AI News Roundup – May 02, 2025
Nvidia says Anthropic is telling ‘tall tales’ in its defense of U.S. AI chip restrictions on China
Nvidia and Anthropic are in a public disagreement over US AI chip export restrictions to China, with Anthropic supporting tighter controls while Nvidia criticizes the policy’s impact on competition
Why the A.I. Race Could Be Upended by a Judge’s Decision on Google
A Google antitrust lawsuit concerning its search monopoly could impact the AI race, focusing on whether Google might use its power to dominate the AI chatbot market with Gemini
Big Tech’s fortunes diverge as AI powers cloud, tariffs hit consumer electronics
Big Tech fortunes are diverging, with AI boosting cloud and digital ad revenues for companies like Microsoft and Alphabet, while those in consumer electronics face challenges from budgets and tariffs
The Essential Infrastructure For AI In The Enterprise Isn’t Your LLM, It’s Orchestration
Orchestration, which connects systems and people, is the essential infrastructure for effective enterprise AI, more so than just powerful LLMs or agents themselves.
The 2025 Stanford AI Index: 5 Takeaways That Are Important For Your Business
The 2025 Stanford AI Index highlights smaller/cheaper LLMs, more problematic AI incidents, maturing AI agents, surging global AI investment, and US states driving AI legislation relevant to businesses
AI and Human Rights: Protecting Data Workers
Focusing on the human cost in AI development, data workers who train models face precarious conditions, underscoring the need for human rights principles to protect them
One year of Phi: Small language models making big leaps in AI
Microsoft celebrated the one-year anniversary of its Phi small language models, introducing new Phi-4 models specifically trained for complex reasoning tasks to rival larger AI models
NotebookLM Audio Overviews are now available in over 50 languages
Google’s NotebookLM feature, Audio Overviews, now supports over 50 languages, transforming source documents into podcast-like conversations to enhance accessibility and language learning
Everything we announced at our first-ever LlamaCon
Meta’s first LlamaCon celebrated the Llama ecosystem, announcing a new Llama API preview, enhanced protection tools, and awarding over $1.5 million in grants to diverse projects using Llama
Huawei aims to take on Nvidia’s H100 with new AI chip
Huawei is developing a new advanced AI chip, the Ascend 910D, to compete with Nvidia’s H100, potentially addressing the gap in the Chinese market caused by US export restrictions

