191 | The craziest week in AI news history 🤯 Microsoft, Google, Anthropic and OpenAI major announcements, and more important AI news for the week ending on May 23rd, 2025
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May 24, 2025
This week witnessed monumental shifts in AI as Microsoft unveiled a plan to automate entire departments, leaving competitors like Google scrambling to catch up. OpenAI's astonishing $6.5 billion investment aims to develop devices that could render traditional phones obsolete. The emergence of AI agents is reshaping workforce dynamics, alongside legislative moves aimed at regulating AI technologies. Plus, venture funding in AI startups is skyrocketing, highlighting the future of innovation, while Tesla pushes boundaries with its humanoid robots.
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Microsoft's Holistic AI Strategy
Microsoft is building an end-to-end enterprise AI strategy integrating agents across all business areas.
Their unified approach is more cohesive and strategic compared to Google's focus on personal use.
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Agentic Web Emerging
NLWeb is a new protocol to make websites agent-accessible, signaling a future with more agent traffic than human.
This could fundamentally change how the web is used and monetized.
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Gemini AI Proposal Summary Test
Isar tested Gemini AI's ability to analyze his proposals and emails and generate actionable summaries.
Gemini found all proposals and connected email conversations across Google Drive and Gmail, showing advanced data integration.
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Is your business ready for the AI-powered arms race of the century?
This wasn’t just another week in tech — it was the week. Microsoft revealed its plan to automate the enterprise. Google’s scrambling to catch up with AI-first everything. OpenAI just spent $6.5 billion to build devices that could replace your phone — and your keyboard. If your company still thinks of AI as "optional," you're already behind.
Here’s the real takeaway: We're not watching a tech trend — we’re watching the restructuring of how work, business, and even the internet itself will function in the coming months (not years).
Recommendation: If you lead a business and want to stay competitive, you need to understand what happened this week — because your competitors definitely will.
In this session, you'll discover:
Microsoft’s bold AI strategy: enterprise-wide agents that can replace whole departments
The new AI web protocol (NL Web) that may kill traditional websites
Google’s AI tab in Search, Gemini updates, and why Project Astra could make you feel like Iron Man
Claude Opus 4's jaw-dropping 7-hour autonomous coding run — and what that means for your dev team
The $6.5B bet OpenAI made with Jony Ive — and what it reveals about your hardware future
Klarna’s 40% workforce reduction powered by AI (with revenue still rising)
Why Satya Nadella is building AI to replace himself (no, seriously)
Smartglasses arms race: Meta, Apple, Google — who’s going to own your face?
The scary-cool future of wearable AI, brain chips, and what it might mean for your kids
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