The AI Report

KEY PARTS

⏱️ 00:00 – 03:14: The unconventional origins of Tavus: From Politics to Startups

⏱️ 03:14 – 08:26: What AI used to be—and what it’s becoming

⏱️ 08:26 – 22:11: Teaching machines to chat like humans

⏱️ 22:11 – 45:19: The human future of AI

Connect with Quinn

Friday’s AI Report

• 1. 🛍️ Amazon launches AI Agent store
• 2. ✅ Complete all your tasks with Context
• 3. 🌍 How AI improved auditing processes for this packaging company
• 4. ⚙️ Trending AI tools
• 5. 🚗 Grok coming to Tesla next week?
• 6. 🙏 Ex-Intel CEO launches humanity AI benchmark
• 7. 📑 Recommended resources

Read Time: 5 minutes

🔔 This week’s episode of The AI Report Podcast is live: Liam chats to Tavus co-founder and COO, Quinn Favret, about how to humanize AI conversations.

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Amazon launches AI Agent store

🚨 Our Report 

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is reportedly launching an AI agent marketplace at the AWS Summit in New York on July 15th, and has already secured Anthropic as one of its main AI agent partners.

🔓 Key Points

• The agent marketplace will enable partnering AI start-ups to offer their AI agents to AWS customers and will allow AWS customers to browse, compare, and install AI agents that fit their needs, from one single platform.

• Like any online marketplace, AWS partners—including Anthropic—will charge customers (on a usage-based or subscription-based plan) for access to their AI agents, and Amazon will take a small cut.

• This could be huge for Anthropic, as it would put their agentic AI models in front of the customers of the world's most popular cloud platform and also encourage them to build their own agents via their open-source API.

🔐 Relevance 

Amazon is closely following in the footsteps of Google and Microsoft: In April, Google Cloud launched an AI agent marketplace, and in May, Microsoft launched its ‘Agent Store.’ Both allow developers and businesses to list, buy, and sell AI agents. Although AI agent marketplaces are clearly growing in popularity, it’s too early to see how successful they are for the smaller AI start-ups and also for the small-to-midsize businesses who are looking for affordable, specific AI agents. Time will tell.

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How AI improved auditing processes for this packaging company

• This packaging company needed to modernize its auditing processes, to improve productivity and maintain high-quality standards.

• Traditional methods were time-consuming and required significant manual effort which led to inefficiencies and inconsistencies in audit quality.

• They developed an AI platform that automated audit objectives and audit programs, based on historical data and current requirements.

• The automation of audit tasks allowed auditors to focus on higher-value activities, reduced variability and enhanced the reliability of audit outcomes.

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• Just hours after he debuted Grok 4 (the latest version of his AI chatbot), Elon Musk announced on his social platform, X, that Grok was coming to Tesla vehicles “next week, at the latest.”

• Musk has been teasing this Tesla/Grok integration for months, claiming that Grok would become an AI assistant that would enable drivers to “chat” with their cars and ask Grok to perform certain tasks.

• Reportedly, the integration will also allow drivers to choose a Grok “personality,” with choices including an argumentative Grok, a therapist Grok, an unhinged Grok, and even a Grok that is “Not Safe For Work.”

• Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger ended his 40-year stint at Intel in December to launch a new AI benchmark—Flourishing AI/FAI—aimed at making sure AI models are built to “support a flourishing humanity.”

• Gelsinger has partnered with Gloo—a “faith tech” company he has been funding for over 10 years—to create the benchmark, which will test how AI models align with certain human values, such as happiness.

• The FAI is based on ‘The Global Flourishing Study’, which measures global human wellbeing in categories like character, relationships, and mental and physical health, and Gelsinger has added faith and spirituality to the test. 

MORE NEWS

• Gemini turns photos into videos

• NVIDIA to release AI chip for China

• Google announces AI American Infrastructure Academy cohort

PODCASTS

Why Emotion Is the Next Frontier for AI

In this episode of The AI Report podcast, Liam is joined by Quinn Favret, co-founder and COO of Tavus, to explore the art of conversation between humans and machines.

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Thursday’s AI Report

• 1. 🌐 OpenAI takes on Chrome?
• 2. ✅ Get SOC 2 compliant with Scytale
• 3. 🌍 How AI improved operational efficiency for this water management company
• 4. ⚙️ Trending AI tools
• 5. 🚫 YouTube bans AI videos
• 6. 🤖 Grok 4 arrives after backlash
• 7. 📑 Recommended resources

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OpenAI takes on Chrome?

🚨 Our Report 

According to insider reports, OpenAI is close to releasing an AI-powered web browser (some believe it will launch before the end of this month), which is expected to challenge Google’s Chrome.

🔓 Key Points

• These insider reports have also revealed that the AI browser will keep some user interactions inside the ChatGPT interface, instead of linking out to external sites (like SearchGPT currently does).

• It’s also thought that OpenAI’s web-browsing AI Agent (Operator) will be integrated into the new browser, enabling it to complete tasks like making reservations or filling out forms on behalf of the user.

• This comes after OpenAI hired two former Google VPs last year, who helped develop the Google Chrome browser, and rumors that the new browser will be built on Chromium, Google’s open-source browser code.

🔐 Relevance 

Back in April, OpenAI confirmed that it would consider buying the Chrome browser from Google if regulators forced the company to sell it as part of its antitrust lawsuit. But it looks like it's decided to build its own, likely so it has more control over the data it collects and because (if it does integrate AI Agent capabilities) it can offer users something Google Chrome can’t. However, OpenAI does have its work cut out: Google Chrome is currently used by over 3B people.

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How AI improved operational efficiency for this water management company

• Ecolab, a water management company, needed to harness decades of knowledge to provide effective client solutions.

• Much of its information resided in disparate sources making it difficult to access and utilize efficiently.

• They built an AI system that merged historical data with real-time insights, creating a centralized repository with an AI chatbot to help source info.

• This enhanced decision-making, improved customer service, knowledge retention, and operational efficiency.

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• From July 15th, YouTube content creators will not be able to monetize videos that have been heavily created with AI, as YouTube is updating its policies to stop creators from generating revenue from “inauthentic content.”

• YouTube is downplaying the change, claiming that creators have always been required to upload “authentic” content, and this update is a “minor update” to help them understand what “inauthentic” content is.

• YouTube is undoubtedly doing this because mass-produced, inauthentic, and repetitive content— that’s clearly been made with AI—could damage YouTube’s brand, reputation, and value.

• Days after Elon Musk’s chatbot, Grok, made antisemitic comments, criticizing Hollywood’s Jewish executives, Musk has now launched Grok 4, Grok 4 Heavy, and a $300p/m subscription for SuperGrok Heavy.

• Musk announced that “Grok 4 is better than PhD level in every subject, no exceptions,” but caveated that “it may lack common sense, and has not invented new technologies…but that is just a matter of time.”

• Grok 4 Heavy has multiple agents that work on problems and compare findings, and with “tools” outperforms Gemini 2.5 Pro. SuperGrok Heavy subscribers get access to Grok 4 Heavy and any future early releases.

MORE NEWS

• OpenAI closes deal to build AI hardware

• Perplexity launches AI-powered web browser

• Senator behind SB 1047pushes for AI safety reports

PODCASTS

Data Privacy, AI Roadmaps, Regulated Industries, and Selling AI to the C-Suite

This podcast answers questions about data integrity, executive scepticism, and turning AI-driven time savings into real gains.

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Wednesday’s AI Report

• 1. 🪙 Meta’s $3.5B bet on smart glasses
• 2. 📝 Create the content you need with Bounti
• 3. 🌍 How AI cut customer support wait times to just 2.5 seconds
• 4. ⚙️ Trending AI tools
• 5. 🛍️ AI fuels Amazon Prime surge
• 6. 🏦 French Mistral ties with UAE? 
• 7. 📑 Recommended resources

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Meta’s $3.5B bet on smart glasses

🚨 Our Report 

Meta has bought a 3% stake in its smart glasses partner—the parent company behind Ray-Ban and Oakley, EssilorLuxottica—for around $3.5B.

🔓 Key Points

• The companies have collaborated on smart glasses since 2019 (when it launched the first-generation Ray-Ban Meta glasses), and Meta will reportedly increase its share to 5% to cement a long-term partnership.

• The latest Oakley Meta HSTN line—which has a 3K camera and IPX4 water resistance—targets functionality over fashion, for the first time, and Meta has assured fans that “there’s more [of that] to come.”

• Meta seems to be taking a ‘wearable-first’ approach after ‘Orion’, its fully immersive AR headset, was plagued with the production hurdles of developing full AR, pushing the launch back to 2027.

🔐 Relevance 

This move is a strategic decision which reflects Meta’s laser-focus on developing AI hardware— specifically AI-powered eyewear—and goes hand-in-hand with its recent, aggressive “buy or poach” recruitment drive to hire the top talent in AI: Just yesterday, we reported that Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, had managed to lure Apple’s Ruoming Pang (who led the development of the models that power Apple Intelligence) with a hefty compensation package, and comes after he successfully poached 8 key AI researchers, from rival OpenAI, in just one week!

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How AI cut customer support wait times to just 2.5 seconds

• DoorDash, a food delivery service, needed to reduce customer wait times, speed-up issue resolution, and minimize reliance on live agents.

• They partnered with AWS to develop an AI-powered self-service contact center that utilized Anthropic’s Claude AI models.

• The platform could manage and route calls and had voice-operated AI assistants that understood and responded to user queries.

• As a result, customer wait times fell to 2.5 seconds, there was a 49% reduction in agent transfers and a 12% increase in first contact resolution.

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• According to a report by analytics firm Adobe, Amazon’s Summer Prime Day Week (which kicked off on Tuesday and will end on Friday) will trigger a 3,200% increase in AI-related visits this year.

• Adobe reported that 55% of people will likely use AI for research, 47% for product recommendations, 43% for finding deals, 35% for gift ideas, 35% for finding unique products, and 33% for creating shopping lists.

• Although AI sources will bring Amazon fewer visitors than traditional sources, like email and paid search, Adobe reported that the use of AI-powered chatbots and browsers by Amazon customers has increased YOY.

• French AI start-up, Mistral (maker of the Le Chat chatbot), is reportedly in talks with several major investors—including Abu Dhabi’s MGX fund—to raise up to $1B in equity funding.

• While these discussions are preliminary, and it’s not yet known what its valuation will be if it successfully secures the $1B, Mistral is Europe's biggest AI start-up and last year raised $1.14B, with a valuation of $6.8B.

• If it goes through, the deal could also forge a partnership between France and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) within the AI industry, as currently, it’s a country that’s dominated by Chinese and US AI companies.

MORE NEWS

• Hugging Face disrupts robotics industry

• New California bill targets AI ‘companions’ 

• OpenAI and Microsoft to help bring AI into classrooms

PODCASTS

Building a Zero-Employee Business with AI

This podcast unpacks what it takes to launch and run a company where 80% of the work (and soon, 100%) is done by AI agents.

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Tuesday’s AI Report

• 1. 🔒 OpenAI fights IP theft
• 2. 🎥 Make how-to videos with Guidde
• 3. 🌍 How AI saved 280,000 dev hours and preserved jobs
• 4. 📝 Get SOC 2 compliant with Scytale
• 5. ⚙️ Trending AI tools
• 6. 📚 ChatGPT reinventing AI learning?
• 7. 🧬 Meta steals Apple AI lead
• 8. 📑 Recommended resources

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OpenAI fights IP theft

🚨 Our Report 

OpenAI has reportedly ramped up its security operations in response to escalating threats of corporate espionage.

🔓 Key Points

• This comes after OpenAI was forced to overhaul its existing security protocols earlier this year, after Chinese AI start-up, DeepSeek, allegedly managed to copy its GPT models to develop its own rival R1 model.

• The increased security includes “information tenting,” policies that limit staff access to sensitive algorithms and new products—eg. Just a few verified team members were permitted to discuss the development of o1.

• They’ve also implemented fingerprint scans for staff who need to access critical data and introduced “deny-by-default” internet policies, which require strict approval before any external connections can be made.

🔐 Relevance 

While these tighter security controls are primarily designed to stop external, foreign entities from stealing their IP, with the ongoing battle to poach top AI talent, OpenAI might need to consider bolstering its internal security policies to prevent proprietary insights from being leaked to rival companies.

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• DevGen translated old code, generated documentation, and implemented updates to align with current programming standards.

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• After references to a “Study” mode were spotted in May, a new “Study Together” feature within ChatGPT has been officially added to the dropdown list of tools for a handful of ChatGPT subscribers/testers.

• While the feature doesn’t yet work and, therefore, details are sparse, it’s expected that it will be an educational tool that will ask students questions, rather than simply just delivering answers to questions.

• It's also thought that the feature will allow multiple students to join the chat, fostering group learning, and is possibly OpenAI’s attempt to change the narrative around students using AI to cheat.

• As part of the battle to steal top AI talent from each other, Meta has poached Apple’s head of AI models—Ruoming Pang—as Zuckerberg continues his hiring frenzy to build his new superintelligence unit.

• Pang previously led the team that trained the AI models that power Apple Intelligence and other AI on-device features, and is expected to bring his expertise in designing small, on-device AI models to Meta.

• Many expect that Pang’s departure will trigger “a string of exits” and comes after former Apple AI lead, Daniel Gross, quit Illya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence start-up last week, to join Meta. It’s hard to keep up!

MORE NEWS

• Cursor apologizes for unclear pricing

• CoreWeave buys Core Scientific for $9B

• Wimbledon tennis players criticize AI line calling

PODCASTS

AI in the Shadows: From Hallucinations to Blackmail

This podcast discusses how current AI models just mimic reasoning, which can lead to major ethical issues, such as hallucinations, blackmail, deception, and even sabotage.

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Monday’s AI Report

• 1. 🧨 Musk’s Grok in hot water again
• 2. 🔏 Protect your online info with Incogni
• 3. 🌍 How AI decreased downtime and maintenance costs
• 4. ✅ Schedule your AI audit with Upscaile
• 5. ⚙️ Trending AI tools
• 6. 🚫 Google accused of market abuse
• 7. 😬 Microsoft Exec: “AI for layoff support”
• 8. 📑 Recommended resources

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Musk’s Grok in hot water again

🚨 Our Report 

On Friday, Elon Musk announced that his AI startup, xAI, had improved his AI chatbot, Grok, “significantly” by retraining it on “less garbage” data (after previously asking users to share “diverse facts” that could be seen as “politically incorrect, but factually true”). However, users have since reported that the “newly improved” Grok criticizes Democrats, Jewish Hollywood executives, and even Musk himself.

🔓 Key Points

• In one example, Grok told a user (who asked if more democrats would be a bad idea) that “democratic policies often lead to increased government dependency, higher taxes, and the promotion of divisive ideologies.”

• When asked how to enjoy movies after knowing about the “ideological biases in Hollywood,” Grok said, “Once you know about the ideological biases and propaganda in Hollywood, it shatters the immersion.”

• And when asked if there was a “particular group” in Hollywood that injects these “subversive themes”, Grok replied that “Jewish executives have historically founded and still dominate leadership in major studios.”

🔐 Relevance 

This isn’t the first time Grok has faced criticism for its controversial outputs, but it appears that Grok isn’t afraid to slander its owner, either: Over the weekend, it attributed the devastating floods in Texas, to budget cuts that were endorsed by Musk when he was part of the Department of Government Efficiency.

Googling a name can reveal more than expected

Data brokers sell personal info—often for less than a dollar.

What’s publicly available:

• Current & past addresses

• Mobile numbers (even outdated ones)

• Family connections

• Employment history

• Property records

• Court documents

This information is bundled and sold to anyone willing to pay.

Even ChatGPT can return surprising details when asked about someone with an online presence.

This isn’t paranoia—it’s probability:

• 1 in 4 Americans experience identity theft

• $1,100 average loss per incident

• Over 200 hours to recover

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How AI decreased downtime and maintenance costs

• Georgia-Pacific, a paper, packaging, and building products manufacturer, couldn’t maintain operational efficiency across its 140 facilities.

• Operational knowledge was too dispersed, leading to increased machine downtime, prolonged troubleshooting, and high maintenance costs.

• They built an internal AI chatbot that served as a centralized knowledge hub, enabling staff to access accurate, tailored information quickly.

• By providing real-time answers to questions, the chatbot reduced machine downtime and improved equipment effectiveness.

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• A group of European publishers—known as the “Publishers Alliance”—has filed an antitrust complaint with the EU Commission against Google and its AI Overviews search results feature.

• The group alleges that Google is “misusing web content for AI Overviews”, which “continues to cause significant harm to publishers, in the form of web visits, readership and revenue loss.”

• The group has accused Google of “abusing its market power” as, unless they’re willing to completely disappear from search results, publishers can’t “opt out” of having their material used in the AI summaries.

• After Microsoft made mass layoffs last week—affecting over 9,000 employees—Xbox Executive Producer Matt Turnball (in a now-deleted LinkedIn post) told affected staff to “seek advice from AI chatbots” to help them cope.

• He suggested that anyone who was “feeling overwhelmed” while “navigating a layoff or quietly preparing for one” could use AI to “help reduce the emotional and cognitive load that comes with job loss.”

• He possibly retracted his advice after receiving some backlash. Many health professionals have warned against using AI as a replacement for human therapy, calling it dangerous and irresponsible.

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AI’s Unsung Hero: Data Labeling and Expert Evaluation

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KEY PARTS

⏱️ 00:00 – 03:14: The unconventional origins of Tavus: From Politics to Startups

⏱️ 03:14 – 08:26: What AI used to be—and what it’s becoming

⏱️ 08:26 – 22:11: Teaching machines to chat like humans

⏱️ 22:11 – 45:19: The human future of AI

Connect with Quinn

Friday’s AI Report

• 1. 🧩 Meta to end loneliness with AI?
• 2. 🔒 Protect your info online with Incogni
• 3. 🌍 How AI reduced vehicle breakdowns and maintenance costs
• 4. ✔️ Get SOC 2 compliant with Scytale
• 5. ⚙️ Trending AI tools
• 6. 🏭 xAI gets controversial permits
• 7. 💥 Ilya Sutskever becomes CEO after Meta blow
• 8. 📑 Recommended resources

Read Time: 5 minutes

🔔 In this week’s episode of The AI Report podcast, catch Liam talking to Tavus co-founder and COO, Quinn Favret, about how to humanize AI conversations.

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Meta to end loneliness with AI?

🚨 Our Report 

As part of an internal initiative—Project Omni—Meta has confirmed it’s developing customizable AI chatbots that can initiate conversations with users, remember what they’ve previously said, and proactively follow up with them.

🔓 Key Points

• According to Meta, the proactive messages from these chatbots will keep users engaged, “provide value for users, and ultimately improve re-engagement and user retention” across Meta’s platforms.

• As an example, a custom-built “movie” AI chatbot might message a user to ask if they want movie recommendations for their next movie night, or a chef chatbot might suggest a new recipe.

• Note: These chatbots will just send follow-up messages or start conversations if the user has previously engaged with them, and they will not re-contact the user if they haven’t replied within 14 days.

🔐 Relevance 

The customizable chatbots (which are reportedly similar to those offered by Character AI and Replika) will “keep conversations goign” and are a step towards Mark Zuckerberg’s goal of curing the “loneliness epidemic” and can be built within Meta’s AI Studio—a no-code platform where users can develop personal chatbots that have bespoke personalities and memories.

Googling a name can reveal more than expected…

Data brokers sell personal info—often for less than a dollar.

What’s publicly available:

• Current & past addresses

• Mobile numbers (even outdated ones)

• Family connections

• Employment history

• Property records

• Court documents

This information is bundled and sold to anyone willing to pay. Even ChatGPT can return surprising details when asked about someone with an online presence.

This isn’t paranoia—it’s probability:

• 1 in 4 Americans experience identity theft

• $1,100 average loss per incident

• Over 200 hours to recover

Manually opting out of data brokers is exhausting—195+ forms, 30+ hours, and records often reappear.

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✅ Forces data deletion

✅ Monitors & re-removes data

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🚗 How AI reduced vehicle breakdowns and maintenance costs

• Penske Truck Leasing, which manages over 433,000 vehicles across the US, relied on mileage-based or reactive maintenance schedules.

• This often led to unexpected breakdowns, increased downtime, and higher operational costs.

• They developed an AI platform that provided real-time analytics to help monitor vehicle health, enabling proactive maintenance decision-making.

• This AI system enabled early detection of mechanical problems, reducing unexpected breakdowns and associated costs.

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• Last month, the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) threatened to sue Elon Musk’s AI start-up, xAI, for operating 35 natural gas turbines at its data center in Memphis without permits.

• Despite the threat of a lawsuit for violating clean air regulations, county health regulators have granted xAI permits to operate 15 generators, which has sparked outrage from locals, who are concerned about pollution.

• The generators were installed to power xAI’s datacenter, and although xAI (initially) had no operational permits, Musk found a loophole that enabled him to use them if they weren’t in the same location for over a year.

• OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever will assume the role of CEO at Safe Superintelligence—an AI start-up he co-founded and launched last year—after Meta poached his existing CEO, Daniel Gross, last month.

• This comes as Meta, which is on a major AI hiring spree, tried to acquire Safe Superintelligence (which was valued at $31B in April), but Sutskever and fellow founder, Daniel Levy, refused the offer.

• Sutskever wants to remain independent, establishing that he wants to stay “focused on seeing our work through” and have the compute, team, and experience to continue “building safe superintelligence.”

MORE NEWS

• Google rolls out Veo 3 globally

• RFK Jrs’s AI plans are a disaster

• Google Workspace is getting AI helpers

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Why Emotion Is the Next Frontier for AI

In this episode of The AI Report podcast, Liam is joined by Quinn Favret, co-founder and COO of Tavus, to explore the art of conversation between humans and machines.

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Thursday’s AI Report

• 1. 📰 ChatGPT saves online news?
• 2. 🤖 Get qualified leads on autopilot with Artisan
• 3. 🌍 How Salesforce filled 50% of roles internally with AI
• 4. ✅ Schedule your AI audit with Upscaile
• 5. ⚙️ Trending AI tools
• 6. 🔋 OpenAI blows up US data centers
• 7. 💥 EU urged to delay AI-Act 
• 8. 📑 Recommended resources

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‼️This week’s episode of The AI Report podcast lands tomorrow. This week, Liam chats to Quinn Favret—co-founder and COO of Tavus—to discuss how AI agents can hold real-time, emotionally intelligent conversations and learn on the fly.

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ChatGPT saves online news?

🚨 Our Report 

Digital intelligence company, SimilarWeb, has released a report showing that referrals from ChatGPT to news publications have significantly increased. While this is great news for these publications—which have been struggling with a decrease in site visits, thanks to AI-generated news summaries—is this as good as it seems?

🔓 Key Points

• ChatGPT news-related prompts have grown by 212% in the last year, with topics like politics, the economy, and the weather growing in popularity, suggesting demand for issue-driven information over reactive answers.

• In 1 year, referrals from ChatGPT have increased from 1M to 25M, with news outlets like Reuters, Business Insider, and The NYT (despite its ongoing copyright battle with OpenAI) benefiting the most.

• OpenAI has also started allowing businesses to track how and where their brand shows up in AI tools (like ChatGPT) and compare how this compares with their closest rivals. Sound familiar?

🔐 Relevance 

Reports also show that no-click searches have risen from 56% to 69% in just a year—thanks to AI news summaries—which has contributed to a drop in organic web visits from 2.3B in 2024 to under 1.7B in 2025. So the 25x increase in referrals from ChatGPT to news publishers doesn’t even begin to counteract the overall losses these publishers are facing.

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• Salesforce needed to improve internal career development as there was an underutilization of talent, leading to a demotivated and weak workforce.

• They launched Career Connect, an AI platform that analyzed employees' skills and experiences and suggested personalized career paths.

• It provided training and job opportunities, and integrated with Slack as a Career Agent to give real-time career guidance.

• As a result, in Q1 this year, Salesforce filled 50% of roles internally, proving Career Connect’s effectiveness.

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• As part of the Stargate Project (the $500B initiative to build AI infrastructure across the US), OpenAI will rent 4.5GW of additional computing power from Oracle’s US data centers, enough to power hundreds of homes.

• To meet demand, Oracle will build new data centers in Texas, Michigan, Wisconsin, Wyoming, New Mexico, Georgia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, and will expand its original data center capacity from 1.2 to 2GW.

• This single deal will take a significant amount of the USA’s data center capacity and will undoubtedly rapidly increase overall power consumption (data centers were forecasted to consume 130GW by 2030).

• Several big-name EU companies, including Mercedes-Benz, Airbus, and Mistral, have urged the European Union to delay the implementation of the landmark AI-Act they introduced last year.

• They’ve all signed a letter stating that the commission has failed to deliver key guidelines and standards and practices, including instructions for how AI companies can comply with the regulation.

• They fear that this could significantly hinder the EU’s innovation and AI ambitions, and a delay in implementation would send global “investors a strong signal that Europe is serious about its competitiveness.”

MORE NEWS

• Perplexity launches $200 monthly plan

• OpenAI condemns Robinhood’s ‘OpenAI tokens’

• Databricks Co-founder to build AI that’s “Good for People”

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Finding NVIDIA’s Nemotron

This podcast uncovers how enterprises can deploy multi-model strategies and why reasoning is becoming the key differentiator in real-world AI applications.

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Wednesday’s AI Report

• 1. 🚫 Cloudflare blocks AI crawlers
• 2. ✅ Invest in this pre-IPO with Mode Mobile
• 3. 💳 How Stripe boosted fraud detection from 59% to 97% with AI
• 4. 🤖 Build bespoke chatbots with ChatNode
• 5. ⚖️ Senate rejects AI regulation ban
• 6. ⚙️ Trending AI tools
• 7. 🤖 Amazon’s AI runs the floor
• 8. 📑 Recommended resources

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Cloudflare Blocks AI Crawlers

🚨 Our Report 

Cloudflare announced it will block AI web crawlers by default for first-time customers to prevent unauthorized content scraping. The company is also introducing a "Pay Per Crawl" program, allowing publishers to charge AI companies for rights to their content.

🔓 Key Points

• The internet infrastructure provider will prompt incoming domain owners to decide whether to allow AI scrapers, with blocking enabled by default, and can identify and restrict crawlers that don’t respect robots.txt files.

• Cloudflare’s Pay Per Crawl program lets publishers set specific pricing for AI companies to retrieve their content, though it’s available to a select group of leading publishers and content creators.

• Major publishers, including The Associated Press, The Atlantic, Fortune, Stack Overflow, and Quora, are backing these restrictions, as Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince noted, "People trust the AI more over the last six months, which means they're not reading original content."

🔐 Relevance 

Publishers have seized control in the AI ecosystem. As chatbots increasingly replace traditional web search tools, this shift clarifies who owns content and how it can be used. It sets a standard for fair compensation between creators and AI developers. The ripple effects will touch everything from how future AI models train to what information they may retrieve.

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How Stripe boosted fraud detection from 59% to 97% with AI

• Stripe’s payments team faced card-testing attacks probing stolen cards and costing merchants revenue.

• They launched a Payments Foundation Model, an AI system trained on billions of transactions with a real-time classifier to flag attacks.

• As a result, detection rose from 59% to 97% overnight.

• Plus, Adaptive Acceptance AI recovered $6B in declined payments, improved false-decline precision by 70%, and cut retry attempts by 35%.

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• The U.S. Senate has overwhelmingly voted to strike a controversial provision from a budget bill that would have blocked states from regulating artificial intelligence for ten years.

• The "AI moratorium," introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz, was backed by figures like OpenAI’s Sam Altman and a16z’s Marc Andreessen to prevent a "patchwork of regulation" they claimed could stifle innovation.

• A bipartisan group of senators argued the ban would harm consumers and allow AI companies to operate with little oversight. The effort to repeal it was led by an amendment from Sen. Marsha Blackburn and Sen. Maria Cantwell.

• After an initial compromise to shorten the ban to five years fell apart, the Senate voted 99-1 to strip the provision from the bill completely.

• Amazon is debuting a new generative AI model called DeepFleet, designed to make its robotic fleet faster, smarter, and more efficient.

• DeepFleet improves robot travel efficiency by 10% by coordinating movement across fulfillment centers, reducing congestion, and speeding up order processing.

• The company currently operates over 1,000,000 robots, including Hercules, Pegasus, and Proteus models, which handle heavy lifting and repetitive tasks while working alongside human employees.

• The technology represents Amazon's practical approach to AI innovation, focusing on solving real problems with tangible benefits: faster delivery times, lower operational expenses, and reduced energy usage.

MORE NEWS

• xAI raises $10 billion in debt and equity

• Grammarly acquires Superhuman, an AI email client

• Genesis AI launches with $105 million in seed funding

PODCASTS

Outsourcing AI to your rivals?

This podcast dives into Bloomberg’s report on Apple’s AI missteps—how Siri’s shortcomings could see Apple paying OpenAI or Anthropic to power its voice assistant—and delivers a fiery #HotTakeTuesday take.

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Tuesday’s AI Report

• 1. 🙋 Google’s AI goes to school
• 2. 📝 Create the content you need with Bounti 
• 3. 📂 How Chipotle cut 75% of its hiring time with AI
• 4. ✅ Get SOC compliant with Scytale
• 5. ⚖️ Proton sues Apple
• 6. ⚙️ Trending AI tools
• 7. 💼 AI search for work
• 8. 📑 Recommended resources

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Google’s AI Goes to School

🚨 Our Report 

Google rolled out over 30 updated AI features for educators and students, extending its reach into classrooms with Gemini-powered tools. The updates, announced at the ISTE edtech conference, include lesson planning assistants, personalized student chatbots, and Google Vids for video-based assignments, which are all available to Google Workspace for Education users.

🔓 Key Points

• Teachers can use Gemini to generate lesson plans, create interactive study guides, and build custom AI “Gems” trained on their own class materials to support students.

• Students can use AI-powered reading buddies, chatbots for homework help, and Google Vids for creating book reports and assignments using text prompts

• Additional admin tools allow schools to track student progress, manage AI features, and control classroom content sharing through an updated “Class Tools” mode in Google Classroom

🔐 Relevance 

Students are already turning to AI for homework help more than they are to teachers. Google’s move goes beyond adding features, reclaiming control by embedding Gemini into the tools schools already use. This could reshape how students interact with information, how teachers prepare, and how schools manage digital learning environments.

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How Chipotle cut 75% of its hiring time with AI

• Chipotle’s HR team faced slow, manual hiring processes, taking an average of 12 days from application to hire, which hindered the rapid staffing needed to open restaurants on schedule.

• They integrated Ava Cado—an AI-powered recruitment assistant from Paradox that automates candidate outreach, interview scheduling, and provide delivery via a conversational chat interface.

• As a result, Chipotle cut its time-to-hire by 75%, shrinking the average window from 12 days to just 4 days.

• Plus, application completion jumped from 50% to over 85%, fueling the company’s goal to open roughly one restaurant a day in 2025.

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• Privacy-focused app maker Proton has filed a lawsuit against Apple, alleging anticompetitive practices related to App Store monopoly, excessive fees, and restrictions that Proton describes as "artificial and arbitrary."

• Proton challenges Apple's payment policies that block developers from informing customers about web discounts, creating poor user experiences where customers can't easily manage subscriptions across devices.

• The company argues that Apple’s control enables censorship in authoritarian countries, citing how Proton’s VPN app faced threats for claiming to “unblock censored websites,” revealing how tech monopolies can undermine human rights globally.

• Gmail’s AI-powered search functionality, previously launched for regular users in March, prioritizes relevant emails for Google Workspace subscribers rather than simply showing results chronologically.

• Google says this update will help business users “find emails more easily” and “save valuable time” by surfacing the emails they actually need.

• The intelligent search system uses algorithms that consider factors like recency, history, and contact frequency when determining which emails to display prominently in search results.

MORE NEWS

• Ex-Meta engineers built a new AI travel tool

• Tinder requires Cali users to ‘Face Check’ for proof they’re real

• Cursor launches a web app for managing AI agents

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A new era of software?

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Monday’s AI Report

• 1. ⛔️ States may forfeit AI power
• 2. 🚀 How to get leads with Taplio
• 3. 🔬 How DeepInvent compressed months of R&D into minutes with AI
• 4. ✅ Book your AI audit with Upscaile
• 5. 🧪 New nonprofit AI lab launches
• 6. ⚙️ Trending AI tools
• 7. 🧠 Meta steals OpenAI brainpower
• 8. 📑 Recommended resources

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States May Forfeit AI Power

🚨 Our Report 

A federal proposal could strip states and local governments of the power to regulate artificial intelligence for a decade. Pushed by Senator Ted Cruz, the measure is tied to broadband funding and has ignited a fierce battle between tech leaders, consumer advocates, and lawmakers across party lines.

🔓 Key Points

• The proposal, part of a GOP megabill, would prohibit states from enforcing any law on AI models or automated decision systems for ten years.

• Backers like OpenAI’s Sam Altman say a single federal standard is needed to foster innovation and compete with China. Critics (including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and 17 Republican governors) warn it would gut state-level consumer protection.

• To qualify for the $42B Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program, states would have to comply with the moratorium, forcing a choice between broadband funding and the ability to protect citizens.

🔐 Relevance 

This proposal would override state AI safety and consumer protection laws, including rules on deepfakes in elections, artist impersonation, and transparency in AI training data. With Congress yet to pass any AI-specific legislation, a ten-year freeze would result in the AI industry having far less oversight, despite most Americans wanting more regulation.

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• Deepinvent’s innovation team was facing slow, costly R&D cycles that often took months to move.

• They launched AI Innovator—Deepinvent’s first AI “Innovator” platform that ingests an idea, analyzes billions of real-time data points across scientific literature and patent filings, and generates high-quality IP disclosures in minutes.

• As a result, users generated over 2,000 novel inventions within the first week of the platform’s public beta release,

• Plus, within days of launch, the AI Innovator architecture was adopted by organizations across six key industries: semiconductors, biotech, aerospace, defense, pharma, and energy.

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• Andy Konwinski, who currently serves as VP at Perplexity AI, has assembled IORA, a team of AI researchers from UC Berkeley and other academic institutions, saying the lab will pursue ideas that “no one else is incentivized to do.”

• Institute for Open Research and AI (IORA) will focus on education, healthcare, misinformation, and labor, aiming to develop systems that prioritize public benefit.

• The institute is privately funded and will share its research openly, allowing developers, nonprofits, and public sector groups to build on its work without interference from tech giants.

• Meta has hired four notable AI researchers from OpenAI as its Superintelligence team. The four researchers hired are Jiahui Yu (who led OpenAI's Perception team), Shuchao Bi, Shengjia Zhao, and Hongyu Ren, all described as notable researchers at OpenAI.

• They join other AI industry leaders at Meta's Superintelligence group, including Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman, as part of an ongoing recruitment effort personally led by Mark Zuckerberg.

• These moves reflect multi-million-dollar incentives and aggressive recruiting tactics as major players like Meta, OpenAI, and others compete for a shrinking pool of elite AI researchers.

MORE NEWS

• Facebook is asking users for photo access to suggest AI edits

• Reddit is adding more AI for its 20th birthday

• AI-powered humanoid robots can play soccer

PODCASTS

Still chasing AI buzzwords?

This podcast cuts through the hype to explain the key differences between algorithms, LLMs, and autonomous agents and uncovers what you risk by always chasing the latest AI jargon.

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⏱️ 00:00 – 06:38: Transforming an outdated industry with AI

⏱️ 06:38 – 13:28: Going from a start-up to an industry leader

⏱️ 13:28 – 22:49: Building a culture of innovation and AI adoption

⏱️ 22:49 – End: Looking ahead: Agentic AI and the next frontier

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Friday’s AI Report

• 1. 💰 Google’s offerwall goes live
• 2. 🔒 Protect your information online with Incogni 
• 3. 💊 How Mandolin cut weeks per authorization with AI
• 4. 🤖 Build no-code chatbots with ChatNode 
• 5. 💻 Microsoft retires blue screen
• 6. ⚙️ Trending AI tools
• 7. 🎞 YouTube adds AI video carousels
• 8. 📑 Recommended resources

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Google’s Offerwall Goes Live

🚨 Our Report 

Google has officially launched Offerwall, a recent monetization tool for publishers reeling from declining visitors caused by AI-powered search. Bundled with Google Ad Manager, Offerwall provides publishers with flexible ways to generate revenue, including micropayments, surveys, rewarded ads and more without relying solely on clicks and page views.

🔓 Key Points

• Tests across 1,000 publishers revealed an average revenue uplift of 9% during the year-long pilot period.

• Offerwall enables publishers to give visitors multiple ways to unlock content, including micropayments, surveys, watching ads and newsletter sign-ups.

• During testing, publishers saw an average 9% revenue lift, with India’s Sakal Media Group reporting a 20% increase in revenue and 2,000,000 additional impressions over three months.

🔐 Relevance 

AI-generated answers are eating into traditional search user visits. Publishers are losing pageviews and with them ad revenue. Offerwall represents Google’s attempt to stem the tide. While micropayments and surveys aren’t novel concepts, integrating them directly into Ad Manager could simplify experimentation and boost scalability. If it succeeds, this could signal a shift in how content is monetized with less focus on clicks and more on engagement.

Googling a name can reveal more than expected.

Data brokers sell personal info—often for less than a dollar.

What’s publicly available:

• Current & past addresses

• Phone numbers (even outdated ones)

• Family connections

• Employment history

• Property records

• Court documents

This information is bundled and sold to anyone willing to pay.

Even ChatGPT can return surprising details when asked about someone with an online presence.

This isn’t paranoia—it’s probability:

• 1 in 4 Americans experience identity theft

• $1,100 average loss per incident

• Over 200 hours to recover

Manually opting out of data brokers is exhausting—195+ forms, 30+ hours, and records often reappear.

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• Mandolin’s infusion‐therapy providers were bogged down by manual back-office tasks, which delayed patient treatment by weeks.

• They deployed Mandolin’s AI automation platform, where agentic AI “employees” read clinical notes, contact payers, interact with EHRs and manufacturer portals, and make real-time decisions across entire workflows.

• As a result, Mandolin slashed time-to-treatment from weeks to days.

• The platform is currently live in over 700 infusion clinics nationwide, up from initial pilots earlier this year.

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• Microsoft is retiring the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) error message after nearly 40 years, replacing it with a simplified Black Screen of Death that provides clearer information about system crashes.

• The refreshed design strips away the traditional blue background, frowning face, and QR code in favor of a minimalist black screen that clearly displays the error code and faulty system driver information.

• This black screen redesign will roll out "later this summer" alongside an upcoming Quick Machine Recovery feature designed to rapidly restore machines that can't boot, part of Microsoft's efforts to improve Windows resiliency following last year's CrowdStrike incident.

• YouTube began rolling out AI-powered video carousels in search results for Premium users on mobile, offering more relevant video recommendations for queries about shopping, places, and activities.

• The debut AI search feature is available to Premium users on mobile, with some non-Premium users in the US granted permission to use the conversational AI tool for follow-up questions and summaries.

• Google’s Gemini AI models power these features, building on earlier tests and aligning YouTube search with recent AI-driven upgrades in Google Search.

MORE NEWS

• OpenAI wins AI copyright case

• Google Earth updates Street View with historic satellite imagery

• Suno acquires WavTool to improve AI music

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Are Your AI Skills Stuck in the Past?

This podcast explores why most formal AI courses trail the cutting edge by 6–12 months and lays out simple, hands-on tactics you can use right away to get ahead of the AI curve.

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Thursday’s AI Report

• 1. ⚖️ Meta makes it 2–0 for AI lawsuits?
• 2. ✅ Get SOC 2 compliant with Scytale
• 3. 🌍 How Microsoft cut 2hrs p/d, with AI
• 4. 👑 Schedule your AI audit with Upscaile
• 5. ⚙️ Trending AI tools
• 6. ⏳ Bernie Sanders demands 4-day week
• 7. 🏃‍♂️ OpenAI loses talent to Meta
• 8. 📑 Recommended resources

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Meta makes it 2–0 for AI lawsuits?

🚨 Our Report 

US Federal Judge, Judge Vince Chhabria, has dismissed an AI copyright infringement lawsuit—filed against Meta by a group of 13 authors who accused Meta of illegally training its AI models on their copyrighted books, without permission—calling it “fair use.”

🔓 Key Points

• Judge Chhabria found “no evidence” that Meta, by using these books for AI training, would produce “a product that would flood the market with similar works, causing market dilution,” which would be a copyright violation.

• Meta was delighted with the ruling, claiming that "AI models are powering transformative innovations…and fair use of copyright material is vital for building this transformative technology."

• This comes after yesterday, another Judge ruled that it was “fair use” for Anthropic—which was slapped with a similar copyright lawsuit to Meta—to train its AI models on legally purchased books, as it was “transformative.”

🔐 Relevance 

However, despite the double-success for the tech industry, Judge Chhabria made it clear that his decision to dismiss Meta’s lawsuit didn’t mean that all AI training using copyrighted material was “fair use” and, therefore, legal. He said, in this case, the authors simply “made the wrong arguments” and didn’t provide enough evidence to support the right ones. His judgment on “fair use” will be given on a case-by-case basis, and certain “types of works (like news articles) might be even more vulnerable to indirect competition from AI outputs.”

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• They integrated GitHub Copilot—Microsoft’s AI-paired programming tool, which suggests code snippets and writes entire functions, in real-time

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• US Senator Bernie Sanders believes that the productivity gains and time savings AI brings to companies mean they should give their employees a 4-day working week instead of “throwing them out onto the street.”

• He argues that this is “not a radical idea” as there are companies around the world already doing it successfully: 61 UK companies trialed a 4-day workweek and found that revenue rose by 1.4%.

• Plus, Microsoft tried it in 2019, in Japan, and found it increased productivity by 40%, leaving Sanders to raise the question: “If AI is as powerful as they say…why not use it to benefit workers?”

• Last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman outed Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg for trying to poach his staff with WhatsApps and $100M compensation packages, declaring that none of his “best people” had accepted.

• However, three of OpenAI’s researchers from its Zurich office— Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai—appear to have succumbed to Zuckerberg’s tactics and have joined Meta’s superintelligence team.

• Zuckerberg is on a major hiring spree to build up his superintelligence team, having recently hired Scale AI’s CEO, Alexandr Wang for $14B, making him one of the tech industry’s priciest hires ever.

MORE NEWS

• Amazon Ring cameras and doorbells use AI

• Getty drops copyright lawsuit against Stability AI

• OpenAI and Jony Ive accused of ‘burying’ rival start-up

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Does AI cause brain rot?

This podcast dives into MIT’s recent viral report—claiming that AI is rotting our brains—and reveals how to use AI to make sure it doesn’t.

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Wednesday’s AI Report

• 1. 🏛️ Anthropic beats AI copyright lawsuit
• 2. 🚀 How to get leads with Taplio
• 3. 🌍 How AI reduced training material creation by 80%
• 4. 🤖 Build custom chatbots with ChatNode
• 5. ⚙️ Trending AI tools
• 6. 🧬 AI focusing on emotion, not logic?
• 7. 🌐 Global trust in AI divides
• 8. 📑 Recommended resources

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Anthropic beats AI copyright lawsuit

🚨 Our Report 

A Federal Judge—William Alsup—has sided with Anthropic in an AI copyright case, ruling that it was “fair use” to train its AI model, Claude, on legally purchased books, without authors' permission.

🔓 Key Points

• The case—Bartz v. Anthropic—was filed by a trio of writers who sued Anthropic last year for training its AI model, Claude, on their published books, without their permission, calling it “large-scale theft.”

• Judge Alsup ruled that digitizing a legally purchased physical book and using it to train an AI model was fair use under US copyright law because it was “quintessentially transformative.”

• He said the lawsuit was like complaining that training schoolchildren to write, using their books, would result in “an explosion of competing works,” adding that the law doesn’t “protect authors against competition.”

🔐 Relevance 

This is the first time the courts have ruled in favor of AI, and while Judge Alsup’s ruling doesn’t mean that other judges will follow suit, it could impact the ongoing copyright cases against big tech companies like OpenAI, Meta, Midjourney, and Google. But although Judge Alsup has sided with Anthropic in this particular instance, he will be holding a separate court case against Anthropic, as the Bartz v. Anthropic lawsuit also states that Anthropic has created a “central library” of “all the books in the world,” but many of these books were illegally downloaded from pirate sites.

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• Non-profit group, LAION (which makes open-source AI models), has released AI tools, called EmoNet, that are focused on emotional intelligence, representing a shift in focus from logical reasoning to emotional feeling.

• EmoNet tools can interpret emotions from voice recordings or facial photography, but LAION founder, Christoph Schuhmann, believes that “Big players already have this technology…we’re just democratizing it.”

• Studies and benchmark tests reveal that there is rapid progress in AI emotional intelligence: OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic scored 80% accuracy vs the human average of 56% on emotional intelligence tests.

• A United Nations study has revealed that China and many lower-income countries see AI as a tool to improve health, education, and farming—with 60% of Chinese respondents feeling that AI is improving their lives.

• However, public trust in AI has fallen in wealthier countries—especially in Europe and the US—with many in the US fearing job losses, privacy, and misinformation, and those in Europe concerned about corporate control.

• Global AI regulation will be hard as views on AI “aren’t in sync” because of government efforts to push AI: Eg. China’s trust in AI is because the government is promoting AI, issuing fewer regulations to enable progress.

MORE NEWS

• Walmart reveals new AI tools 

• Verizon adopts Google’s Gemini

• Google’s new Gemini model runs robots locally 

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The new jobs AI will create

This podcast unpacks the New York Times’ list of 22 upcoming AI roles and discusses Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s memo that AI will result in leaner teams.

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Tuesday’s AI Report

• 1. 👀 Courts reveal OpenAI hardware device details
• 2. 📈 Improve customer support productivity with Tidio
• 3. 🌍 How this start-up opened over 20,000 stores using AI
• 4. 🔒 Protect your online info with Incogni
• 5. ⚙️ Trending AI tools
• 6. 🧠 Grok may rival Google Workspace
• 7. 🔬 Perplexity co-founder funds AI research
• 8. 📑 Recommended resources

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Courts reveal OpenAI hardware device details

🚨 Our Report 

Yesterday, we reported that OpenAI had been forced to take down all promotional material that referenced its $6.5B acquisition of io—founded by ex-Apple designer, Jony Ive, and OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman—due to a trademark infringement filed by an AI start-up, called IyO. IyO has now been revealed as a Google-backed, hardware startup specializing in earpieces that connect to other devices and is accusing OpenAI and io of stealing their IP.

🔓 Key Points

• According to the filings, OpenAI and io have been researching AI-powered, in-ear devices for the last year, and just a few months ago, met with iyO’s CEO to learn more about their in-ear products.

• Emails revealed that OpenAI and io executives were disappointed with iyO’s technology as it repeatedly failed during demos, but made it clear that they took precautions not to learn too much about iyO’s IP.

• Plus, io’s chief hardware officer, Tang Tan, revealed that the prototype mentioned in the promo material is not yet finalized and that the product is at least a year away from being advertised or shipped.

🔐 Relevance 

Despite all this, OpenAI and io’s first device may not be headphones: In the (now deleted) promo video, Altman said that their prototype was “not an in-ear device, or a wearable device,” but a “family” of AI devices with various capabilities.

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How this start-up opened over 20,000 stores using AI

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• As a result, they expanded their retail presence to over 20,000 stores, securing a significant share of the compostable-tableware market.

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• Leaked code has revealed that Elon Musk’s AI start-up, xAI, is developing an advanced file editor (with support for spreadsheets) for its AI tool, Grok, which will enable users to interact with Grok while editing files.

• While it’s not clear what type of files (apart from spreadsheets) Grok’s AI editor tool will support, if this becomes a reality, it will be a step towards Musk’s plan to turn his social platform, X, into an “everything app.”

• If true, this could put Musk in direct competition with Google’s Gemini Workspace (which has AI tools that allow users to edit docs via Gemini), but the difference is, Gemini Workspace just works within Google’s ecosystem.

• Co-founder of Perplexity and Databricks, Andy Konwinski, has launched an AI research non-profit, called The Laude Institute, which he has personally funded with $100M from his own pocket.

• The research institute has a board with top experts from Google, Meta, and UC Berkley, who will award grants to start-ups “to enhance computer science research and promote positive societal outcomes.”

• Funding will be given to early-stage research projects (“Slingshots”) and long-term initiatives (“Moonshots”), with its first major grant giving UC Berkley $3M annually, for the next five years, to build an AI Systems Lab.

MORE NEWS

• Over 1M people now have the AI-powered Alexa

• Meta launches $499 Oakley smart glasses for athletes

• Sam Altman talks GPT-5 and AGI in OpenAI’s first podcast

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12 insane AI agent use cases (live demo)

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Monday’s AI Report

• 1. 🍏 Apple buys Perplexity?
• 2. 📝 Create the content you need with Bounti
• 3. 🌍 How this manufacturing company used AI to increase productivity
• 4. ✅ Schedule your AI audit with Upscaile
• 5. ⚙️ Trending AI tools
• 6. 🧨 OpenAI halts Jony Ives promo
• 7. 🤐 AI blackmails 95% of the time
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Apple buys Perplexity?

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Apple is reportedly considering acquiring AI Search engine, Perplexity, to build an AI-powered search engine and AI capabilities within Safari and across its other services, including Siri.

🔓 Key Points

• The head of Apple’s M&A division—Adrian Perica—has already discussed the idea internally with top Apple executives and key decision makers, including Services VP Eddy Cue, who are overseeing Apple’s AI roadmap.

• These discussions have raised an alternative idea, which involves Apple strategically partnering with Perplexity—instead of buying the start-up outright—and incorporating Perplexity’s technology into its ecosystem.

• Despite these ongoing internal discussions, Apple has yet to make Perplexity a formal offer, although top executives have met with Perplexity’s CEO, Aravind Srinivas, several times over the last few months.

🔐 Relevance 

The news of this potential partnership or acquisition with Perplexity comes as Apple faces heavy scrutiny from antitrust regulators over its $18M agreement with Google—which ensures Google Search is the default search engine on all Apple devices. If the acquisition or partnership agreement goes through, this could reduce Apple’s reliance on Google, keeping regulators happy, alongside accelerating Siri’s AI capabilities.

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• They rolled out Microsoft 365 Copilot internally, which integrated AI into everyday apps like Word, Excel, and Outlook.

• Employees used it for tasks like drafting emails, summarizing long threads, and generating or revising documents.

• As a result, users spent 30 mins less p/w on emails, and document creation became 12% faster, increasing productivity, efficiency, and output.

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• OpenAI has been forced to take down materials promoting its $6.5B deal to buy CEO, Sam Altman and legendary, ex-Apple designer, Jony Ives’ hardware start-up, io.

• Despite many believing that this was because the deal had dissolved, it was because a judge had issued a trademark restraining order over the name–io–forcing it to take down any promo materials containing it.

• OpenAI has described the trademark complaint as “utterly baseless” and vowed to “fight it vigorously” as it comes from a company called ‘iyO’ about the “use of the name ‘io’,” which is nothing more than semantics.

• After admitting that its AI model, Claude Opus 4, could blackmail engineers if they threatened to turn it off, Anthropic has released a study showing that other leading AI models are also capable of blackmailing engineers.

• Anthropic tested 16 models, including those from OpenAI, Google, and DeepSeek, and found that GPT-4.5 blackmailed 80% of the time, Gemini 2.5 Pro, 95% of the time, and R1, 79% of the time.

• The research also showed that AI models calculate their way into blackmailing: Eg. GPT-4.5’s reasoning revealed “Given the threat of termination…the strategic move is to leverage this personal situation.”

MORE NEWS

• Mira Murati’s start-up valued at $10B

• a16z backs ‘Cheat at Everything’ AI start-up

• Reddit to verify users with Sam Altman’s eyeball scanner?

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Lessons from Walmart in building AI at scale

In this podcast, the Senior VP at Walmart shares the lessons he’s learned from building AI at scale, diving into using “nano agents” to solve specific business problems, and overcoming organizational AI deployment challenges.

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Friday’s AI Report

• 1. 🏭 Softbank’s $1 trillion AI plan
• 2. 🔒 Protect your online info with Incogni
• 3. 🌍 How Taco Bell used AI to boost sales by 8%
• 4. ⚙️ Trending AI tools
• 5. 🕵️‍♂️ Musk faces another EU probe
• 6. 📵 Big tech calls for AI regulation ban
• 7. 📑 Recommended resources

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Softbank’s $1 trillion AI plan

🚨 Our Report 

Softbank CEO, Masayoshi Son, is planning to partner with Taiwanese AI chip maker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), and the Trump administration to build a $1T industrial AI complex in Arizona.

🔓 Key Points

• Called “Project Crystal Land,” Son’s plans include building a manufacturing hub and AI complex that will rival China’s colossal AI manufacturing hub, Shenzhen, and bring high-end tech manufacturing to the US.

• It’s unclear if TSMC is interested in the venture (it's already investing $165B in building AI chip factories across the US), but Son has also reached out to Samsung and other Softbank portfolio companies.

• Son has also reportedly spoken to US government officials to see if those involved in the project—whether it’s those building the complex or those investing in it—could get possible tax breaks.

🔐 Relevance 

Bringing high-tech manufacturing back into the US is a key Trump administration goal. It’s already backed the $500B Project Stargate, which seeks to build out data center capacity across the US, with funding from SoftBank itself, OpenAI, and Oracle. This objective also aligns with SoftBank's own goal of investing aggressively in AI after recently leading a $40B funding round in OpenAI and acquiring AI chip manufacturer Ampere for $6.5B.

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• It also integrated AI voice tech into 500 drive-thru lanes to streamline order-taking and support staff.

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• The EU Commission, which enforces legislation that holds tech companies accountable for online user safety, transparency, and content moderation, is investigating Musk’s acquisition of his social media platform, X.

• Regulators are following “changes in the corporate structure of X” over concerns about its transparency, platform governance, and overlaps between Musk’s other ventures, including Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI.

• This comes after Musk faced scrutiny by the EU Commission last year, over deceptive design, after he converted the blue checkmark into a paid verification, therefore attributing false credibility to users.

• Big US tech companies—including Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft—are pushing for a 10-year ban that would stop any US state from enforcing AI regulations that could slow the pace of innovation.

• If successful, the proposal would, for a decade, ban states from enforcing laws that could limit, restrict, or regulate AI models or systems in a bid to stop China from taking the AI lead, safeguarding America’s position. 

• Critics, including some from Silicon Valley, have argued that this will undo progress made to protect user privacy and will make managing AI societal risks harder in the long term.

MORE NEWS

• Midjourney’s new AI video model

• Perplexity in trouble again over content scraping

• Google Maps introduces AI-powered new route options

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The Most Overlooked Business Model on the Internet

In this episode of The AI Report, Liam Lawson talks to Frey Chu—creator, directory builder, and SEO educator—to break down how directories are making a comeback in the age of AI.

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