# AI Updates on 2025-05-10

Google I/O 2025 (in two weeks) is expected to showcase the next generation of both Imagen and Veo models, which are already considered world class in their current versions @AndrewCurran_
Gemini 2.5 Pro features impressive video understanding capabilities, allowing users to post YouTube links into AI Studio and ask questions about the video content @demishassabis

A meta-analysis of 51 experimental papers confirms positive impacts of ChatGPT on learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking when used appropriately @emollick
Gemini 2.5 Pro now offers a 66-tokens-per-frame mode (instead of 258 tokens) that allows processing more than 6 hours of video (at 1 frame per second) within the 2M token context @JeffDean
MIT researchers are making progress in developing AI technology that ensures trustworthy and reliable predictions in high-stakes settings like healthcare @MIT

o3 demonstrates impressive capabilities in creating nostalgic parody content, generating convincing screengrabs from fictional TV shows and movies from different decades @emollick
llama.cpp has released new support for vision models with macOS binaries that allow running vision models in a terminal or as a localhost web UI @simonw
Gemma 3 4B for vision shows impressive capabilities despite being only a 3.2GB model download @simonw
YouLearn (@youlearnai) is an AI tutor that personalizes learning by converting materials into concise notes, providing an interactive AI tutor, and generating personalized tests @paulg @ycombinator
Windsurf's Cascade Plugin panel makes it easier to connect Cascade to other tools like MongoDB and Linear @windsurf_ai

Despite narratives about AI destroying tech jobs, companies heavily using AI (Big Tech, VC-funded startups, and scaleups) have consistently increased tech hiring over the last two years @GergelyOrosz
Fiverr founder sent a firmwide email stating "AI will disrupt every role, including my own, and only those who proactively master new AI tools will survive" - joining Shopify and Duolingo in asking employees to embrace AI @deedydas
OpenAI's enterprise adoption appears to be accelerating at the expense of rivals according to TechCrunch @TechCrunch
The US government is reviewing Benchmark's investment into Chinese AI startup Manus @TechCrunch
NYT reports on draft executive orders to speed up US nuclear power plant construction, including the designation of certain AI data centers as 'defense critical infrastructure' to involve DoD and DoE @AndrewCurran_

A benchmark testing AIs running a simulated vending machine shows Claude 3.5 & o3-mini can outperform humans on average, but with high variance and occasional spectacular failures, such as when Sonnet mistakenly attempted to alert the FBI about non-existent fraud @emollick
Yann LeCun shared a post titled "Five Ways to Act Deluded, Stupid, Ineffective, or Evil" discussing ethical considerations in AI development @ylecun