AI Weekly Briefing: OpenAI’s $500B Play, Alibaba’s Trillion-Param Model, and ChatGPT Goes Proactive
This week on The AI Breakdown: OpenAI’s $500B compute play, Alibaba’s trillion-parameter model, Databricks’ $100M OpenAI deal, Microsoft Copilot gets Claude, Google grounds AI in facts, and Magnum Ice Cream taps AI for healthier recipes. Your weekly AI business stories explained in under 5 minutes.
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AI Weekly Briefing: Oracle’s $20B Power Play, YouTube’s AI Creator Push, and Amazon’s New Agent
In this week’s AI Weekly Briefing, Oracle eyes a $20B cloud deal with Meta, YouTube launches 30+ new AI tools for creators, Amazon rolls out an AI agent for its 1.3M marketplace sellers, and Chrome gets its biggest AI-powered upgrade ever.
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AI Weekly Briefing: OpenAI’s $300B Cloud Bet, Google vs. Publishers, and X AI Layoffs
This week on The AI Breakdown, I unpack the biggest stories shaping the AI landscape:
OpenAI makes a bold shift toward a for-profit future, backed by a $300B cloud deal with Oracle and a tighter grip on revenue.
The UK is positioning itself not just as an AI investment hub, but as a leader in responsible AI governance.
Google faces fresh legal fire from Penske Media over AI summaries and the rise of zero-click searches.
Elon Musk’s X AI lays off 500 annotators to double down on specialist tutors.
And Genesys launches its new “Agentic Copilot,” putting AI right at the heart of customer service.
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Is Vibe Coding Changing Software Forever
Vibe coding is shaking up the way we build software, turning programming into a conversation. In this episode of The AI Breakdown, I dig into what vibe coding really is, why it’s exploding in 2025, and whether it’s actually ready for prime time.
We’ll look at how tools like Lovable, Cursor, Bolt.new, and Replit are empowering everyone, from seasoned developers to complete beginners, to spin up apps with natural language prompts. But with the hype comes risk: messy code, flimsy guardrails, and even some catastrophic failures.
The question is, are we seeing the future of coding, or just the latest hype cycle?
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AI Weekly Briefing: Layoffs, Lawsuits, and Market Moves
Catch up on the week’s top AI news in under 10 minutes: from Salesforce’s AI-driven workforce changes to public sector adoption, security alerts, copyright settlements, and game-changing infrastructure moves. Discover why scaling up GenAI means your next business challenge is execution, not just innovation.
The AI Breakdown — the podcast that turns artificial intelligence into real talk. We cut through the complexity to show you how AI actually works and what it means for your job, your business, and your future.
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