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A year ago, officials all but sneered at the idea of AI safety. A new frontier model has them reconsidering

First week of Musk v. Altman, OpenAI ends Microsoft legal peril over its $50B Amazon deal, DeepSeek previews new AI model that ‘closes the gap’ with frontier models, and more!

The first step towards recursive self improvement

Our 243rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week’s big AI news!

Think railroads, not crypto. PLUS: The government can't decide what to do about Mythos, and week one of the OpenAI-Elon Musk trial

ChatGPT’s new Images 2.0 model is surprisingly good at generating text , Alibaba Drops Qwen 3.6 Max Preview , SpaceX is working with Cursor

On newsletters in the age of AI automation. PLUS: Musk and OpenAI in court, and China blocks Meta's Manus acquisition

One impressive step on the curve

At what point do the financial markets price in the singularity?

Was fire equivalent to a singularity for people at the time?

How much could AI revolutionize the economy?

OpenAI ships GPT-5.4 mini and nano, faster and more capable but up to 4x pricier, DLSS 5 looks like a real-time generative AI filter for video games | The Verge, and more!

We often lack the tools for the job, even if the AI is capable enough

Are there any genies that can be put back in the bottle?

How will timeless minds value time?

DLSS 5 looks like a real-time generative AI filter for video games, OpenAI Reportedly Pivoting to a Focus on Business and Productivity Only, and more!

Will AI cause a political interregnum

Nemotron 3 Super: An Open Hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE for Agentic Reasoning, Another XAI Cofounder Has Left, Anthropic Sues Department of Defense

Anthropic sues Trump administration in AI dispute with Pentagon, ‘Not built right the first time’ — Musk’s xAI is starting over again, again, Cascade of A.I. Fakes About War With Iran Causes Chaos Onl

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with Pro and Thinking versions, Google releases Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite at 1/8th the cost of Pro, Where things stand with the Department of War Anthropic

Where we are right now, and what likely happens next

If Ukraine is the first major drone war, when will there be the first major AI war?

Anthropic officially told by DOD that it’s a supply chain risk, ‘cancel ChatGPT’ trend is growing after OpenAI signs a deal with the US military, and more!

Anthropic releases Sonnet 4.6, Google Rolls Out Gemini 3.1 Pro, Anthropic CEO Amodei says Pentagon’s threats ‘do not change our position’ on AI

What might a superintelligence arcology be like?

Anthropic releases Sonnet 4.6, Google Rolls Out Latest AI Model Gemini 3.1 Pro, Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute

Will AIs be jealous of one another?

It's not just chatbots anymore

An action-packed episode!

Will 2026 be looked back on as the pivotal year for making decisions about the singularity?

A crazy packed edition of Last Week in AI! Plus some small updates.

How can you quantify creativity?

Google adds Gemini AI-powered ‘auto browse’ to Chrome, Users flock to open source Moltbot for always-on AI, Qwen3-Max-Thinking debuts, and more!

China’s Moonshot releases a new open source model Kimi K2.5 and a coding agent, Google Brings Genie 3’s Interactive World-Building Prototype to AI Ultra Subscribers, and more!

Plus, a story about agents corrupting other agents

OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions, The Drama at Thinking Machines, STEM: Scaling Transformers with Embedding Modules

Thriving in a world of agents

Is superintelligence a phase change or a gradual shift?

OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions, Sequoia to invest in Anthropic, Zhipu AI breaks US chip reliance, The Drama at Thinking Machines Is Riveting Silicon Valley

Plus: Corrupting AI systems with a poison fountain