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This Week in AI: Will Biden’s AI actions survive the Trump era?

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Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. This week was something of a swan song for the Biden administration. On Monday, the White House announced sweeping new restrictions on exporting AI chips — restrictions that tech giants, including Nvidia, loudly criticized. (Nvidia’s business […]

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Google inks deal with The Associated Press to bring more real-time info to Gemini

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In a bid to make its Gemini chatbot app more of one-stop shop, Google says it’s working with The Associated Press to build “a feed of real-time information” in Gemini. Jaffer Zaidi, Google’s VP of global news partnerships, said that the goal is to “further enhance the usefulness of results” in the Gemini experience. “As

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As Gen Z job applicants balloon, companies are turning to AI agent recruiters

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According to some of the latest statistics, employers are swamped by job applications. In the UK alone, employers running graduate training schemes received an average of 140 applications for each job in 2024, 59 per cent more than in 2023, according to the Institute of Student Employers. And despite some trepidations amongst a few recruiters,

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Microsoft’s newest Copilot plan for business is pay-as-you-go

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Microsoft is launching a pay-as-you-go plan for corporate customers that bundles together several, but not all, of the company’s existing AI-powered productivity features for Microsoft 365. The new plan, Copilot Chat — not to be confused with Microsoft’s Copilot Business Chat or GitHub Copilot Chat — is underpinned by OpenAI’s GPT-4o AI model and lets

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Google’s NotebookLM had to teach its AI podcast hosts not to act annoyed at humans

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Being interrupted is annoying. Apparently, even AI-generated podcast hosts agree. Or so Google NotebookLM’s users discovered. NotebookLM launched last year and went viral for its feature that creates entirely AI-generated podcast-like discussions from content users upload, discussed by chatty AI bots acting like podcast hosts. In December 2024, NotebookLM launched a new feature called “Interactive

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OpenAI appoints BlackRock exec to its board

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OpenAI has appointed an executive at investment firm BlackRock to its board of directors. Adebayo “Bayo” Ogunlesi, a senior managing director at BlackRock and CEO of Global Infrastructure Partners, an infrastructure investing platform, has joined OpenAI’s board, OpenAI announced on Tuesday. In a statement, OpenAI board chairman Bret Taylor said that Ogunlesi has “an exceptional

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Apple joins consortium to help develop next-gen AI data center tech

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Apple has joined a consortium creating next-gen technology to link together chips in AI data centers. The consortium, the Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium, is developing a standard called UALink, which connects the AI accelerator chips found within a growing number of server farms. As of Tuesday, Apple is a member of the consortium’s board, along

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