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January 13, 2025

This week’s big news is CES 2025 and all the AI announcements taking place there!

Stealing the show is NVIDIA, announcing its RTX 5090 processor with roughly 3x the power of the previous best-in-class RTX 4090. This is a pretty big increase, since typically processor and chipset improvements give a 10-20% improvement at best. Hopefully we’ll see prices of running AI models continue to decrease as processors improve in efficiency.

AI could create 78 million more jobs than it eliminates by 2030—report

As AGI talk sparks job loss fears, new WEF report projects AI-driven net job growth by 2030.

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/ai-could-create-78-million-more-jobs-than-it-eliminates-by-2030-report

$5B livestream shopping apps, Nvidia reveals, and the weirdest tech at CES

The Equity podcast crew discusses key highlights from CES 2025, startup deals of the week, and Meta's moderation changes.

techcrunch.com/podcast/5b-livestream-shopping-apps-nvidia-reveals-and-the-weirdest-tech-at-ces

What’s next for AI in 2025

You already know that agents and small language models are the next big things. Here are five other hot trends you should watch out for this year.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/08/1109188/whats-next-for-ai-in-2025

Artificial intelligence Boosts Online Shopping Sales By $229bn – Report

Artificial intelligence played a pivotal role in boosting global online holiday sales to $229bn between Nov. 1 and Dec. 31, 2024, up from $199bn in 2023, according to a Salesforce report. The rise in sales was

thewhistler.ng/artificial-intelligence-boosts-online-shopping-sales-by-229bn-report

AI means the end of internet search as we’ve known it

Despite fewer clicks, copyright fights, and sometimes iffy answers, AI could unlock new ways to summon all the world’s knowledge.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/06/1108679/ai-generative-search-internet-breakthroughs

Generative AI search: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025

Generative AI is upending traditional search engines as we know them—and helping us find stuff on our phones quickly.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/03/1108820/generative-ai-search-apple-google-microsoft-breakthrough-technologies-2025

Hippocratic AI raises $141M for creating patient-facing medical AI agents

Hippocratic AI, a startup building AI solutions that can handle non-diagnostic patient-facing tasks, secured a massive $141 million Series B at a

techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/hippocratic-ai-raises-141m-for-creating-patient-facing-ai-agents

Google folds more AI teams into DeepMind to 'accelerate the research to developer pipeline' | TechCrunch

As it looks to accelerate the pace of its AI development, Google is streamlining the teams building its AI services, platforms, and tools.

techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/google-folds-more-ai-teams-into-deepmind-to-accelerate-the-research-to-developer-pipeline

Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta's Llama team the OK to train on copyrighted works, filing claims | TechCrunch

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta's Llama team approval to train on copyrighted documents, according to a new court filing.

techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/mark-zuckerberg-gave-metas-llama-team-the-ok-to-train-on-copyrighted-works-filing-claims

Elon Musk agrees that we've exhausted AI training data | TechCrunch

Elon Musk concurs with other AI experts that there's little real-world data left to train AI models on.

techcrunch.com/2025/01/08/elon-musk-agrees-that-weve-exhausted-ai-training-data

The biggest AI flops of 2024

From chatbots dishing out illegal advice to dodgy AI-generated search results, take a look back over the year’s top AI failures.

www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/31/1109612/biggest-worst-ai-artificial-intelligence-flops-fails-2024

Small language models: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025

Large language models unleashed the power of AI. Now it’s time for more efficient AIs to take over.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/03/1108800/small-language-models-ai-breakthrough-technologies-2025

CES 2025 was full of IRL AI slop | TechCrunch

This year's Consumer Electronics Show was full of weird AI products with questionable value propositions — IRL AI slop, if you will.

techcrunch.com/2025/01/08/ces-2025-was-full-of-irl-ai-slop

Elon Musk wants courts to force OpenAI to auction off a large ownership stake

Owner of Grok has asked judges in California and Delaware to force sale.

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/elon-musk-wants-openai-to-auction-off-a-large-ownership-stake

This Week in AI: More capable AI is coming, but will its benefits be evenly distributed? | TechCrunch

Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. The AI news cycle didn't

techcrunch.com/2025/01/08/this-week-in-ai-more-capable-ai-is-coming-but-will-its-benefits-be-evenly-distributed

The AI Hype Index: Robot pets, simulated humans, and Apple’s AI text summaries

MIT Technology Review’s highly subjective take on the latest buzz about AI.

www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/31/1108640/ai-hype-index-apple-google-deepmind-openai-meta

Viral ChatGPT-powered sentry gun gets shut down by OpenAI

But actual autonomous AI weapons systems are much more terrifying.

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/viral-chatgpt-powered-sentry-gun-gets-shut-down-by-openai

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