Our 150th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/
Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai
Timestamps + links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps(00:02:49) OpenAI’s custom GPT Store is now open for business
(00:06:52) OpenAI debuts ChatGPT subscription aimed at small teams
Lighting round(00:09:18) The Rabbit R1 is an AI-powered gadget that can use your apps for you
(00:11:18) Amazon’s Alexa gets new generative AI-powered experiences
(00:12:55) Google appears to be working on an ‘advanced’ version of Bard that you have to pay for




Applications & Business(00:14:24) Nvidia's newest chips are designed to run AI at home as competition from Intel, AMD looms
(00:16:52) Valve opens the door to more Steam games developed with AI
Lighting round(00:19:16) AI-powered search engine Perplexity AI, now valued at $520M, raises $73.6M
(00:21:33) Waymo will start testing robotaxis on Phoenix highways
(00:23:24) Getty and Nvidia bring generative AI to stock photos




Research & Advancements(00:25:10) DeepMind is trying to train robots for real-world activities
(00:29:03) MoE-Mamba: Efficient Selective State Space Models with Mixture of Experts
Lighting round(00:33:18) PIXART-δ: Fast and Controllable Image Generation with Latent Consistency Models
(00:35:20)  InseRF: Text-Driven Generative Object Insertion in Neural 3D Scenes
(00:37:06) The Impact of Reasoning Step Length on Large Language Models
(00:39:33) Mixtral of Experts




Policy & Safety(00:40:38) Meta and OpenAI have spawned a wave of AI sex companions—and some of them are children
(00:46:30) ‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
Lighting round(00:49:52) Judges in England and Wales are given cautious approval to use AI in writing legal opinions
(00:51:43) Hallucinating Law: Legal Mistakes with Large Language Models are Pervasive




Synthetic Media & Art(00:55:09) A list going viral reveals famous artists whose work was used to train AI generator
(00:58:28) YouTube is cracking down on AI-generated true crime deepfakes
Lighting round(01:00:27) AI-Generated George Carlin Comedy Special Slammed by Comedian’s Daughter
(01:01:56) SAG-AFTRA Signs Deal With Voiceover Studio for AI Use in Video Games
(01:03:26) Early Mickey Mouse is now in the public domain—and AI is already on the case