This week's top AI news includes Elon Musk losing his $150 billion lawsuit against OpenAI, Google unveiling major AI updates at I/O 2026, OpenAI's AI solving an 80-year-old math problem, the Take It Down Act enforcement, and SpaceX planning to acquire coding startup Cursor after its IPO.
Elon Musk's $150B lawsuit against OpenAI dismissed; OpenAI prepares for IPO.
Google I/O 2026 introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini Spark AI agent, Gemini Omni, and more.
Google unveils Gemini 3.5 and Gemini Spark agent, plus Gemini Omni multimodal video generation; Elon Musk loses OpenAI lawsuit on statute of limitations; Anthropic agrees to $30B funding at $900B valuation; AI solves 80-year-old Erdős geometry problem.
Google launches Gemini 3.5 and always-on agent Gemini Spark with MCP tool support.
Gemini Omni converts images, audio, and text into video.
This episode covers OpenAI's new voice intelligence API features, Thinking Machines' highly responsive real-time interaction model, Anthropic's Claude for Legal, Sam Altman's testimony, and other AI news from the past week.
OpenAI releases new voice API features including GPT Realtime 2 and realtime translation
Thinking Machines previews a low-latency full-duplex conversational system
The first week of the Musk v. Altman trial concluded with Musk's testimony dominating; OpenAI and Microsoft renegotiate their partnership, ending exclusivity; DeepSeek previews V4 models that narrow the gap with frontier models; Google DeepMind introduces Vision Banana, a unified model for image generation and visual understanding.
Musk admitted xAI partly distilled from OpenAI models during the trial's first week.
Microsoft and OpenAI revised their agreement, ending Microsoft's exclusive cloud rights; OpenAI can now use AWS and other providers.
Our 243rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week’s big AI news, including OpenAI's GPT-5.5, xAI's Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0, DeepSeek V4 open source, Google's massive investment in Anthropic, and safety research on sabotage and document corruption.
OpenAI released GPT-5.5 with strong coding improvements and a system card on chain-of-thought monitorability
xAI launched Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0, claiming big benchmark leads in real-time voice agents
OpenAI ships GPT-5.4 mini and nano with 400k context windows, faster but up to 4x pricier; Mistral open-sources Small 4 model; Meta’s Manus launches Mac agent; Nvidia unveils DLSS 5 and NeMo sandboxed runtime; plus safety and research updates.
OpenAI releases GPT-5.4 mini and nano with 400k-token context, higher prices but claimed efficiency gains.
Mistral open-sources Small 4 model family (119B total/6B active) and launches Forge for custom models.
A summary and discussion of last week’s big AI news, including Perplexity's Personal Computer, Anthropic's code review tool, ChatGPT interactive visuals, Nvidia's Natron Free Super model, H200 halt for China, xAI cofounder departures, Anthropic lawsuit against Pentagon, and more.
Perplexity launches local Mac AI agent 'Personal Computer' as a safer alternative.
Nvidia releases 120B-parameter Natron Free Super hybrid Transformer-Mamba MoE model.
Anthropic sues Trump administration over AI dispute with Pentagon; Musk's xAI restarts again; AI-generated fakes about war with Iran cause chaos online.
Anthropic files two lawsuits against the Trump administration regarding Pentagon AI restrictions.
Elon Musk's xAI reportedly starting over its AI system development.
This episode covers OpenAI's release of GPT-5.4 Pro and GPT-5.3 Instant, Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite, Luma's unified multimodal models, and the escalating controversy over Anthropic being labeled a defense supply chain risk.
OpenAI launched GPT-5.4 Pro with 1M-token context and GPT-5.3 Instant with reduced hallucination.
Google released Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite at 1/8 the cost of Pro and made Gmail/Drive agent-ready.
The U.S. Department of Defense designates Anthropic as a supply chain risk, while OpenAI's military deal sparks a 'cancel ChatGPT' movement. Also, ChatGPT 5.4 is hinted.
DOD labels Anthropic a supply chain risk, citing potential national security concerns.
OpenAI's partnership with the U.S. military leads to growing calls to cancel ChatGPT.
The 235th episode of Last Week in AI covers Anthropic's Sonnet 4.6 with 1M context and strong ARC-AGI-2 results, Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro, xAI's Grok 4.2 beta, and various tool updates. Business news includes Meta's up-to-$100B AMD chip deal, MatX raising $500M, World Labs $1B, and Simile $100M. Research highlights deep-thinking tokens, masking updates, and LLM attractor states. Policy discussions focus on Anthropic's stance on Pentagon contracts and distillation attacks.
Anthropic releases Sonnet 4.6 with 1M context and strong ARC-AGI-2 performance
Google launches Gemini 3.1 Pro with major ARC-AGI-2 improvement and multimodal capabilities