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Our 223st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Recorded on 10/17/2025
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and co-hosted by Erik Schnultz
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In this episode:
- Anthropic and OpenAI have announced updates to their AI models and tools, including Haiku 4.5 and various business collaborations.
- Multiple companies like Slack and Salesforce are integrating AI assistants and agents into their platforms, enhancing task management and business operations.
- Recent research in reinforcement learning and agent memory curation highlights new methods for improving AI model performance and context management.
- California has passed a law to regulate AI chatbots for children and vulnerable users, and there are rising concerns over the increasing amount of AI-generated content on the internet.
Timestamps:
- () Intro / Banter
- () News Preview
- Tools & Apps
- () Anthropic launches new version of scaled-down ‘Haiku’ model
- () Everything OpenAI announced at DevDay 2025: Agent Kit, Apps SDK, ChatGPT, and more | ZDNET
- () Anthropic turns to ‘skills’ to make Claude more useful at work | The Verge
- () Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word | The Verge
- () Google releases Veo 3.1, adds it to Flow video editor | TechCrunch
- () Slack is turning Slackbot into an AI assistant | The Verge
- () Salesforce announces Agentforce 360 as enterprise AI competition heats up | TechCrunch
- Applications & Business
- () Broadcom stock pops 9% on OpenAI custom chip deal, adding to Nvidia and AMD agreements
- () How ByteDance Made China’s Most Popular AI Chatbot | WIRED
- () Amazon's Zoox Robotaxis Have Arrived In Las Vegas - Here's What Riders Are Experiencing
- () Waymo’s robotaxis are coming to London | The Verge
- () Reflection AI raises $2B to be America's open frontier AI lab, challenging DeepSeek | TechCrunch
- () General Intuition lands $134M seed to teach agents spatial reasoning using video game clips | TechCrunch
- () Supabase nabs $5B valuation, four months after hitting $2B | TechCrunch
- Projects & Open Source
- () Neuphonic Open-Sources NeuTTS Air: A 748M-Parameter On-Device Speech Language Model with Instant Voice Cloning - MarkTechPost
- () Anthropic AI Releases Petri: An Open-Source Framework for Automated Auditing by Using AI Agents to Test the Behaviors of Target Models on Diverse Scenarios - MarkTechPost
- Research & Advancements
- () [2510.13786] The Art of Scaling Reinforcement Learning Compute for LLMs
- () [2510.01171] Verbalized Sampling: How to Mitigate Mode Collapse and Unlock LLM Diversity
- () [2510.12635] Memory as Action: Autonomous Context Curation for Long-Horizon Agentic Tasks
- () [2510.07364] Base Models Know How to Reason, Thinking Models Learn When
- () [2510.12402] Cautious Weight Decay
- Policy & Safety
- () California becomes first state to regulate AI companion chatbots | TechCrunch
- () Over 50 Percent of the Internet Is Now AI Slop, New Data Finds
- Synthetic Media & Art
- () OpenAI Reverses Stance on Use of Copyright Works in Sora - WSJ
- () Character.AI removes Disney characters from platform after studio issues warning
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