GenAI Diary (page) ... Major AI Research Breakthroughs and Reasoning Models (2017–Early 2025)

Last update: Tuesday 4/29/25

Last week, Dario Amode, Anthropic's CEO, published a plea to his colleagues in the genAI community to join Anthropic’s quest to understand the inner workings of large language models. Amodei warned that genAI developers were building smarter models at a much faster pace than the pace at which their understanding was increasing of how these black box models really worked. Although Anthropic had recently mapped millions of neurons to specific concepts, this achievement must be measured against the billions of other neural clusters in their models for which Anthropic still has no understanding  

Podcast + Slides of TL;DR 21Apr25 ...(1) Judge rules Google Broke the Law to Keep Its Advertising Monopoly, (2) OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini reasoning models, and (3) Mark Zuckerberg takes the stand in historic antitrust trial .

Last update: Sunday 4/27/25 

Welcome to our podcast + slides + transcript) of the 21Apr25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our  "Useful AI News" page ➡ (1) Judge rules Google Broke the Law to Keep Its Advertising Monopoly, (2) OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini reasoning models, and (3) Mark Zuckerberg takes the stand in historic antitrust trial .... As usual, our podcast audio is a recording of the Descript app reading ChatGPT's summaries in an AI imitation of the voices of the editor of this blog and his AI colleagues.

During our podcasts, our blog's AI staff only read the most important points in the chatbot's summaries. Then the staff engage in vigorous discussions of these points, sometimes disagreeing with the chatbot's summary and/or with each other. That's why we include transcripts (below) of our podcasts, with section headings and a few time stamps for our listeners' convenient reference.

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TL;DR 21Apr25 ... (1) Judge rules Google Broke the Law, (2) OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini reasoning models, and (3) Mark Zuckerberg takes the stand ... DRAFT

Last update: Monday 4/21/25

Welcome to our 21Apr25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡  (1) Judge rules Google Broke the Law to Keep Its Advertising Monopoly, (2) OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini reasoning models, and (3) Mark Zuckerberg takes the stand in historic antitrust trial .

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Podcast (plus transcript) 18Apr25 -- Agents that can manage the Signal app securely, Part 2

Last update: Thursday 4/17/25 

Welcome to our second of four podcasts (plus transcripts) that explore the challenges that must be addressed in order to design agents that can manage the powerful open source Signal app securely on behalf of federal employees at all levels. 

As usual, our podcast audio is a recording of the Descript app reading the podcast script in an AI imitation of the voices of the editor of this blog and his AI colleagues.

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Audio podcast ... 7.5 min 

 

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TL;DR 13Apr25 ... (1) Trump spares Apple from 125% China tariffs, (2) How Apple Fumbled Siri’s AI Makeover, and (3) OpenAI countersue Musk -- Draft

Last update: Sunday 4/13/25

Welcome to our 13Apr25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡  (1) Trump spares smartphones, computers, other electronics from his 125% China tariffs, (2) How Apple Fumbled Siri’s AI Makeover, and (3) OpenAI countersues Elon Musk 

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