#211 - Claude Voice, Flux Kontext, Wrong RL Research? Last Week In AI podcast

Content provided by Skynet Today. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Skynet Today or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://podcastplayer.com/legal.

Last Week in AI »
#211 - Claude Voice, Flux Kontext, wrong RL research?

2d ago 1:38:06

MP3•Episode home

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.
Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]

Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.

Join our Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP

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

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

251 episodes

#Big News #Tech #News #Tech News #Skynet Today