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Dwarkesh: 8 Predictions for the Era of Continual Learning
Dwarkesh Patel argues continual learning rewires AI competition and regulation: models that accumulate months of organizational context become expensive to abandon, safety review loses its checkpoint, and inference economies of scale favor large…
newsGemini 3.7 Flash lands three weeks after 3.6
Google released Gemini 3.7 Flash on August 13, three weeks after 3.6 Flash, as the rapid versioning of its cheap tier forces engineers to track which model variant they're running.
newsDeepMind's WeatherNext claims a cyclone forecasting breakthrough
Google DeepMind claims its WeatherNext model achieves a breakthrough in tropical cyclone forecasting, though the evaluation comes only from DeepMind's own testing and hasn't been independently verified by operational forecasting agencies.
newsGoogle's AI talent exodus: Hassabis steps back, Jeff Dean launches Discovery Loop, a Gemini lead joins Coreau
Demis Hassabis steps down as Google DeepMind CEO to become chair as Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le depart to launch Discovery Loop, an AI startup aimed at automating machine-learning research, and a Gemini pre-training lead…
newsAndrew Ng launches LearnVector for one-to-one AI learning
Andrew Ng launches LearnVector to build one-to-one AI learning experiences, but the stealth-mode startup has disclosed no funding, pricing, product details or launch timeline.
newsGemma 4 31B (free)
Google DeepMind released Gemma 4 31B, a free open-weights multimodal model with 256K context, configurable reasoning mode, native function calling, and support for 140+ languages under Apache 2.0 license.
newsGoogle releases three new Gemini models, led by Gemini 3.6 Flash
Google released three new Gemini models on July 21, led by Gemini 3.6 Flash, its most powerful yet, alongside Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber designed for cybersecurity tasks.
newsMeta becomes a cloud company
Meta launched Meta Compute on July 1, offering hosted AI models and raw GPU capacity to compete with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, converting its $115-135B annual infrastructure spend into a revenue stream.
newsFable 5 Is Back: Washington Lifts the 19-Day Ban — With Strings Attached
Commerce Department lifted its 19-day ban on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on June 30, requiring a >99%-effective safety classifier, pre-release government review, and a cross-lab jailbreak rubric with Amazon, Microsoft, and Google before the models…
newsOpenAI Floats a 5% Stake for Uncle Sam
OpenAI proposed giving the US government a 5% equity stake worth roughly $42.6B, with a framework for Anthropic, Google, and Meta to cede similar stakes into a sovereign-wealth vehicle, though Anthropic says it hasn't discussed the idea.
newsHow Google turns billions of Android phones into a planet-scale earthquake sensor network
Google uses accelerometers in billions of Android phones to detect earthquakes seconds before destructive waves arrive, sending alerts based on aggregated signals from thousands of devices.
newsSnap's $2,195 Specs Are Here — and the Glassholes Won
Snap unveiled Specs, a $2,195 standalone AR glasses with a 51° display and four-hour battery, shipping this fall—a decade after we mocked Google Glass.
news$65B Series H at $965B. Then an S-1.
Anthropic raised $65 billion at a $965 billion valuation, becoming the world's most valuable AI startup, and confidentially filed for an IPO with a possible October listing.
newsMore From Anthropic
Anthropic agreed to pay SpaceX roughly $45 billion for compute, hired Andrej Karpathy to lead a pretraining research team, acquired developer tools startup Stainless for $300 million, and signed a $200 million partnership with the Gates Foundation.
newsGoogle introduced agentic AI across its products at I/O, including Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini Omni for video editing, expanded free Personal Intelligence features, and a new $100 AI Ultra subscription tier.
newsOther updates
Google announced the Open Knowledge Format for portable data sharing, Gemini Spark as a 24/7 enterprise agent for Workspace, voice-driven document editing, Android XR smart glasses with Samsung, Google Beam (formerly Project Starline) with a lifelike…
newsApple: Siri AI (Finally)
Apple rebuilt Siri with multi-turn conversation and on-screen awareness powered by Google's Gemini, but it requires 12GB of memory and won't launch in Europe or China due to regulatory hurdles.
newsMore Vibe Coding
Google shuts down free Gemini CLI on June 18, folding users into closed-source Antigravity with reduced features; meanwhile Windsurf becomes Devin Desktop, xAI launches Grok Build, and Claude Code gains security review and five-level subagent nesting.
newsDeepMind: AlphaProof Nexus Does Research-Level Math
DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus paired Gemini 3.1 Pro with the Lean proof assistant to autonomously solve 9 of 353 open Erdős problems, including two unsolved for 56 years, and prove 44 of 492 open OEIS conjectures, with all proofs formally verified and…
newsThree talent deals in 48 hours
Anthropic acquired Stainless, Google DeepMind hired 20+ researchers from Contextual AI through a licensing deal, and Mistral bought physics-simulation startup Emmi AI—three talent acquisitions structured to avoid merger review scrutiny.
blogAI Socratic June 2025 — The Recursive Illusion Of Thinking
The most important AI news and updates from last month: May 15 - June 15.
blogAI Socratic May 2025
The most important AI news and updates from last month (April 15 - May 15). A beefy month!
blogAI Socratic Apr 2025
All the AI updates from mar 15 to apr 20. Including GPT o3, o4-mini, 4.1 to Gemini 2.5, the controversial AI-2027 blog post, A2A and more.
blogAI Socratic March 2025
All the most important AI news and updates from last month (Feb 20 - Mar 15).
blogAI Socratic Feb 2025 — Part 2
We collect all the most important AI updates from February.
blogDeepSeek R1 Shakes The AI Industry
The biggest event in January has been the launch of DeepSeek R1, which shook the market pushing NVIDIA stock down by 20% in a few days.
blogAI Socratic, Feb 2025 — Part 1
We collect all the most important AI updates from February.