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Last Week in AI

Last Week in AI

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 Weekly summaries of the AI news that matters!Copyright 2024 All rights reserved. Politics & Government
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  • #215 - Runway games, Meta Superintelligence, ERNIE 4.5, Adaptive Tree Search

    #215 - Runway games, Meta Superintelligence, ERNIE 4.5, Adaptive Tree Search
    Jul 8 2025
    Our 215th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 07/04/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/. In this episode: Cloudflare's new AI data scraper blocking feature, its potential implications, and technical challengesMeta's aggressive recruitment for its Super Intelligence Labs division is covered, highlighting key hires from OpenAI and other leaders in the fieldAnthropic loses significant talent to Cursor, with details on their new economic futures program focusing on AI's impact on the labor marketNotable open-source AI model releases from Baidu and Tencent are also discussed, including their performance metrics and potential applications. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:11) Intro / Banter(00:01:43) News Preview Tools & Apps (00:02:55) Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers(00:05:44) Runway is going to let people generate video games with AI(00:11:24) Google embraces AI in the classroom with new Gemini tools for educators, chatbots for students, and more(00:16:23) No one likes meetings. They’re sending their AI note takers instead.(00:18:08) Google launches Doppl, a new app that lets you visualize how an outfit might look on you(00:19:14) Google's Imagen 4 text-to-image model promises 'significantly improved' boring images Applications & Business (00:22:18) Mark Zuckerberg announces his AI ‘superintelligence’ super-group(00:29:35) Anthropic Revenue Hits $4 Billion Annual Pace as Competition With Cursor Intensifies(00:35:10) As job losses loom, Anthropic launches program to track AI’s economic fallout(00:38:04) OpenAI says it has no plan to use Google's in-house chip(00:41:08) Nvidia stakes new startup that flips script on data center power(00:44:11) TSMC Arizona Chips Are Reportedly Being Flown Back to Taiwan For Packaging; U.S. Semiconductor Supply Chain Still Remains Dependent on Taiwan Projects & Open Source (00:46:57) Baidu releases open source model family ERNIE 4.5(00:51:55) Tencent Open Sources Hunyuan-A13B: A 13B Active Parameter MoE Model with Dual-Mode Reasoning and 256K Context(00:57:09) Together AI Releases DeepSWE: A Fully Open-Source RL-Trained Coding Agent Based on Qwen3-32B and Achieves 59% on SWEBench(01:00:11) GLM-4.1V-Thinking: Towards Versatile Multimodal Reasoning with Scalable Reinforcement Learning(01:04:10) DiffuCoder: Understanding and Improving Masked Diffusion Models for Code Generation Research & Advancements (01:06:21) Wider or Deeper? Scaling LLM Inference-Time Compute with Adaptive Branching Tree Search(01:13:07) The Automated LLM Speedrunning Benchmark: Reproducing NanoGPT Improvements(01:18:04) Claude 4 Opus and Sonnet reach 50%-time-horizon point estimates of about 80 and 65 minutes, respectively(01:21:37) Performance Prediction for Large Systems via Text-to-Text Regression(01:25:38) Does Math Reasoning Improve General LLM Capabilities? Understanding Transferability of LLM Reasoning(01:26:33) Correlated Errors in Large Language Models Policy & Safety (01:29:04) Forecasting Biosecurity Risks from LLMs(01:36:06) AI Task Length Horizons in Offensive Cybersecurity(01:42:30) Inside Tech's Risky Gamble to Kill State AI Regulations for a Decade(01:52:56) Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features
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    1 hr and 56 mins
  • #214 - Gemini CLI, io drama, AlphaGenome, copyright rulings

    #214 - Gemini CLI, io drama, AlphaGenome, copyright rulings
    Jul 4 2025
    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. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/. 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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    1 hr and 34 mins
  • #213 - Midjourney video, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, LiveCodeBench Pro

    #213 - Midjourney video, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, LiveCodeBench Pro
    Jun 26 2025

    Our 213nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 06/21/2025

    Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai

    Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.

    In this episode:

    • Midjourney launches its first AI video generation model, moving from text-to-image to video with a subscription model offering up to 21-second clips, highlighting the affordability and growing capabilities in AI video generation.
    • Google's Gemini AI family updates include high-efficiency models for cost-effective workloads, and new enhancements in Google's search function now allow for voice interactions.
    • The introduction of two new benchmarks, Live Code Bench Pro and Abstention Bench, aiming to test and improve the problem-solving and abstention capabilities of reasoning models, revealing current limitations.
    • OpenAI wins a $200 million US defense contract to support various aspects of the Department of Defense, reflecting growing collaborations between tech companies and government for AI applications.

    Timestamps + Links:

    • (00:00:10) Intro / Banter
    • (00:01:32) News Preview
    • Tools & Apps
    • (00:02:12) Midjourney launches its first AI video generation model, V1
    • (00:05:52) Google’s Gemini AI family updated with stable 2.5 Pro, super-efficient 2.5 Flash-Lite
    • (00:07:59) Google’s AI Mode can now have back-and-forth voice conversations
    • (00:10:13) YouTube to Add Google’s Veo 3 to Shorts in Move That Could Turbocharge AI on the Video Platform
    • Applications & Business
    • (00:11:10) The ‘OpenAI Files’ will help you understand how Sam Altman’s company works
    • (00:12:29) OpenAI drops Scale AI as a data provider following Meta deal
    • (00:13:28) Amazon’s Zoox opens its first major robotaxi production facility
    • Projects & Open Source
    • (00:15:20) LiveCodeBench Pro: How Do Olympiad Medalists Judge LLMs in Competitive Programming?
    • (00:19:45) AbstentionBench: Reasoning LLMs Fail on Unanswerable Questions
    • (00:22:49) MiniMax-M1: Scaling Test-Time Compute Efficiently with Lightning Attention
    • Research & Advancements
    • (00:24:33) Scaling Laws of Motion Forecasting and Planning -- A Technical Report
    • Policy & Safety
    • (00:28:07) Universal Jailbreak Suffixes Are Strong Attention Hijackers
    • (00:30:52) OpenAI found features in AI models that correspond to different ‘personas’
    • (00:33:25) OpenAI wins $200 million U.S. defense contract
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    37 mins
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