#241 - Opus 4.7, Muse Spark, GPT-5.4-Cyber, HY-World 2.0

#241 - Opus 4.7, Muse Spark, GPT-5.4-Cyber, HY-World 2.0

From Last Week in AI by Skynet Today

April 23, 2026 · 1h 60m · Episode 281

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The episode discusses significant AI news from the previous week, including product releases and business developments.

Our 241st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 04/18/2026 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: Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 with improved benchmark performance, new reasoning controls, better vision and memory, and a detailed system card discussing deception risk, evaluation-awareness steering, and a training bug that accidentally supervised chain-of-thought in 7–8% of episodes. Meta unveiled its closed Muse Spark model and “contemplating mode,” highlighting test-time scaling, thought compression, large infrastructure plans like the Hyperion data center, and findings that it shows unusually high evaluation awareness. OpenAI introduced limited-access GPT 5.4 Cyber for defensive security teams and rolled major Codex updates including computer use, browser and plugins, image generation, and long-horizon task scheduling; competing agent products also launched from Anthropic, Canva, and Adobe. Business, policy, and safety…

People in this episode

Hosts: Andrey Kurenkov, Jeremie Harris

Topics covered

  • AI news
  • product releases
  • technology updates
  • business developments
  • policy and safety

Keywords

  • Claude Opus 4.7
  • Muse Spark
  • GPT 5.4 Cyber
  • AI propaganda
  • alignment research

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, Canva, Adobe, CoreWeave, Perplexity, Cohere, Aleph Alpha

Products: Claude Opus 4.7, Muse Spark, GPT 5.4 Cyber

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