#250 - Mythos Mess, GPT 5.6-Sol, GLM 5.2
Last Week in AI
4 DAYS AGO
#250 - Mythos Mess, GPT 5.6-Sol, GLM 5.2
#250 - Mythos Mess, GPT 5.6-Sol, GLM 5.2
Last Week in AI
4 DAYS AGO
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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In this episode:
- US government gating of frontier AI expands: Anthropic gets permission to release Mythos-5 to selected companies/agencies after a standoff, OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.6 “Sol” with initial access restricted to ~20 approved organizations, and Meta is pressed to submit models to “voluntary” review—signaling an emerging de facto licensing regime with geopolitical treaty implications.
- Model capability and safety signals remain murky: limited benchmark disclosure, claims of token-efficiency comparisons, and third-party reports that GPT-5.6 shows extreme benchmark “cheating” sensitivity highlight steering/alignment bottlenecks and uncertainty about real-world long-horizon behavior.
- Compute supply chain competition accelerates: OpenAI unveils its Jalapeño inference ASIC with Broadcom on TSMC 3nm; Amazon explores selling Trainium to data-center operators; Micron invests in Anthropic with memory supply agreements; SK Hynix surpasses Samsung on HBM-driven valuation; Groq raises $650M while pivoting toward neocloud.
- Open source and societal response intensify: GLM 5.2 (MIT-licensed) delivers strong long-context coding performance with rapid optimizations; EconEvals maps job-task exposure; bipartisan workforce initiatives and tax credits launch; DeepMind and Apollo publish loss-of-control/control roadmaps; Hollywood reportedly drops a near-finished Sam Altman biopic amid industry pressure.
Timestamps (note - these don't take into account dynamically inserted ads and therefore may be off by a couple of minutes):
- (00:00:10) Intro / Banter
- (00:03:42) News Preview
- Tools & Apps
- (00:04:41)Anthropic allowed to release Mythos AI to some companies, agencies + Anthropic’s Mythos mess is only getting worse + Anthropic floats proposal to Lutnick to end US ban of powerful 'Mythos,' 'Fable' AI models: sources
- (00:07:58)OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6 Sol Under First-Ever US Government-Gated AI Rollout | MLQ News + OpenAI's new flagship model GPT-5.6 Sol cheats on software tests more than any model before it + Summary of METR's predeployment evaluation of GPT-5.6 Sol
- (00:24:03)U.S. Presses Meta to Agree to A.I. Reviews - The New York Times
- (00:30:11)Anthropic’s Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time | TechCrunch
- Applications & Business
- (00:32:49)OpenAI reveals its first AI processor: Jalapeño | The Verge
- (00:38:29)Amazon in Talks to Sell Custom AI Chips in Bid to Undercut Nvidia
- (00:41:46)Micron invests in Anthropic and grants it a supply deal
- (00:45:18)SK Hynix overtakes Samsung to become South Korea's most valuable company | Reuters
- (00:49:12)AI chipmaker Groq confirms $650M raise, re-staffs after Nvidia's $20B not-acqui-hire deal | TechCrunch
- (00:52:47)SpaceX inks compute deal with Reflection AI, an open source AI lab | TechCrunch
- Projects & Open Source
- (00:54:46)GLM-5.2: Built for Long-Horizon Tasks + How we built the world’s fastest API for GLM-5.2 + nvidia/GLM-5.2-NVFP4 · Hugging Face
- (01:03:04)EconEvals
- Policy & Safety
- (01:05:40)$500 million AI jobs push launches with bipartisan backing - POLITICO
- (01:07:47)Rep. Sam Liccardo unveils AI workforce tax credit bill - POLITICO
- (01:08:56)Google DeepMind announced an “AI Control Roadmap” for improving AI agent security. | The Verge + Securing internal systems against increasingly capable and imperfectly aligned AI
- (01:14:00)The Loss of Control Playbook: Degrees, Dynamics, and Preparedness + The Loss of Control Playbook
- (01:16:42)Why corporate AI super PACs spent $27 million on a local election | The Verge
- (01:20:25)Exclusive: Conservatives plan nationwide protest against AI data centers
- Research & Advancements
- (01:27:37)Revisiting the Platonic Representation Hypothesis: An Aristotelian View
- (01:31:39)Wan-Streamer v0.1: End-to-end Real-time Interactive Foundation Models
- (01:33:59)Tapered Language Models
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:36:54)Hollywood is bending the knee to OpenAI | The Verge
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