The U.S. defense department has awarded contracts to AI developers Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and Elon Musk’s xAI. Each company signed deals worth up to $200 million each.
Category: TRENDS IN AI – Jul 22 2025
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AI BOOSTS UNILEVER’S SOAL SALES
Advertising is shifting its emphasis from websites to social media influencers, as we reported in “Artificial Intelligence Eats the Ad Industry” (17 Jun 2025). Unilever, the global conglomerate owning more than 400 brands of consumer products, is using AI to make the most of the transfer.
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IN A FEW MOMENTS, AI DESIGNS PROTEIN TO KILL RESISTANT BACTERIA
At Australia’s Monash University, biologists and computer scientists collaborated to create an AI that, in a few seconds, designed a protein that can kill e. coli and other antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
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NEW PROGRAMS SHIELD MEDIA COMPANIES’ CONTENT FROM “SCRAPING”
Media companies are tired of having their websites scraped and rescraped and they’re reaching for new tools to stop the bleeding.
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VIBE CODING IS EATING THE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROFESSION
“Vibe coding” is dramatically reshaping the coding profession. In vibe coding, a person tells an AI in conversational language what he or she wants an app or software program to do.