{"podcast":{"title":"ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week","slug":"thursdai-the-top-ai-news-from-the-past-week-6519604","podcast_index_feed_id":6519604,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/1801228.rss","website_url":"https://sub.thursdai.news/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/1801228/815475f4483fffccfe3c00f76f4bdd7d.jpg","author":"From Weights & Biases, Join AI Evangelist Alex Volkov and a panel of experts to cover everything important that happened in the world of AI from the past week","episode_count":164,"summary":"From Weights & Biases - ThursdAI, the podcast that keeps you ahead of the AI curve. Hosted by AI Evangelist Alex Volkov with a changing panel expert guests, discussing every important AI piece of news and updates from the past week, Open source and more","last_synced_at":"2026-07-10T10:18:29.820907+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/thursdai-the-top-ai-news-from-the-past-week-6519604"},"episode":{"title":"April 16 - Codex uses your mac in the background, Opus 4.7 release not quite Mythos + 3 interviews","slug":"april-16-codex-uses-your-mac-in-the-background-opus-4-7-release-not-quite-mythos-3-interviews","published_at":"2026-04-16T23:55:51+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/thursdai-the-top-ai-news-from-the-past-week-6519604/april-16-codex-uses-your-mac-in-the-background-opus-4-7-release-not-quite-mythos-3-interviews","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/thursdai-the-top-ai-news-from-the-past-week-6519604","url":"https://sub.thursdai.news/p/thursdai-apr-16-opus-47-codex-computer","audio_url":"https://prfx.byspotify.com/e/api.substack.com/feed/podcast/194450588/8f1ecb2276df4c622b8fa970005b67a7.mp3","summary":"Hey ya’ll, Alex here with your weekly AI news catch up. It’s one of those Thursday’s where no matter how well I prep, the big AI labs are hell bent to show up before each other. Alibaba dropped Qwen 3.6 with Apache 2, confirming their commitment to Open Source, then Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 (not quite Mythos) and OpenAI followed with a huge Codex update that includes Computer Use among other things. The highlight of Computer User is the background usage, more on that below. This is all just from today! Previously in the week we had 2 incredible 3D world generators, Lyra 2.0 from Nvidia and HYWorld 2 from Tencent, Windsurf dropping 2.0 version with Devin integration and Google releasing a Gemini TTS , with over 90+ languages support and incredible emotions range, and Baidu open sources Ernie Image, rivaling Nano Banana. Today on the show we had 3 awesome guests, Theodor from Cognition joined to cover the new Windsurf, Kwindla is back on the show to talk about “the side project that escaped containment” Gradient-Bang, a multi agent, voice based space game and Trevor from Marimo joined to talk about pairing your agents with a Marimo notebook. Let’s dive in! 👇 ThursdAI - We’re over 16K on YT today, my goal is to get to parity with Substack, please subscribe. Codex can now really use your computer: OpenAI updates Codex with CUA, Image Generation, Browser, SSH ( X , Blog ) Codex from OpenAI has been the major focus inside OpenAI for a while now. We’ve reported previously that OpenAI is closing down SORA and other “side-quests” to focus, and that they will join Codex, ChatGPT and the Atlas browser into one “superapp” and today, it seems, that we’ve gotten an early glimpse of what that app will be. The Codex team (which seems to be growing from day to day), have been…","meta_description":"Hey ya’ll, Alex here with your weekly AI news catch up. It’s one of those Thursday’s where no matter how well I prep, the big AI labs are hell bent to sho…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":7155,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/thursdai-the-top-ai-news-from-the-past-week-6519604/episodes/april-16-codex-uses-your-mac-in-the-background-opus-4-7-release-not-quite-mythos-3-interviews/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/thursdai-the-top-ai-news-from-the-past-week-6519604/april-16-codex-uses-your-mac-in-the-background-opus-4-7-release-not-quite-mythos-3-interviews.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}