Our 223st episode with a summary and discussion of last week’s big AI news!
Recorded on 10/17/2025
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and co-hosted by Erik Schnultz
Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai
In this episode:
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Anthropic and OpenAI have announced updates to their AI models and tools, including Haiku 4.5 and various business collaborations.
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Multiple companies like Slack and Salesforce are integrating AI assistants and agents into their platforms, enhancing task management and business operations.
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Recent research in reinforcement learning and agent memory curation highlights new methods for improving AI model performance and context management.
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California has passed a law to regulate AI chatbots for children and vulnerable users, and there are rising concerns over the increasing amount of AI-generated content on the internet.
Timestamps:
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(00:00:10) Intro / Banter
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(00:01:31) News Preview
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Tools & Apps
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(00:02:18) Anthropic launches new version of scaled-down ‘Haiku’ model
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(00:04:52) Everything OpenAI announced at DevDay 2025: Agent Kit, Apps SDK, ChatGPT, and more | ZDNET
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(00:09:11) Anthropic turns to ‘skills’ to make Claude more useful at work | The Verge
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(00:13:20) Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word | The Verge
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(00:17:22) Google releases Veo 3.1, adds it to Flow video editor | TechCrunch
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(00:19:40) Slack is turning Slackbot into an AI assistant | The Verge
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(00:22:52) Salesforce announces Agentforce 360 as enterprise AI competition heats up | TechCrunch
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Applications & Business
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(00:24:58) Broadcom stock pops 9% on OpenAI custom chip deal, adding to Nvidia and AMD agreements
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(00:27:58) How ByteDance Made China’s Most Popular AI Chatbot | WIRED
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(00:30:08) Amazon’s Zoox Robotaxis Have Arrived In Las Vegas – Here’s What Riders Are Experiencing
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(00:32:43) Waymo’s robotaxis are coming to London | The Verge
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(00:34:14) Reflection AI raises $2B to be America’s open frontier AI lab, challenging DeepSeek | TechCrunch
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(00:38:36) Supabase nabs $5B valuation, four months after hitting $2B | TechCrunch
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Projects & Open Source
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Research & Advancements
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(00:44:25) [2510.13786] The Art of Scaling Reinforcement Learning Compute for LLMs
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(00:48:51) [2510.01171] Verbalized Sampling: How to Mitigate Mode Collapse and Unlock LLM Diversity
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(00:51:22) [2510.12635] Memory as Action: Autonomous Context Curation for Long-Horizon Agentic Tasks
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(00:54:31) [2510.07364] Base Models Know How to Reason, Thinking Models Learn When
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(00:57:24) [2510.12402] Cautious Weight Decay
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Policy & Safety
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(01:02:03) California becomes first state to regulate AI companion chatbots | TechCrunch
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(01:04:13) Over 50 Percent of the Internet Is Now AI Slop, New Data Finds
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Synthetic Media & Art
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(01:06:31) OpenAI Reverses Stance on Use of Copyright Works in Sora – WSJ
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(01:08:29) Character.AI removes Disney characters from platform after studio issues warning
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