Google is bringing Gemini CLI to developers’ terminals, Anthropic now lets you make apps right from its Claude AI chatbot, and more!
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LWiAI Podcast #214 - Gemini CLI, io drama, AlphaGenome
Google is bringing Gemini CLI to developers’ terminals, Anthropic now lets you make apps right from its Claude AI chatbot, and more!
Jul 4
Our 214th episode with a summary and discussion of last week’s big AI news!
Recorded on 06/28/2025
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai
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
- (00:12:09) Anthropic now lets you make apps right from its Claude AI chatbot
Applications & Business
- (00:15:54) Sam Altman takes his ‘io’ trademark battle public
- (00:21:35) Huawei Matebook Contains Kirin X90, using SMIC 7nm (N+2) Technology
- (00:26:05) AMD deploys its first Ultra Ethernet ready network card — Pensando Pollara provides up to 400 Gbps performance
- (00:31:21) Amazon joins the big nuclear party, buying 1.92 GW for AWS
- (00:33:20) Nvidia goes nuclear — company joins Bill Gates in backing TerraPower, a company building nuclear reactors for powering data centers
- (00:36:18) Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab closes on $2B at $10B valuation
- (00:41:02) Meta hires key OpenAI researcher to work on AI reasoning models
Research & Advancements
- (00:49:46) Google’s new AI will help researchers understand how our genes work
- (00:55:13) Direct Reasoning Optimization: LLMs Can Reward And Refine Their Own Reasoning for Open-Ended Tasks
- (01:01:54) Farseer: A Refined Scaling Law in Large Language Models
- (01:06:28) LLM-First Search: Self-Guided Exploration of the Solution Space
Policy & Safety
- (01:11:20) Unsupervised Elicitation of Language Models
- (01:16:04) Taiwan Imposes Technology Export Controls on Huawei, SMIC
- (01:18:22) Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:23:41) Judge Rejects Authors’ Claim That Meta AI Training Violated Copyrights
- (01:29:46) Getty drops key copyright claims against Stability AI, but UK lawsuit continues
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