This Week’s News

  1. Pope Leo XIV urges Catholics to spread the gospel using AI. [Link]

  2. IBM will lay off 2,700 workers and replace them with AI. [Link]

  3. Utah and California are now requiring businesses to tell you when you are chatting to AI. [Link]

  4. Google continues to innovate in AI:

    1. Google’s scientist AI model pinpoints new drug targets for liver fibrosis. [Link]
    2. Google is giving its maps app a boost by integrating its Gemini LLM. [Link]
  5. Apple will spend billions to use a customized version of Gemini to upgrade its Siri voice assistant. [Link]

  6. Amazon has launched an AI powered Kindle translation service. [Link]

  7. AI search company Perplexity signs a 400 million USD deal with Snap to integrate its search functionality into Snapchat. [Link]

  8. Microsoft has built a simulated marketplace to test AI Agents. [Link]

  9. NVidia and Qualcomm have joined India’s Deep Tech alliance and pledge over 850 million USD to help India’s AI tech industry. [Link]

  10. Anthropic projects revenues of 70 billion USD by 2028. [Link]

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