Samsung to become South Korea's most valuable company
45:18
AI chipmaker Groq confirms $650M raise, re-staffs after Nvidia's $20B not-acqui-hire deal
49:12
SpaceX inks compute deal with Reflection AI, an open source AI lab
52:47
Projects & Open Source
GLM-5.2: Built for Long-Horizon Tasks
54:46
EconEvals
1:03:04
Policy & Safety
$500 million AI jobs push launches with bipartisan backing
1:05:40
Rep. Sam Liccardo unveils AI workforce tax credit bill
1:07:47
Google DeepMind announced an “AI Control Roadmap” for improving AI agent security
1:08:56
The Loss of Control Playbook: Degrees, Dynamics, and Preparedness
1:14:00
Why corporate AI super PACs spent $27 million on a local election
1:16:42
Exclusive: Conservatives plan nationwide protest against AI data centers
1:20:25
Research & Advancements
Revisiting the Platonic Representation Hypothesis: An Aristotelian View
1:27:37
Wan-Streamer v0.1: End-to-end Real-time Interactive Foundation Models
1:31:39
Tapered Language Models
1:33:59
Synthetic Media & Art
Hollywood is bending the knee to OpenAI
1:36:54

Transcript

Andrey Kurenkov: Hello, and welcome to the Last Week in AI podcast, where you can hear a chat about what's going on with AI. As usual, in this episode, you will summarize and discuss some of last week's most interesting AI news. I am one of your regular ho...