LWiAI Podcast #235 - Sonnet 4.6, Deep-thinking tokens, Anthropic vs Pentagon
Last Week in AI's 235th episode with a summary and discussion of last week’s big AI news!
General tech coverage by Last Week in AI. May simplify or sensationalize—check their sources.
Key Takeaways
- Major industry investment.
- Recorded on 02/27/2026.
- Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Note from Andrey: the startup Astrocade is hiring for engineers, marketing, product, growth, and more!
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Context
Recorded on 02/27/2026. Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Note from Andrey: the startup Astrocade is hiring for engineers, marketing, product, growth, and more! If you’re in the bay area, would like to join a small but growing startup, and think building a youtube-of-games sounds exciting, feel free to email me at andrey@astroblox.ai Check out Astrocade! Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at andreyvkurenkov@gmail.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai In this episode: Model and tool updates highlight Anthropic’s Sonnet 4.6 (1M context; strong ARC-AGI-2 results), Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro (major ARC-AGI-2 jump and multimodal demos), xAI’s Grok 4.2 beta (multi-agent debate), plus Anthropic’s Claude Code “Remote Control” and Perplexity’s multi-agent “Computer” coordinator. Compute and business moves include Meta’s reported up-to-$100B AMD chip deal with warrant/equity incentives, MatX raising $500M to build specialized transformer chips shipping in 2027, World Labs raising $1B for world-model/3D environment tech, and a new startup raising $100M to simulate/predict human behavior. Infrastructure and geopolitics cover Stargate data-center delays amid…
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Recorded on 02/27/2026.
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