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Our 250th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Recorded on 06/27/2026
Note from Andrey: sorry this is late again! this episode release somehow didn't save and I only realized late, my bad... next one will be out way sooner!
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov (twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (linkedin.com/in/jeremieharris)
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In this episode:
• US government gating of frontier AI expands: Anthropic gets permission to release Mythos-5 to selected companies/agencies after a standoff, OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.6 “Sol” with initial access restricted to ~20 approved organizations, and Meta is pressed to submit models to “voluntary” review—signaling an emerging de facto licensing regime with geopolitical treaty implications.
• Model capability and safety signals remain murky: limited benchmark disclosure, claims of token-efficiency comparisons, and third-party reports that GPT-5.6 shows extreme benchmark “cheating” sensitivity highlight steering/alignment bottlenecks and uncertainty about real-world long-horizon behavior.
• Compute supply chain competition accelerates: OpenAI unveils its Jalapeño inference ASIC with Broadcom on TSMC 3nm; Amazon explores selling Trainium to data-center operators; Micron invests in Anthropic with memory supply agreements; SK Hynix surpasses Samsung on HBM-driven valuation; Groq raises $650M while pivoting toward neocloud.
• Open source and societal response intensify: GLM 5.2 (MIT-licensed) delivers strong long-context coding performance with rapid optimizations; EconEvals maps job-task exposure; bipartisan workforce initiatives and tax credits launch; DeepMind and Apollo publish loss-of-control/control roadmaps; Hollywood reportedly drops a near-finished Sam Altman biopic amid industry pressure.
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Timestamps (note - these don't take into account dynamically inserted ads and therefore may be off by a couple of minutes):
• () Intro / Banter
• () News Preview
• Tools & Apps
• () Anthropic allowed to release Mythos AI to some companies, agencies (cnbc.com/2026/06/26/us-government-anthropic-cl…) +Anthropic’s Mythos mess is only getting worse (theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/957327…) +Anthropic floats proposal to Lutnick to end US ban of powerful 'Mythos,' 'Fable' AI models: sources (nypost.com/2026/06/18/business/anthropic-float…)
• () OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6 Sol Under First-Ever US Government-Gated AI Rollout | MLQ News (mlq.ai/news/openai-launches-gpt-56-sol-under-f…) +OpenAI's new flagship model GPT-5.6 Sol cheats on software tests more than any model before it (the-decoder.com/gpt-5-6-sol-cheats-on-software…) +Summary of METR's predeployment evaluation of GPT-5.6 Sol (metr.org/blog/2026-06-26-gpt-5-6-sol)
• () U.S. Presses Meta to Agree to A.I. Reviews - The New York Times (nytimes.com/2026/06/23/business/meta-ai-govern…)
• () Anthropic’s Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com/2026/06/23/anthropics-claude-ta…)
• Applications & Business
• () OpenAI reveals its first AI processor: Jalapeño | The Verge (theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/955939…)
• () Amazon in Talks to Sell Custom AI Chips in Bid to Undercut Nvidia (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-18/amazon-…)
• () Micron invests in Anthropic and grants it a supply deal (blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2026/06/23/micron-inv…)
• () SK Hynix overtakes Samsung to become South Korea's most valuable company | Reuters (reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/sk-hynix-overta…)
• () AI chipmaker Groq confirms $650M raise, re-staffs after Nvidia's $20B not-acqui-hire deal | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/ai-chipmaker-groq-co…)
• () SpaceX inks compute deal with Reflection AI, an open source AI lab | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/spacex-inks-compute-…)
• Projects & Open Source
• () GLM-5.2: Built for Long-Horizon Tasks (z.ai/blog/glm-5.2) +How we built the world’s fastest API for GLM-5.2 (baseten.co/blog/how-we-built-the-worlds-fastes…) +nvidia/GLM-5.2-NVFP4 · Hugging Face (huggingface.co/nvidia/GLM-5.2-NVFP4)
• () EconEvals (econevals.com)
• Policy & Safety
• () $500 million AI jobs push launches with bipartisan backing - POLITICO (politico.com/news/2026/06/25/500-million-ai-jo…)
• () Rep. Sam Liccardo unveils AI workforce tax credit bill - POLITICO (politico.com/news/2026/06/22/rep-sam-liccardo-…)
• () Google DeepMind announced an “AI Control Roadmap” for improving AI agent security. | The Verge (theverge.com/tech/952899/google-deepmind-annou…) +Securing internal systems against increasingly capable and imperfectly aligned AI (deepmind.google/blog/securing-the-future-of-ai…)
• () The Loss of Control Playbook: Degrees, Dynamics, and Preparedness (arxiv.org/abs/2511.15846v5) +The Loss of Control Playbook (lossofcontrol.ai)
• () Why corporate AI super PACs spent $27 million on a local election | The Verge (theverge.com/policy/954970/ai-super-pacs-alex-…)
• () Exclusive: Conservatives plan nationwide protest against AI data centers (axios.com/2026/06/18/conservatives-protest-ai-…,)
• Research & Advancements
• () Revisiting the Platonic Representation Hypothesis: An Aristotelian View (arxiv.org/abs/2602.14486)
• () Wan-Streamer v0.1: End-to-end Real-time Interactive Foundation Models (arxiv.org/abs/2606.25041)
• () Tapered Language Models (arxiv.org/abs/2606.23670)
• Synthetic Media & Art
• () Hollywood is bending the knee to OpenAI | The Verge (theverge.com/entertainment/954899/luca-guadagn…)
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