AI & Society Articles - The Batch

Infographic showing Google antitrust ruling: must share search index, syndicate results, and allow non-exclusive deals.

Business

Google Must Share Data With AI Rivals: Google must share its search index, but can keep Chrome and Android

AI companies that aspire to compete with Google in search and other information-retrieval applications got a boost from the United States government.

AI chatbot interfaces showing tour guide, outdoor adventurer, and custom characters as Meta and OpenAI add safety controls.

Tech & Society

Meta, OpenAI Reinforce Guardrails: Meta and OpenAI respond to criticism by adding new rules for teens’ chatbot use

Meta and OpenAI promised to place more controls on their chatbots’ conversations with children and teenagers, as worrisome interactions with minors come under increasing scrutiny.

Hangzhou skyline with modern skyscrapers, the golden sphere of Intercontinental Hotel, and the silver dome of Qianjiang complex.

Business

China’s Emerging AI Hub: Inside DeepSeek and the other "little dragons" transforming Hangzhou into China's Silicon Valley

Hangzhou, a longtime manufacturing hub in eastern China, is blossoming into a center of AI innovation.

Bar charts comparing AI and human interviewers show higher rates for AI across job offers, job starts, and one-month retention.

AI Careers

Chatbot Interviewers Fill More Jobs: Study shows AI agent interviewers improve hiring, retention in customer service jobs

Large language models may have advantages over human recruiters when conducting job interviews, a study shows.

Infographic showing Mistral Large 2’s environmental impact across emissions, water, and material use.

Science

Mistral Measures LLM Consumption of Energy, Water, and Materials: French AI startup discloses full lifecycle consumption and emissions for Mistral Large 2

The French AI company Mistral measured the environmental impacts of its flagship large language model.

Hand holding a Pixel 10 smartphone using Google’s Magic Cue AI assistant, which suggests a location reply in a text message conversation.

Hardware

Proactive AI Assistance for Phones: Inside Magic Cue, Google’s new AI assistant for Pixel 10

Google’s latest smartphone sports an AI assistant that anticipates the user’s needs and presents helpful information without prompting.

Illustration of Nvidia H20 and Huawei Ascend 910 AI chips on wood with a Chinese flag, symbolizing China’s shift from U.S. AI processors to domestic development amid geopolitical tensions.

Business

China Reconsiders U.S. AI Processors: Nvidia and AMD must reassure China their high-end GPUs don't pose security risk

Nvidia and AMD, having obtained the U.S. government’s permission to resume selling AI processors in China, received a cool welcome there.

Man in suit holding AI book in destroyed office, from viral AI-generated video ad by The Dor Brothers.

Business

AI Video Goes Mainstream: Meta, Google, and other giants slice up text-to-video

Generated video clips are capturing eyeballs in viral videos, ad campaigns, and a Netflix show.

Golden lotus with circuit design symbolizes India’s push for indigenous AI across multiple native languages.

Tech & Society

India Pushes to Build Indigenous AI: India launches GPU network and talent programs to boost local LLMs

India, which has limited funding and large numbers of languages and dialects, is redoubling its efforts to build native large language models.

Andrew Ng receives honorary degree at University of Exeter, July 2025, with university officials during graduation ceremony.

Letters

AI Transformation Comes to Universities: Exeter University groups computer science with business and environmental science, creating synergies that span AI, the economy, and the natural environment.

Just as many businesses are transforming to become more capable by using AI, universities are too.

A silhouette of a conductor leads a performance in front of a glowing data center, as an audience watches from a theater. Red curtains frame the scene, symbolizing AI model orchestration.

Letters

Why Meta Is Paying AI Engineers $100M: Meta’s massive compensation packages make sense considering the cost and potential return of delivering cutting-edge AI.

Recently Meta made headlines with unprecedented, massive compensation packages for AI model builders exceeding $100M (sometimes spread over multiple years).

Electric substation representing the energy use and carbon emissions linked to running large AI language models.

Science

Reasoning Boosts Carbon Emissions: Researchers confirm reasoning models that generate more tokens have a bigger environmental footprint

In the era of reasoning models, delivering better answers to questions has an environmental cost. A new study quantifies the impact.