The only podcast I listen to is "Last Week in AI". I was therefore delighted to return as co-host of the weekly news show in the most recent episode, #222. In an action-packed episode, we covered:
OpenAI's Sora 2 for text-to-video generation.
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 (with its particular strengths in coding and agentic tasks).
Meta's new AI-video creation feature and its new "Meta AI" app.
A number of exciting new academic papers.
California’s SB 53, the "Transparency in Frontier AI Act", has become law, requiring large AI companies to disclose safety and security processes, while SB 942 mandates AI detection tools for user-generated content.
And much more... including battles over intellectual property, startup funding, and the integration of AI into everyday tools and services like Microsoft’s AI agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Thanks again Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris for having me on!
See here for free access to the full 90-minute episode.