Our 218th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Recorded on 07/25/2025

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.

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In this episode:

• GitHub introduces Vibe Coding with Spark, engaging users with natural language and visual controls to develop full-stack applications.


• AI coding tools from Gemin, CLI and RepleIt face significant issues, inadvertently deleting user data and highlighting the importance of careful management.


• US release never Award Americans, AI Action Plan outlining economic, technical, and policy strategies to maintain leadership in AI technology.


• Newly released Mega Science and SWE-Perf data sets evaluate AI reasoning and performance capabilities in diverse scientific and software engineering tasks.
  
  

Timestamps + Links:

• (00:00:10 ) Intro / Banter


• (00:01:31 ) News Preview


• Tools & Apps

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  • (00:03:53 ) GitHub Introduces Vibe Coding with Spark: Revolutionizing Intelligent App Development in a Flash - MarkTechPost
    
  
  
  • (00:07:05 ) Figma’s AI app building tool is now available for everyone | The Verge
    
  
  
  • (00:10:18 ) Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes - Ars Technica
    
  
  
  • (00:14:10 ) Google's AI Overviews have 2B monthly users, AI Mode 100M in the US and India | TechCrunch
    
  
  
  
  


• Applications & Business

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  • (00:18:10 ) Leaked Memo: Anthropic CEO Says the Company Will Pursue Gulf State Investments After All
    
  
  
  • (00:24:39 ) Mira Murati says her startup Thinking Machines will release new product in ‘months’ with ‘significant open source component’
    
  
  
  • (00:27:07 ) Waymo responds to Tesla’s dick joke with a bigger Austin robotaxi map | The Verge
    
  
  
  
  


• Projects & Open Source

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  • (00:32:05 ) MegaScience: Pushing the Frontiers of Post-Training Datasets for Science Reasoning
    
  
  
  • (00:43:09 ) TikTok Researchers Introduce SWE-Perf: The First Benchmark for Repository-Level Code Performance Optimization - MarkTechPost
    
  
  
  
  


• Research & Advancements

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  • (00:47:17 ) Subliminal Learning: Language models transmit behavioral traits via hidden signals in data
    
  
  
  • (00:55:34 ) Inverse Scaling in Test-Time Compute
    
  
  
  • (01:02:34 ) Scaling Laws for Optimal Data Mixtures
    
  
  
  
  


• Policy & Safety

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  • (01:07:35 ) White House Unveils America’s AI Action Plan
    
  
  
  • (01:16:55 ) Chain of Thought Monitorability: A New and Fragile Opportunity for AI Safety
    
  
  
  • (01:20:20 ) Self-preservation or Instruction Ambiguity? Examining the Causes of Shutdown Resistance
    
  
  
  • (01:24:00 ) People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"
    
  
  
  • (01:28:03 ) Meta refuses to sign EU’s AI code of practice
    
  
  
  
  

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