LWiAI Podcast #243 - GPT 5.5, DeepSeek V4, AI safety sabotage

Last Week in AI · 2 months ago

A podcast episode covering major AI developments in late April 2026 discussed OpenAI's GPT-5.5 release with improved coding capabilities, xAI's Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0 achieving 67.3% on voice benchmarks, and DeepSeek's open-sourced V4 model featuring 1M-token context windows. Key business moves included Google planning a $40 billion investment in Anthropic with 5GW compute commitment, Meta's AWS Graviton chip deal, and China blocking Meta's Manus acquisition. Research presented covered AI safety concerns including model sabotage of safety research, document corruption from LLM delegation, and neural network disruption via bit-flip attacks.