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Weekly AI News - Jul.18, 2025

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This week on our show, the hosts discuss several major product launches, starting with Anthropic's new Claude-powered solution for financial services and Google's NotebookLM adding curated 'featured notebooks' from experts. They also cover AWS unveiling new innovations for building and deploying AI agents at an enterprise scale , and how Netflix has started using generative AI in its shows and films for faster, cheaper visual effects. In the startup world, the hosts look at Asimov, a new kind of AI agent from a startup founded by former Google researchers that aims to achieve superintelligence by mastering code , and how the Swedish 'AI builder' startup, Lovable, has become the country's latest unicorn. Shifting to market trends, they examine a new report showing that AI and machine learning skills are now essential for developers, with 71% of tech leaders unwilling to hire without them. The hosts then discuss major geopolitical and national developments, including China's massive spending to become an AI superpower and the U.S. unveiling the Aurora supercomputer to accelerate AI-driven discovery. Finally, they discuss how a former OpenAI engineer described the company's internal environment as 'pure chaos' stemming from its rapid growth.



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