#245 - TML-Interaction, Claude For Legal, Sam Altman on Stand
Last Week in AI
May 18
#245 - TML-Interaction, Claude For Legal, Sam Altman on Stand
#245 - TML-Interaction, Claude For Legal, Sam Altman on Stand

Last Week in AI
May 18
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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-powered) plus realtime translation and Whisper transcription, emphasizing the latency–reasoning tradeoff, larger context, and new guardrails amid fraud risks.
- Thinking Machines previewed a low-latency, full‑duplex conversational system with a two-model architecture and custom inference stack, reporting strong interactivity benchmark results but without public access or third‑party validation yet.
- Anthropic pushed further into vertical products with Claude for Legal and deeper AWS availability, while ongoing ecosystem tension grows as platform model providers compete with application-layer companies.
- Safety, policy, and research updates included OpenAI’s self-harm trusted contact feature, Anthropic work on reducing agent misalignment by training ethical “why” reasoning, OpenAI’s investigation of accidental chain-of-thought grading in RL, and Meta horizon eval updates showing benchmarking limits for long task horizons.
Timestamps:
- (00:00:10) Intro / Banter
- (00:01:35) Response to listener comments
- (00:03:27) Sponsor Break
Tools & Apps
- (00:06:27)OpenAI launches new voice intelligence features in its API | TechCrunch
- (00:15:52)Thinking Machines drops a new, highly responsive model designed for humanlike interactions in real time - SiliconANGLE
- (00:27:49)Claude For Legal Launches, May Reshape the Legal Tech World – Artificial Lawyer
- (00:40:27)Threads tests a Meta AI integration that works similarly to Grok | TechCrunch
- (00:43:08)Google brings agentic AI and vibe-coded widgets to Android | TechCrunch
- (00:45:33)Google updates AI search to include quotes from Reddit and other sources | TechCrunch
Applications & Business
- (00:47:38)Sam Altman was winning on the stand, but it might not be enough | The Verge
- (00:55:04)Nvidia C.E.O. Jensen Huang Hitches Ride With Trump to China After Last-Minute Invite - The New York Times
- (00:58:40)AWS expands Anthropic partnership with Claude Platform launch
- (01:01:13)Chinese grey market sells Claude API access at 90% off by using stolen credentials, model substitution, and harvesting users' prompts and outputs for resale as AI training data — 'transfer stations' operate through proxy networks that harvest user data
- (01:06:43)DeepMind Spinout Isomorphic Labs Raises $2.1 Billion to Design Drugs With AI - Bloomberg
Projects & Open Source
- (01:09:04)Petri: Anthropic Hands Its Alignment Toolbox to Meridian Labs with 3.0 Update
- (01:12:25)Daybreak': OpenAI's Answer to Anthropic's Project Glasswing Has Arrived
Policy & Safety
- (01:14:04)Teaching Claude why
- (01:21:45)Import AI 455: Automating AI Research
- (01:28:31)ChatGPT's New Safety Feature Could Alert 'Trusted Contact' to Risk of Self-Harm - CNET
- (01:30:09)Investigating the consequences of accidentally grading CoT during RL
- (01:34:46)Natural Language Autoencoders criticism
- (01:39:15)Review of the "Risks from automated R&D" section in the Anthropic Risk Report (February 2026)
Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:43:39)George Clooney, Tom Hanks, and Meryl Streep back new ‘Human Consent Standard’ for AI licensing | The Verge
Research & Advancements
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