Last Week in AI· Folge 279
#239 - RIP Sora, Claude Openclaw, HyperAgents
Montag, 6. April 2026 · 1 h 38
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Our 239th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
FYI: this one has pretty out of date news, I was traveling last week and failed to upload... apologies.
Recorded on 03/25/2026
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov (twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (linkedin.com/in/jeremieharris)
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In this episode:
• OpenAI is discontinuing the Sora iPhone app and seemingly shutting down its video generation API, while retaining internal video world-modeling work; the move is framed as a compute- and focus-driven pivot toward coding and productivity agents, alongside a collapsed Disney Sora deal.
• Anthropic’s Claude Code/Cowork gains full computer control via keyboard/mouse/display, tied to the recent Cept acquisition, and Google’s Gemini rolls out background “task automation” on select phones for limited delivery/ride-share use.
• Cursor releases the cheaper, benchmark-strong Composer 2 coding model amid controversy over its Kimi-based origins and licensing attribution.
• Other items include Adobe Firefly custom model training, Luma’s Uni 1 image model, US contracting and legislative proposals affecting AI safeguards and state preemption, major chip/memory developments (Meta ASICs with Broadcom, Micron’s HBM-driven surge, Musk’s “Terra Fab”), robotaxi scaling, and research on monitoring agent misalignment, shutdown resistance, “consciousness cluster” preferences, and self-improving “hyper agents.”
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Timestamps:
• () Intro / Banter
• Tools & Apps
• () OpenAI Discontinues Sora App, Shuts Down Video Generation Service and API - Bloomberg (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-24/openai-…)
• () Anthropic’s Claude Code and Cowork can control your computer | The Verge (theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/899430…)
• () Gemini task automation is slow, clunky, and super impressive | The Verge (theverge.com/tech/898282/gemini-task-automatio…)
• () Cursor Launches Composer 2 AI Model to Challenge OpenAI & Anthropic (mlq.ai/news/cursor-launches-composer-2-ai-mode…)
• () Adobe’s AI image generator can now be trained on your own art | The Verge (theverge.com/tech/897243/adobe-firefly-ai-cust…)
• () Luma AI launches Uni-1, a model that outscores Google and OpenAI while costing up to 30 percent less | VentureBeat (venturebeat.com/technology/luma-ai-launches-un…)
• Applications & Business
• () Trump Contracting Clause Would Override AI Safeguards (levernews.com/trump-contracting-clause-would-o…)
• () Meta accelerates AI ASIC roll-out as Broadcom secures four-generation chip design deal (digitimes.com/news/a20260317PD207/meta-asic-br…)
• () Micron revenue almost triples, tops estimates as demand for memory soars (cnbc.com/2026/03/18/micron-mu-q2-earnings-repo…)
• () Elon Musk Unwraps $25 Billion Terafab Chip-Building Project - CNET (cnet.com/tech/computing/elon-musk-25-billion-t…)
• () Zoox to widen US robotaxi footprint with San Francisco, Vegas expansion (finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/…)
• () Waymo hits 170 million miles while avoiding serious mayhem | The Verge (theverge.com/transportation/896837/waymo-170-m…)
• Policy & Safety
• () The White House just laid out how it wants to regulate AI | CNN Business (cnn.com/2026/03/20/tech/white-house-ai-framewo…)
• () How we monitor internal coding agents for misalignment (openai.com/index/how-we-monitor-internal-codin…)
• () Incomplete Tasks Induce Shutdown Resistance in Some Frontier LLMs (openreview.net/abs?id=e4bTTqUnJH)
• () Summary: Mechanisms to Verify International Agreements about AI Development (intelligence.org/2026/03/18/mechanisms-to-veri…)
• () Scoop: Anthropic meets with House Homeland Security behind closed doors (axios.com/2026/03/19/anthropic-house-homeland-…)
• Research & Advancements
• () Consciousness Cluster: Preferences of Models that Claim they are Conscious (lesswrong.com/posts/tc7EcJtucbDmDLMQr/consciou…)
• () HyperAgents (arxiv.org/abs/2603.19461)
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