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This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, June 10th, 2025. We tell you what you need to know, follow up on the context of those stories, and help each other understand. Today, Dr. Nicky explains why we want to edit the genomes of spiders, and Meta is reportedly going all in on superintelligence. Maybe they can team up. Oh, interesting. Oh, God, that's frightening. I'm Jason Howell. I'm Tom Barrett. Let's start with what you need to know with the Creepy Crawly Big Story. ♪

Actually, it's not the creepy crawly one. That comes later. But it's creepy and crawly maybe in a different way. There's something creepy about this. It might make your skin crawly. I don't know. There you go. I think it still works. Meta is launching a new artificial intelligence research lab focused on achieving super intelligence. Where's a cape and stuff?

where AI systems surpass human cognitive abilities. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is personally leading an aggressive recruitment and reorganization drive at the company, hiring around 50 people for the new team in order to stay competitive in the ongoing AI race, of course.

Sources to Bloomberg say that those new hires will actually sit in close proximity to Zuckerberg to keep collaboration efficient and tight. So that's kind of creepy and crawly in itself. Central to the effort is the recruitment of scale AI founder and CEO, the potential recruitment anyways.

of CEO Alexander Wang, who would join the new lab as part of the deal that could see Meta invest up to $15 billion for a 49% stake in Scale AI. That would value the startup up at around $30 billion, so lots of money. Zuckerberg has been frustrated

About a few things. Lama 4's performance, delays of Meta's largest model known as Behemoth, just to name a few. And this has really pushed him into what sources are calling founder mode with an increasingly hands-on approach. So super intelligence, it's in the spotlight, I guess, for Meta. Yeah, and yesterday at Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple announced

trotted out whatever its strategy is around AI for people to pick at. It is really interesting to see in the wake of that Meta making this big announcement because a lot of the rhetoric around Apple is they're behind. What are they going to do to catch up?

I have been thinking in my own head, I don't think I've said this on any of the shows, Apple is just an acquisition away from catching up. They didn't invent the iPod. They acquired Tony Fidel's company to build on the iPod. They didn't invent Apple Silicon. They acquired PA Semi and then used that to develop Apple Silicon. So they have...

acquired a lot of AI companies, but maybe they just need to acquire one more. And here, the day after, is Meta doing that? Not acquiring Scale AI, but basically striking a big partnership to take advantage of Scale AI. And if you don't understand, Scale AI is the research arm that, or has the research arm that does the safety evaluation and alignment lab, SEAL. It is one of the companies behind Humanity's last exam, which is a benchmark design

to assess advanced systems like superintelligence or AGI. And Alexander Wang was Sam Altman's roommate during COVID. So there's a lot of tines, a lot of interconnections going on here. It is not an insignificant person for Mark Zuckerberg to partner up with in order to supercharge their efforts.

Yeah, that's interesting what you mentioned about Apple being an acquisition away because you're right. I mean, all of these big companies, the big, big players, Apple, Meta, Google, all of them, they've got such deep pockets right now and they are all on a very similar course. They're looking at

you know, where AI is right now, none of them want to be left behind. And in fact, do they not want to be left behind? They also want to be first to whatever the next big thing is. And that's what the super intelligence drive is all about. That's what this acquisition is all about. It just makes me, you know, ask the question once again, which is the goalposts continue to move. What exactly is AGI? What is super intelligence? And how will we actually know if we're seeing it when it actually happens? Um,

But of course, they've got the money. They've got the drive. Of course, they're going to put their money where their mouth is and just have a division of the company pursuing that. That's what this is all about. Especially because OpenAI has made no secret that that is its goal as well. Yeah.

is to create a safe version of superintelligence. And hiring Alexander Wang, who creates the tools to assess safety, pretty good way for Zuckerberg to say, yep, that's what we're after too, safe superintelligence. But also we want to beat you to it. We want to be the company that does it first. Google has deep mind, you know, and very clearly is after similar things.

So Demis, you know, on board there notably. Yeah. And Microsoft, you know, hiring Nobel Prize winners to run its situation there. So, I mean, yeah, you've got a lot of people after this. You follow this closer than I do, though, Jason. Like from where you sit looking at this closely every week,

Is this just pouring money and hoping for a result or is there some progress? That's what I take from this. This is absolutely, in my opinion, I could be completely wrong, but it really seems like right now, like I said, the goalposts are moving so often that

And these companies do have such insane resources that, yeah, it's absolutely a question of let's just throw a bunch more money at this and see how far it gets us. I mean, apparently Meta is throwing seven to nine figures at its candidates. So we're talking buckets of money is at the core, you know, driving this because they can, you know, behind that also is the ethos that the bigger model, the

better. And so what does that take? That takes an insane amount of money. I mean, what it really does is it entrenches these larger players much deeper into the core of the development of these systems and makes it more difficult for the little guys to compete and to catch up. And, you know, maybe there's some considerations there.

around a lot of the antitrust movement that we've seen with big tech companies right now. Another thing that comes up for me around this is we on AI Inside, the podcast that I do with Jeff Jarvis, we chatted with Meta's AI lead, Jan LeCun, a couple of months ago. This makes me wonder like, oh, is Jan not cutting the mustard anymore? Because it really kind of seems like his vision and his leadership is being challenged here. And what does that lead to?

But to answer your question, yes, it feels to me like let's just throw a bunch of money at it. Let's make sure everyone knows that this is our stated goal because we, like everyone else, want to be there first.

The other part of this that I think is interesting is that Scale AI in February agreed to a five-year partnership with the Qatari government to improve government services. In March, it reached a deal with the Department of Defense in the United States to develop the Thunder Forge project.

I wouldn't be shocked if Mark Zuckerberg would also like government contracts, not just domestically, of course, but also abroad, whether they're defense contracts or otherwise. There's money there. Absolutely, there is. I think you're absolutely right.

And so it may be good for investors, good for stockholders, good for Buzz to say you're after superintelligence, but possibly under no illusions about how fast that will happen. However, it's a good way to get some lucrative contracts.

Yeah, indeed. And capitalize on kind of the moment in attention around AI, because, I mean, you know, the flip side of this is I think there's a lot of people very high up saying, oh, you know, AGI is just around the corner. Superintelligence, it's within grasp. That's why we're doing this.

Yet the models themselves that we do have right now are incredibly imperfect, like comically imperfect to a certain degree. Will we get there? Probably eventually longer term. I don't think we're anywhere near that. But a story like this certainly capitalizes on the attention around AI. And that's and, you know, it probably achieves multiple things. Another one is as.

as clunky as some of the models are right now, they get better fast. They've been getting better in front of our eyes faster than most technology advances. And Meta doesn't want to get left behind in that. So if you push the outer edge, you're likely to catch up in the other parts too. Indeed.

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All right. There's plenty more we need to know today. Let's get to the briefs. Yes, it's WWDC Hangover Day. Not that WWDC is over, but the keynote is always the big event. And we did talk a lot about the big announcements. There's always a couple of things that trickle out afterwards. For example, Apple announced that Mac OS 26, a.k.a. Tahoe, will be the last.

version of Mac OS to support Intel-based Macs. I know. Seems like only yesterday that we had the M1 chip launch, but only a few Intel Macs are even going to be able to support the Tahoe update. So if you have a 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro or 2020 13-inch MacBook Pro with the four Thunderbolt ports or a 2020 27-inch iMac,

or a little bit older, the 2019 Mac Pro. So basically 2019 being your older limit, you will be able to get Tahoe. Older than that, you're not going to be able to upgrade to this. However, Apple did say it will commit to three years of security updates for those machines. So even though you won't be able to get macOS 27, you will be able to get security updates through 2028.

At least there's that. Wow. Wow. Intel fading. Like, yeah, you're right. It seems like only yesterday, but it was five years ago. But, you know, this is this is one of those examples where really I see this all the time now where the covid gap came along. Oh, yeah. And it really has warped my perception of time because there's like two, two and a half, three years there that feel like a completely different.

planet to me. Yeah, no, you're absolutely right. I mean, part of it is just time speeds up the older we get, but I think that put a little extra pressure on the accelerator there for a couple of years. What are you saying? I'm old, Tom Merritt? No, no, only talking about myself. You are forever young, Jason. Thank you.

Google's AI-powered search features, including AI overviews and the recently kind of rolled out AI mode chatbot, are significantly reducing traffic to news publishers. This is according to a Wall Street Journal report. The New York Times has seen its organic search traffic drop from 44% to 36.5% over the past three years, according to reported data from SimilarWeb.com.

Business Insider has seen its website traffic decline 55 percent. 55 percent. Wow, that's a lot. In the same time frame. These changes are prompting news outlets to see an urgent need to explore new business models and to continue to forge content sharing deals with AI companies like we've seen recently with like New York Times and Amazon to survive the shift in consumer habits and AI tools themselves.

Everything's a changing whether Google wants to admit it or not, because Google still says, oh, no, they're high quality clicks. It's OK. These.

numbers were declining before ChatGPT launched. That's true. They may have accelerated since ChatGPT launched, and that may or may not have to do with ChatGPT's usage. Although if it is, it certainly is a feather in OpenAI's cap that there are that many people using ChatGPT or Anthropic or other tools like Perplexity. I think this was a problem that the publishers already had.

I'm not 100% convinced that fighting Google over paying for links isn't also a small contributor to the decline as well, because Google has been pretty intransigent in that. And I'm sure the constant changing of algorithms always has something to do with it. It also could be people just doing fewer searches for news these days. I think it's smart for these publishers to look for a direct source

Yeah.

So I imagine that has a lot to do with this as well. In fact, the fragmenting of platforms from X to Mastodon to Blue Sky makes it harder for these companies to create a cohesive strategy.

Yeah, that's absolutely true. There is a lot of fragmentation and a lot of different like directional impacts. You know, it's hard to attribute it to one thing. I think the fact that this really, you know, covers the last three years is kind of the tell right there. It's like, OK, well, these tools haven't been around in the way that they are right now for the last three years. So there was something brewing prior to that. This which is not to say that it isn't.

part of the impact. It almost certainly is a piece of the impact, but it's probably not the whole pie. Yeah. When you see that 55% decline, I'd be curious to drill down a little more and find out how much of that could you really attribute to the chatbots and how much of it is other factors. Business Insider put up a paywall and I'm sure that cut down a lot of people going to Business Insider. Like certainly did for me. Absolutely. It did for me too. Yep.

IBM announced plans to start building Starling, which the company claims will be the world's first large scale error corrected quantum computer to launch by 2028. If you're like, wait a minute, didn't Google say that they would do the same thing? Didn't some other companies say they would do the same thing? Yes, everybody's trying to be this.

But IBM is the latest. And all of these efforts are slightly different. Cloud Access is expected to become available by 2029. The machine will feature 200 logical qubits capable of performing 100 million consecutive logical operations with high accuracy, which would be a big improvement over current quantum computers today.

that handle a few thousand operations before errors arise. So 200 qubits is pretty good. IBM's solution uses a low-density parity check code, requires 12 physical qubits per logical qubit, along with real-time error detection capabilities.

If you know what that means, that will mean something to you. If not, just know that they're better at error checking. Beyond Starling, IBM has plans to build another. In fact, they've got a bunch. There's Loon in there. There's a Cockatoo. And then Blue Jay will have 2,000 logical qubits and be able to process a billion logical operations. They like the bird names at IBM.

A lot of people still skeptical that these will even be commercially useful, but they are certainly progressing.

Yeah. You know, again, it's kind of like super intelligence. I guess you got to start somewhere. Yeah. And they'll be good for something, whether that's something is, you know, a thing that an enterprise company will want to pay a lot for cloud access for or whether it's more research oriented remains to be seen. Yeah. Long enough timeline. I'm sure it does amount to something. But, you know, again, it's that question mark of like, OK, yeah, but how long until that becomes the reality? We really have no clue.

Again, they want to be where everybody else is going to be too. It's very similar to the AI race right now.

Sony announced that its PS5 DualSense controllers will receive a firmware update sometime this year that's going to enable support for multiple simultaneous Bluetooth connections. Users will be able to pair a controller with more than one device at a time. So like PS5, PC, smartphone, tablet, and that new functionality will bring switching seamlessly between those connected devices to the controller.

That way you don't have to like repair every time you want to connect to a new device. No word on exactly when this new feature will roll out though. Oh, repairing, not having to repair sounds wonderful to me. And it really shows that we are moving into a world where the Xbox and PS controllers are just becoming the controllers for everything, right? Because you can pair them with stuff and so many things are interoperable with them. That's great.

Love it. Shenzhen's Trenshin, which is spelled with two S's in case you're wondering, is the leading smartphone maker in Africa. If you've heard of brands like Techno, T-E-C-N-O, Infinix with an X at the end, iTel, not an N. Those are big brands on the subcontinent.

Transcend has about, among those brands, half the smartphone market in African countries. And now it's trying to become the continent's dominant electric vehicle maker. Transcend introduced its Tankvolt e-bikes in Uganda in 2023 and is now announcing its expansion into Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, and Ethiopia. It's the number three EV maker by sales in the African market and expects to be the market leader by the end of next year.

Bikes are among the cheapest you can get at about $1,500 U.S. They come with built-in or swappable batteries. And Transon offers leases for the batteries as a service to encourage people to create third-party swapping stations. In fact, they've got one going in Tanzania with service in Uganda to start by the end of the month. The company owns the supply chain.

So they manufacture the bikes, they distribute the bikes, like they go from making the bikes to giving them to the consumer and sell directly to consumers, which is a big advantage for Transon. A lot of fleet customers are buying these, so you're getting a lot of governments, a lot of big companies buying them. Its big challenge will be expanding that charging and battery swap infrastructure. It faces stiff challenges from Benin's Spiro, Rwanda's Ampersand, and Ethiopia's Dodai.

Transion. Transion. Yeah, this is a company that I'm not super familiar with. When you see Android dominates the world market, Transion is a big chunk of that because, you know, Android phones in African countries are pretty much dominant and Transion makes the majority of them.

Yeah, yeah. Well, actually, when I was at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, I'm sure I passed by the booth and didn't realize it, but I definitely checked out Techno, which was another brand that you just mentioned. That's Transgen. So if you checked out Techno, you checked out Transgen. Okay, well, there you go. Techno, Infinix, and Itel are the three big brands under Transgen. You just never hear about Transgen. Now I get it.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And I mean, I was actually really impressed by some of the stuff they had going on there. The Techno Spark Slim, the super duper slim ceramic phone that they had was beautiful. Yeah. Cool stuff. They make really good phones at a smaller price point. And they focus on Africa. They dominate in Africa. They're available elsewhere in the world. I think India is a big market for them too. But yeah, something that if you're in Europe and North America, you probably don't run into as often. Mm-hmm. Indeed. Indeed.

Microsoft is relocating its Build Developer Conference away from Seattle for 2026, ending a run of the conference in the company's home city that actually began back in 2017. All future reservations at the Seattle Convention Center have reportedly been canceled.

Though Microsoft hasn't yet announced where next year's Build 2026 will or might be held or if it might, you know, instead become an online event, whatever the case may be. Reports claim that security and safety issues related to the event being held in downtown Seattle are at least part of the reason behind this switch. And you might remember before this was moved to Seattle, the event was also held in Anaheim on Microsoft's campus and in San Francisco.

So who the heck knows where it's going to end up? Maybe just online. If I had to bet, it won't be online. Well, it would be online because they're all online, but it won't be only online. I'm going to put my money on Redmond. They're going to just move it right back to the Microsoft campus because they want to keep it in the area. And that way they can impress developers with a little more tour content.

My second, my number two, you know, my win place in the show would be, I don't know, maybe San Francisco. Maybe they'll get enticed back to San Francisco or Anaheim. I can't tell. It seems like it'd be one of those, though. Yeah, yeah, I agree.

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Just one of those updates that you're just like, really? It took this long? Like, DMs seems like a table stakes feature to me. I'm just kind of surprised by it. I mean, everybody hates DMs but loves DMs. Yeah, yeah, totally. And DMs are a challenge to manage. So I guess I shouldn't be too surprised that they took. But the other part is like, yeah, but you have a policy. You have a system on Instagram. Yeah. Yeah.

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Scientists can now edit the genome of spiders. Dr. Nicky explains the practical reasons why they would even want to do this, but also whether it can make you into Spider-Man. Dr. Nicky, thank you for joining us to talk spiders.

Oh, always here to talk about spiders. In this case, specifically spiders from the University of Beirut in Germany. Not Mars, Germany. Dust spider. So these researchers...

are editing spiders for the first time. And you may think, why? Because, you know, we've heard about edited mosquitoes and wasps. But this is a CRISPR-Cas9 edited spider. And just to refresh you on CRISPR-Cas9, if you've been living under a rock, no, I'm just kidding. CRISPR-Cas9 won its inventors the 2020 Nobel Prize. It is a gene editing tool that helps you either cut out or insert or both specific pieces into a genome.

This is going to be called a knock-in or knock-out function of certain genes. Yeah, whenever you hear gene editing, most of the time they're talking about CRISPR-Cas9. Why would they do spiders? Why spiders next after all of this?

So spiders, because they're kind of a difficult challenge, they have an extra tricky and complex genome. They're also not the best lab animals. They're cannibalistic, so you can't house them together. And they're a little bit sensitive to how they're kept. So they're generally maybe a little bit harder to work on than mosquitoes, which is why it took so long. Also, you probably know that spiders have really interesting property, which is they make silk. And silk has a lot of interesting properties.

Things that are useful for different types of research. We know that it's five times stronger than steel, for example.

And so it would make sense that we want to see if we can edit silk and see what we can get out of it. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. Okay, so we didn't start with spiders because they eat each other. But we finally got around to spiders because dang it, we want that silk. So what did they actually do? What genes did they edit and why? So they edited the specific protein production sequence.

part of the silk genome. So we're editing the silk protein. They did this by making a solution with this gene editing function, injecting it into oocytes, which are just egg cells that were in unfertilized in a female spider. They waited till the female spider didn't eat the male and reproduce and made genetically modified spiderlings. Love that word.

And the way that they're able to tell whether this worked or not is just that they included a red fluorescent protein into the edit so that if they, you know, turn on a fluorescent light and saw the protein, they could see whether or not it worked. They didn't really change anything structural or crazy about the silk. This was kind of more of a proof of concept to show that we know how to target the specific spider silk protein area and that we can change it. What we want to change it into is now open to everybody.

Got it. Are we going to be Spider-Man? So as of right now, I'm going to say no, unless you want to make Spider-Man a red fluorescent silk dress. We might be closer to that. So you can make Spider-Man's outfit. Spider-Man's outfit fluorescent. We could do it. Maybe. I need a lot of spiders, but we could try. Yeah, because a nice red Spider-Man fluorescent outfit would work. What is this pointing to? I think there's...

I think there's a lot of interesting promising functions here for material science. So maybe we want to make silk a certain color. That's more of like a fashion thing, but maybe you can make it stronger. Maybe you can make the proteins stickier. There's a lot of things that I think now that we've figured out the genome and what area to edit, we might be seeing an explosion in spider silk research, maybe different like

properties of clothing, like a Kevlar type spider silk outfit. I don't know, maybe we can increase spider silk production. So there's a lot of different ways that this can evolve. I'm excited to see where it goes. I imagine you could even do some more slightly mundane things like just increase output of silk. Yeah. And I wonder if this maybe depends on the spider's biological capacities. So I'm not sure about that.

and you'd probably have to edit more things within the spider. I don't know. But we're able to edit the spiders now, so the possibility is there. Glow-in-the-Dark Silk on its own, though. That's kind of cool, honestly. Yeah, I wonder if we're going to see this pop up in the next Spirit Halloween episode.

Yeah, I actually have glow-in-the-dark spiders on fake spider webs that we put up at Halloween. You beat them to it. Yeah, just making... Well, no, I just need the spider webs to be glowing now and be made of real silk, too. This is really interesting, and I...

I think, especially with material science, a lot of times it really is you need to make the thing, make the material, so then you can play around with it. And I feel like that's what we're at. We're at the step where like, okay, we can now do this. What should we try with it? Yeah, looking forward to all these new applications. Well, Dr. Nikki, if folks want to find more of what you do, where should they go?

Of course, people can follow the thread and find me on my, on the web. Oh, I'm over at NicoleAckermans.com and the same on Blue Sky. Thanks, Nikki. What would you like to hear us talk about on the show? One way to let us know is our subreddit. You can submit stories and vote on them at reddit.com slash r slash Daily Tech News Show.

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And we end every episode of DTNS with some shared wisdom. Today, Mike tips us off to an interesting take on Apple's paper about LLM complexity that we discussed on the show yesterday. Yeah. Did you see this paper? I wasn't sure if you had dived into it yet. I haven't dove like super deep into it, but I've read pieces. I've read some analysis.

Yeah. And essentially, I think the way we described it yesterday is it's a paper that says there's a certain level of complexity after which LLMs don't improve anymore. They kind of fall off a cliff. But that doesn't mean LLMs are useless. It just means there are other tools that might be better at other things.

Mike wrote in and said, I wondered if you had seen this video from Nate Jones regarding the Apple AI paper and his perspectives on what perhaps is being missed in the angst going on regarding the paper. Now, Nate Jones is responding to a lot of folks on social media saying, Apple declaring LLMs dead and either taking the position of

see, I told you LLMs suck or Apple's crazy. This is why they're no good at AI. Here is an excerpt from the video description that Nate Jones wrote. He said, I explain why Apple's new paper doesn't kill AI reasoning. It simply shows that small models struggle

stripped of tools and extra inference time, fail on very hard logic puzzles. The study's narrow setup sparked a meme frenzy declaring AI useless, but those hot takes ignore everyday systems...

Thank you.

Thank you, Mike, for sending along this YouTube video. It's really a good watch and a good read, even just in the description there. But I think this jives with my take on this as well, which is this show's

LLMs need to know where to call for help when they're agentic. And that's kind of where we're going with stuff. So far from saying LLMs are dead, it's like, oh, this is how LLMs will be used in a suite of tools going forward. Yeah, yeah. It's a real challenge for AI models, you know, to know when they get something right, know when they get something wrong and know when to reach out for help, call for help like that game show. It's the Kenny Rogers problem.

They need to know when to hold them. When to hold them and when to fold them. So, so very true. But yeah, I think it's definitely a challenge that should be solved. And also kind of, you know, like he pointed out, the study had some pretty serious restrictions in there. And so if it was limited out of the gate, then...

you know, of course you're going to get a certain level of output out of that. And there are a lot of people who feel very strongly either for or against AI that this, you know, was kind of one of those moments where it either confirmed or, you know, confirmed their side of it, depending on how you look at it. Yeah. Yeah. I, I, yesterday on the live stream, Justin Robert Young had nothing nice to say about this study. Uh, I think it's suffering from, um,

views on academic papers. A lot of times academic papers are just trying to show a very small thing that's part of a much bigger puzzle. And sometimes they're even saying, we think this is true, but let's study it and make sure it's true. This strikes me as an example of that, where they're like, I think small models, if you cut off their inferencing, if you cut off their tool access, have a limit. Let's figure out what that limit is because that'd be handy to know when we're implementing them in other cases. Yeah.

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