Weekly AI News - Aug. 1, 2025

This week on our show, the hosts start with global policy, as China calls for an international consensus on balancing AI development and security. On the product front, they discuss Google's NotebookLM getting a "Video Overviews" update and OpenAI launching a new "study mode" for ChatGPT to help users learn step-by-step. The conversation then shifts to the job market, with a new Microsoft paper listing which jobs are most and least vulnerable to AI automation. In other news, Shanghai is intensifying China's internal AI race with a massive new subsidy program. The hosts also explore the soaring salaries for top AI talent, with pay packages now reaching $250 million, similar to sports stars , and look at a startup that has launched an AI-powered version of Excel. Finally, they cover Meta's vision for "personal superintelligence" , Google's official rollout of its multi-agent Gemini Deep Think model , and the growing importance of data labeling for creating effective AI agents. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.