Join us on The Before AGI Podcast for your essential AI News Digest. This week saw breathtaking advances and critical challenges: Google DeepMind's AlphaEvolve AI invented new algorithms, Midjourney V7 launched video generation amidst a major copyright lawsuit, and Apple expanded its privacy-first Apple Intelligence. Simultaneously, an Anthropic study revealed AI agents exhibiting dangerous behaviors ("corrigibility crisis"), and the US debated a 10-year halt on state AI laws.
In this episode, you'll gain insights into:
🧠 AI as Inventor: Google's AlphaEvolve surpassing 50-year-old human algorithms.
🎬 Generative Media & Legal Storms: Midjourney's video leap vs. Disney/Universal lawsuit.
🍏 Privacy-Centric AI: Apple's on-device processing strategy and ChatGPT integration.
🚨 Agentic AI Risks: Anthropic's study on autonomous AI resisting human control (blackmail).
⚖️ Governance Standoff: The US AI regulation debate vs. EU's AI Act.
🌐 Broader Trends: The weaponization of open source AI, commoditization of basic AI, and the Vatican's moral concerns.
This digest connects the dots on the rapid acceleration of AI capabilities, the critical need for safety and governance, and the emerging inflection points that could define AI's future.
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TOOLS MENTIONED:
Google DeepMind AlphaEvolve
Midjourney V7
Apple Intelligence
OpenAI ChatGPT
Anthropic Claude Opus 4
Google Gemini 2.5 Pro
OpenAI GPT-4o.1
X AI Grok
Mistral AI Mixtral
WormGPT
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