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#237 - Nemotron 3 Super, xAI reborn, Anthropic Lawsuit, Research!!!
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Last Week in AI episode #237 covers AI news from March 2026. Hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris discuss new AI agents from Perplexity and Cursor, interactive features in ChatGPT and Claude, Nvidia's hardware moves, xAI's co-founder issues, and Anthropic's lawsuit against the Pentagon. The episode also touches on research into model behavior and AI's impact on cybersecurity.
This AI news roundup covers new computer programs that act like personal assistants, tools for programmers, and updates from major AI companies. It explains how these tools are changing how we use computers and what companies are doing to compete and stay safe.
This episode is for AI enthusiasts, developers, and business leaders tracking the rapid advancements and competitive landscape. Listeners learn about new local AI agents, evolving coding tools, and how major labs like Anthropic and Nvidia are navigating market pressures and legal challenges. It connects directly to current frontier lab activities, highlighting shifts in agent capabilities, enterprise adoption strategies, and the ongoing race for AI hardware dominance.
- HostAndrey Kurenkov
- HostJeremie Harris
- Episode Title: #237 - Nemotron 3 Super, xAI reborn, Anthropic Lawsuit, Research!!!
- Show: Last Week in AI
- Length: 147 minutes
- New AI Agents: Perplexity's "Personal Computer", Cursor "Automations"
- Nvidia Model: 120B-parameter Natron Free Super hybrid Transformer–Mamba latent-MoE
- Anthropic Lawsuit: Sued Pentagon over "supply chain risk" designation
Our 237th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Recorded on 03/13/2026
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
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In this episode:
* Perplexity announced “Personal Computer,” a local Mac-based AI agent positioned as a safer alternative to OpenAI’s computer-use agents, while Anthropic added GitHub PR code review pricing reviews at $15–$25 and Cursor launched trigger-based “Automations” for always-on coding agents.
* ChatGPT introduced interactive math/science visuals and Anthropic added in-chat interactive charts/diagrams; Nvidia released open weights for its 120B-parameter Natron Free Super hybrid Transformer–Mamba latent-MoE model trained natively at 4-bit for Blackwell GPUs.
* Nvidia halted H200 production for China amid customs blocks and domestic chip pressure; xAI saw major co-founder departures; Anthropic previewed a Claude Marketplace for enterprise procurement; Yann LeCun’s aMI raised $1.3B; humanoid robot maker Sanctuary reached a $1.15B valuation.
* Anthropic sued the Pentagon over a “supply chain risk” designation as memos ordered removal within 180 days; research covered models resisting activation steering, limits of chain-of-thought control, inference-scaling boosting cyber-task success, low-probability risky actions, weaknesses in SWE-bench, multimodal pretraining, long-context RNN memory caching, context-parallel training efficiency, RL for CUDA kernel optimization, and latent introspection detecting concept injection.
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Timestamps:
- (00:00:10) Intro / Banter
- (00:01:23) Response to listener comments
- Tools & Apps
- (00:02:06) Perplexity’s Personal Computer turns your spare Mac into an AI agent | The Verge
- (00:04:22) Anthropic launches code review tool to check flood of AI-generated code | TechCrunch
- (00:08:08 ) Cursor is rolling out a new kind of agentic coding tool | TechCrunch
- (00:11:14) ChatGPT can now create interactive visuals to help you understand math and science concepts | TechCrunch
- (00:11:56) Anthropic’s Claude AI can respond with charts, diagrams, and other visuals now | The Verge
- latent-MoE
- Andrey Kurenkov
- A type of AI model architecture that uses multiple specialized sub-models.
- activation steering
- Jeremie Harris
- A technique to control or influence an AI model's behavior by manipulating its internal states.
- chain-of-thought
- Andrey Kurenkov
- A method where AI models show their step-by-step reasoning process.
1 h 39
2 h 18NVIDIA's $1 Trillion Prediction, Anthropic Beats OpenAI, Tesla vs. TSMC & The CS Job Collapse | 240
WithSalim Ismail, Dave Blundin, Alexander Wissner-Gross
1 h 013 h 27Questions people ask
- What new AI agents were announced?
- Perplexity announced "Personal Computer," a local Mac-based AI agent, and Cursor launched trigger-based "Automations" for coding agents.
- What is Anthropic's lawsuit about?
- Anthropic sued the Pentagon over a "supply chain risk" designation that ordered removal of their services within 180 days.
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