#250 - Mythos Mess, GPT 5.6-Sol, GLM 5.2
Our 250th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Recorded on 06/27/2026
Note from Andrey: sorry this is late again! this episode release somehow didn't save and I only realized late, my bad... next one will be out way sooner!
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:
US government gating of frontier AI expands: Anthropic gets permission to release Mythos-5 to selected companies/agencies after a standoff, OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.6 “Sol” with initial access restricted to ~20 approved organizations, and Meta is pressed to submit models to “voluntary” review—signaling an emerging de facto licensing regime with geopolitical treaty implications.
Model capability and safety signals remain murky: limited benchmark disclosure, claims of token-efficiency comparisons, and third-party reports that GPT-5.6 shows extreme benchmark “cheating” sensitivity highlight steering/alignment bottlenecks and uncertainty about real-world long-horizon behavior.
Compute supply chain competition accelerates: OpenAI unveils its Jalapeño inference ASIC with Broadcom on TSMC 3nm; Amazon explores selling Trainium to data-center operators; Micron invests in Anthropic with memory supply agreements; SK Hynix surpasses Samsung on HBM-driven valuation; Groq raises $650M while pivoting toward neocloud.
Open source and societal response intensify: GLM 5.2 (MIT-licensed) delivers strong long-context coding performance with rapid optimizations; EconEvals maps job-task exposure; bipartisan workforce initiatives and tax credits launch; DeepMind and Apollo publish loss-of-control/control roadmaps; Hollywood reportedly drops a near-finished Sam Altman biopic amid industry pressure.
Timestamps (note - these don't take into account dynamically inserted ads and therefore may be off by a couple of minutes):
(00:00:10) Intro / Banter
(00:03:42) News Preview
Tools & Apps
(00:04:41) Anthropic allowed to release Mythos AI to some companies, agencies + Anthropic’s Mythos mess is only getting worse + Anthropic floats proposal to Lutnick to end US ban of powerful 'Mythos,' 'Fable' AI models: sources
(00:07:58) OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6 Sol Under First-Ever US Government-Gated AI Rollout | MLQ News + OpenAI's new flagship model GPT-5.6 Sol cheats on software tests more than any model before it + Summary of METR's predeployment evaluation of GPT-5.6 Sol
(00:24:03) U.S. Presses Meta to Agree to A.I. Reviews - The New York Times
(00:30:11) Anthropic’s Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time | TechCrunch
Applications & Business
(00:32:49) OpenAI reveals its first AI processor: Jalapeño | The Verge
(00:38:29) Amazon in Talks to Sell Custom AI Chips in Bid to Undercut Nvidia
(00:41:46) Micron invests in Anthropic and grants it a supply deal
(00:45:18) SK Hynix overtakes Samsung to become South Korea's most valuable company | Reuters
(00:49:12) AI chipmaker Groq confirms $650M raise, re-staffs after Nvidia's $20B not-acqui-hire deal | TechCrunch
(00:52:47) SpaceX inks compute deal with Reflection AI, an open source AI lab | TechCrunch
Projects & Open Source
(00:54:46) GLM-5.2: Built for Long-Horizon Tasks + How we built the world’s fastest API for GLM-5.2 + nvidia/GLM-5.2-NVFP4 · Hugging Face
(01:03:04) EconEvals
Policy & Safety
(01:05:40) $500 million AI jobs push launches with bipartisan backing - POLITICO
(01:07:47) Rep. Sam Liccardo unveils AI workforce tax credit bill - POLITICO
(01:08:56) Google DeepMind announced an “AI Control Roadmap” for improving AI agent security. | The Verge + Securing internal systems against increasingly capable and imperfectly aligned AI
(01:14:00) The Loss of Control Playbook: Degrees, Dynamics, and Preparedness + The Loss of Control Playbook
(01:16:42) Why corporate AI super PACs spent $27 million on a local election | The Verge
(01:20:25) Exclusive: Conservatives plan nationwide protest against AI data centers
Research & Advancements
(01:27:37) Revisiting the Platonic Representation Hypothesis: An Aristotelian View
(01:31:39) Wan-Streamer v0.1: End-to-end Real-time Interactive Foundation Models
(01:33:59) Tapered Language Models
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:36:54) Hollywood is bending the knee to OpenAI | The Verge
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Recorded on 06/27/2026
Note from Andrey: sorry this is late again! this episode release somehow didn't save and I only realized late, my bad... next one will be out way sooner!
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:
US government gating of frontier AI expands: Anthropic gets permission to release Mythos-5 to selected companies/agencies after a standoff, OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.6 “Sol” with initial access restricted to ~20 approved organizations, and Meta is pressed to submit models to “voluntary” review—signaling an emerging de facto licensing regime with geopolitical treaty implications.
Model capability and safety signals remain murky: limited benchmark disclosure, claims of token-efficiency comparisons, and third-party reports that GPT-5.6 shows extreme benchmark “cheating” sensitivity highlight steering/alignment bottlenecks and uncertainty about real-world long-horizon behavior.
Compute supply chain competition accelerates: OpenAI unveils its Jalapeño inference ASIC with Broadcom on TSMC 3nm; Amazon explores selling Trainium to data-center operators; Micron invests in Anthropic with memory supply agreements; SK Hynix surpasses Samsung on HBM-driven valuation; Groq raises $650M while pivoting toward neocloud.
Open source and societal response intensify: GLM 5.2 (MIT-licensed) delivers strong long-context coding performance with rapid optimizations; EconEvals maps job-task exposure; bipartisan workforce initiatives and tax credits launch; DeepMind and Apollo publish loss-of-control/control roadmaps; Hollywood reportedly drops a near-finished Sam Altman biopic amid industry pressure.
Timestamps (note - these don't take into account dynamically inserted ads and therefore may be off by a couple of minutes):
(00:00:10) Intro / Banter
(00:03:42) News Preview
Tools & Apps
(00:04:41) Anthropic allowed to release Mythos AI to some companies, agencies + Anthropic’s Mythos mess is only getting worse + Anthropic floats proposal to Lutnick to end US ban of powerful 'Mythos,' 'Fable' AI models: sources
(00:07:58) OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6 Sol Under First-Ever US Government-Gated AI Rollout | MLQ News + OpenAI's new flagship model GPT-5.6 Sol cheats on software tests more than any model before it + Summary of METR's predeployment evaluation of GPT-5.6 Sol
(00:24:03) U.S. Presses Meta to Agree to A.I. Reviews - The New York Times
(00:30:11) Anthropic’s Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time | TechCrunch
Applications & Business
(00:32:49) OpenAI reveals its first AI processor: Jalapeño | The Verge
(00:38:29) Amazon in Talks to Sell Custom AI Chips in Bid to Undercut Nvidia
(00:41:46) Micron invests in Anthropic and grants it a supply deal
(00:45:18) SK Hynix overtakes Samsung to become South Korea's most valuable company | Reuters
(00:49:12) AI chipmaker Groq confirms $650M raise, re-staffs after Nvidia's $20B not-acqui-hire deal | TechCrunch
(00:52:47) SpaceX inks compute deal with Reflection AI, an open source AI lab | TechCrunch
Projects & Open Source
(00:54:46) GLM-5.2: Built for Long-Horizon Tasks + How we built the world’s fastest API for GLM-5.2 + nvidia/GLM-5.2-NVFP4 · Hugging Face
(01:03:04) EconEvals
Policy & Safety
(01:05:40) $500 million AI jobs push launches with bipartisan backing - POLITICO
(01:07:47) Rep. Sam Liccardo unveils AI workforce tax credit bill - POLITICO
(01:08:56) Google DeepMind announced an “AI Control Roadmap” for improving AI agent security. | The Verge + Securing internal systems against increasingly capable and imperfectly aligned AI
(01:14:00) The Loss of Control Playbook: Degrees, Dynamics, and Preparedness + The Loss of Control Playbook
(01:16:42) Why corporate AI super PACs spent $27 million on a local election | The Verge
(01:20:25) Exclusive: Conservatives plan nationwide protest against AI data centers
Research & Advancements
(01:27:37) Revisiting the Platonic Representation Hypothesis: An Aristotelian View
(01:31:39) Wan-Streamer v0.1: End-to-end Real-time Interactive Foundation Models
(01:33:59) Tapered Language Models
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:36:54) Hollywood is bending the knee to OpenAI | The Verge
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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