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
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Research & Advancements
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