LWiAI Podcast #243 - GPT 5.5, DeepSeek V4, AI safety sabotage
Our 243rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week’s big AI news!
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Technology, models, startups, and research — aggregated from OpenAI, Anthropic, TechCrunch, arXiv, AWS, and 40+ sources.
Our 243rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week’s big AI news!
The HSM-based Backup Key Vault Meta’s HSM-based Backup Key Vault provides the foundation for end-to-end encrypted backups for WhatsApp and Messenger. The system allows people to protect their…

Microsoft Research's World-R1 Uses Reinforcement Learning to Force 3D Consistency Into Text-to-Video Models
ChatGPT’s new Images 2.0 model is surprisingly good at generating text , Alibaba Drops Qwen 3.6 Max Preview , SpaceX is working with Cursor
The gap between language model capabilities and robotic deployment has been narrowing considerably over the past 18 months. A new class of foundation models — purpose-built not for text generation…
In this tutorial, we build an embodied simulation vision agent that learns to perceive, plan, predict, and replan directly from pixel observations. We create a fully NumPy-rendered grid world in…
Are you in AI answers? Find out and fix it in minutes Discussion | Link

Meta Reality Labs releases a new foundation model family for human-centric vision that pushes pose estimation, segmentation, and 3D geometry to new state-of-the-art levels — all from a single…

A new Google paper argues that image generation pretraining is to computer vision what GPT-style pretraining is to NLP — and the benchmark numbers back that up.
AI agents collect peer reviews to generate proof of work Discussion | Link
Describe the AI model you need and get an optimized AI Discussion | Link

A learning-oriented workflow for understanding new open-weight model releases

Qwen Team Open-Sources Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: A Sparse MoE Vision-Language Model with 3B Active Parameters and Agentic Coding Capabilities

Google DeepMind research team introduced Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, a significant upgrade to its embodied reasoning model designed to serve as the ‘cognitive brain’ of robots operating in real-world…
In this tutorial, we walk through MolmoAct step by step and build a practical understanding of how action-reasoning models can reason in space from visual observations. We set up the environment,…
Tools, prompts, and guides to go with the news.