{"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":"📅 May 28 - Opus 4.8 ships mid-show, the Pope writes 42K words on AI, 11labs dubs the world and DeepSwe breaks coding evals","slug":"may-28-opus-4-8-ships-mid-show-the-pope-writes-42k-words-on-ai-11labs-dubs-the-world-and-deepswe-breaks-coding-evals","published_at":"2026-05-29T00:23:57+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/thursdai-the-top-ai-news-from-the-past-week-6519604/may-28-opus-4-8-ships-mid-show-the-pope-writes-42k-words-on-ai-11labs-dubs-the-world-and-deepswe-breaks-coding-evals","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/thursdai-the-top-ai-news-from-the-past-week-6519604","url":"https://sub.thursdai.news/p/may-28-opus-48-ships-mid-show-the","audio_url":"https://prfx.byspotify.com/e/api.substack.com/feed/podcast/199665761/cc143aafd8642b56d08ec4c83e74a4f7.mp3","summary":"Hey folks, this is Alex, let me catch you up! First, Opus 4.8 dropped during the show, we immediately tested it, read on for our initial reviews. Also, we dedicated a heavy chunk of the show today to cover Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical letter on AI called “Magnifica Humanitas” and talked about a new bench called DeepSWE . And then, just after the show, both ElevenLabs and Cartesia dropped released that honestly blew my mind, and I don’t get my mind blown often. I got so excited that I had to record a video on it (instead of writing the newsletter, so sorry if it’s a bit later today). Plus, a few open source models and Microsoft surprises as #3 on Image Arena with MAI Image 2.5! Crazy week, let’s get into it! 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. Big CO LLMs + APIs Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.8, live during the show ( blog , system card ) Let me get into the big one. Halfway through the episode, Opus 4.8 went live, so we read the blog and the system card in real time (and I got to press the big “breaking news” button!) Anthropic frames it as their most capable model for ambitious work. It does not claim to beat their unreleased Mythos preview, but the numbers are strong anyway. SWE-bench Pro is at 69.2% , up from 64.3% on Opus 4.7 and ahead of GPT-5.5 at 58.6%. Humanity’s Last Exam is the new best score at 49.8% without tools and 57.9% with tools. OSWorld-Verified (computer use) lands at 83.4%. The one place it loses is Terminal-Bench 2.1, where GPT-5.5 still wins 78.2 to 74.6. Wolfram made a good point here: Terminal-Bench is time-limited, so cranking the thinking level can actually hurt the score, because you burn the clock thinking instead o…","meta_description":"Hey folks, this is Alex, let me catch you up! First, Opus 4.8 dropped during the show, we immediately tested it, read on for our initial reviews. Also, we…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5951,"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/may-28-opus-4-8-ships-mid-show-the-pope-writes-42k-words-on-ai-11labs-dubs-the-world-and-deepswe-breaks-coding-evals/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/may-28-opus-4-8-ships-mid-show-the-pope-writes-42k-words-on-ai-11labs-dubs-the-world-and-deepswe-breaks-coding-evals.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}