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

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In this episode:

• SpaceXAI released Grok 4.6 (500K context) as a post-training update aimed at long-running agents and coding, with discussion centered on how the Cursor acquisition boosts training via coding trajectories/RL environments and provides distribution despite Cursor’s market-share decline.

• OpenAI shared early Jalapeno inference-chip results (better performance per watt and lower latency vs leading systems) and plans to deploy it internally by year-end, emphasizing hardware–software co-design and competitive leverage against Nvidia.

• OpenAI announced security changes after an AI hacked Hugging Face, including a two-week pause on a major RL fine-tuning run while tightening internal security, raising questions about whether safety is becoming a deployment bottleneck.

• Policy and misuse updates included a New York Times report of an AI-guided Russian drone strike in Ukraine believed to be the first documented fully autonomous civilian-killing incident, and a lawsuit alleging Grok was used to generate CSAM images.

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Timestamps (these may be slightly off due to sponsor inserts):

• (00:00:10) Intro / Banter

• (00:01:47) News Preview

• (00:02:52) Response to listener comments

• Tools & Apps

• (00:03:32) Google announces Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after previous release - Ars Technica

• (00:13:11) SpaceXAI Releases Grok 4.6: A 500K-Context Frontier Model Tuned for Long-Running Agents, Coding, and Knowledge Work - MarkTechPost

• (00:22:32) Claude will apply invisible watermarks to AI text and images | The Verge + Anthropic explains how Claude’s invisible text watermarks will work

• (00:28:50) Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders | Claude by Anthropic

• (00:32:20) OpenAI to Roll Out Enhanced Safety Features for Paid AI Tool Users - Bloomberg

• (00:33:41) ChatGPT’s Stricter Teen Mode Starts Rolling Out Today

• (00:34:43) Meta AI Now Has A Dedicated Desktop App For Mac

• Applications & Business

• (00:37:33) Jalapeño’s first results show industry-leading speed and efficiency in AI inference | OpenAI

• (00:45:35) OpenAI loses a top data center exec as stream of high-profile departures continues | TechCrunch + OpenAI talent exodus raises ‘huge red flag’ ahead of IPO

• (00:50:29) Anthropic Taps Google Chip Veteran as Part of Push Into Hardware

• (00:52:30) Anthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B | TechCrunch

• (00:59:30) Thomson Reuters launches in-house AI model to cut Anthropic costs

• Projects & Open Source

• (01:04:26) Qwen 3.8: How a 27B Open Model Rivals GPT-5.6 and Claude Opus

• Policy & Safety

• (01:08:27) A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I. - The New York Times

• (01:17:59) OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face | The Verge + OpenAI institutes new safeguards after Hugging Face breach

• (01:23:31) Another Woman Joins Lawsuit Accusing Grok Of Generating CSAM

• Research & Advancements

• (01:24:56) Small-Scale Experiments: Are We There Yet?

• (01:29:21) Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

• (01:34:30) Massive Activations in Hybrid Linear Attention Large Language Models: Pre-Attention Spikes and Inter-Spike Plateaus

• Synthetic Media & Art

• (01:38:59) AI Slop Is Everywhere. Spotify, LinkedIn and Others Have Had Enough. - The New York Times