Last Week in AI #344 – Navier–Stokes, Pacing the Frontier, AI Misuse
OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician
LWiAI Podcast #257 – GPT 6 Astra, AI Extinction, Security Incidents
Our 257th episode with a summary and discussion of last week’s big AI news!
Last Week in AI #345 – 5 new models, 9 misalignment incidents, some Dots
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 with stricter safeguards for cybersecurity
LWiAI Podcast #258 – Opus 5.5, Sol and Luna, Muse, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, Xi
Our 258th episode with a summary and discussion of last week’s big AI news!
Last Week in AI #346 – 719 math manuscripts, 2 Western open models, 1 more safety resignation
OpenAI publishes hundreds of math proofs from unreleased frontier model, Mistral and Reflection AI launch open-weight models to rival China,…
Systems Thinking Is Vital in the Age of AI
Modern engineering projects increasingly combine human judgment with machine capability. An engineer can define a problem, then ask an artificial…
Consumer Appetite for Personal AI Goes Mainstream
For many consumers, much of the promise and appeal of AI is personal. Consumers are looking past generic tools and…
Guarding the Gates of Knowledge
A recent scroll through social media got me thinking about trust. About half my feed was filled with AI slop…
How a Kenyan Startup Is Rethinking AI for Small Businesses
The first time Mutembei Kariuki thought about how AI models could work in Kenya, his home country, was in 2019.…
AI Text Watermarking May Not Be Able to Meet the E.U.’s New Rules
The European Union now requires AI-generated text to be watermarked so that it can be identified as such. But tests…