Our 211th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Recorded on 05/31/2025

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.

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In this episode:

• Recent AI podcast covers significant AI news: startups, new tools, applications, investments in hardware, and research advancements.


• Discussions include the introduction of various new tools and applications such as Flux's new image generating models and Perplexity's new spreadsheet and dashboard functionalities.


• A notable segment focuses on OpenAI's partnership with the UAE and discussions on potential legislation aiming to prevent states from regulating AI for a decade.


• Concerns around model behaviors and safety are discussed, highlighting incidents like Claude Opus 4's blackmail attempt and Palisade Research's tests showing AI models bypassing shutdown commands.

Timestamps + Links:

• (00:00:10 ) Intro / Banter


• (00:01:39 ) News Preview


• (00:02:50 ) Response to Listener Comments
  
  


• Tools & Apps

• (00:07:10 ) Anthropic launches a voice mode for Claude


• (00:10:35 ) Black Forest Labs’ Kontext AI models can edit pics as well as generate them


• (00:15:30 ) Perplexity’s new tool can generate spreadsheets, dashboards, and more


• (00:18:43 ) xAI to pay Telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app


• (00:22:42 ) Opera’s new AI browser promises to write code while you sleep


• (00:24:17 ) Google Photos debuts redesigned editor with new AI tools

• Applications & Business

• (00:25:13 ) Top Chinese memory maker expected to abandon DDR4 manufacturing at the behest of Beijing


• (00:30:04 ) Oracle to Buy $40 Billion Worth of Nvidia Chips for First Stargate Data Center


• (00:31:47 ) UAE makes ChatGPT Plus subscription free for all residents as part of deal with OpenAI


• (00:35:34 ) NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) to Launch Cheaper Blackwell AI Chip for China, Says Report


• (00:38:39 ) The New York Times and Amazon ink AI licensing deal

• Projects & Open Source

• (00:41:11 ) DeepSeek’s distilled new R1 AI model can run on a single GPU


• (00:45:19 ) Google Unveils SignGemma, an AI Model That Can Translate Sign Language Into Spoken Text


• (00:47:08 ) Open-sourcing circuit tracing tools


• (00:49:42 ) Hugging Face unveils two new humanoid robots

• Research & Advancements

• (00:52:33 ) PANGU PRO MOE: MIXTURE OF GROUPED EXPERTS FOR EFFICIENT SPARSITY


• (00:58:55 ) DataRater: Meta-Learned Dataset Curation


• (01:05:05 ) Incorrect Baseline Evaluations Call into Question Recent LLM-RL Claims 


• (01:10:17 ) Maximizing Confidence Alone Improves Reasoning


• (01:11:00 ) Guided by Gut: Efficient Test-Time Scaling with Reinforced Intrinsic Confidence


• (01:11:44 ) One RL to See Them All


• (01:15:05 ) Efficient Reinforcement Finetuning via Adaptive Curriculum Learning

• Policy & Safety

• (01:17:58 ) Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' could ban states from regulating AI for a decade


• (01:24:31 ) Researchers claim ChatGPT o3 bypassed shutdown in controlled test


• (01:30:10 ) Anthropic’s new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline


• (01:31:09 ) Anthropic Faces Backlash As Claude 4 Opus Can Autonomously Alert Authorities


• (01:35:37 ) Claude helps users make bioweapons


• (01:35:49 ) The Claude 4 System Card is a Wild Read