{"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":"Fable Got Banned, Open Source Delivered: GLM-5.2, Kimi K2.7 & SpaceX Buys Cursor - June 18","slug":"fable-got-banned-open-source-delivered-glm-5-2-kimi-k2-7-spacex-buys-cursor-june-18","published_at":"2026-06-18T23:20:17+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/thursdai-the-top-ai-news-from-the-past-week-6519604/fable-got-banned-open-source-delivered-glm-5-2-kimi-k2-7-spacex-buys-cursor-june-18","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/thursdai-the-top-ai-news-from-the-past-week-6519604","url":"https://sub.thursdai.news/p/fable-got-banned-open-source-delivered","audio_url":"https://prfx.byspotify.com/e/api.substack.com/feed/podcast/202651478/669148d549b844214879127b53c81a9d.mp3","summary":"Hey yall, Alex here, let me catch you up! I came back from vacation expecting to cover Fable 5 after a week of using it. The first two days after we all first got access to a Mythos level model were super exciting! But then the news hit, US Government issued an order banning Anthropic from giving access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 to any foreign national, causing Anthropic to pull the models completely (even internally to their employees!). So, this wasn’t the show I planned, but it turned into a great show about Open Source, as two models hit the top rankings and are both MIT licence, filling a Fable shaped hole in our hearts! GLM released 5.2 with folks really excited about it web building capabilities, and Kimi 2.7 Code released (and is available on CW Inference with crazy speeds!). We also saw the SpaceX IPO and Cursor $60B acquisition, Noam Shazeer joining Open and Midjourney, the image company, launching a new Ultrasound full body scanner to kill MRIs! Great show today with Dexter Horthy from HumanLayer, Chris Van Pelt and Adrian Swanberg from W&B announcing our new product HiveMind and Tanishq Abraham came back to help cover Midjourney’s new Ultrasound scanner! Let’s dive in! ThursdAI - Highest signal weekly AI news show is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. The US Government bans Fable 5! ( X , Anthropic statement ) Here’s a story in 3 parts: * Anthropic announces Mythos 5 preview - saying that this model is to dangerous to release, and only gives corporations access to it via project GlassWing. * Anthropic works hard on limitations and safery and releases Fable 5 (same weights as Mythos 5) built with guardrails so strong it refuses to do any cybersecurity tasks and switches bac…","meta_description":"Hey yall, Alex here, let me catch you up! I came back from vacation expecting to cover Fable 5 after a week of using it. The first two days after we all f…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6946,"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/fable-got-banned-open-source-delivered-glm-5-2-kimi-k2-7-spacex-buys-cursor-june-18/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/fable-got-banned-open-source-delivered-glm-5-2-kimi-k2-7-spacex-buys-cursor-june-18.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}