LWiAI Podcast #237 - Nemotron 3 Super, xAI reborn, Anthropic Lawsuit, Research!
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This podcast episode covers weekly AI news from March 2026, including Perplexity's local Mac-based AI agent, Anthropic's code review tool at $15-$25 pricing, and Nvidia's release of its 120B-parameter Nemotron 3 Super open-weights model. Anthropic sued the Pentagon over a supply chain risk designation requiring removal within 180 days, while xAI experienced major co-founder departures and Yann LeCun's aMI raised $1.3 billion. The episode discusses multiple research papers on activation steering resistance, chain-of-thought control limitations, inference scaling in cyber tasks, and improvements in RNN memory caching and CUDA kernel optimization.
Why it matters
Nemotron 3 Super: An Open Hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE for Agentic Reasoning, Another XAI Cofounder Has Left, Anthropic Sues Department of Defense
