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AI News - March 16, 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. Cursor.ai’s LLM tells a software developer to write their own code. [Link]

  2. Y Combinator, the startup incubator in Silicon Valley, says that their AI startups are the most profitable in its history. [Link]

  3. Spain will impose huge fines on companies that don’t label AI generated content. [Link]

  4. Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, predicts that AI development will cease if their use of copyrighted material is not declared ‘Fair Use’. [Link]

  5. Google’s Gemini LLM can now personalize search queries based on a user’s browser history. [Link]

  6. Google releases two new AI models for robotics. [Link]

  7. Chinese manufacturer Foxconn has released its own AI model called Foxbrain as an open source platform. [Link]

  8. Lawmakers in the US state of Illinois are seeking to regulate the use of AI in healthcare. [Link]

  9. OpenAI has announced an AI model that excels at creative writing. [Link]

  10. Sony Corporation is experimenting with AI powered Playstation characters. [Link]

  11. Microsoft will invest 10 Billion USD into AI cloud provider Coreweave by the end of the decade. [Link]

  12. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer declares that AI will replace some of the work of British civil servants. [Link]

  13. The US Internal Revenue Service will pause its modernization efforts to evaluate new AI technologies. [Link]

  14. AI is speeding up oil field discovery and production. [Link]

  15. Baidu launched two new AI models, ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1, claiming superior performance to GPT-4.5 at a fraction of the cost. [Link]

  16. Google launched Gemini 2.0 Flash, a new feature in its AI Studio that enhances image generation and editing through text prompts. [Link]

  17. Figure introduces BotQ, a high-volume robot manufacturing facility initially designed to produce 12,000 robots per year, and scale up to support a fleet of 100,000. [Link]

  18. Manus launched an AI Agent with 2M+ users on its waitlist. Manus can automate workflows, perform deep research, and more. [Link]

  19. Cohere introduced Command A, a model optimized for the enterprise. [Link]