In this episode of the Last Week in AI podcast, Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris discuss the latest AI news, focusing on Google's I/O 2025 announcements, including AI mode in Google Search, Project Mariner, VO3, Imagine 4, and real-time speech translation in Google Meet, as well as GitHub's new AI coding agent and Mistral's DevStral. They also cover OpenAI's acquisition of IO, its planned data center in Abu Dhabi, and LM Arena's funding round. The episode further delves into research advancements like Gemini Diffusion, Chain of Model Learning, and Seek in the Dark, and concludes with policy and safety updates, including OpenAI's response to California's Attorney General and Anthropic's activation of AI Safety Level 3 protections.
