# Alex Volkov

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ThursdAI - Mar 5 - OpenAI's GPT-5.4 Solves a 20-Year Math Problem, Anthropic Gets Designated a Supply Chain Risk, Qwen Drama Unfolds

Hey folks, Alex here, let me catch you up! Most important news about this week came today, mid-show, OpenAI dropped GPT 5.4 Thinking (and 5.4 Pro), their latest flagship general model, less autistic than Codex 5.3, with 1M context, /fast mode and the ability to steet it mid-reasoning. We tested it…

ThursdAI - Opus 1M, Jensen declares OpenClaw as the new Linux, GPT 5.4 Mini & Nano, Minimax 2.7, Composer 2 & more AI news

Howdy, Alex here, let me catch you up on everything that happened in AI: (btw; If you haven’t heard from me last week, it was a Substack glitch, it was a great episode with 3 interviews, our 3rd birthday, I highly recommend checking it out here) This week was started on a relatively “chill” note,…

📅 ThursdAI - Apr 2 - Gemma 4 is the new LLama, Claude Code Leak, OpenAI raises $122B & more AI news

Hey Ya’ll, Alex here, let me catch you up. What a week! Anthropic is in the spotlight again, first with #SessionGate, then with the whole Claude Code source code leak, and finally with an incredible research into LLM having feelings!? (more on this below). And while Anthropic continues to burn th…

April 16 - Codex uses your mac in the background, Opus 4.7 release not quite Mythos + 3 interviews

Hey ya’ll, Alex here with your weekly AI news catch up. It’s one of those Thursday’s where no matter how well I prep, the big AI labs are hell bent to show up before each other. Alibaba dropped Qwen 3.6 with Apache 2, confirming their commitment to Open Source, then Anthropic released Claude Opus …

The Enemies-to-Lovers Business Rivalry 🧐 | King of Gluttony Review

Welcome back to Fictional Analysis! 🎙️I am your host, Kajal. 🚨 Special Announcement: My debut novella, From Confirmation to Campus, is officially published and available on Amazon! This book is incredibly close to my heart, and it would mean the world to me if you grabbed a copy and left a review…

📅 May 28 - Opus 4.8 ships mid-show, the Pope writes 42K words on AI, 11labs dubs the world and DeepSwe breaks coding evals

Hey folks, this is Alex, let me catch you up! First, Opus 4.8 dropped during the show, we immediately tested it, read on for our initial reviews. Also, we dedicated a heavy chunk of the show today to cover Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical letter on AI called “Magnifica Humanitas” and talked about a new b…

Ranking My Top 3 Fictional Boyfriends 👑 | Milestone Episode

Welcome back to Fictional Analysis! 🎙️ I am your host, Kajal. First, a massive thank you to our 107 listeners for helping the podcast grow globally—we even recently ranked #60 on the charts in Ghana! Since my Audit and Finance semester exams are taking up all my time this week, I am giving my brai…

Tropes I Love vs. Tropes I Hate 🚩🔥 | 100 Listener Bonus!

Welcome to a special bonus episode of Fictional Analysis! 🎉To celebrate hitting our 100-listener milestone, we are taking a quick break from our regular reviews to talk about my ultimate romance book green flags and red flags. In today's unscripted episode, I am breaking down: Tropes I absolutely…

ThursdAI - Jul 16 - Inkling 975B open weights, Kimi K3 at 2.8T, a 27B model on a phone & Codex hits 9M

Hey yall, Alex here, Huge thanks to Wolfram for running point on the live show this week. Didn’t have tons of time to edit this one, so please skip the first 10 minutes, it’s a loop of our new “wait for the live show to start” vid, that I build with HyperFrames and can’t wait to tell you about, ne…

ThursdAI - Aug 06 - Google shakeup, Details on OpenAI hack, 2 new agent harnesses, 4 video models (1 Open) and 3 guest segments

Hey all, This week we saw a major shakeup at Google, with the departure of long time folks like Jeff Dean, and Oriol Vinyals, Demis stepping down from leading DeepMind, and the delayed release of the improved Gemini. While this was a big deal, it’s not the only one worth covering as the details of …