Waymo Expands Robotaxi Services Beyond San Francisco

Our 158th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps + links:

• Tools & Apps
  • (00:01:05) Introducing the next generation of Claude
  • (00:16:05) Competition in AI video generation heats up as Deepmind alums unveil Haiper
  • (00:19:40) Meta AI creates ahistorical images, like Google Gemini
  • (00:22:12) Ideogram Is A New AI Image Generator That Obliterates the Competition, Outperforming MidJourney and Dall-E 3
  • (00:24:25) Wix’s new AI chatbot builds websites in seconds based on prompts
  • (00:26:34) I used generative AI to turn my story into a comic—and you can too
• Applications & Business
  • (00:27:40) Elon Musk sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman for putting profits above humanity , OpenAI Fires Back at Musk Allegations With Trove of Emails
  • (00:35:42) Inside the Crisis at Google
  • (00:38:36) It’s official: Waymo robotaxis are now free to use freeways and leave San Francisco
  • (00:40:33) Nvidia's next-gen AI GPUs could draw an astounding 1000 Watts each, a 40 percent increase — Dell spills the beans on B100 and B200 in its earnings call
  • (00:42:43) AI chip startup Groq forms new business unit, acquires Definitive Intelligence
• Projects & Open Source
  • (00:45:13) StarCoder 2 and The Stack v2: The Next Generation
  • (00:49:05) Introducing TripoSR: Fast 3D Object Generation from Single Images
  • (00:51:21) H2O AI releases Danube, a super-tiny LLM for mobile applications
• Research & Advancements
  • (00:52:27) AtP*: An efficient and scalable method for localizing LLM behaviour to components
  • (00:58:28) Stable Diffusion 3: Research Paper
  • (01:02:10) Approaching Human-Level Forecasting with Language Models
  • (01:05:34) Here Come the AI Worms
  • (01:08:20) High-speed humanoid feels like a step change in robotics
  • (01:12:26) Functional Benchmarks for Robust Evaluation of Reasoning Performance, and the Reasoning Gap
• Policy & Safety
  • (01:15:18) India reverses AI stance, requires government approval for model launches
  • (01:19:16) When Your AIs Deceive You: Challenges with Partial Observability of Human Evaluators in Reward Learning
  • (01:24:45) OpenAI signs open letter to build AI responsibly just days after Elon Musk sued the company for putting profit ahead of people
  • (01:27:37) AI-generated articles prompt Wikipedia to downgrade CNET’s reliability rating
  • (01:29:40) Malicious AI models on Hugging Face backdoor users’ machines
  • (01:32:25) China offers AI computing ‘vouchers’ to its underpowered start-ups
• Synthetic Media & Art
  • (01:34:18) Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images
  • (01:37:10) AI-Generated Kara Swisher Biographies Flood Amazon
  • (01:39:55) Inside the World of AI TikTok Spammers
  • (01:43:35) Twitter is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet
• Fun!
  • (01:46:35) Man tries to steal driverless car in L.A., doesn’t get far: police