The big headline this week was the song, which was the release of Claude Sonnet 4.5. I covered this in two parts, first the System Card and Alignment, and then a second post on capabilities. It is a very good model, likely the current best model for most coding tasks, most agentic and computer use tasks, and quick or back-and-forth chat conversations. GPT-5 still has a role to play as well.

There was also the dance, also known as Sora, both the new and improved 10-second AI video generator Sora and also the new OpenAI social network Sora. I will be covering that tomorrow. The video generator itself seems amazingly great. The social network sounds like a dystopian nightmare and I like to think Nobody Wants This, although I do not yet have access nor am I a typical customer of such products.

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Outline:

(02:52) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(04:24) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility

(06:53) Huh, Upgrades

(09:46) On Your Marks

(18:02) Choose Your Fighter

(22:36) Copyright Confrontation

(25:35) Fun With Media Generation

(27:02) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(34:06) You Drive Me Crazy

(35:12) Parental Controls

(35:59) They Took Our Jobs

(42:23) The Art of the Jailbreak

(43:25) Introducing

(49:16) In Other AI News

(50:49) Show Me the Money

(55:19) Quiet Speculations

(01:03:15) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(01:05:11) Chip City

(01:07:15) The Week in Audio

(01:07:55) If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

(01:12:55) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:16:36) Messages From Janusworld

(01:22:54) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:23:40) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:26:18) The Lighter Side

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