AI Daily Brief — 21 January 2025
Day Two of the Trump administration delivered the Stargate Project — a $500-billion four-year US AI infrastructure joint venture announced at the White House by Trump,…
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AI Daily Brief — 20 January 2025
Inauguration day delivered the single most consequential 24 hours in open-source AI history alongside a wholesale rewrite of US AI policy. DeepSeek released R1 and R1-Zero…
AI Daily Brief — 19 January 2025
Sunday was the calm-before-the-storm day. TikTok restored US service after Trump publicly committed to a Day-1 executive order pausing enforcement; the app came back without ByteDance's…
AI Daily Brief — 18 January 2025
Saturday went dark — literally. At roughly 10:30 PM ET, TikTok voluntarily blacked out service for about 170 million US users. The most consequential AI-adjacent signal…
AI Daily Brief — 17 January 2025
Friday delivered a unanimous Supreme Court, a White House staffing pick, an FTC inquiry result, and a Google DeepMind paper that would influence the year's inference-time…
AI Daily Brief — 16 January 2025
Thursday's anchor came from Hsinchu: TSMC walked the Street through a blockbuster Q4 — revenue up 38.8% YoY, 59% gross margin, record AI-accelerator demand — and…
AI Daily Brief — 15 January 2025
Wednesday brought MiniMax-01's public open-weights drop — and with it the year's first credible Chinese open-source punch at GPT-4o pricing. The Diffusion Rule formally published in…
AI Daily Brief — 14 January 2025
Tuesday's headline was Biden's second AI executive order in two days — EO 14141, directing the Department of Defense and Department of Energy to lease federal…
AI Daily Brief — 13 January 2025
Monday delivered the year's most consequential policy day so far. The outgoing Biden administration published the sweeping "Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion" — a tiered global…
AI Daily Brief — 12 January 2025
Sunday was quieter still. The week ahead would carry the Biden AI Diffusion Rule and the start of an unusually loud calendar; today, Washington and industry…
AI Daily Brief — 11 January 2025
A genuine Saturday lull. No frontier-lab announcements, no model weights, no funding closes — but the industry was visibly bracing for the outgoing Biden administration's AI…
AI Daily Brief — 10 January 2025
Friday delivered the year's first earnings shock and the launch that would later reshape the global AI conversation. TSMC posted a blowout Q4, with full-year 2024…
AI Daily Brief — 09 January 2025
Thursday was thinner. xAI rolled out a standalone Grok iOS app worldwide — moving Grok off the X platform and into a dedicated consumer app after…
AI Daily Brief — 08 January 2025
Wednesday's dominant story came from Redmond: Microsoft fully open-sourced its 14B-parameter Phi-4 small language model on Hugging Face under an MIT license, opening to commercial use…
AI Daily Brief — 07 January 2025
Tuesday delivered the year's most consequential news cluster yet: Las Vegas police revealed the Cybertruck bomber had used ChatGPT to plan the Trump Hotel blast, calling…
AI Daily Brief — 06 January 2025
Monday delivered the year's first compute supershow. Jensen Huang opened CES 2025 with NVIDIA's Blackwell consumer line (RTX 50 series), unveiled the $3,000 Project DIGITS personal…
AI Daily Brief — 05 January 2025
Sunday turned into the loudest day of the new year so far. Sam Altman published "Reflections," declaring OpenAI is "now confident we know how to build…
AI Daily Brief — 04 January 2025
A quiet Saturday in the labs gave Sam Altman the floor: his first tweet of the year — a six-word story reading "near the singularity; unclear…
AI Daily Brief — 03 January 2025
Friday delivered the first big number of 2025: Microsoft's Vice Chair and President Brad Smith pledged roughly $80 billion in AI-datacenter capex for the firm's fiscal…
AI Daily Brief — 02 January 2025
The first US workday of the year started cautiously. The only verifiable corporate move came from Beijing — Baidu disclosing its Kunlunxin AI-chip arm had filed…
AI Daily Brief — 01 January 2025
The new year opened with no fresh frontier-lab announcements but a quiet earthquake in US AI law: California's first wave of statutes signed by Governor Newsom…