63% of people DO NOT use AI

👋 Good morning/evening (wherever you are). It’s Tuesday. ChatGPT went viral just over two years ago, and yet…feelings are still mixed (Pew survey). In other words…if you are reading this newsletter, then you are still early.

Otherwise, let’s start off with Google — because they’re on fire.

Here’s a recap of Google’s AI updates from February:

• Career Dreamer

• Free AI coding assistant

• Veo 2 to YouTube Shorts (if you’ve been following me on LinkedIn…you know how much I rave about Veo)

• Deep Research on Gemini mobile app

• AI co-scientist

• New features for Flood Hub (AI-driven flood forecasting)

That’s not all…they also announced their Data Science Agent.

What else?

• Amazon’s AWS forms new group focused on agentic AI

  The new group will be led by AWS executive Swami Sivasubramanian, the email, from AWS CEO Matt Garman, said. "Agentic AI has the potential to be the next multi-billion business for AWS," Garman wrote. Sivasubramanian, previously vice president of AI and data, will report directly to Garman, according to the email.

Not sure what “agentic” is in this context? Agentic AI is meant to automate tasks for users so that they do not have to prompt the systems to take actions for them.

• T-Mobile’s parent company is making an ‘AI Phone’ with Perplexity Assistant

  Deutsche Telekom will offer more and more services over time. In summer, Google Cloud AI, ElevenLabs and Picsart will be available. An “AI phone” is tricky. IMO, we are far from people intentionally buying a phone solely due to its AI features.

• Elon's Grok 3 AI Provides "Hundreds of Pages of Detailed Instructions" on Creating Chemical Weapons

  This is the dark side of AI. It reminds me of an older article back in 2022, when AI suggested 40,000 new possible chemical weapons in just six hours.

The numbers:

• Chipmaker TSMC said that it aims to invest “at least” $100 billion in chip manufacturing plants in the U.S. over the next four years.

• A Maserati MC20 Coupe just blasted down a Kennedy Space Center runway at nearly 197.7 mph (YT video)…with no one behind the wheel.

• Mark Walter (billionaire chief executive of Guggenheim Partners) and Thomas Tull (former owner of Legendary Entertainment) have formed a $40 billion holding company “to make large bets on artificial intelligence.”

Thought starters:

• How Andrej Karpathy uses LLMs - Free 2 hour masterclass

• Amazon is reportedly developing its own AI ‘reasoning’ model

  Everyone wants to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic…but can they? There is power in branding, and right now, when people think of AI…they think of OpenAI’s ChatGPT or GPT. How much is that type of public perception worth? Billions? Trillions?

Thanks for reading,

Eddie

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