{"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":"📅 ThursdAI - Feb 26 - The Pentagon wants War Claude, every benchmark collapsed, and a solo founder hit $700K ARR with AI agents","slug":"thursdai-feb-26-the-pentagon-wants-war-claude-every-benchmark-collapsed-and-a-solo-founder-hit-700k-arr-with-ai-agents","published_at":"2026-02-27T02:52:55+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/thursdai-the-top-ai-news-from-the-past-week-6519604/thursdai-feb-26-the-pentagon-wants-war-claude-every-benchmark-collapsed-and-a-solo-founder-hit-700k-arr-with-ai-agents","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/thursdai-the-top-ai-news-from-the-past-week-6519604","url":"https://sub.thursdai.news/p/thursdai-feb-26-approaching-singularity","audio_url":"https://prfx.byspotify.com/e/api.substack.com/feed/podcast/189320766/87a5b032f5d5f4c74061012617f31c1c.mp3","summary":"Hey, it’s Alex, let me tell you why I think this week is an inflection point. Just this week: Everyone is launching autonomous agents or features inspired by OpenClaw ( Devin 2.2 , Cursor , Claude Cowork , Microsoft, Perplexity and Nous announced theirs), METR and ArcAGI 2,3 benchmarks are getting saturated , 1 person companies nearing 1M ARR within months of operation by running AI agents 24/7 (we chatted with one of them on the show today, live as he broke $700K ARR barrier) and the US Department of War gives Anthropic an ultimatum to remove nearly all restrictions on Claude for war and Anthropic says NO . I’ve been covering AI for 3 years every week, and this week feels, different. So if we are nearing the singularity, let me at least keep you up to date 😅 Today on the show, we covered most of the news in the first hour + breaking news from Google, Nano Banana 2 is here, and then had 3 interviews back to back. Ben Broca with Polsia, Nader Dabit with Cognition and Philip Kiely with BaseTen. Don’t miss those conversations starting at 1 hour in. Thanks for reading ThursdAI - Highest signal weekly AI news show! This post is public so feel free to share it. Anthropic vs Department of War Earlier this week, the US “Department of War” invited Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic to a meeting, where-in Anthropic was given an ultimatum . “Remove the restrictions on Claude or Anthropic will be designated as a ‘supply chain risk’ company” and the DoD will potentially go as far as using the Defence Production Act to force Anthropic to ... comply. The two restrictions that Anthropic has in place for their models are: No use for domestic surveillance of American citizens and NO fully autonomous lethal weapens decisions given to Claude. For context, Claude is the only model that’s deplo…","meta_description":"Hey, it’s Alex, let me tell you why I think this week is an inflection point. Just this week: Everyone is launching autonomous agents or features inspired…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6612,"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/thursdai-feb-26-the-pentagon-wants-war-claude-every-benchmark-collapsed-and-a-solo-founder-hit-700k-arr-with-ai-agents/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/thursdai-feb-26-the-pentagon-wants-war-claude-every-benchmark-collapsed-and-a-solo-founder-hit-700k-arr-with-ai-agents.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}