Google Gemini has 350M users

👋 Good morning/evening (wherever you are). It’s Wednesday.

Google Gemini reached 350 million monthly active users worldwide as of March, according to internal data disclosed during its antitrust trial. That’s a sharp rise from just 9 million daily users in October 2024.

The numbers were first shared by The Information.

Still, Gemini lags behind ChatGPT, which reportedly has around 800M users.

OK let’s keep going ↓

Here’s what you should know:

• State Bar of California admits it used AI to develop exam questions

  Here’s the official news release.

• WhatsApp defends 'optional' AI tool that cannot be turned off

  The company likens the feature to other permanent options in the app like 'channels' and 'status'.

• President Trump signs executive order boosting AI in K-12 schools

  Trump's order directs the federal Education Department and the National Science Foundation to prioritize awarding grants and conducting research related to artificial intelligence.

• BMW to integrate DeepSeek AI in its new vehicles in China

  CEO Oliver Zipse said at the Shanghai auto show on Wednesday.

• Microsoft’s Work Trend Index Annual Report

  2025: The Year the Frontier Firm Is Born.

The numbers:

• Endor Labs raised a $93 million Series B to scale its AI-first AppSec platform after 30x growth and securing 5 million apps.

• Noxtua raised a $92 million Series B to scale its sovereign legal AI for Germany, built on 55 million documents and backed by C.H. Beck and Northern Data.

• Superpower, a health tech startup, just raised $30 million in a Series A round to launch what it calls the world’s first health super app.

Thought starters:

• Let’s not panic about AI’s energy use just yet

• “Periodic table of machine learning” could fuel AI discovery

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Eddie

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