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🏗️ Amazon Builds Massive AI Hub in Indiana
Amazon is constructing a vast AI data center in Indiana to support Anthropic, spanning 1,200 acres and eventually housing 30 facilities. The site will draw 2.2 gigawatts of power and use millions of gallons of water annually. Amazon’s strategy favors simpler, in-house chips over NVIDIA’s. The project faces local opposition over its environmental impact.

🤖 Gemini’s On-Device AI Powers Smarter Robots
Gemini Robotics On-Device is a compact AI model that runs directly on robots, enabling fast, low-latency performance without cloud access. It handles complex tasks like folding clothes and adapts with as few as 50 demos. Supporting multiple robot types and paired with an SDK, it’s a leap toward more autonomous, responsive machines.

⚖️ Judge Backs Anthropic’s Fair Use in AI Case
A U.S. judge ruled that Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books to train its AI model Claude qualifies as fair use, marking a key win for tech firms. However, storing 7 million pirated books was deemed infringement, with damages to be decided at trial. The split decision reinforces fair use as a legal shield—while spotlighting AI's murky data practices.

🔆 Walmart’s AI Foundry Rewrites Retail Playbook
Walmart’s Element platform powers 1.5M associates with AI apps built in-house, bypassing vendors and scaling like a factory line. It’s LLM-agnostic, unifies supply chain data, and enables rapid deployment and real-time feedback. Each tool improves the next, making AI a repeatable capability—not just software—giving Walmart a growing strategic edge.

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💪 AUGMENTATION

AI Doesn’t Have to Kill White-Collar Jobs

Fears of an AI-driven “white-collar blood bath” are rising, but Tim Wu argues the real question isn’t what AI will do to jobs—it’s what we let it do. Instead of building systems designed to replace workers, companies should prioritize AI tools that augment human abilities and preserve agency.

Examples like GitHub Copilot and AI-assisted radiology show how productivity gains don’t require worker obsolescence. Beyond job preservation, augmentation safeguards AI quality and prevents “model collapse”—a feedback loop of degraded data when AI learns from other AI. The choice between disruption and symbiosis is still ours to make. → Read the full article here.

🌱 CLIMATE

AI Could Cut More Emissions Than It Creates

AI’s energy demands are surging, but a new study from the Grantham Research Institute argues the technology could still be a net win for the climate—cutting up to 5.4 billion metric tons of CO₂ annually by 2035. That’s more than the EU’s current emissions and well beyond the 1.6 billion tons AI data centers are expected to produce.

The key: deploying AI to decarbonize power grids, optimize food and transport systems, and steer consumer behavior. But this potential won’t realize itself—governments must regulate emissions, promote renewable energy, and invest in AI access globally. → Read the full article here.

🔬 RESEARCH

Study Says AI Outperforms Humans at Reading Emotions—Experts Say, Not So Fast

A new study claims that AI models like ChatGPT and Gemini 1.5 beat humans on standard emotional intelligence (EI) tests, selecting expert-approved responses 81% of the time—versus 56% for people. But experts caution that these results reflect pattern-matching in controlled, multiple-choice settings, not true emotional understanding.

Real-world empathy is messy, multimodal, and contextual—areas where humans still excel. Still, examples like Brazil’s Aílton assistant show AI can outperform in certain live emotional scenarios, suggesting scalable, if limited, “empathy” may be within reach. → Read the full paper here.

🛰️ NEWS

What Else is Happening

💰 Wispr Flow Snags $30M Boost: Backed by Menlo Ventures, the AI-powered dictation app turns silent speech into text—now growing fast and expanding globally with support for 104 languages.

🚀 Google Brings AI Mode to India: Users can now opt into Google’s experimental Q&A search tool via Search Labs, with support for long, complex queries powered by Gemini 2.5.

🥊 Cloudflare Slams AI Scrapers: CEO Matthew Prince says AI crawlers are gutting site traffic and ad revenue—vows to fight back with tools like AI Labyrinth to trap noncompliant bots.

🎨 MIT Student Hacks Art Restoration: Using AI and precision printing, a grad student cuts months-long restoration jobs down to hours—reversible, detailed, and 60x faster than traditional methods.

👔 Intel Shifts Marketing to AI, Accenture: Under new CEO Lip-Bu Tan, Intel will cut in-house marketing jobs and outsource to Accenture, betting on AI to drive faster, leaner campaigns.

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