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

1 hour 33 minutes Posted Jul 4, 2025 at 5:35 am.

) Intro / Banter

) News Preview

) Response to listener comments

) Google is bringing Gemini CLI to developers’ terminals

) Anthropic now lets you make apps right from its Claude AI chatbot

) Sam Altman takes his ‘io’ trademark battle public

) Huawei Matebook Contains Kirin X90, using SMIC 7nm (N+2) Technology

) AMD deploys its first Ultra Ethernet ready network card — Pensando Pollara provides up to 400 Gbps performance

) Amazon joins the big nuclear party, buying 1.92 GW for AWS

) Nvidia goes nuclear — company joins Bill Gates in backing TerraPower, a company building nuclear reactors for powering data centers

) Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab closes on $2B at $10B valuation

) Meta hires key OpenAI researcher to work on AI reasoning models

) Google’s new AI will help researchers understand how our genes work

) Direct Reasoning Optimization: LLMs Can Reward And Refine Their Own Reasoning for Open-Ended Tasks

) Farseer: A Refined Scaling Law in Large Language Models

) LLM-First Search: Self-Guided Exploration of the Solution Space

) Unsupervised Elicitation of Language Models

) Taiwan Imposes Technology Export Controls on Huawei, SMIC

) Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

) Judge Rejects Authors’ Claim That Meta AI Training Violated Copyrights

) Getty drops key copyright claims against Stability AI, but UK lawsuit continues

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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.

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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.

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