#245 - TML-Interaction, Claude For Legal, Sam Altman on Stand

Our 245th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Recorded on 05/13/2026
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov (twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (linkedin.com/in/jeremieharris)
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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.

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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 (techcrunch.com/2026/05/07/openai-launches-new-…)
• (00:15:52) Thinking Machines drops a new, highly responsive model designed for humanlike interactions in real time - SiliconANGLE (siliconangle.com/2026/05/11/thinking-machines-…)
• (00:27:49) Claude For Legal Launches, May Reshape the Legal Tech World – Artificial Lawyer (artificiallawyer.com/2026/05/12/claude-for-leg…)
• (00:40:27) Threads tests a Meta AI integration that works similarly to Grok | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/threads-tests-a-meta…)
• (00:43:08) Google brings agentic AI and vibe-coded widgets to Android | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/google-brings-agenti…)
• (00:45:33) Google updates AI search to include quotes from Reddit and other sources | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com/2026/05/06/google-updates-ai-se…)
Applications & Business
• (00:47:38) Sam Altman was winning on the stand, but it might not be enough | The Verge (theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/929129…)
• (00:55:04) Nvidia C.E.O. Jensen Huang Hitches Ride With Trump to China After Last-Minute Invite - The New York Times (nytimes.com/2026/05/12/us/politics/trump-china…)
• (00:58:40) AWS expands Anthropic partnership with Claude Platform launch (cloudcomputing-news.net/news/claude-platform-o…)
• (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 (tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-inte…)
• (01:06:43) DeepMind Spinout Isomorphic Labs Raises $2.1 Billion to Design Drugs With AI - Bloomberg (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-12/deepmin…)
Projects & Open Source
• (01:09:04) Petri: Anthropic Hands Its Alignment Toolbox to Meridian Labs with 3.0 Update (winbuzzer.com/2026/05/08/donating-our-open-sou…)
• (01:12:25) Daybreak': OpenAI's Answer to Anthropic's Project Glasswing Has Arrived (gizmodo.com/daybreak-openais-answer-to-anthrop…)
Policy & Safety
• (01:14:04) Teaching Claude why (anthropic.com/research/teaching-claude-why)
• (01:21:45) Import AI 455: Automating AI Research (jack-clark.net/2026/05/04/import-ai-455-automa…)
• (01:28:31) ChatGPT's New Safety Feature Could Alert 'Trusted Contact' to Risk of Self-Harm - CNET (cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/openai-cha…)
• (01:30:09) Investigating the consequences of accidentally grading CoT during RL (alignment.openai.com/accidental-cot-grading)
• (01:34:46) Natural Language Autoencoders criticism (x.com/StephenLCasper/status/2052784373066338759)
• (01:39:15) Review of the "Risks from automated R&D" section in the Anthropic Risk Report (February 2026) (metr.org/blog/2026-05-08-rd-section-anthropic-…)
Synthetic Media & Art
• (01:43:39) George Clooney, Tom Hanks, and Meryl Streep back new ‘Human Consent Standard’ for AI licensing | The Verge (theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/928534…)
Research & Advancements
• (01:45:10) METR says Claude Mythos is testing the limits of AI evaluation – Startup Fortune (startupfortune.com/metr-says-claude-mythos-is-…)
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