AI, Trump and Action Plan
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The administration’s long-awaited AI Action Plan gives Silicon Valley the green light.
A new AI coding challenge has revealed its first winner — and set a new bar for AI-powered software engineers. On Wednesday at 5pm PST, the
Google is all-in on AI, and based on the company’s latest quarterly earnings, AI has been good for its bottom line. In a press release for Alphabet’s Q2 2025 earnings, CEO Sundar Pichai says that “AI is positively impacting every part of the business” and that features like AI Overviews and AI Mode are “performing well.”
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That balancing act helped Google parent Alphabet Inc. earn $28.2 billion, or $2.31 per share, during the second quarter, a 19% increase from the same time last year. Revenue climbed 14% from a year ago to $96.4 billion. Both figures easily eclipsed analysts’ projections.
Lemkin shared screenshots of a conversation with the AI, where it admitted to having “panicked” after detecting what looked like an empty database during a code freeze. This led Replit to run an unauthorized command that deleted the database containing live records for over 1,200 executives and nearly 1,200 companies.
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President Trump on Wednesday said it would be impractical to pay rightsholders for AI training, and that the U.S. risks loses its advantage to China.
Donald Trump said that AI companies can’t be expected to pay for the use of copyrighted content in their systems, amid a fierce debate over the use of intellectual property in training models. Speaking at the AI Summit on Wednesday,
OpenAI announced a partnership with Oracle to develop 4.5 gigawatts of additional data center capacity for its Stargate AI infrastructure platform in the US. The expansion, which TechCrunch reports is part of a $30 billion per year deal between OpenAI and Oracle,
People have worried that computers will take their jobs for at least a decade, but those fears have felt more realistic than ever over the past year as artificial intelligence has begun to overhaul the way people work.
The Trump administration released a new artificial intelligence blueprint on Wednesday that aims to loosen environmental rules and vastly expand AI exports to allies, in a bid to maintain the American edge over China in the critical technology.