Weekly AI News - Aug. 22, 2025

This week on our show, the hosts start with social impacts, looking at a poll where a majority of Americans fear AI will permanently eliminate jobs and a study suggesting doctors may become overly reliant on AI tools. On the product front, they cover Microsoft's new AI Copilot function in Excel and Chinese startup DeepSeek's release of a powerful new open-source model. The hosts also discuss new data from Google on the energy footprint of a single AI prompt and Amazon's big bet on AI agents to win the AI race. Shifting to industry perspectives, they explore Microsoft's AI chief calling the study of AI consciousness 'dangerous', Wall Street showing jitters about the AI boom, and tech leaders weighing the pros and cons of synthetic data. They conclude with an analysis of the US-China tech war, where the focus is now shifting to physical infrastructure challenges like energy supply. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.