Last Week in AI: News

Last Week in AI #341 - Musk loses to OpenAI, Google's IO updates, OpenAI solves Erdős

Last Week in AI — Wed, 27 May 2026 07:50:58 GMT

Top News

Elon Musk Loses $150 Billion Suit Against OpenAI and Sam Altman - The New York Times

Last Week in AI #340 - OpenAI vs Musk + Microsoft, DeepSeek v4, Vision Banana

Last Week in AI — Tue, 05 May 2026 08:30:35 GMT

Musk testimony dominated first week of Musk v. Altman. ‘You can’t just steal a charity’

Last Week in AI #339 - DLSS 5, OpenAI Superapp, MiniMax M2.7

Last Week in AI — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:11:29 GMT

DLSS 5 looks like a real-time generative AI filter for video games

Nvidia’s DLSS 5 uses generative AI to boost photorealism in video games, with ambitions beyond gaming

Last Week in AI #338 - Anthropic sues Trump, xAI starting over, Iran AI Fakes

Last Week in AI — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:18:14 GMT

Anthropic sues Trump administration in AI dispute with Pentagon

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Summary: Anthropic filed two lawsuits—one in the Northern District of California and …

Last Week in AI #337 - Anthropic Risk, QuitGPT, ChatGPT 5.4

Last Week in AI — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 07:15:45 GMT

Note from Editor: apologies for missing a week with this newsletter. As I mentioned on the podcast, my startup Astrocade has recently raised our series B which has gotten me extra busy lately. I’ll do my best to keep the schedule consistent!

PS we are hiring for engineers, marketing, product, growth, and more! If you’re in the bay area, would like to joi…

Last Week in AI #336 - Sonnet 4.6, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Anthropic vs Pentagon

Last Week in AI — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:43:23 GMT

Anthropic releases Sonnet 4.6

Last Week in AI #335 - Opus 4.6, Codex 5.3, Gemini 3 Deep Think, GLM 5, Seedance 2.0

Last Week in AI — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 02:00:20 GMT

Editor’s note: I apologize for the inconsistent release date of the newsletter and podcasts in recent months. I’ll aim to start releasing on Saturday/Sunday consistently from now on! This edition of the newsletter covers a bit more than a week as a result.

I am also going to be adding an ‘Editor’s Take’ for Top News to add a bit commentary and extra cont…

Last Week in AI #334 - Kimi K2.5 & Code, Genie 3, OpenClaw & Moltbook

Last Week in AI — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 05:25:56 GMT

China’s Moonshot releases a new open source model Kimi K2.5 and a coding agent

Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi K2.5, an open-source, natively multimodal model trained on 15 trillion mixed visual and text tokens that understands text, images, and video. The company emphasizes strong agentic capabilities, citing “agent swarm” orchestration where multiple agents …

Last Week in AI #333 - ChatGPT Ads, Zhipu+Huawei, Drama at Thinking Machines

Last Week in AI — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 05:14:53 GMT

OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions

ChatGPT to begin testing ads as generative AI competition heats up

OpenAI will begin testing labeled banner ads in ChatGPT for logged‑in users on the free tier and the $8/month ChatGPT Go plan, rolling out in the U.S. and other markets in the coming weeks. Ads will appear as blocked-off se…

Last Week in AI #332 - Apple + Gemini, OpenAI + Cerebras, Claude Cowork

Last Week in AI — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 07:06:16 GMT

Google’s Gemini to power Apple’s AI features like Siri

Apple announced a multi-year partnership to use Google’s Gemini models and Google Cloud to power AI features like Siri, after testing alternatives from OpenAI and Anthropic. According to both companies, Gemini provides “the most capable foundation” for Apple’s own models, with reporting suggesting Ap…

Last Week in AI #331 - Nvidia announcements, Grok bikini prompts, RAISE Act

Last Week in AI — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 11:56:58 GMT

Nvidia Details New A.I. Chips and Autonomous Car Project With Mercedes

At CES 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced the company’s new AI chip, Vera Rubin, which will begin shipping to custome…

Last Week in AI #330 - Groq->Nvidia , ChatGPT Apps, US AI Genesis Mission

Last Week in AI — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 08:51:51 GMT

Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq’s assets for about $20 billion in largest deal on record

Nvidia agreed to license Groq’s inference technology and acquire essentially all of its assets for about $20 billion in cash—its largest deal to date—according to Disruptive CEO Alex Davis, a major Groq investor. Groq, valued at $6.9 billion after raising $750 mil…

Last Week in AI #329 - GPT 5.2, GenAI.mil, Disney in Sora

Last Week in AI — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 07:45:13 GMT

GPT-5.2 is OpenAI’s latest move in the agentic AI battle

OpenAI Launches GPT-5.2 as It Navigates ‘Code Red’

OpenAI released the GPT-5.2 model series—Instant, Thinking, and Pro—positioned as its best for everyday professional use, with upgrades in spreadsheet and presentation creation, coding, image perception, long-context understanding, tool use,…

Last Week in AI #328 - DeepSeek 3.2, Mistral 3, Trainium3, Runway Gen-4.5

Last Week in AI — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 04:44:04 GMT

DeepSeek Releases New Reasoning Models to Match GPT-5, Rival Gemini 3 Pro

DeepSeek released two open-source reasoning-first models, DeepSeek-V3.2 and DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale, on Hugging Face, with V3.2 live across its app, …

Last Week in AI #327 - Gemini 3, Opus 4.5, Nano Banana Pro, GPT-5.1-Codex-Max

Last Week in AI — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 19:21:47 GMT

Google launches Gemini 3 with new coding app and record benchmark scores

Google unveiled Gemini 3, its most capable foundation model to date, now live in the Gemini app and AI Search, with a research-tier Gemini 3 Deepthink …

Last Week in AI #325 - OpenAI is for-profit, ChatGPT Atlas, Copilot Mico

Last Week in AI — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:02:31 GMT

OpenAI completed its for-profit restructuring — and struck a new deal with Microsoft

OpenAI finalized its for-profit restructuring by converting its operating arm into a public benefit corporation called OpenAI Group PBC, while its nonprofit parent is now the OpenAI Foundation. The Foundation holds equity valued at about $130 billion, will initially depl…

Last Week in AI #324: OpenAI Deals and DevDay, Haiku 4.5, Veo 3.1

Last Week in AI — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 16:00:58 GMT

Editorial note: apologies for the newsletter and podcast not having come out regularly lately, startup life has kept me and my co-host rather busy… I’ll do my best to resume weekly release cadence for both the newsletter and podcast starting this week.

OpenAI Inks Deal With Broadcom to Design Its Own Chips for A.I.

Broadcom stock pops 9% on OpenA…

Last Week in AI #323 - Sonnet 4.5, Sora 2, Vibes, SB 53

Last Week in AI — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:44:32 GMT

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.5

Anthropic announced Claude Sonnet 4.5, highlighting a major leap in autonomous “computer use” and coding capabilities. In internal tests, the model ran unattended for 30 hours to build a Slack/Teams-like chat app, generating ~11,000 lines of code, up from Opus 4’s seven-hour autonomy earlier this year. Anthropic claim…

Last Week in AI #322 - Robotaxi progress, OpenAI Business, Gemini in Chrome

Last Week in AI — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 15:01:57 GMT

The Robotaxi Race is Speeding up in the US

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Last Week in AI #321 - Anthropic & Midjourney Lawsuits, Bad Jobs Data

Last Week in AI — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 17:18:11 GMT

Top News

Judge puts Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement on hold

A federal judge has paused Anthropic’s proposed $1.5 billion class-action settlement with U.S. authors, citing concerns the deal was crafted “behind closed doors” and could be forced “down the throats of authors.” Judge William Alsup, who previously ruled that training on purchase…