EdTechSR Ep 346 AI Hallucinations & Hardware

Check out our Episode 346 from February 5 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:

1. Google launches new AI models and brings ‘thinking’ to Gemini (TechCrunch, 5 Feb 2025)

2. Elon Musk Wants to Get Operational Control of the Treasury’s Payment System. This Could Not Possibly Be More Dangerous (Nathan Tankus, 3 Feb 2025)

3. China opens Google antitrust probe in retaliation to tariffs (The Verge 4 Feb 2025)

4. Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and it’s running out of time to solve it (ZDnet, 4 Feb 2025)

5. Robocallers posing as FCC staff blocked after robocalling real FCC staff (ArsTechnica, 5 Feb 2025)

6. Drone locates missing hiker at Crowders Mountain State Park (WBTV Charlotte, NC: 3 Feb 2025)

7. Drones are now launching drones to attack other drones in Ukraine (ArsTechnica, 4 Feb 2025)

8. Shein and Temu depend on a 100-year-old tariff loophole that Trump wants to close (The Verge, 3 Feb 2025)

9. Jason’s Geek of the Week: https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/operating-system/

10. Wes’ Geeks of the Week: AI Chatbot Ethics – Sharing Mastodon Lists

Here are the links which made our show notes Google Doc, but we didn’t have time to discuss:

1. Irony alert: Anthropic says applicants shouldn’t use LLMs (ArsTechnica, 4 Feb 20205)

2. ByteDance’s Deepfake Tool Creates Convincing Videos From One Photo (PetaPixel, 5 Feb 2025) - Einstein video

3. Google owner drops promise not to use AI for weapons (The Guardian, 5 Feb 2025) - stopkillerrobots.org

4. 6 unsettling thoughts Google's former CEO has about artificial intelligence (NPR, 5 Feb 2025)

5. Ex-Google engineer faces new US charges he stole AI secrets for Chinese companies (Reuters, 5 Feb 2025)

6. Skillfully (Case study via Anthropic)

7. Introducing DeepSeek-V3 (DeepSeek API Docs; 26 December 2024)

8. DeepSeek: all the news about the startup that’s shaking up AI stocks (The Verge; 31 January 2025)

9. Downloading DeepSeek could land you a 20-year prison sentence, $1M fine under proposed US bill (Fox29; 5 February 2025)

10. The Dangerous A.I. Nonsense That Trump and Biden Fell For (NYT; 5 February 2025)

11. DeepSeek security concerns and what people get wrong about the app vs. the model (CNBC via YouTube)

12. DeepSeek: What Actually Matters (for the everyday user) (Jeff Su, YouTube)

13. Apple’s attempt to intervene in the Google Search antitrust trial is denied (The Verge, 3 Feb 2025)

14. Many Americans still don’t understand how easily IoT devices can get bricked (ArsTechnica, 5 Feb 2025)

15. Macs under attack from North Korean malware stealing passwords and more — how to stay safe (Toms Guide, 4 Feb 2025)

16. $42B broadband grant program may scrap Biden admin’s preference for fiber (ArsTechnica, 4 Feb 2025)

17. Judge blocks Sandy Hook families’ settlement over Alex Jones bankruptcy (The Guardian, 5 Feb 2025)

18. Google says commercial quantum computing applications arriving within five years (Reuters, 5 Feb 2025)

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