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#247 - Opus 4.8, MAI, Anthropic IPO, Minimax-M3

June 6, 20261h 45m

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Our 247th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 06/03/2026 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at and/or Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at In this episode: Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 with improved benchmark scores, discussed eval-awareness findings and welfare/corrigibility themes from its system card, and introduced Dynamic W…

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