About this episode
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)
