EdTechSR Ep 347 DeepSeek Disruption

What this episode covers

Check out our Episode 347 from February 12, 2025! (Although this episode published instantly to YouTube, we are late getting this posted on edtechSR.com and our Substack…) Here are all the links we discussed in the show: * Machines of Loving Grace by Dario Amodei (Oct 2024 - Anthropic CEO - via #ChinaTalk [PODCAST] “Anthropic's Dario Amodei on AI Competition” (5 Feb 2025) * LeonardoAI from Canva * Google Illuminate * Introducing DeepSeek-V3 (DeepSeek API Docs; 26 December 2024) * YouTube TV Viewers Outnumber Mobile (World Screens; 11 February 2025) * Many Americans still don’t understand how easily IoT devices can get bricked (ArsTechnica, 5 Feb 2025) * Macs under attack from North Korean malware stealing passwords and more — how to stay safe (Toms Guide, 4 Feb 2025) * Jason's Geek of the Week: www.onlyoffice.com * Wes' Geek of the Week: Adobe Express Animate Your Voice (example) Here are the links which made our show notes Google Doc, but we didn’t have time to discuss: * Google Expands NotebookLM Plus to Individual Users (Tech Transformation; 11 February 2025) * AI Tools Make Workers Less Critical, More Confident, Microsoft Study Finds (Science Blog; 10 February 2025) * Irony alert: Anthropic says applicants shouldn’t use LLMs (ArsTechnica, 4 Feb 20205) * New Survey Shows What Most People Think of AI and AI Generated Content (Digital Information World; 12 February 2025) * ByteDance’s Deepfake Tool Creates Convincing Videos From One Photo (PetaPixel, 5 Feb 2025) - Einstein video * Google owner drops promise not to use AI for weapons (The Guardian, 5 Feb 2025) - stopkillerrobots.org * Perplexity Increases Context Window (Perplexity via Twitter) * 6 unsettling thoughts Google's former CEO has about artificial intelligence (NPR, 5 Feb 2025) * AI Reveals Hidden Interior Design Rules of the Cell A new tool predicts where proteins fit, opening new frontiers in drug discovery (IEEE Spectrum; 10 February 2025) * Ex-Google engineer faces new US charges he stole AI secrets for Chinese companies (Reuters, 5 Feb 2025) * Google Releases New Models (Google Develops Blog; 5 February 2025) * A Book App Used AI to 'Roast' Its Users. It Went Anti-Woke Instead (Wired, 3 Jan 2025) - paywall free archive.ph version * Skillfully (Case study via Anthropic) * French AI startup Mistral launches Le Chat mobile app for iPhone, Android — can it take enterprise eyes off DeepSeek? (Venture Beat; 6 February 2025) * Build Anything with Le Chat, Here’s How (David Ondrej via YouTube) * DeepSeek: all the news about the startup that’s shaking up AI stocks (The Verge; 31 January 2025) * Downloading DeepSeek could land you a 20-year prison sentence, $1M fine under proposed US bill (Fox29; 5 February 2025) * The Dangerous A.I. Nonsense That Trump and Biden Fell For (NYT; 5 February 2025) * DeepSeek security concerns and what people get wrong about the app vs. the model (CNBC via YouTube) * DeepSeek: What Actually Matters (for the everyday user) (Jeff Su, YouTube) * $42B broadband grant program may scrap Biden admin’s preference for fiber (ArsTechnica, 4 Feb 2025) * Judge blocks Sandy Hook families’ settlement over Alex Jones bankruptcy (The Guardian, 5 Feb 2025) * Google says commercial quantum computing applications arriving within five years (Reuters, 5 Feb 2025) Get full access to EdTech Situation Room Podcast at edtechsr.substack.com/subscribe