Weekly AI News - May 30, 2025

This week on our show, the hosts discuss how AI coding agents could undermine open-source software by inserting vulnerabilities. They examine AI's rapid energy demands, exploring sources like natural gas and nuclear, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warning of AI's risk of mass unemployment. They explore DeepSeek releasing an updated R1 reasoning AI model and AI disrupting Gen Z's career stability. The show then reviews Ant International developing its Time-Series Transformer (TST) model to analyze numerical data for financial services, forecasting FX, trading volumes, and cash flow. They also look at how AI is shifting jobs to resemble warehouse work, according to some Amazon software developers. The hosts then turn their attention to Google CEO Sundar Pichai discussing AI's evolution of Search and AI agents, and Canada's evolving AI leadership being highlighted in an AI Ethics Brief. Finally, they mention TSMC investing in novel microLED-based optical chiplet technology. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.