Today’s episode breaks down Google’s new Search and Discover designs—collapsible ads, persistent sponsorship labels, and AI previews—plus the rollout of conversational “ModoIA” search in Europe. We discuss Microsoft’s Shadow AI warning and a practical training path for deploying Microsoft 365 Copilot safely. California enacted the first US chatbot safety law, while the UK’s Equity union readies mass data requests to force transparency around AI use of actors’ likeness and voices. We examine OpenAI’s multi-vendor chip deals with NVIDIA, AMD, and Broadcom, and what “circular financing” means for risk and competition. Dreamdata lands $55M to blend AI attribution with activation for B2B marketers. We explore A-Textile—a triboelectric fabric that turns clothing into a voice interface for AI—and how cognitive digital twins could personalize mental health support. A new neuro-symbolic prompting approach improves LLM fallacy detection. Investment conversations in Africa are shifting beyond the “Big Four,” and, in consumer tech, Bose quietly nails better low-power behavior in its latest headphones. Three takeaways: AI is increasingly about interface design and governance; responsible rails are arriving in workplaces and law; and value comes from clarity on data and experience, not just frontier models.
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