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

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

Author: Skynet Today July 4, 2025 Duration: 1:33:32
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. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/. 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 Tools & Apps (00:06:18) Google is bringing Gemini CLI to developers’ terminals (00:12:09) Anthropic now lets you make apps right from its Claude AI chatbot 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 (00:49:46) Google’s new AI will help researchers understand how our genes work (00:55:13) Direct Reasoning Optimization: LLMs Can Reward And Refine Their Own Reasoning for Open-Ended Tasks (01:01:54) Farseer: A Refined Scaling Law in Large Language Models (01:06:28) LLM-First Search: Self-Guided Exploration of the Solution Space 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 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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