AI Daily Brief — 14 February 2025
Valentine's Day delivered an Atlantic-rupturing speech and a unanimous corporate-governance "no." JD Vance attacked EU democratic norms from the Munich Security Conference stage. OpenAI's board unanimously…
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AI Daily Brief — 13 February 2025
Thursday locked in the post-Paris pivot. UK Tech Secretary Peter Kyle rebranded the AI Safety Institute as the AI Security Institute and signed an Anthropic MoU.…
AI Daily Brief — 12 February 2025
Wednesday delivered OpenAI's most explicit product roadmap of the year and the first US court ruling against an AI training fair-use defense. Altman tweeted GPT-4.5 "in…
AI Daily Brief — 11 February 2025
Tuesday delivered the year's most consequential US-EU AI policy split. JD Vance's keynote rejected "excessive regulation" — would "kill a transformative industry just as it's taking…
AI Daily Brief — 10 February 2025
Monday opened the Paris AI Action Summit at the Grand Palais with PM Modi co-chairing alongside Macron. Modi delivered the opening address — "writing the code…
AI Daily Brief — 09 February 2025
Sunday delivered the year's largest pre-Summit European volley. Macron pre-announced a €109B AI investment package on France 2. He told viewers to "download Le Chat instead…
AI Daily Brief — 08 February 2025
Saturday was the pre-Summit weekend's opening salvo. Axios reported Sam Altman planned to tell Paris leaders to widen their AI mindset from risk to growth. Vice…
AI Daily Brief — 07 February 2025
Friday delivered a bipartisan US House move against DeepSeek and the close of Sam Altman's whirlwind Asia tour. Gottheimer-LaHood introduced H.R.1121 — the No DeepSeek on…
AI Daily Brief — 06 February 2025
Thursday delivered the year's first sovereign-AI consumer launch and Amazon's Q4 capex shock. Mistral released Le Chat mobile with Cerebras 1,000 tok/s; Macron endorsed it on…
AI Daily Brief — 05 February 2025
Wednesday delivered Google's full Gemini 2.0 family in production. Flash GA at $0.10 input / $0.40 output per million tokens with 1M context; Pro Experimental with…
AI Daily Brief — 04 February 2025
Tuesday opened with a measured Chinese counter-strike and a methodological landmark from Anthropic. Beijing answered Trump's tariffs with 15% duties on coal/LNG, critical mineral export controls,…
AI Daily Brief — 03 February 2025
Monday opened with the year's most consequential bilateral AI announcement. In Tokyo, Sam Altman and Masayoshi Son unveiled SB OpenAI Japan — a 50-50 joint venture…
AI Daily Brief — 02 February 2025
Sunday delivered the EU AI Act's first hard deadline. Article 5 prohibitions went live across all 27 member states — eight categories of "unacceptable-risk" AI practice…
AI Daily Brief — 01 February 2025
Saturday opened February with a Washington tariff salvo and an Altman Asia tour. Trump signed three executive orders imposing a 10% tariff on China imports and…
AI Daily Brief — 31 January 2025
Friday closed January with OpenAI's direct answer to the DeepSeek shock. o3-mini and o3-mini-high shipped in ChatGPT and the API, including — for the first time…
AI Daily Brief — 30 January 2025
Thursday made the regulatory backlash formal. Italy's Garante imposed an urgent limitation on DeepSeek's processing of Italian users' personal data. Anthropic published the "Constitutional Classifiers" research.…
AI Daily Brief — 29 January 2025
Lunar New Year's Day delivered a multi-front escalation. Alibaba released Qwen2.5-Max — an MoE pretrained on more than 20 trillion tokens. Bloomberg reported Microsoft was probing…
AI Daily Brief — 28 January 2025
Tuesday turned into the day Washington picked a side. White House AI czar David Sacks went on Fox News with "substantial evidence" that DeepSeek had distilled…
AI Daily Brief — 27 January 2025
Monday delivered the largest single-day market-cap loss in US stock-market history. NVIDIA fell 16.97% to close at $118.58, erasing approximately $589 billion in market value in…
AI Daily Brief — 26 January 2025
Sunday delivered the consumer milestone that would lock in Monday's market response. DeepSeek hit #1 on the US Apple App Store, displacing ChatGPT and topping charts…
AI Daily Brief — 25 January 2025
Saturday was the calm-before-the-crash day. With US markets closed, DeepSeek's app daily active users surged more than 110% versus the prior week and weekly unique web…
AI Daily Brief — 24 January 2025
Friday closed Davos with AI as the dominant theme and silicon as the unsolved bottleneck. Jensen Huang called AI "the largest infrastructure buildout in human history."…
AI Daily Brief — 23 January 2025
Thursday rewrote US AI policy and launched the year's first headline agentic-AI product. Trump signed Executive Order 14179 revoking Biden's October 2023 Safe AI EO. OpenAI…
AI Daily Brief — 22 January 2025
Wednesday delivered three simultaneous shocks. ByteDance released Doubao 1.5 Pro at API prices roughly 50x below GPT-4o and 200x below OpenAI o1. DeepSeek-R1 and Moonshot's Kimi…