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

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Published: 2026-05-18T06:00:00+00:00
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Our 245th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 05/13/2026 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris 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 (00:15:52) Thinking Machines drops a new, highly responsive model designed for humanlike interactions in real time - SiliconANGLE (00:27:49) Claude For Legal Launches, May Reshape the Legal Tech World – Artificial Lawyer (00:4…

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