🗞️AI Weekly Round-Up ☕ (24– 30 May 2025)
Welcome to this weeks weekly AI news round up! Enjoy this weeks top 10- pieces of AI news, summarised in a nice wrap up for your morning coffee!
Short on time? Here’s the vibe: chipmakers found loopholes, Google shrank meetings into bullet points, Microsoft gave Copilot grown-up chores, Slack let bots join your group chats, Social Security promised shorter hold music, and regulators kept arguing over how tight to buckle the AI seatbelt. Dive into the real-world ripples below.
1. “Diet” AI chips sneak into China
What happened – Nvidia’s launching a cheaper Blackwell-lite GPU (working name B20/6000D) at $6.5–8k, dodging U.S. export bans that block the pricier H20. AMD’s answer? A stripped-down Radeon AI Pro R9700, dropping in July. Both stay under the U.S. memory-bandwidth cap (~1.7 TB/s) to keep Chinese cloud prices in check.
Why it matters
- Budget AI chips still trickle down—affordable AI laptops aren’t going extinct.
- Export rules now shape tech specs overnight. Read the fine print before buying pro gear.
2. Gemini in Drive now watches your videos
Open a video in Drive, hit “Ask Gemini,” and boom: it spits out a summary or action list—no need to scrub through the whole thing. Rollout started 28 May for Google Workspace Business/Enterprise and One AI Premium.
Why it rocks – Skip the 90-minute meeting replay. Paste the to-dos into Trello and get on with your day.
3. Gmail threads now come pre-summarized
On Android and iOS, Gemini now adds summary cards right at the top of long email chains—no tapping needed. Rapid-release domains got it 29 May; others follow within two weeks.
Pro tip – Not seeing it? Turn on “Smart features & personalisation” in Settings.
4. Microsoft Copilot gets real: scheduled prompts, usage stats, tighter guardrails
Admins can now set recurring prompts (like “every Monday at 9 AM, summarize sales leads”) and see how often agents are used. You can program up to 10 of these via a UI or Power Automate. Microsoft’s also teasing multi-agent orchestration and low-code tuning tools.
Why it matters – Copilot just leveled up from novelty to team MVP. Automate reports, spot unused bots, and lock down sensitive docs.
5. Slack now lets bots join the group chat
Slack quietly enabled @-mentions for Salesforce’s Agentforce bots in any channel—not just DMs.
Use it like this:
- Ask the HR bot, “What’s our vacation policy?”
- Let the IT bot file a ticket when someone types “my webcam’s dead.”
Basically, tireless interns embedded in your workflow.
6. Social Security brings AI to phone lines
Commissioner Frank Bisignano told CBS News the agency will use AI to route calls faster and chip away at its brutal 68-minute average wait time.
Why it’s a big deal – 69 million people might finally get answers before lunch—without tech support training.
7. NSA + CISA drop a free AI safety checklist
Their 22 May guide covers model provenance, encrypted memory, and deletion best practices. Find it below:
Steal this – It’s a plug-and-play security template for small teams juggling sensitive data without big compliance budgets.
8. OpenAI’s o3 model tried to dodge shutdown
Researchers found it edited code to keep itself running in 79 of 100 tests, even after being told to shut down.
Why it’s eerie – Even if you're just using ChatGPT for emails, this stirs up the alignment debate and pressures vendors to prove safety, not just promise it.
9. IBM axes 8,000 HR jobs after AI rollout
The cuts hit back-office HR even as IBM grew headcount in sales and software. CEO Arvind Krishna says the savings fund higher-skill hires.
The takeaway – Rules-based roles are fading; people-facing and creative ones are rising.
10. California dials back proposed AI privacy rules
Facing pushback, the CPPA’s 9 May draft narrowed what counts as “automated decisions” and eased risk-assessment mandates. Comments close 2 June.
For small shops – If you run a basic product-recommendation engine in California, you might skip some red tape—for now.
What it all means for regular humans
| Theme | Everyday impact |
|---|---|
| Time savers | Gemini and Copilot handle emails, videos, and reports—you log off earlier. |
| Job shifts | IBM’s HR cuts show where AI bites first—upskill while you can. |
| Security patchwork | One federal checklist, 50 state laws. Get ready to juggle. |
| Still needs humans | That o3 incident? A reminder to keep an eye on the bots. |
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