Newscasts - AI Weekly: Google's bots and Donald's deals

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21/05/2025 21:38

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Description: From why the bots are taking over searches at Google, to what Donald Trump did in the UAE, we round up the week's big stories from the AI revolution. Arrthy Thayaparan reports.

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From why Google is letting bots do the searching, to another deal for Donald Trump in the Gulf, this is AI Weekly. Google unveiled its new AI Mode. It芒聙聶s a more powerful integration of bots and search, driven by the firm芒聙聶s Gemini model. Sundar Pichai, boss of parent firm Alphabet, spoke at Google芒聙聶s annual conference in California.

Users have been asking much longer queries, two to three times the length of traditional searches, and you can go further with follow up questions. All of this is available today as a new tab right in search.

Google also launched a new subscription plan for power users, offering higher usage limits for AI. Donald Trump signed another AI deal on his tour of Gulf states. Under the agreement, the US will allow the United Arab Emirates greater access to American chips.

This will generate billions and billions of dollars in business and accelerate the UAE's plans to become a really major player in artificial intelligence.

The UAE hopes the deal can make it an AI hub and has plans for a huge new campus devoted to the technology. NVIDIA boss Jensen Huang says US controls on the export of AI chips to China were a "failure." Speaking in Taiwan, he said the curbs had done nothing but cost American firms billions in sales. Huang praised Trump for backing a rethink on the rules. Microsoft says it will offer AI models from other providers hosted on its own data centers. That includes bots from Elon Musk芒聙聶s xAI, Meta Platforms and European startup Mistral. The tech giant wants to become more of a neutral player in the AI arms race and now seems less keen to shell out huge sums funding ChatGPT maker OpenAI. And a new report from the United Nations says women are more likely than men to lose their jobs to a bot. The report says almost 10% of traditionally female roles were set to be transformed, compared to just 3.5% for those generally done by men. That's as AI increasingly takes on administrative tasks and clerical jobs. The report warns media, software and finance roles will be among the most vulnerable.