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

Our 214th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Recorded on 06/27/2025

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov (twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (twitter.com/jeremiecharris).

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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:

• (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 (theverge.com/news/692517/google-gemini-cli-ai-…)

• (00:12:09) Anthropic now lets you make apps right from its Claude AI chatbot (theverge.com/news/693342/anthropic-claude-ai-a…)

Applications & Business

• (00:15:54) Sam Altman takes his ‘io’ trademark battle public (theverge.com/news/692840/sam-altman-io-tradema…)

• (00:21:35) Huawei Matebook Contains Kirin X90, using SMIC 7nm (N+2) Technology (techinsights.com/blog/huawei-matebook-fold-use…)

• (00:26:05) AMD deploys its first Ultra Ethernet ready network card — Pensando Pollara provides up to 400 Gbps performance (tomshardware.com/networking/amd-deploys-its-fi…)

• (00:31:21) Amazon joins the big nuclear party, buying 1.92 GW for AWS (techcrunch.com/2025/06/13/amazon-joins-the-big…)

• (00:33:20) Nvidia goes nuclear — company joins Bill Gates in backing TerraPower, a company building nuclear reactors for powering data centers (tomshardware.com/tech-industry/nvidia-goes-nuc…)

• (00:36:18) Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab closes on $2B at $10B valuation (techcrunch.com/2025/06/20/mira-muratis-thinkin…)

• (00:41:02) Meta hires key OpenAI researcher to work on AI reasoning models (techcrunch.com/2025/06/26/meta-hires-key-opena…)

Research & Advancements

• (00:49:46) Google’s new AI will help researchers understand how our genes work (technologyreview.com/2025/06/25/1119345/google…)

• (00:55:13) Direct Reasoning Optimization: LLMs Can Reward And Refine Their Own Reasoning for Open-Ended Tasks (arxiv.org/abs/2506.13351)

• (01:01:54) Farseer: A Refined Scaling Law in Large Language Models (arxiv.org/abs/2506.10972)

• (01:06:28) LLM-First Search: Self-Guided Exploration of the Solution Space (arxiv.org/abs/2506.05213)

Policy & Safety

• (01:11:20) Unsupervised Elicitation of Language Models (alignment-science-blog.pages.dev/2025/unsuperv…)

• (01:16:04) Taiwan Imposes Technology Export Controls on Huawei, SMIC (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-14/taiwan-…)

• (01:18:22) Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task (arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872)

Synthetic Media & Art

• (01:23:41) Judge Rejects Authors’ Claim That Meta AI Training Violated Copyrights (variety.com/2025/biz/news/judge-rejects-claim-…)

• (01:29:46) Getty drops key copyright claims against Stability AI, but UK lawsuit continues (techcrunch.com/2025/06/25/getty-drops-key-copy…)

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