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Mar 2025
Meta Launching Community Notes, Anthropic CEO Floats AI Quit Button, Man Survives with Titanium Heart in World-First
We're experimenting and would love to hear from you!In this episode of 'Discover Daily', we explore a groundbreaking medical achievement: an Australian man who survived 100 days with a BiVACOR titanium heart before successfully receiving a donor heart transplant. This world-first ... Show More
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Mar 2025
Chinese Quantum Chip Rivals Willow, Vibe Coding's Rise in Software Development, and the Universe May Exist in Black Hole
We're experimenting and would love to hear from you!In this episode of 'Discover Daily', we explore China's quantum computing breakthrough with Zuchongzhi 3.0, a 105-qubit processor that dramatically outperforms classical supercomputers. This remarkable machine completed in minut ... Show More
8m 17s
Mar 2025
Microsoft Looks Beyond OpenAI, Student Cracks Century-Old Math Problem, and Research Shows How Aspirin Fights Cancer
We're experimenting and would love to hear from you!In this episode of 'Discover Daily', we begin with a look at Microsoft. The company is strategically diversifying its AI approach beyond its OpenAI partnership by developing its own AI models, particularly the MAI family. These ... Show More
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Aug 2024
The Zoom Election + Google DeepMind's Math Olympiad + HatGPT! Olympics Edition
<p>This week, with hundreds of thousands of people joining online political rallies for Kamala Harris, we discuss whether 2024 is suddenly becoming the Zoom election, and what that means for both parties’ political organizing. Then, Pushmeet Kohli, a computer scientist at Google ... Show More
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Feb 2023
#111 - Mostly ChatGPT Again, plus Google’s Bard, Climate Change, AI Seinfeld
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Jan 2025
#195 - OpenAI o3 & for-profit, DeepSeek-V3, Latent Space
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Jun 2022
#99 - Drone Mail Delivery, Human-Robot Teamwork, ToxiGen, Robot Companions
<p>Our 99th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!</p>
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Apr 2022
#92 - OpenAI’s DALL-E 2, Google’s PaLM, AI Intel in Ukraine, Hugging Robots
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May 2025
#209 - OpenAI non-profit, US diffusion rules, AlphaEvolve
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Sep 2025
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on AI, Creativity, and a Golden Age of Science | All-In Summit
<p>(0:00) Introducing Sir Demis Hassabis, reflecting on his Nobel Prize win</p> <p>(2:39) What is Google DeepMind? How does it interact with Google and Alphabet?</p> <p>(4:01) Genie 3 world model</p> <p>(9:21) State of robotics models, form factors, and more</p> <p>(14:42) AI sci ... Show More
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Watching the watchers. IoT vulnerabilities exposed by AI. [Research Saturday]
This week, we are joined by Andrew Morris, Founder and CTO of GreyNoise, to discuss their work on "GreyNoise Intelligence Discovers Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in Live Streaming Cameras with the Help of AI." GreyNoise discovered two critical zero-day vulnerabilities in IoT-connected ... Show More
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#126 - few have tried ChatGPT, Baidu’s $145M AI fund, AI job culling, OpenAI grant program
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Aug 2021
Fabricated AI Research, AI Phishing Emails, AI Package Theft Detection
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We're experimenting and would love to hear from you! In this episode of Discover Daily by Perplexity, we explore groundbreaking AI achievements in mathematics, a new AI search engine, and efforts to combat technological cheating in sports. Google DeepMind's AI systems, AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2, made history at the 2024 International Mathematical Olymp ... Show More
<p>Our 111th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!</p>
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<p>Stories this week:</p>
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<p>Our 195th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news!<br>
*and sometimes last last week's </p>
<p>Recorded on 01/04/2024</p>
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<p>Our 92nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!</p>
<p>Outline:</p>
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<li>(0:00) Intro</li>
<li>Research & Advancements
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<li>(01:15) <a href="https://www.techradar.com/news/openais-new-dalle-model-turns-your-words-into-realistic-images" ta ... Show More
<p>Our 209th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!<br>
Recorded on 05/16/2025</p>
<p>Hosted by <a href="https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov" target="_blank">Andrey Kurenkov</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris" target="_blank">Jeremie Ha ... Show More
<p>Our 126th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!</p>
<p>NOTE: sorry about the poor audio quality :( will be better next week!</p>
<p>Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at <a href="https://lastweekin.ai/" target="_blank">https://l ... Show More
<p>Our 67th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!</p>
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<a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/08/06/1030802/ai-robots-take-over-warehouses/" target="_blank">A new generation of AI-powered robots is taking over warehou ... Show More