AI News Weekly - Issue #428: From ChatGPT to Gemini: how AI is rewriting the internet - Mar 6th 2025

Powered by jotform.ai Welcome Interested in sponsorship opportunities? Join the AI conversation and transform your advertising strategy with AI weekly sponsorship aiweekly.co In the News From ChatGPT to Gemini: how AI is rewriting the internet Big players, including Microsoft, with Copilot, Google, with Gemini, and OpenAI, with GPT-4o, are making AI chatbot technology previously restricted to test labs more accessible to the general public. theverge.com Sponsor Jotform AI Agents are live Jotform AI Agents simplify operations, deliver instant responses, and elevate user satisfaction across every channel. Discover Jotform AI Agents jotform.com In The News Anthropic’s valuation triples to $61.5bn in bumper AI funding round Four-year-old artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic has raised $3.5bn in a deal that triples its valuation to more than $60bn, as it aims to keep pace with OpenAI and ahead of newer rivals including China’s DeepSeek. ft.com OpenAI launches $50M grant program to help fund academic research OpenAI on Monday said it is supporting a new consortium called NextGenAI that would focus on supporting AI-assisted research at top universities. techcrunch.com Applied use cases AI now ‘analyzes’ LA Times articles for bias Yesterday morning, billionaire Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong published a letter to readers letting them know the outlet is now using AI to add a “Voices” label to articles that take “a stance” or are “written from a personal perspective.” theverge.com Autoscience Carl: The first AI scientist writing peer-reviewed papers Carl’s research papers were accepted in the Tiny Papers track at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). Critically, these submissions were generated with minimal human involvement, heralding a new era for AI-driven scientific discovery. artificialintelligence-news.com School pupils set for AI and digital skills hubs Secondary school pupils in Lancashire are set to experience future technologies like AI and virtual reality. Lancashire MEGA Hubs is a new scheme aimed at enhancing digital skills and career opportunities for youngsters, the county council said. bbc.com Ethics How can we take AI to the edge of possibility? While AI is already embedded in daily life, its true transformative potential remains underutilized. Equitable access to AI is essential to prevent a widening digital divide. The World Economic Forum and VivaTech launched the European Centre for AI Excellence (CAIE) to develop responsible AI solutions. weforum.org Trump’s rollback of AI guardrails leaves US workers ‘at real risk’ Protections introduced under Joe Biden to ensure the safe, secure and trustworthy development and use of AI were swiftly repealed by the Trump administration – as top executives outlined sweeping plans to overhaul the labor force. theguardian.com AI at the Brink: Preventing the Subversion of Democracy The year is 2028. The world’s leading economies are in turmoil as artificial intelligence systems, once hailed as engines of progress, have outpaced human governance. techpolicy.press Robotics Boston Dynamics Led a Robot Revolution. Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert says reinforcement learning is helping his creations gain more independence. wired.com Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling In the video, the robot hangs suspended from the ceiling as its limbs twitch and kick, marking what the company claims is a step toward its goal of creating household-helper robots. arstechnica.com Apptronik’s humanoid robots take the first steps toward building themselves Apptronik, an Austin-based maker of humanoid robots, on Tuesday announced a new pilot partnership with American supply chain/manufacturing stalwart, Jabil. The deal arrives two weeks after Apptronik announced a $350 million Series A financing round aimed at scaling up production of its Apollo robot. techcrunch.com Research AI for modelling infectious disease epidemics AI and related technologies, which are already supporting human decision making in economics, medicine and social science, have the potential to transform the scope and power of infectious disease epidemiology. Here we consider the application to infectious disease modelling of AI systems that combine machine learning, computational statistics, information retrieval and data science. nature.com

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AI News Weekly - Issue #428:  From ChatGPT to Gemini: how AI is rewriting the internet - Mar 6th 2025

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In the News

From ChatGPT to Gemini: how AI is rewriting the internet

Big players, including Microsoft, with Copilot, Google, with Gemini, and OpenAI, with GPT-4o, are making AI chatbot technology previously restricted to test labs more accessible to the general public.

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In The News

Anthropic’s valuation triples to $61.5bn in bumper AI funding round

Four-year-old artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic has raised $3.5bn in a deal that triples its valuation to more than $60bn, as it aims to keep pace with OpenAI and ahead of newer rivals including China’s DeepSeek.

ft.com

OpenAI launches $50M grant program to help fund academic research

OpenAI on Monday said it is supporting a new consortium called NextGenAI that would focus on supporting AI-assisted research at top universities.

techcrunch.com

Applied use cases

AI now ‘analyzes’ LA Times articles for bias

Yesterday morning, billionaire Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong published a letter to readers letting them know the outlet is now using AI to add a “Voices” label to articles that take “a stance” or are “written from a personal perspective.”

theverge.com

Autoscience Carl: The first AI scientist writing peer-reviewed papers

Carl’s research papers were accepted in the Tiny Papers track at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). Critically, these submissions were generated with minimal human involvement, heralding a new era for AI-driven scientific discovery.

artificialintelligence-news.com

School pupils set for AI and digital skills hubs

Secondary school pupils in Lancashire are set to experience future technologies like AI and virtual reality. Lancashire MEGA Hubs is a new scheme aimed at enhancing digital skills and career opportunities for youngsters, the county council said.

bbc.com

Ethics

How can we take AI to the edge of possibility?

While AI is already embedded in daily life, its true transformative potential remains underutilized. Equitable access to AI is essential to prevent a widening digital divide. The World Economic Forum and VivaTech launched the European Centre for AI Excellence (CAIE) to develop responsible AI solutions.

weforum.org

Trump’s rollback of AI guardrails leaves US workers ‘at real risk’

Protections introduced under Joe Biden to ensure the safe, secure and trustworthy development and use of AI were swiftly repealed by the Trump administration – as top executives outlined sweeping plans to overhaul the labor force.

theguardian.com

AI at the Brink: Preventing the Subversion of Democracy

The year is 2028. The world’s leading economies are in turmoil as artificial intelligence systems, once hailed as engines of progress, have outpaced human governance.

techpolicy.press

Robotics

Boston Dynamics Led a Robot Revolution.

Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert says reinforcement learning is helping his creations gain more independence.

wired.com

Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling

In the video, the robot hangs suspended from the ceiling as its limbs twitch and kick, marking what the company claims is a step toward its goal of creating household-helper robots.

arstechnica.com

Apptronik’s humanoid robots take the first steps toward building themselves

Apptronik, an Austin-based maker of humanoid robots, on Tuesday announced a new pilot partnership with American supply chain/manufacturing stalwart, Jabil. The deal arrives two weeks after Apptronik announced a $350 million Series A financing round aimed at scaling up production of its Apollo robot.

techcrunch.com

Research

AI for modelling infectious disease epidemics

AI and related technologies, which are already supporting human decision making in economics, medicine and social science, have the potential to transform the scope and power of infectious disease epidemiology. Here we consider the application to infectious disease modelling of AI systems that combine machine learning, computational statistics, information retrieval and data science.

nature.com

The potential of Generative AI across disciplines: Perspectives and future directions

The current article brings together experts in a variety of fields to expound and provide multi-disciplinary insights on the opportunities, challenges, and research agendas of generative AI in specific industries (i.e. marketing, healthcare, human resource, education, banking, retailing, the workplace, manufacturing, and sustainable IT management).

tandfonline.com

Integrating AI in energy transition: A comprehensive review

This review highlights that AI is not just a tool but a transformative catalyst, reshaping global energy systems into equitable, resilient, and sustainable frameworks, essential for achieving a net-zero future.

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