Our 193rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news! *and sometimes last last week's

Note: this one was recorded on 12/13, so the news is a bit outdated... will get things back on track soon!

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Timestamps + Links:

(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:02:44) News Preview
(00:03:43) Response to listener comments
(00:09:50) Sponsor Break
Tools & Apps
Applications & Business
- (00:46:35) OpenAI Aiming to Eliminate Microsoft AGI Rule to Boost Future Investment
- (00:53:34) GM halts funding of robotaxi development by Cruise
- (00:57:08) Largest AI data centre in the world to be built in northwest Alberta
- (01:02:36) Meta announces 4 million sq ft, 2GW Louisiana data center campus
- (01:05:22) Google’s future data centers will be built next to solar and wind farms
Projects & Open Source
- (01:08:37) Google DeepMind Just Released PaliGemma 2: A New Family of Open-Weight Vision Language Models (3B, 10B and 28B)
Research & Advancements
- (01:13:51) Training Large Language Models to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space
- (01:25:37) An Evolved Universal Transformer Memory
- (01:31:48) APOLLO: SGD-like Memory, AdamW-level Performance
- (01:37:59) Clio: A system for privacy-preserving insights into real-world AI use
Policy & Safety
- (01:39:47) Character.AI steps up teen safety after bots allegedly caused suicide, self-harm
- (01:45:22) What Trump’s New AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks Means For the Tech Industry
- (01:49:03) Frontier AI systems have surpassed the self-replicating red line
- (01:53:52) Chip war: China launches antitrust probe into US semiconductor giant Nvidia in sign of escalation
- (01:56:53) White House Creating Task Force on AI Datacenter Infrastructure
- (02:00:00) US clears export of advanced AI chips to UAE under Microsoft deal, Axios says
(02:02:19) Outro

#193 - Sora release, Gemini 2, OpenAI's AGI Rule, US AI Czar

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