23 July 2025
Topic: Companies And Business
Google’s AI Overviews have 2B monthly users, AI Mode 100M in the US and India
Google shared new stats about its AI features' adoption during its Q2 earnings....
TL;DR
Alphabet and Google's AI adoption is growing rapidly, with 2 billion monthly users for AI Overviews, 450 million for Gemini, and 100 million for AI Mode.
Key Takeaways:
Key Takeaways:
- Google's AI features, such as AI Overviews and Gemini, are driving over 10% more Google Search queries.
- Over 70 million videos have been produced with the Veo 3 AI model since May, and nearly 1 million users are leveraging Google Vids.
- Google's AI adoption has led to a significant increase in monthly tokens processed, from 480 trillion in May to 980 trillion now.
Google’s CEO says ‘AI is positively impacting every part of the business’
Google is all-in on AI, and based on the company’s latest quarterly earnings, AI has been good for its bottom line. In a press release for Alphabet’s ...
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Google's CEO Sundar Pichai affirms AI's positive impact on the company's business, citing successful features like AI Overviews and AI Mode.
Key Takeaways:
Key Takeaways:
- Google reports 14% year-over-year revenue growth with $96.4 billion in revenue for Q2 2025, and $54.1 billion in revenue for its Google Search segment.
- The company has more than 100 million monthly active users in the US and India for AI Mode, and more than 2 billion monthly users across 200+ countries and territories for AI Overviews.
- Google is planning to increase its capital expenditures for the year to $85 billion, a $10 billion increase from initial plans, to support data center expansions and cloud customer demand.
UK targets Apple’s and Google’s mobile platforms for regulation
The move is designed to create a more open, competitive environment for the app economy and user choice....
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The U.K.'s Competition and Markets Authority proposes granting 'strategic market status' to Apple and Google's mobile platforms, allowing for rule changes and a more competitive app economy.
Key Takeaways:
Key Takeaways:
- The proposal aims to create a more open, competitive environment for the app economy and user choice.
- Apple and Google can present their cases before a final decision is made in October.
- The proposal gives the CMA the ability to address issues like commission rates, app review processes, and default settings that could reduce competition.
Trump’s AI Action Plan Is a Crusade Against ‘Bias’—and Regulation
The Trump administration’s new AI policy blueprint calls for limited regulation and lots of leeway for Big Tech to grow even bigger....
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The Trump Administration unveiled its new artificial intelligence action plan, which recommends loosening regulations and encourages US tech companies to grow in the AI industry.
Key Takeaways:
Key Takeaways:
- The action plan proposes over 90 policies to accelerate AI innovation, build infrastructure, and lead international diplomacy and security.
- The plan seeks to undo efforts from the Biden Administration, including reviewing FTC investigations to ensure they don't burden AI innovation.
- Tech companies will be encouraged to prioritize objectivity and avoid ideological bias in their AI systems, as part of the plan's focus on reducing 'woke' AI.
SecurityPal combines AI and experts in Nepal to speed enterprise security questionnaires by 87X or more
The Kathmandu center of excellence gives SecurityPal a cost base low enough to keep humans in the loop while staying price-competitive....
TL;DR
SecurityPal, an AI-powered platform, enables tech vendors to streamline security questionnaires and handle shared data responsibly, reducing deal stalls and costs for large enterprises.
Key Takeaways:
Key Takeaways:
- SecurityPal's AI engine can process security questionnaires up to 87 times faster than manual workflows for vendors and 125 times faster for buyers.
- The platform maintains a living model of each customer's posture, allowing for faster questionnaires and reducing manual digging.
- SecurityPal's differentiated approach lies in its combination of AI with expert human analysts, ensuring accuracy and nuance in every security review.
Sundar Pichai is ‘very excited’ about Google Cloud’s OpenAI partnership
The comment came shortly after analysts peppered Pichai and other Google executives with questions about how AI would affect its core search business ...
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Google is supplying OpenAI, its largest AI competitor, with cloud computing resources through a new partnership.
Key Takeaways:
Key Takeaways:
- Google's cloud revenue soared to $13.6 billion in the second quarter of 2025, with AI companies contributing significantly to this growth.
- OpenAI has tapped Google Cloud for extra computational power, despite its potential to upend Google's core Search product.
- Several large AI labs, including Anthropic and Safe Superintelligence, have partnered with Google Cloud for cloud computing services.
How Trump’s war on clean energy is making AI a bigger polluter
At an AI and fossil fuel lovefest in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania last week, President Donald Trump - flanked by cabinet members and executives from major...
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The Trump administration's push for fossil-fueled AI data centers is making AI a bigger polluter, contradicting climate goals and exacerbating greenhouse gas emissions.
Key Takeaways:
Key Takeaways:
- The Trump administration has exempted coal-fired power plants, industrial sites, and data centers from Biden-era air pollution regulations.
- The Inflation Reduction Act, which incentivized renewable energy projects, has been rolled back, leading to a 340 GW decrease in electricity generation capacity by 2035.
- AI data centers will likely be powered by gas and nuclear energy, perpetuating fossil fuel dependence and undermining climate change mitigation efforts.
Trump Says He’s ‘Getting Rid of Woke’ and Dismisses Copyright Concerns in AI Policy Speech
The remarks, which came during a keynote speech at a summit hosted by the All-In Podcast, follow President Donald Trump’s newly released AI Action Pla...
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President Trump announces the US will take a 'commonsense application' approach to intellectual property and AI, not forcing companies to pay for copyrighted material used in AI model training.
Key Takeaways:
Key Takeaways:
- The Trump administration plans to loosen regulations and roll back Biden-era guardrails on AI development.
- Intellectual property concerns surrounding AI model training will not be addressed through licensing requirements, as proposed by bill introduced by senators Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal.
- The White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks aims to curb state efforts to regulate AI, recommending withholding federal funding from states with overly 'burdensome' AI legislation.
Instagram changes its algorithm after being accused of steering predators to children
Instagram accounts that primarily feature images of children, but are run by adult users, will no longer be recommended to “potentially suspicious adu...
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Instagram will change its algorithm to avoid recommending accounts primarily featuring images of children, run by adult users, to potentially suspicious adults, and will add child safety features to such accounts.
Key Takeaways:
Key Takeaways:
- Instagram's algorithm will no longer recommend accounts featuring children to suspicious adults, reducing the risk of predators being steered to vulnerable accounts.
- Adult-managed accounts featuring children will now have additional safety features, including blocking and reporting capabilities for teenagers and protections against suspicious adults.
- Other features, such as defaulting teen accounts to a strict message setting and filtering out offensive comments, will also be rolled out to Instagram in the coming months.
OpenAI Teases 'Bigger Than Ever' DevDay in October: Will That Include GPT-5?
VP of Research at Google Deepmind Says the Big AI Labs are Technically Already Working Together.
Trump unveils AI Action Plan that aims to clamp down regulations and 'bias'
Google cofounder Larry Page says efforts to prevent AI-driven extinction and protect human consciousness are "speciesist" and "sentimental nonsense"
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