AI News Weekly - Issue #430 : Here’s why Google pitched its $32B Wiz acquisition as ‘multicloud’ - Mar 20th 2025
Powered by metronome.com Welcome Interested in sponsorship opportunities? Join the AI conversation and transform your advertising strategy with AI weekly sponsorship aiweekly.co In the News Here’s why Google pitched its $32B Wiz acquisition as ‘multicloud’ Tuesday’s big news that Google is acquiring security startup Wiz for a record-breaking $32 billion comes with a very big qualifier. techcrunch.com Sponsor Transitioning to Usage-Based Pricing Webinar with Sam Lee Join Sam Lee and Scott Woody for a deep dive into transitioning to usage-based pricing. From how to monetize AI-driven features to the top pitfalls when making the shift, this is a webinar you don't want to miss. Save your spot today. Register for the webinar metronome.com In The News Arcade raises $12M from Perplexity co-founder’s new fund to make AI agents less awful Arcade, an AI agent infrastructure startup founded by former Okta exec Alex Salazar and former Redis engineer Sam Partee, has raised $12 million from Laude Ventures. techcrunch.com Hundreds of celebrities warn against letting OpenAI and Google ‘freely exploit’ Hollywood Ben Stiller, Mark Ruffalo, Aubrey Plaza, and others say OpenAI and Google want an exemption to train AI on copyrighted materials. theverge.com AI Researchers : Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End This, more or less, is the line being taken by AI researchers in a recent survey. Asked whether "scaling up" current AI approaches could lead to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), or a general purpose AI that matches or surpasses human cognition, an overwhelming 76 percent of respondents said it was "unlikely" or "very unlikely" to succeed. futurism.com Applied use cases Italian newspaper says it has published world’s first AI-generated edition Il Foglio says artificial intelligence used ‘for everything – the writing, the headlines, the quotes … even the irony’ theguardian.com DeepMind study offers wide-lens view of our tech lords and AGI Director Greg Kohs uses every tool in the editing palette to explain how Artificial General Intelligence (as differentiated from Artificial Intelligence) works theguardian.com The first music album created entirely with AI The artificial intelligence revolution never ceases to amaze us. Nowadays it seems it's possible to do almost anything with this technology, but there are still fields in which, although developers have been busy for years, are yet to be fully implemented in society. euronews.com Ethics An AI future that honors dignity for everyone As artificial intelligence develops, we must ask vital questions about ourselves and our society, Ben Vinson III contends in the 2025 Compton Lecture. mit.edu OpenAI calls for US to centralize AI regulation In its contribution to a government consultation on AI regulation filed Thursday, the company also pointed to AI regulatory efforts in China as a threat to US developers — but then suggested that the US should embrace a similar model of AI vendors and government cooperation. computerworld.com AI Writing Tools in Schools: Ethical or Not? Artificial intelligence technology has witnessed writing instruments advanced within classroom environments. The ability of these instruments to generate content, proofread, and even offer ideas has attracted broad controversy. analyticsinsight.net Robotics 3D printing approach strings together dynamic objects for you “Xstrings” method enables users to produce cable-driven objects, automatically assembling bionic robots, sculptures, and dynamic fashion designs. mit.edu Nvidia says ‘the age of generalist robotics is here’ At GTC 2025, Nvidia demonstrated 1X’s NEO Gamma humanoid robot running its GR00T N1 foundation model. theverge.com Google, OpenAI, Meta and Amazon turn to robotics AI companies are developing software and hardware for robots, whether for industrial or domestic use. lemonde.fr Research Explainable AI of DNA methylation-based brain tumor diagnostics Neuro-oncology research would benefit greatly from understanding the underlying artificial intelligence decision process, which currently remains unclear. Here, we describe an interpretable framework to explain the classifier’s decisions. nature.com Google DeepMind CEO says that humans have just over 5 years before AI will outsmart them Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said t
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Here’s why Google pitched its $32B Wiz acquisition as ‘multicloud’
Tuesday’s big news that Google is acquiring security startup Wiz for a record-breaking $32 billion comes with a very big qualifier.
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Transitioning to Usage-Based Pricing Webinar with Sam Lee
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In The News
Arcade raises $12M from Perplexity co-founder’s new fund to make AI agents less awful
Arcade, an AI agent infrastructure startup founded by former Okta exec Alex Salazar and former Redis engineer Sam Partee, has raised $12 million from Laude Ventures.
Hundreds of celebrities warn against letting OpenAI and Google ‘freely exploit’ Hollywood
Ben Stiller, Mark Ruffalo, Aubrey Plaza, and others say OpenAI and Google want an exemption to train AI on copyrighted materials.
AI Researchers : Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End
This, more or less, is the line being taken by AI researchers in a recent survey. Asked whether "scaling up" current AI approaches could lead to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), or a general purpose AI that matches or surpasses human cognition, an overwhelming 76 percent of respondents said it was "unlikely" or "very unlikely" to succeed.
Applied use cases
Italian newspaper says it has published world’s first AI-generated edition
Il Foglio says artificial intelligence used ‘for everything – the writing, the headlines, the quotes … even the irony’
DeepMind study offers wide-lens view of our tech lords and AGI
Director Greg Kohs uses every tool in the editing palette to explain how Artificial General Intelligence (as differentiated from Artificial Intelligence) works
The first music album created entirely with AI
The artificial intelligence revolution never ceases to amaze us. Nowadays it seems it's possible to do almost anything with this technology, but there are still fields in which, although developers have been busy for years, are yet to be fully implemented in society.
Ethics
An AI future that honors dignity for everyone
As artificial intelligence develops, we must ask vital questions about ourselves and our society, Ben Vinson III contends in the 2025 Compton Lecture.
OpenAI calls for US to centralize AI regulation
In its contribution to a government consultation on AI regulation filed Thursday, the company also pointed to AI regulatory efforts in China as a threat to US developers — but then suggested that the US should embrace a similar model of AI vendors and government cooperation.
AI Writing Tools in Schools: Ethical or Not?
Artificial intelligence technology has witnessed writing instruments advanced within classroom environments. The ability of these instruments to generate content, proofread, and even offer ideas has attracted broad controversy.
Robotics
3D printing approach strings together dynamic objects for you
“Xstrings” method enables users to produce cable-driven objects, automatically assembling bionic robots, sculptures, and dynamic fashion designs.
Nvidia says ‘the age of generalist robotics is here’
At GTC 2025, Nvidia demonstrated 1X’s NEO Gamma humanoid robot running its GR00T N1 foundation model.
Google, OpenAI, Meta and Amazon turn to robotics
AI companies are developing software and hardware for robots, whether for industrial or domestic use.
Research
Explainable AI of DNA methylation-based brain tumor diagnostics
Neuro-oncology research would benefit greatly from understanding the underlying artificial intelligence decision process, which currently remains unclear. Here, we describe an interpretable framework to explain the classifier’s decisions.
Google DeepMind CEO says that humans have just over 5 years before AI will outsmart them
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said that AGI will compete with human competence in the next five to 10 years, and that it will “exhibit all the complicated capabilities” people have. This could escalate worries over job replacement with AI—which is already in motion at companies like Klarna and Workday.
Early warning of complex climate risk with integrated AI
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