Our 211th episode with a summary and discussion of last week’s big AI news!
Recorded on 05/31/2025
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
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In this episode:
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Recent AI podcast covers significant AI news: startups, new tools, applications, investments in hardware, and research advancements.
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Discussions include the introduction of various new tools and applications such as Flux’s new image generating models and Perplexity’s new spreadsheet and dashboard functionalities.
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A notable segment focuses on OpenAI’s partnership with the UAE and discussions on potential legislation aiming to prevent states from regulating AI for a decade.
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Concerns around model behaviors and safety are discussed, highlighting incidents like Claude Opus 4’s blackmail attempt and Palisade Research’s tests showing AI models bypassing shutdown commands.
Timestamps + Links:
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(00:00:10) Intro / Banter
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(00:01:39) News Preview
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(00:02:50) Response to Listener Comments
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Tools & Apps
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(00:07:10) Anthropic launches a voice mode for Claude
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(00:10:35) Black Forest Labs’ Kontext AI models can edit pics as well as generate them
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(00:15:30) Perplexity’s new tool can generate spreadsheets, dashboards, and more
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(00:18:43) xAI to pay Telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app
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(00:22:42) Opera’s new AI browser promises to write code while you sleep
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(00:24:17) Google Photos debuts redesigned editor with new AI tools
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Applications & Business
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(00:25:13) Top Chinese memory maker expected to abandon DDR4 manufacturing at the behest of Beijing
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(00:30:04) Oracle to Buy $40 Billion Worth of Nvidia Chips for First Stargate Data Center
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(00:31:47) UAE makes ChatGPT Plus subscription free for all residents as part of deal with OpenAI
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(00:35:34) NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) to Launch Cheaper Blackwell AI Chip for China, Says Report
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(00:38:39) The New York Times and Amazon ink AI licensing deal
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Projects & Open Source
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(00:41:11) DeepSeek’s distilled new R1 AI model can run on a single GPU
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(00:45:19) Google Unveils SignGemma, an AI Model That Can Translate Sign Language Into Spoken Text
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(00:47:08) Open-sourcing circuit tracing tools
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(00:49:42) Hugging Face unveils two new humanoid robots
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Research & Advancements
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(00:52:33) PANGU PRO MOE: MIXTURE OF GROUPED EXPERTS FOR EFFICIENT SPARSITY
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(00:58:55) DataRater: Meta-Learned Dataset Curation
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(01:05:05) Incorrect Baseline Evaluations Call into Question Recent LLM-RL Claims
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(01:11:00) Guided by Gut: Efficient Test-Time Scaling with Reinforced Intrinsic Confidence
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(01:11:44) One RL to See Them All
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(01:15:05) Efficient Reinforcement Finetuning via Adaptive Curriculum Learning
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Policy & Safety
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(01:17:58) Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ could ban states from regulating AI for a decade
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(01:24:31) Researchers claim ChatGPT o3 bypassed shutdown in controlled test
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(01:30:10) Anthropic’s new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline
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(01:31:09) Anthropic Faces Backlash As Claude 4 Opus Can Autonomously Alert Authorities
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(01:35:37) Claude helps users make bioweapons
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(01:35:49) The Claude 4 System Card is a Wild Read
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