#237 - Nemotron 3 Super, xAI reborn, Anthropic Lawsuit, Research!!!

#237 - Nemotron 3 Super, xAI reborn, Anthropic Lawsuit, Research!!!

Author: Skynet Today March 16, 2026 Duration: 2:27:19
Our 237th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!Recorded on 03/13/2026Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie HarrisFeel free to email us your questions and feedback at andreyvkurenkov@gmail.com and/or hello@gladstone.aiRead out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/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.A thank you to our current sponsors:Box - visit Box.com/AI to learn moreODSC AI - go to odsc.ai/east and use promo code LWAI for an additional 15% off your pass to ODSC AI East 2026.Factor - head to factormeals.com/lwai50off and use code lwai50off to get 50 percent off and free breakfast for a yearTimestamps:(00:00:10) Intro / Banter(00:01:23) Response to listener commentsTools & 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 VergeProjects & Open Source(00:13:54) Introducing Nemotron 3 Super: An Open Hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE for Agentic Reasoning | NVIDIA Technical BlogApplications & Business(00:21:22) Nvidia halts H200 production as China backs Huawei AI chips(00:28:33) Another XAI Cofounder Has Left, and Another Says He's Leaving. - Business Insider(00:34:04) Anthropic's Claude Marketplace allows customers to buy third-party cloud services | TechRadar(00:37:57) Yann LeCun's AMI Labs raises $1.03 billion to build world models | TechCrunch(00:44:52) Humanoid robotics maker Sunday reaches $1.15B valuation to build household robots | TechCrunchPolicy & Safety(00:46:09) Anthropic Sues Department of Defense Over ‘Supply Chain Risk’ Label - The New York Times + Google and OpenAI Just Filed a Legal Brief in Support of Anthropic (00:53:24) Internal Pentagon memo orders military commanders to remove Anthropic AI technology from key systems - CBS News(00:58:15) Endogenous Resistance to Activation Steering in Language Models(01:06:27) Reasoning Models Struggle to Control their Chains of Thought(01:09:52) ‘It means missile defence on datacentres’: drone strikes raise doubts over Gulf as AI superpower(01:14:57) Evidence for inference scaling in AI cyber tasks: Increased evaluation budgets reveal higher success rates(01:18:24) Frontier Models Can Take Actions at Low ProbabilitiesResearch & Advancements(01:24:20) Research note: Many SWE-bench-Passing PRs Would Not Be Merged into Main(01:28:26) [2603.03276] Beyond Language Modeling: An Exploration of Multimodal Pretraining(01:40:09) Memory Caching: RNNs with Growing Memory(01:48:47) Untied Ulysses: Memory-Efficient Context Parallelism via Headwise Chunking(01:58:41) CUDA Agent: Large-Scale Agentic RL for High-Performance CUDA Kernel Generation(02:08:57) Latent Introspection: Models Can Detect Prior Concept Injections(02:16:45) Physics of RL: Toy scaling laws for the emergence of reward-seeking 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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