#247 - Opus 4.8, MAI, Anthropic IPO, Minimax-M3

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The episode discusses major AI news including Anthropic's new release and Microsoft's new assistant.

Our 247th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 06/03/2026 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 4.8 with improved benchmark scores, discussed eval-awareness findings and welfare/corrigibility themes from its system card, and introduced Dynamic Workflows for long-running multi-agent tasks. Microsoft unveiled the always-on Microsoft Scout assistant built on OpenClaw plus new in-house MAI models (including MAI Thinking 1) and “frontier tuning,” emphasizing enterprise security architecture and model-from-scratch capability. Major business moves included Anthropic’s $65B Series H at a $965B valuation alongside an IPO filing, a JPMorgan analysis arguing OpenAI needs major revenue growth to justify infrastructure spend, and Cognition raising $1B at a $25B valuation. Policy and security highlights covered Trump’s voluntary pre-release government testing framework for powerful AI, Meta AI support being…

People in this episode

Hosts: Andrey Kurenkov, Jeremie Harris

Topics covered

• AI news
• Anthropic
• Microsoft
• IPO
• AI policy
• security

Keywords

• AI
• Anthropic
• Microsoft
• IPO
• security
• Nvidia
• Meta AI
• Cognition

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Anthropic, Microsoft, JPMorgan, Cognition, Meta AI, Nvidia

Products: Claude Opus 4.8, Microsoft Scout, OpenClaw, MAI Thinking 1

Places: US, China

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