AI News - February 24, 2025

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We're excited to bring you this week's roundup of the most fascinating AI news, updates, and breakthroughs! Grab a cup of your favorite beverage, sit back, and explore the incredible world of AI with us.

🔥 Top AI Stories of the Week

1. Chinese holding company Alibaba pledges to spend 53 billion USD on AI infrastructure over the next three years. [Link]

2. Minnesota AI traffic cameras pick up distracted drivers using cellphones. [Link]

3. OpenAI rolls out Operator, its AI agent to ChatGPT users in multiple countries. [Link]

4. Google’s Career Dreamer app uses AI to help people find their desired career. [Link]

5. The government of Japan is mulling relaxing privacy rules to assist in AI development. [Link]

6. OpenAI has banned accounts misusing ChatGPT to conduct surveillance and influence campaigns. [Link]

7. The California Assembly introduces bill AB-412, which would require AI software developers to disclose copyrighted material used to train their models. [Link]

8. OpenAI uncovered evidence of a Chinese surveillance tool using ChatGPT to monitor overseas dissidents. [Link]

9. Google develops an AI “co-scientist” to be a research assistant. [Link]

10. Google’s “co-scientist” solves a problem in 48 hours that took scientists decades to solve and prove. [Link]

11. Scientists develop an AI tool that can diagnose Covid, HIV, and diabetes from a single blood sample. [Link]

12. Microsoft develops Muse, an AI for computer video games. [Link]

13. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University, among others, have developed a new AI model, Evo2, to model and design DNA sequences. [Link]

14. The Humane AI Pin is dead. Company has been sold to Hewlett Packard. [Link]

15. Concerns have arisen over Israel’s use of US-based LLMs in their war in Gaza. [Link]