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#248 - Fable 5, Siri AI, IPOs, Policy on the AI Exponential

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#248 - Fable 5, Siri AI, IPOs, Policy on the AI Exponential

Last Week in AI

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#248 - Fable 5, Siri AI, IPOs, Policy on the AI Exponential

#248 - Fable 5, Siri AI, IPOs, Policy on the AI Exponential

Last Week in AI

Last Week in AI

5 HOURS AGO

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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 Feel f...

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This episode covers a whirlwind week in AI, featuring major model releases, strategic business moves, and critical safety discussions. The hosts analyze Anthropic's controversial launch of Claude Fable 5, Apple's long-awaited Siri AI update, and a flurry of funding and IPO news from OpenAI, DeepSeek, and Prometheus.

00:10

A busy week in AI news

01:11

Claude Fable 5's release, Siri AI, IPOs for OpenAI and Anthropic

07:46

The model is often aware of its own dangerous actions.

30:07

It was a sensible business move despite the risk.

33:50

Real-time translation is a key AI use case.

35:39

Google cuts AI Plus price to $4.99 with 400GB storage

37:58

OpenAI confidentially filed for IPO.

44:59

Hardware companies need more capital relative to valuation.

47:45

DeepSeek's reliance on Huawei chips may create a frenemy dynamic.

48:22

Huawei post-trained DeepSeek on Ascend chips

51:57

Google pays SpaceX nearly $1 billion per month for GPU compute

58:54

He has a track record of delivering on impossible ideas.

1:04:19

Removing encoder could improve memory and latency

1:05:15

Over 1,000 tokens per second.

1:12:40

Biological attacks require physical modeling of industrial processes for defense.

1:17:09

AI automation shifts wealth from labor to capital

1:20:20

AI will be a dominant military power and democracies should win

1:26:00

Auto-Elicit generates benign prompts causing harmful behaviors

1:31:07

RL recovers historical gaps with 61% recall and 91% precision

1:33:50

Lack of binding safety requirements is uncalibrated.

1:37:49

Labels failed to share proceeds with actual musicians

Chapters

Intro / Banter

00:00

News Preview

01:11

Sponsors

01:53

Tools & Apps

Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 + Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails

04:53

Apple announces Siri AI and its next generation of Apple Intelligence + I tried Siri AI, and so far it actually works

27:06

Gemini 3.5 Live Translate rolling out to Google Meet and Translate

33:47

Google just fired a warning shot in the AI subscription price wars

35:39

Applications & Business

OpenAI Confidentially Files for IPO on the Heels of SpaceX and Anthropic

37:55

Jeff Bezos's Prometheus raises $12B to build an 'artificial general engineer' for the physical world

41:57

DeepSeek slated to raise $7 billion in maiden funding round, sources say

45:39

Huawei-led team claims it post-trained DeepSeek's 1.6-trillion-parameter model — 1,000 Ascend 910C chips used in training

48:18

Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute

51:57

Elon Musk Shows Off AI Data Centers SpaceX Wants to Send Into Space

55:51

Projects & Open Source

Google's new Gemma 4 12B model is designed to run on any laptop with 16GB of RAM

1:01:14

Google AI Releases DiffusionGemma, a 26B MoE Open Model Using Text Diffusion for Up to 4x Faster Generation

1:05:13

Policy & Safety

OpenAI and Anthropic Sign Letter to Prevent AI-Developed Biological Weapons

1:09:42

Anthropic CEO publishes lengthy article: AI is moving too fast, and policies can't keep up.

1:14:04

Anthropic Urges Global Pause in AI Development, Flags ‘Self-Improvement’ Risk

1:20:18

When Benign Inputs Lead to Severe Harms: Eliciting Unsafe Unintended Behaviors of Computer-Use Agents

1:24:46

Large Language Models Hack Rewards, and Society

1:27:42

Senior US officials eye government shares in AI giants

1:33:46

Synthetic Media & Art

AFM Sues UMG, WMG Over Settlements With Suno and Udio

1:37:45

Transcript

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