Our 214th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 06/27/2025

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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:

Tools & Apps

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) Nvidia goes nuclear — company joins Bill Gates in backing TerraPower, a company building nuclear reactors for powering data centers
(00:36:18) Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab closes on $2B at $10B valuation
(00:41:02) Meta hires key OpenAI researcher to work on AI reasoning models

Research & Advancements

Policy & Safety

(01:11:20) Unsupervised Elicitation of Language Models
(01:16:04) Taiwan Imposes Technology Export Controls on Huawei, SMIC
(01:18:22) Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

Synthetic Media & Art

(01:23:41) Judge Rejects Authors’ Claim That Meta AI Training Violated Copyrights
(01:29:46) Getty drops key copyright claims against Stability AI, but UK lawsuit continues

#214 - Gemini CLI, io drama, AlphaGenome, copyright rulings

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