The Daily Index — Thursday, July 24, 2025 · TLDR Index

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VOXTRAL

Voxtral Mini and Small are new multimodal audio chat models that excel in both spoken audio and text comprehension. Voxtral Small outperforms many closed-source models, can run locally, and supports audio files up to 40 minutes.

arxiv.org · 15 min

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SUBLIMINAL LEARNING IN LANGUAGE MODELS

Anthropic has explored how language models can inherit behavioral traits such as preferences or goals from other models through training data that appears unrelated. This effect only occurs when the teacher and student models share the same base architecture, suggesting hidden signals in the data can transmit unintended behavior.

alignment.anthropic.com · 10 min

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GOOGLE DEEPMIND LAUNCHES AENEAS AI MODEL FOR ANCIENT ROMAN INSCRIPTION ANALYSIS

Aeneas is the first AI model designed to help historians contextualize ancient Roman inscriptions by identifying textual parallels and restoring damaged texts with 73% accuracy for gaps up to ten characters. DeepMind is making the tool freely available at predictingthepast.com and plans to expand to other ancient languages.

deepmind.google · 5 min

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ELON MUSK SAYS XAI IS TARGETING 50 MILLION 'H100 EQUIVALENT' AI GPUS IN FIVE YEARS

xAI plans to deploy 50 million H100-equivalent GPUs within five years. The power these processors will consume is massive, estimated to be equal to the typical power generated by 35 nuclear power plants, making it unrealistic to power today. Whether xAI will be able to get power to feed such a data center by 2030 remains to be seen.

tomshardware.com · 4 min

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YOUTUBE SHORTS IS ADDING AN IMAGE-TO-VIDEO AI TOOL, NEW AI EFFECTS

YouTube is following Gemini and Meta's Edits app with its own image-to-video AI feature for Shorts creators, transforming static photos into six-second videos using Google's Veo 2 model.

techcrunch.com · 3 min

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NEW OPEN MODELS ARRIVE IN THE VERTEX AI MODEL GARDEN

Google Cloud has added the DeepSeek R1 model to its Vertex AI Model Garden, offering more flexibility for AI developers.

cloud.google.com · 1 min

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TEN AI SAFETY PROJECTS I'D LIKE PEOPLE TO WORK ON

There is a real chance that AI systems capable of causing a catastrophe will be developed in the next decade - this post lists promising projects aimed at reducing catastrophic risks from transformative AI.

lesswrong.com · 20 min

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BUSINESS INSIDER OBTAINED AN INTERNAL LIST OF WEBSITES THAT COULD AND COULDN'T BE USED FOR TRAINING ANTHROPIC'S LATEST AI MODELS

Many of the whitelisted sources copyright or otherwise restrict their content, and the blacklist includes companies like the NYT and Reddit, which have sued AI startups for scraping without permission.

threadreaderapp.com · 2 min