LWiAI Podcast #246 - Gemini 3.5 + Omni, Musk Loses, OpenAI vs Erdős

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Google unveiled Gemini 3.5 and the Gemini Spark agent at I/O 2026, alongside multimodal video generation capabilities and research tools, while Elon Musk lost his OpenAI lawsuit on statute-of-limitations grounds and Anthropic secured a $30 billion funding round at a $900 billion valuation. Cerebras' IPO surged 90%, coding-agent competition accelerated with Cursor Composer 2.5 and xAI's Grok Build, and OpenAI resolved an 80-year-old Erdős geometry problem. AI research advanced in interpretability, cyber capabilities, and autonomous hacking, while policy efforts addressed deepfakes and image provenance.