Maybe AI Will Cure Cancer After All
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Nathaniel Whittemore
4.7 • 763 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Today on the AI Daily Brief, Google may have just shown us how AI can actually help cure cancer. We break down a groundbreaking new discovery from Google and Yale’s C2S-Scale model, which generated a novel hypothesis about cancer cell behavior that scientists then validated in living cells. Plus, in the headlines: Google launches Veo 3.1 and Anthropic unveils Haiku 4.5 — what the updates mean for AI video and agent performance — and Pew Research finds global sentiment toward AI is turning negative.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is supported by Google. |
| 0:03.0 | Hey folks, Steven Johnson here, |
| 0:04.7 | co-founder of Notebook L.M. |
| 0:06.7 | As an author, I've always been obsessed |
| 0:08.5 | with how software could help organize ideas |
| 0:10.9 | and make connections. |
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| 0:30.1 | Today on the AI Daily Brief, maybe we're going to get that AI cancer cure after all. |
| 0:35.2 | And before that in the headlines, Google announces VO3.1, but how does it hang compared |
| 0:39.9 | to Sora 2? |
| 0:41.1 | The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions |
| 0:45.3 | in AI. |
| 0:51.7 | All right, friends, quick announcements before we dive in. |
| 0:53.8 | First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, Gemini, Notion, Blitzy, Super Intelligent, and Robots and Pencils. To get an ad-free version of the show, go to patreon.com slash AI Daily Brief, or you can subscribe on Apple Podcasts. If you're interested in sponsoring the show, you can email us at sponsors at AIDailybrief.aI. |
| 1:11.3 | Two last quick announcements before we get into the episode. First, as I've mentioned over the last couple of days, I have a podcast growth roll up. The role is simply to grow this show as big as humanly possible. And the way that you apply is doing something interesting to grab my attention. All of that can be found at AIDailybrief.AI slash jobs. |
| 1:28.4 | Lastly, I've had a super positive response to that episode from last Sunday, what 1,000 executives say about AI agents, basically the one where I got deep on what we've learned at Superintelligent. And so, as a little bonus, I've decided to pull in Superintelligence head of research, Newfar, who has been a guest on the show before, to do a three-part mini-series on trying to turn what we've learned into more practical, |
| 1:49.4 | actionable lessons. So we've got an episode on culture, an episode on tech and data readiness, |
| 1:53.8 | and an episode on use cases, and I'm going to use the next three Saturday slots, which, as you |
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