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This episode covers significant AI news, including major product announcements from Google and key legal and financial updates from industry players.
#246 - Gemini 3.5 + Omni, Musk Loses, OpenAI vs Erdős
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Last Week in AI episode #246 covers Google I/O announcements including Gemini 3.5, Gemini Spark, and Gemini Omni multimodal video. It also discusses coding agent competition with Cursor Composer and xAI Grok, Elon Musk losing his OpenAI lawsuit, and Anthropic's funding round. The hosts are Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
This podcast covers recent AI news, including Google's new Gemini models for text and video. It also touches on new coding tools, a legal loss for Elon Musk against OpenAI, and major funding for Anthropic. It's for anyone wanting to understand the fast-moving world of AI.
This episode offers a comprehensive AI news roundup for industry followers. It details Google's latest Gemini advancements, competitive pressures in coding agents, and significant business and legal developments like OpenAI's lawsuit loss and Anthropic's valuation. Listeners gain insight into the rapid pace of AI model development, enterprise adoption strategies, and the evolving legal and financial landscape shaping the frontier labs.
- HostAndrey Kurenkov
- HostJeremie Harris
- Episode Title: Gemini 3.5 + Omni, Musk Loses, OpenAI vs Erdős
- Show: Last Week in AI
- Length: 94 minutes
- Google I/O Announcements: Gemini 3.5, Gemini Spark, Gemini Omni
- Musk Lawsuit Outcome: Lost on statute-of-limitations grounds
- Anthropic Funding: $30B round at $900B valuation
Our 246th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Recorded on 05/22/2026
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:
- Google I/O highlights included Gemini 3.5 (with 3.5 Flash emphasized for speed and benchmarks), the always-on agent Gemini Spark running on Google Cloud with MCP tool support, and Gemini Omni multimodal video generation/editing, plus updates like Anti-Gravity 2.0, Gemini for Science, and Genie world-model navigation using Street View and Waymo simulation.
- Coding-agent competition accelerated with Cursor Composer 2.5 (fine-tuned on Moonshot’s Kimi K2.5) and xAI’s early Grok Build release, alongside discussion of potential Cursor–xAI ties and xAI’s talent churn and compute utilization concerns.
- Business and legal updates included Elon Musk losing his OpenAI lawsuit on statute-of-limitations grounds, reported OpenAI–Apple partnership tensions, Anthropic agreeing to a $30B funding round at a $900B valuation and projecting its first profitable quarter, and Cerebras’ IPO surging about 90%.
- Research and safety stories covered OpenAI’s result on an 80-year-old Erdős geometry problem, findings on “negation neglect” in training, interpretability work showing multiple redundant circuits per capability, agent benchmarks like Terminal World, new deepfake takedown enforcement under the Take It Down Act, demonstrations of autonomous hacking/self-replication, rapidly improving AI cyber capabilities, and steps toward image provenance metadata and watermarks.
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Timestamps:
- (00:00:10) Intro / Banter
- (00:01:15) News Preview
- Tools & Apps
- (00:05:05) Google unveils AI model Gemini 3.5 and AI agent Gemini Spark
- (00:11:43) Google's Gemini Omni turns images, audio, and text into video — and that's just the start | TechCrunch
- (00:17:27) Google launches Antigravity 2.0 with an updated desktop app and CLI tool at IO 2026 | TechCrunch
- (00:22:35) Google Debuts AI-Powered Tools To Optimize Scientific Research Wo
- multimodal
- Andrey Kurenkov
- AI that can understand and work with different types of information, like text, images, and video.
- statute-of-limitations
- Jeremie Harris
- A law that sets a deadline for filing a lawsuit.
Questions people ask
- What were the main Google I/O AI announcements?
- Google announced Gemini 3.5 (including 3.5 Flash), the always-on agent Gemini Spark, and Gemini Omni for multimodal video generation and editing.
- What is the status of Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI?
- Elon Musk lost his lawsuit against OpenAI on statute-of-limitations grounds.
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