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Maybe AI Will Cure Cancer After All
17 Oct 2025
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.Brought to you by:Is your enterprise ready for the future of agentic AI?Visit AGNTCY.orgVisit Outshift Internet of AgentsGoogle Gemini - Try NotebookLM today https://notebooklm.google.com/KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcastsBlitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/Vanta - Simplify compliance - https://vanta.com/nlwThe Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score.The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
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Today on the AI Daily Brief, maybe we're going to get that AI cancer cure after all. And before that, in the headlines, Google announces VO3.1, but how does it hang compared to Sora 2? The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. All right, friends, quick announcements before we dive in.
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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, Nufar, 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, actionable lessons. So we've got an episode on culture, an episode on tech and data readiness, and an episode on use cases.
And I'm going to use the next three Saturday slots, which, as you guys know, is historically the one off day for the week, to have those as bonus episodes. So look for the first one of those on Saturday. With that, though, let's get into today's episode. Welcome back to the AI Daily Brief Headlines Edition, all the daily AI news you need in around five minutes.
We kick off today with a model update that many people have anticipated that has been well-hinted over the last few days. Google has released an iterative update of their video model, VO 3.1. The new version improves the realism of outputs, boosts prompt adherence, and improves audio quality. Still, the big change is new edit features.
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