Our 231st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!Recorded on 01/16/2026Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie HarrisFeel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/In this episode:Anthropic's new cowork tool integrates Claude code, potentially simplifying multiple computing tasks from editing videos to compiling spreadsheets.Significant funding rounds see Anthropic raising $10B at a valuation of $350B, while XAI raises $20B, underscoring the immense market interest in AI startups.Nvidia faces supply challenges for H200 AI chips due to overwhelming demand from China, despite high costs per unit and its potential impact on U.S. company revenue.Policy debates highlight tensions around U.S. export controls to China, with leaders like Justin Lin from Alibaba and Jake Sullivan, former national security advisor, weighing in on the ramifications for the AI industry's future.Timestamps:

Intro / Banter

News PreviewTools & Apps

Anthropic’s new Cowork tool offers Claude Code without the code | TechCrunch

Google’s Gemini AI will use what it knows about you from Gmail, Search, and YouTube | The Verge

Google removes some AI health summaries after investigation finds “dangerous” flaws - Ars Technica

Gmail is getting a Gemini AI overhaul

Slackbot is an AI agent now | TechCrunchApplications & Business

Anthropic Raising $10 Billion at $350 Billion Value

Elon Musk xAI raises $20 billion from Nvidia, Cisco, investors

NVIDIA Needs a Supply Chain ‘Miracle’ From TSMC as China’s H200 AI Chip Orders Overwhelm Supply, Triggering a Bottleneck

OpenAI signs deal, worth $10B, for compute from Cerebras | TechCrunch

CoreWeave in focus as it amends credit agreement

LMArena lands $1.7B valuation four months after launching its product | TechCrunchProjects & Open Source

Nemotron-Cascade: Scaling Cascaded Reinforcement Learning for General-Purpose Reasoning Models

mHC: Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections

IQuest_Coder_Technical_Report

TII Abu-Dhabi Released Falcon H1R-7B: A New Reasoning Model Outperforming Others in Math and Coding with only 7B Params with 256k Context Window - MarkTechPostResearch & Advancements

Deep Delta Learning

Recursive Language Models

Conditional memory via scalable lookup

Extending the Context of Pretrained LLMs by Dropping their Positional EmbeddingsPolicy & Safety

Constitutional Classifiers++: Efficient Production-Grade Defenses against Universal Jailbreaks

Nvidia CEO says purchase orders, not formal declaration, will signal Chinese approval of H200

China AI Leaders Warn of Widening Gap With US After $1B IPO Week