Our 214th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Recorded on 06/28/2025
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
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In this episode:
Meta's hiring of key engineers from OpenAI and Thinking Machines Lab securing a $2 billion seed round with a valuation of $10 billion.
DeepMind introduces Alpha Genome, significantly advancing genomic research with a model comparable to Alpha Fold but focused on gene functions.
Taiwan imposes technology export controls on Huawei and SMIC, while Getty drops key copyright claims against Stability AI in a groundbreaking legal case.
A new DeepMind research paper introduces a transformative approach to cognitive debt in AI tasks, utilizing EEG to assess cognitive load and recall in essay writing with LLMs.
Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:10) Intro / Banter
(00:01:22) News Preview
(00:02:15) Response to listener comments
Tools & Apps
(00:06:18) Google is bringing Gemini CLI to developers’ terminals
(00:12:09) Anthropic now lets you make apps right from its Claude AI chatbot
Applications & Business
(00:15:54) Sam Altman takes his ‘io’ trademark battle public
(00:21:35) Huawei Matebook Contains Kirin X90, using SMIC 7nm (N+2) Technology
(00:31:21) Amazon joins the big nuclear party, buying 1.92 GW for AWS
(00:36:18) Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab closes on $2B at $10B valuation
(00:41:02) Meta hires key OpenAI researcher to work on AI reasoning models
Research & Advancements
(00:49:46) Google’s new AI will help researchers understand how our genes work
(00:55:13) Direct Reasoning Optimization: LLMs Can Reward And Refine Their Own Reasoning for Open-Ended Tasks
(01:01:54) Farseer: A Refined Scaling Law in Large Language Models
(01:06:28) LLM-First Search: Self-Guided Exploration of the Solution Space
Policy & Safety
(01:11:20) Unsupervised Elicitation of Language Models
(01:16:04) Taiwan Imposes Technology Export Controls on Huawei, SMIC
Synthetic Media & Art
