AI News Weekly - Issue #436: Perplexity’s CEO on fighting Google and the coming AI browser war - Apr 26th 2025

Powered by carrd.co Welcome Interested in sponsorship opportunities? Join the AI conversation and transform your advertising strategy with AI weekly sponsorship aiweekly.co In the News Perplexity’s CEO on fighting Google and the coming AI browser war Aravind Srinivas discusses his partnership with Motorola, fighting Google, and why AI assistants are coming for browsers. theverge.com Sponsor ✅ Multi-angle analysis in seconds – Get market trends, risk assessments, competitor insights, and expert-backed viewpoints in one place. ✅ No conflicting opinions to sort through – Essentials AI does the comparison for you, highlighting agreements, contradictions, and key takeaways. ✅ Always up-to-date – Unlike human teams, Essentials AI continuously scans and updates insights from trusted sources. ✅ No overhead, no delays – What once took weeks now takes minutes. carrd.co In The News Alarming rise in AI-powered scams: Microsoft reveals $4 Billion in thwarted fraud AI-powered scams are evolving rapidly as cybercriminals use new technologies to target victims, according to Microsoft’s latestCyber Signals report. artificialintelligence-news.com Chinese AI startup Manus reportedly gets funding from Benchmark at $500M valuation Chinese startup Manus AI, which works on building tools related to AI agents, has picked up $75 million in a funding round led by Benchmark at a roughly $500 million valuation, according to Bloomberg. techcrunch.com Applied use cases AI enhances air mobility planning Lincoln Laboratory is transitioning tools to the 618th Air Operations Center to streamline global transport logistics. mit.edu Google’s AI search numbers are growing, and that’s by design Google started testing AI-summarized results in Google Search, AI Overviews, two years ago, and continues to expand the feature to new regions and languages. techcrunch.com Microsoft says everyone will be a boss in the future – of AI employees Tech company predicts rise of ‘frontier firms’ – where a human worker directs AI agents to carry out tasks theguardian.com Ethics How does AI judge? Anthropic studies the values of Claude AI models like Anthropic Claude are increasingly asked not just for factual recall, but for guidance involving complex human values. artificialintelligence-news.com Israel’s A.I. Experiments in Gaza War Raise Ethical Concerns Israel developed new artificial intelligence tools to gain an advantage in the war. The technologies have sometimes led to fatal consequences. nytimes.com UAE first country to use AI to write laws As part of a wider shift to digitise the Gulf country, it has announced federal and local laws will be written by computers, along with judicial rulings, executive procedures and public services. telegraph.co.uk Robotics Who will win the race to develop a humanoid robot? I have been invited to see the G1, a humanoid robot built by Chinese firm, Unitree, at the Hannover Messe, one of the world's largest industrial trade shows. bbc.com Chinese robots ran against humans in the world’s first humanoid half-marathon If the idea of robots taking on humans in a road race conjures dystopian images of android athletic supremacy, then fear not, for now at least. cnn.com ABB to spin off world's second biggest robotics business Swiss industrial group ABB (ABBN.S), opens new tab on Thursday announced plans to spin off its robotics division in the biggest shake up at the company since it sold its power grids business to Japan's Hitachi (6501.T), opens new tab in 2018. reuters.com Research Security and privacy challenges of large language models: A survey This survey provides a thorough review of the security and privacy challenges of LLMs, along with the application-based risks in various domains, such as transportation, education, and healthcare. acm.org AI as Agency without Intelligence: On Artificial Intelligence as a New Form of Artificial Agency and the Multiple Realisability of Agency Thesis In essence, we face a dilemma: either to expand our current conception of intelligence to accommodate artificial kinds of it (the Artificial Realisability of Intelligence or ARI thesis), or to expand our current conception of agency to include forms of agency, such as artificial ones, that lack cognition, intelligence, intention, or mental states (the Multiple Realisability of Agency or MRA thesis). springer.com

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AI News Weekly - Issue #436: Perplexity’s CEO on fighting Google and the coming AI browser war - Apr 26th 2025

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Perplexity’s CEO on fighting Google and the coming AI browser war

Aravind Srinivas discusses his partnership with Motorola, fighting Google, and why AI assistants are coming for browsers.

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In The News

Alarming rise in AI-powered scams: Microsoft reveals $4 Billion in thwarted fraud

AI-powered scams are evolving rapidly as cybercriminals use new technologies to target victims, according to Microsoft’s latestCyber Signals report.

artificialintelligence-news.com

Chinese AI startup Manus reportedly gets funding from Benchmark at $500M valuation

Chinese startup Manus AI, which works on building tools related to AI agents, has picked up $75 million in a funding round led by Benchmark at a roughly $500 million valuation, according to Bloomberg.

techcrunch.com

Applied use cases

AI enhances air mobility planning

Lincoln Laboratory is transitioning tools to the 618th Air Operations Center to streamline global transport logistics.

mit.edu

Google’s AI search numbers are growing, and that’s by design

Google started testing AI-summarized results in Google Search, AI Overviews, two years ago, and continues to expand the feature to new regions and languages.

techcrunch.com

Microsoft says everyone will be a boss in the future – of AI employees

Tech company predicts rise of ‘frontier firms’ – where a human worker directs AI agents to carry out tasks

theguardian.com

Ethics

How does AI judge? Anthropic studies the values of Claude

AI models like Anthropic Claude are increasingly asked not just for factual recall, but for guidance involving complex human values.

artificialintelligence-news.com

Israel’s A.I. Experiments in Gaza War Raise Ethical Concerns

Israel developed new artificial intelligence tools to gain an advantage in the war. The technologies have sometimes led to fatal consequences.

nytimes.com

UAE first country to use AI to write laws

As part of a wider shift to digitise the Gulf country, it has announced federal and local laws will be written by computers, along with judicial rulings, executive procedures and public services.

telegraph.co.uk

Robotics

Who will win the race to develop a humanoid robot?

I have been invited to see the G1, a humanoid robot built by Chinese firm, Unitree, at the Hannover Messe, one of the world's largest industrial trade shows.

bbc.com

Chinese robots ran against humans in the world’s first humanoid half-marathon

If the idea of robots taking on humans in a road race conjures dystopian images of android athletic supremacy, then fear not, for now at least.

cnn.com

ABB to spin off world's second biggest robotics business

Swiss industrial group ABB (ABBN.S), opens new tab on Thursday announced plans to spin off its robotics division in the biggest shake up at the company since it sold its power grids business to Japan's Hitachi (6501.T), opens new tab in 2018.

reuters.com

Research

Security and privacy challenges of large language models: A survey

This survey provides a thorough review of the security and privacy challenges of LLMs, along with the application-based risks in various domains, such as transportation, education, and healthcare.

acm.org

AI as Agency without Intelligence: On Artificial Intelligence as a New Form of Artificial Agency and the Multiple Realisability of Agency Thesis

In essence, we face a dilemma: either to expand our current conception of intelligence to accommodate artificial kinds of it (the Artificial Realisability of Intelligence or ARI thesis), or to expand our current conception of agency to include forms of agency, such as artificial ones, that lack cognition, intelligence, intention, or mental states (the Multiple Realisability of Agency or MRA thesis).

springer.com

Building A Secure Agentic AI Application Leveraging Google’s A2A Protocol

This paper sets out to examine the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol in both its theoretical design and practical deployment

arxiv.org

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