Weekly AI News - May 09, 2025

This week on our show, the hosts discuss the Trump administration's plans to scrap Biden's AI chip export controls and OpenAI's reported $3B acquisition of Windsurf to boost AI coding. They cover US AI executives urging Congress on policies to compete with China and OpenAI's for-profit arm becoming a Public Benefit Corporation. Discussion includes Anthropic launching web search on its API and OpenAI's 'OpenAI for Countries' initiative. They analyze how AI challenges Google Search but Alphabet is integrating AI for buffering. Further topics include famous authors suing Meta over AI and copyright infringement, ServiceNow and Nvidia unveiling a new reasoning LLM to enhance enterprise AI agents, and the troubling trend of more powerful AI models being increasingly prone to 'hallucinations'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.