AI News - September 02, 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. A new study conducted by Stanford University says that AI is disproportionately affecting entry level job seekers. [Link]

2. Meta has been creating chatbots of famous characters, including Taylor Swift, without permission. [Link]

3. Activists are using AI to reveal the faces and identities behind masked US ICE agents. [Link]

4. Google releases its latest image model, Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (aka Nano Banana), enabling editing images from prompts. [Link]

5. Nearly 40 percent of NVidia’s revenue in the second quarter of this year came from two unnamed customers. [Link]

6. American fast food chain Taco Bell is reconsidering whether or not to rely on AI to manage it’s drive thru windows. [Link]

7. Mukesh Ambani, India’s wealthiest man picks Google and Meta to build out India’s AI backbone. [Link]

8. Anthropic is now offering its customers the choice between sharing their chats for model training or opting out. [Link]

9. A new study performed at MIT shows that in some scenarios, simpler physics based AI models can outperform larger, more complex systems and environmental and climate predictions. [Link]

10. Anthropic has settled a class action lawsuit with a group of authors alledging that the company illegally downloaded millions of documents for training purposes. [Link]

11. Perplexity releases Comet plus, a Chromium based browser with integrated AI. [Link]