Our 245th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!Recorded on 05/13/2026Hosted 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:OpenAI released new voice intelligence API features including GPT Realtime 2 (GPT-5-powered) plus realtime translation and Whisper transcription, emphasizing the latency–reasoning tradeoff, larger context, and new guardrails amid fraud risks.Thinking Machines previewed a low-latency, full‑duplex conversational system with a two-model architecture and custom inference stack, reporting strong interactivity benchmark results but without public access or third‑party validation yet.Anthropic pushed further into vertical products with Claude for Legal and deeper AWS availability, while ongoing ecosystem tension grows as platform model providers compete with application-layer companies.Safety, policy, and research updates included OpenAI’s self-harm trusted contact feature, Anthropic work on reducing agent misalignment by training ethical “why” reasoning, OpenAI’s investigation of accidental chain-of-thought grading in RL, and Meta horizon eval updates showing benchmarking limits for long task horizons.A thank you to our current sponsors:Box - visit Box.com/AI to learn moreODSC AI - go to odsc.ai/east and use promo code LWAI for an additional 15% off your pass to ODSC AI East 2026.Factor - head to factormeals.com/lwai50off and use code lwai50off to get 50 percent off and free breakfast for a yearTimestamps:

Intro / Banter

Response to listener comments

Sponsor BreakTools & Apps

OpenAI launches new voice intelligence features in its API | TechCrunch

Thinking Machines drops a new, highly responsive model designed for humanlike interactions in real time - SiliconANGLE

Claude For Legal Launches, May Reshape the Legal Tech World – Artificial Lawyer

Threads tests a Meta AI integration that works similarly to Grok | TechCrunch

Google brings agentic AI and vibe-coded widgets to Android | TechCrunch

Google updates AI search to include quotes from Reddit and other sources | TechCrunchApplications & Business

Sam Altman was winning on the stand, but it might not be enough | The Verge

Nvidia C.E.O. Jensen Huang Hitches Ride With Trump to China After Last-Minute Invite - The New York Times

AWS expands Anthropic partnership with Claude Platform launch

Chinese grey market sells Claude API access at 90% off by using stolen credentials, model substitution, and harvesting users' prompts and outputs for resale as AI training data — 'transfer stations' operate through proxy networks that harvest user data

DeepMind Spinout Isomorphic Labs Raises $2.1 Billion to Design Drugs With AI - BloombergProjects & Open Source

Petri: Anthropic Hands Its Alignment Toolbox to Meridian Labs with 3.0 Update

Daybreak': OpenAI's Answer to Anthropic's Project Glasswing Has ArrivedPolicy & Safety

Teaching Claude why

Import AI 455: Automating AI Research

ChatGPT's New Safety Feature Could Alert 'Trusted Contact' to Risk of Self-Harm - CNET

Investigating the consequences of accidentally grading CoT during RL

Natural Language Autoencoders criticism

Review of the "Risks from automated R&D" section in the Anthropic Risk Report (February 2026)Synthetic Media & Art

George Clooney, Tom Hanks, and Meryl Streep back new ‘Human Consent Standard’ for AI licensing | The VergeResearch & Advancements