Our 212th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Recorded on 06/13/2025

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.

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In this episode:

• OpenAI introduces O3 PRO for ChatGPT, highlighting significant improvements in performance and cost-efficiency.


• Anthropic sees an influx of talent from OpenAI and DeepMind, with significantly higher retention rates and competitive advantages in AI capabilities.


• New research indicates that reinforcing negative responses in LLMs significantly improves performance across all metrics, highlighting novel approaches in reinforcement learning.


• A security flaw in Microsoft Copilot demonstrates the growing risk of AI agents being hacked, emphasizing the need for robust protection against zero-click attacks.

Timestamps + Links:

• (00:00:11 ) Intro / Banter


• (00:01:31 ) News Preview


• (00:02:46 ) Response to Listener Reviews


• Tools & Apps
  
  
  
  • (00:04:48 ) OpenAI adds o3 Pro to ChatGPT and drops o3 price by 80 per cent, but open-source AI is delayed
  
  
  • (00:09:10 ) Cursor AI editor hits 1.0 milestone, including BugBot and high-risk background agents
  
  
  • (00:13:07 ) Mistral releases a pair of AI reasoning models
  
  
  • (00:16:18 ) Elevenlabs' Eleven v3 lets AI voices whisper, laugh and express emotions naturally
  
  
  • (00:19:00 ) ByteDance's Seedance 1.0 is trading blows with Google's Veo 3
  
  
  • (00:22:42 ) Google Reveals $20 AI Pro Plan With Veo 3 Fast Video Generator For Budget Creators
  
  
  
  


• Applications & Business
  
  
  
  • (00:25:42 ) OpenAI and DeepMind are losing engineers to Anthropic in a one-sided talent war
  
  
  • (00:34:32 ) OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
  
  
  • (00:37:24 ) Nvidia’s Biggest Chinese Rival Huawei Struggles to Win at Home
  
  
  • (00:43:06 ) Huawei Expected to Break Semiconductor Barriers with Development of High-End 3nm GAA Chips; Tape-Out by 2026
  
  
  • (00:45:21 ) TSMC’s 1.4nm Process, Also Called Angstrom, Will Make Even The Most Lucrative Clients Think Twice When Placing Orders, With An Estimate Claiming That Each Wafer Will Cost $45,000
  
  
  • (00:47:43 ) Mistral AI Launches Mistral Compute To Replace Cloud Providers from US, China
  
  
  
  


• Projects & Open Source
  
  
  
  • (00:51:26 ) ProRL: Prolonged Reinforcement Learning Expands Reasoning Boundaries in Large Language Models
  
  
  
  


• Research & Advancements
  
  
  
  • (00:57:27 ) Kinetics: Rethinking Test-Time Scaling Laws
  
  
  • (01:05:12 ) The Surprising Effectiveness of Negative Reinforcement in LLM Reasoning
  
  
  • (01:10:45 ) Predicting Empirical AI Research Outcomes with Language Models
  
  
  • (01:15:02 ) EXP-Bench: Can AI Conduct AI Research Experiments?
  
  
  
  


• Policy & Safety
  
  
  
  • (01:20:07 ) Large Language Models Often Know When They Are Being Evaluated
  
  
  • (01:24:56 ) Beyond Induction Heads: In-Context Meta Learning Induces Multi-Phase Circuit Emergence
  
  
  • (01:31:16 ) Exclusive: New Microsoft Copilot flaw signals broader risk of AI agents being hacked—‘I would be terrified’
  
  
  • (01:35:01 ) Claude Gov Models for U.S. National Security Customers
  
  
  
  


• Synthetic Media & Art
  
  
  
  • (01:37:32 ) Disney And NBCUniversal Sue AI Company Midjourney For Copyright Infringement
  
  
  • (01:40:39 ) AMC Networks is teaming up with AI company Runway