Our 214th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Recorded on 06/27/2025

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
  


• (00:26:05 ) AMD deploys its first Ultra Ethernet ready network card — Pensando Pollara provides up to 400 Gbps performance
  


• (00:31:21 ) Amazon joins the big nuclear party, buying 1.92 GW for AWS
  


• (00:33:20 ) Nvidia goes nuclear — company joins Bill Gates in backing TerraPower, a company building nuclear reactors for powering data centers
  


• (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
  


• (01:18:22 ) Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
  

Synthetic Media & Art

• (01:23:41 ) Judge Rejects Authors’ Claim That Meta AI Training Violated Copyrights
  


• (01:29:46 ) Getty drops key copyright claims against Stability AI, but UK lawsuit continues
  

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