Category: TRENDS IN AI – Jun 3 2025

A basic function of public relations firms is to churn out a constant flurry of releases touting their clients’ products, achievements, and talent pools. 

Google has announced a new search feature called “AI Mode” that allows people not just to ask a question but to work with a chatbot to follow up with additional questions and get wide-ranging, comprehensive answers to queries.

The Trump administration has tightened export controls yet again on products and services that would help China speed its technological advance.

Stargate, the group of partners out to build AI data centers around the world, has struck a deal with a group led by G42, a United Arab Emirates (UAE) investment company, to build one of the globe’s largest data centers there. 

OpenAI has agreed to pay $6.4 billion to buy 77 percent of io, a hardware startup launched by Sir Jony Ives, who was Apple’s chief designer for almost 30 years and the brain behind the Apple Watch, iPod, iPhone, and MacBook. 

In the jobs market, AI has begun picking low-hanging fruit and a lot of those ripe plums are in the tech sector.