Last Week in AI
Last Week in AI, Jacky Liang, daniel bashir, Archer Amon, Andrey KurenkovWeekly text and audio summaries of the most interesting AI news, as well as editorials commenting on recent events
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Last Week in AI #340 - OpenAI vs Musk + Microsoft, DeepSeek v4, Vision Banana
Musk testimony dominated first week of Musk v. Altman. ‘You can’t just steal a charity’
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All the evidence revealed so far in Musk v. Altman
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Musk texted OpenAI’s Brockman about settlement two days before trial began...
LWiAI Podcast #243 - GPT 5.5, DeepSeek V4, AI safety sabotage
Our 243rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week’s big AI news!
Recorded on 04/29/2026
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris
Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or hello@g...
LWiAI Podcast #242 - ChatGPT Images 2.0, Qwen 3.6 Max, Kimi-K2.6
Note from Andrey: I know there haven’t been posts on Substack in the past couple of weeks… Starting this week they’ll resume at a regular cadence, as usual I apologize for the inconsistency.
Our 242nd episode with a summary and discussion...
LWiAI Podcast #238 - GPT 5.4 mini, OpenAI Pivot, Mamba 3, Attention Residuals
Note from Andrey: this ep came out a week ago on RSS, but I was delayed posting it to youtube and therefore also Substack. My bad!
Our 238th episode with a summary and discussion of last week’s big AI news!
Recorded on 03/18/2026
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Last Week in AI #339 - DLSS 5, OpenAI Superapp, MiniMax M2.7
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!
DLSS 5 looks like a real-time generative AI filter for video games
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A concise but thorough weekly digest of AI news
Jacky has a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. He works on giving robots the ability to learn from experience and adapt to new tasks and scenarios. Jacky writes about AI and robotics for Last Week in AI and Skynet Today.
"Monsieur, I absolutely cannot tell you if it has been raining. I live so resolutely beyond physical contingencies that my senses do not bother to notify me of them." —ML engineer + hobbyist writer/interviewer, based in SF. Views are my own, etc
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Former AI researcher (PhD from Stanford), current AI builder. Co-founder of The Gradient, Last Week in AI, and Stories by AI. Writer, photographer, youtuber, podcaster, dilettante.
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