AAIA's AI Beat Newsletter: Portland, OR/SW WA, and Charlotte, NC USA Chapter events, WomenInGenAI Summit & Awards, this week’s handpicked stories/reports: The new AI world order emerges in Paris, Four AI in Education and Workforce reports, OpenAI’s Super Bowl ad

AI in business and the enterprise news:

Here’s news that caught our and Perplexity’s attention as notable stories over the last week:

• The new AI world order emerges in Paris (Politico, February 11, 2025)

  • “When the tech and diplomatic world began gathering around AI a year ago — first in the U.K.’s Bletchley Park, then virtually in Seoul — the conversation was sharply focused on safety and fairness. Those summits attempted to bring the world’s regulators together around a technology that threatened to outpace humanity itself.”

    “That sensibility — and sense of unity — was already vanishing by the time Macron, Vance, and Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Guoqin gathered this week.”

    “This year’s summit arguably marked a new era of global competition, in which countries are vying to fuel their own AI industries — most notably, the U.S. — unhindered by onerous regulation.”

• Tech megacaps plan to spend more than $300 billion in 2025 as AI race intensifies (CNBC, February 8, 2025)

  • “Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft intend to spend as much as $320 billion combined on AI technologies and datacenter buildouts in 2025, based on comments from their CEOs early this year and throughout earnings calls in the past two weeks.”

• How Big Tech Sees DeepSeek: Five Key Takeaways (Tanay’s Newsletter, February 10, 2025)

  • “1. DeepSeek Represents Real Innovation in AI Training & Efficiency

    2. AI Model Leapfrogging & Commoditization Will Accelerate

    3. AI Compute Costs Will Fall—But Total AI Spend Will Grow as More Apps Emerge

    4. Inference Cost Shifts Favor Companies with Strong Business Models

    5. Investing in AI Infrastructure Remains a Strategic Advantage”

• Four AI in Education and Workforce reports (h/t Steven Carney, Rooted School Vancouver, and AAIA Portland, SW WA USA Chapter member)

  • AI in Education: Preparing Students for Workforce Readiness (ZINFI)

  • The Future of Work & Leadership in The Age of AI (Berkeley Executive Education)

  • Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning (USA Office of Educational Technology)

  • The Impact of AI on Workforce Development (Apolitical)

• DeepSeek’s AI model is ‘the best work’ out of China but the hype is ‘exaggerated,’ Google DeepMind CEO says (CNBC, February 9, 2025)

  • ““I think its probably the best work I’ve seen come out of China,” Hassabis said at a Google-hosted event in Paris ahead of the AI Action Summit that is being hosted by the city.”

    ““Despite the hype, there’s no actual new scientific advance … it’s using known techniques [in AI],” he said, adding that the hype around DeepSeek has been “exaggerated a little bit.””

• Do Marketers Need to Be Writing for AI? (Bloomberg, February 9, 2025, h/t Pablo Biggs, AAIA Charlotte, NC USA Chapter President)

  • ““For over a century, advertising has been about human attention,” he wrote. But that changes if AIs, not humans, make purchasing decisions. If an AI agent is the one picking out your groceries for you, who does a marketer need to convince?”

    “If AI agents increasingly do research for journalists, politicians and businesses, then academics, policy wonks and activists may join marketers in the race to influence what those agents think and say. And if marketers and public intellectuals are actively trying to get AI to pay attention to their work, that means more content creators choosing to let AI train on their data for free — which could make it harder for other authors to get paid for granting the same access.”

• OpenAI’s Super Bowl TV commercial (h/t The Neuron newsletter)

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