Friday’s AI Report

• 1. 🚨 Google prioritizing speed over safety?
• 2. 💼 In partnership with Innovating with AI
• 3. 🚧 Microsoft halts AI data center plans
• 4. 🛍️ Amazon agent buys from 3rd parties
• 5. 🔒 In partnership with Incogni
• 6. ⚙️ Trending AI Tools
• 7. 🏗️ Practical AI Applications
• 8. 📑 Recommended Resources

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Google prioritizing speed over safety?

🚨 Our Report 

Google has picked up the pace with its new AI model releases—releasing two new industry-leading models within three months of each other—however, it’s failed to publish any safety reports for its most recent releases, raising concerns over the lack of transparency and safety protocols.

🔓 Key Points

• Google launched ‘its state-of-the-art’ agentic image generator, Gemini 2.0 Flash in January, and 3 months later, revealed its advanced AI reasoning model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, as a strategic move to counter competitors.

• However, it’s yet to publish any safety reports—often called model/system cards, which inform the public about model performance, safety testing, and risks—for either model, leaving many questioning Google's priorities.

• Ironically, Google was the first to support these model/system cards, suggesting they should be used for responsible AI development, but it's been over a year since they published one (the last was for Gemini 1.5 Pro).

🔐 Relevance 

Tulsee Doshi—Head of Product for Gemini—has defended this decision, saying that Gemini 2.5 Pro had been through safety testing, but because it’s still in its “experimental” and feedback-gathering phase, a model/system card will not be released until the model is officially launched to the public, but it’s worth noting that Gemini 2.0 Flash is already publically available… and is still without a model/system card.

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🚨 Our Report

As recently as February, Microsoft confirmed it was planning to spend over $80B, primarily on AI data centers, in 2025, but reports have now revealed that it’s significantly pulled back on its global data center projects, plans, and commitments. 

🔓 Key Points

• It’s reportedly halted discussions and delayed AI data center development in Australia, the UK, Indonesia, and several US states, such as Illinois, North Dakota, and Wisconsin.

• It’s allegedly withdrawn from negotiations to lease a space in the UK—between London and Cambridge—designed to host advanced NVIDIA chips and has halted negotiations for a similar site in Chicago.

• It’s also delayed construction work on a data center site outside of Jakarta, Indonesia, and expansion plans for a site in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin—but this could be due to construction challenges.

🔐 Relevance

Many are questioning the reason for Microsoft's sudden pullback on AI infrastructure, after making such a bold commitment just three months ago: Some believe it’s purely down to temporary construction issues like power shortages and building materials, while others speculate that it’s down to predictions of diminished demand after the likes of Chinese AI startup, DeepSeek, proved that AI models can be built and trained on fewer AI chips and compute power than originally thought. 

• Amazon is testing a new agentic AI-powered shopping feature—called “Buy for Me” which can purchase products from third-party sites, without leaving the Amazon Shopping app—on a small subset of users.

• If Amazon doesn’t sell what the user is looking for, the Buy for Me feature will show products from other sites and Amazon will buy the item, using the customer shipping/payment details stored within the platform. 

• It’s reassured users that Buy for Me uses encryption to “securely” input payment details into third-party sites, but many are concerned about leaving AI to handle such delicate transactions.

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