Weekly AI News - Aug. 8, 2025

This week on our show, the hosts start by looking at the massive energy demands of the AI boom, which the power industry is counting on for significant growth. Then, they dive into a series of major announcements from OpenAI, including providing ChatGPT Enterprise to the entire U.S. federal workforce , releasing new open-weight models called gpt-oss , and unveiling their smartest and fastest model yet, GPT-5. The hosts also cover Google's move to offer its best AI tools to college students for free for 12 months. The conversation then shifts to the market, with a new survey showing retail investors are split on trusting AI for financial advice , while high costs and thin margins are threatening the viability of many AI coding startups. Finally, they discuss how agentic AI offers a promising solution for banks to fight financial crime , Google testing a new AI-powered version of Google Finance , and how the US and China are reshaping AI geopolitics with competing visions for regulation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.