#235 - Sonnet 4.6, Deep-thinking tokens, Anthropic vs Pentagon

#235 - Sonnet 4.6, Deep-thinking tokens, Anthropic vs Pentagon

From Last Week in AI by Skynet Today

March 3, 2026 · 1h 42m · Episode 275

About this episode

Discussion of significant AI news and updates from the past week.

Our 235th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 02/27/2026 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at andreyvkurenkov@gmail.com and/or  hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ In this episode: Model and tool updates highlight Anthropic’s Sonnet 4.6 (1M context; strong ARC-AGI-2 results), Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro (major ARC-AGI-2 jump and multimodal demos), xAI’s Grok 4.2 beta (multi-agent debate), plus Anthropic’s Claude Code “Remote Control” and Perplexity’s multi-agent “Computer” coordinator. Compute and business moves include Meta’s reported up-to-$100B AMD chip deal with warrant/equity incentives, MatX raising $500M to build specialized transformer chips shipping in 2027, World Labs raising $1B for world-model/3D environment tech, and a new startup raising $100M to simulate/predict human behavior. Infrastructure and geopolitics cover Stargate data-center delays amid OpenAI/Oracle/SoftBank control disputes and cash concerns, and China’s plan to scale 7nm/5nm wafer output despite yield and tooling constraints. Research…

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Hosts: Andrey Kurenkov, Jeremie Harris

Topics covered

  • AI news
  • model updates
  • business moves
  • infrastructure
  • geopolitics
  • research
  • safety and policy

Keywords

  • AI
  • Anthropic
  • Google
  • Meta
  • model updates
  • geopolitics
  • research
  • safety
  • business moves
  • deep thinking tokens

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Anthropic, Google, xAI, Meta, MatX, World Labs, OpenAI, Oracle, SoftBank

Products: Sonnet 4.6, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Grok 4.2 beta, Claude Code, Computer

Places: China

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