#245 - TML-Interaction, Claude For Legal, Sam Altman on Stand

Our 245th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 05/13/2026 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov [https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov] and Jeremie Harris [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremieharris/] 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: * OpenAI released new voice intelligence API features including GPT Realtime 2 (GPT-5-powered) plus realtime translation and Whisper transcription, emphasizing the latency–reasoning tradeoff, larger context, and new guardrails amid fraud risks. * Thinking Machines previewed a low-latency, full‑duplex conversational system with a two-model architecture and custom inference stack, reporting strong interactivity benchmark results but without public access or third‑party validation yet. * Anthropic pushed further into vertical products with Claude for Legal and deeper AWS availability, while ongoing ecosystem tension grows as platform model providers compete with application-layer companies. * Safety, policy, and research updates included OpenAI’s self-harm trusted contact feature, Anthropic work on reducing agent misalignment by training ethical “why” reasoning, OpenAI’s investigation of accidental chain-of-thought grading in RL, and Meta horizon eval updates showing benchmarking limits for long task horizons. Timestamps: * (00:00:10) Intro / Banter * (00:01:35) Response to listener comments * (00:03:27) Sponsor Break Tools & Apps * (00:06:27) OpenAI launches new voice intelligence features in its API | TechCrunch [https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/07/openai-launches-new-voice-intelligence-features-in-its-api/] * (00:15:52) Thinking Machines drops a new, highly responsive model designed for humanlike interactions in real time - SiliconANGLE [https://siliconangle.com/2026/05/11/thinking-machines-drops-new-highly-responsive-model-designed-humanlike-interactions-real-time/] * (00:27:49) Claude For Legal Launches, May Reshape the Legal Tech World – Artificial Lawyer [https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2026/05/12/claude-for-legal-launches-may-reshape-the-legal-tech-world/] * (00:40:27) Threads tests a Meta AI integration that works similarly to Grok | TechCrunch [https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/threads-tests-a-meta-ai-integration-that-works-similarly-to-grok/] * (00:43:08) Google brings agentic AI and vibe-coded widgets to Android | TechCrunch [https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/google-brings-agentic-ai-and-vibe-coded-widgets-to-android/] * (00:45:33) Google updates AI search to include quotes from Reddit and other sources | TechCrunch [https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/06/google-updates-ai-search-to-include-expert-advice-from-reddit-and-other-web-forums/] Applications & Business * (00:47:38) Sam Altman was winning on the stand, but it might not be enough | The Verge [https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/929129/sam-altman-testimony-elon-musk-openai-trial] * (00:55:04)