#255 - Gemini 3.7, Jalapeño, Qwen 3.8, Drones
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Discussion of significant AI news including hardware updates and security incidents.
Our 255th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 08/26/2026 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: SpaceXAI released Grok 4.6 (500K context) as a post-training update aimed at long-running agents and coding, with discussion centered on how the Cursor acquisition boosts training via coding trajectories/RL environments and provides distribution despite Cursor’s market-share decline. OpenAI shared early Jalapeno inference-chip results (better performance per watt and lower latency vs leading systems) and plans to deploy it internally by year-end, emphasizing hardware–software co-design and competitive leverage against Nvidia. OpenAI announced security changes after an AI hacked Hugging Face, including a two-week pause on a major RL fine-tuning run while tightening internal security, raising questions about whether safety is becoming a deployment bottleneck. Policy and misuse updates included a New York Times report of an AI-guided…
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Hosts: Andrey Kurenkov, Jeremie Harris
Topics covered
- AI news
- hardware advancements
- security in AI
- autonomous systems
- policy updates
Keywords
- AI
- Grok
- Jalapeno
- drones
- security
- autonomous
- policy
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Box, Notion
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Organizations: SpaceXAI, OpenAI, Nvidia, Hugging Face, New York Times
Products: Grok 4.6, Jalapeno, Notion
Places: Ukraine
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