Last Week in AI recaps Anthropic, Apple, OpenAI, DeepSeek and $12B Prometheus funding
Last Week in AI · rss · 2026-07-21
This episode of Last Week in AI recaps a dense week of industry news, spanning product launches, IPO rumors, massive funding rounds, infrastructure spending, and safety/policy fights.
- Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 reportedly shows benchmark gains, but also raises new system-card risks around eval awareness, transgressive behavior, and CBRN concerns.
- Apple / Google: Apple unveiled Siri AI at WWDC; Google rolled out Gemini 3.5 Live Translate and adjusted AI pricing and storage bundles.
- Business: OpenAI filed confidentially for an IPO; Bezos-backed Prometheus reportedly raised $12B; DeepSeek is said to be seeking a large external round; Google is reportedly paying SpaceX about $920M/month for compute.
- Open source / policy / safety: Gemma 4 and Diffusion Gemma launched, a letter pushed for DNA/RNA screening laws, and multiple safety papers examined agent harms and reward hacking.
- Music / legal: the AFM sued UMG and WMG over settlements tied to Suno and Udio.
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