About this episode

This episode covers significant AI news including Anthropic's code leak, OpenAI's funding, and new releases from Google and Microsoft.

Hey Ya’ll, Alex here, let me catch you up. What a week! Anthropic is in the spotlight again, first with #SessionGate , then with the whole Claude Code source code leak , and finally with an incredible research into LLM having feelings !? (more on this below). And while Anthropic continues to burn through developer good will faster than their sessions, OpenAI announced a MASSIVE $122B round of funding (largest in history), Google released Gemma 4 with Apache 2 license - we had Omar Sanseviero on the show to help us cover what’s new, Microsoft dropped 3 new AI models (not LLMs) and PrismML potentially revolutionized local LLM inference with lossless 1-bit quantization! P.S - Oh also, something on X algo changed, I get way more exposure now, 3 out of my best 5 posts ever have been from this week + I got the coveted Elon RT on my Claude Code leak coverage. I’ll try to stay humble 😂 Anyway, let’s dive in, don’t forget to hit like or share with friends, and TL;DR with links is as always, at the bottom: ThursdAI - Highest signal weekly AI news show is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. The Claude Code…

People in this episode

Host: Alex Volkov

Guest: Omar Sanseviero

Topics covered

• AI news
• funding
• machine learning
• technology updates
• source code leak

Keywords

• Claude Code
• Gemma 4
• OpenAI funding
• Anthropic
• AI models

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, PrismML

Products: Gemma 4, Claude Code

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