A.I. Weekly Digest: The Latest Tech & Finance w/A.I.
12/08/2025 Trump Promises to Fix AI With... One Rule?? Trump's dropping an executive order this week for a SINGLE national AI approval process because apparently getting "50 Approvals" is too hard (his caps, not mine) States are about to lose their AI safety powers while Silicon Valley gets a federal fast pass . What could possibly go wrong?? (source) IBM Drops $11B on Confluent (They Still Exist!) IBM just paid $11 BILLION (34% premium btw) for data streaming company Confluent because their AI models are starving "purpose-built for hungry workloads" Big Tech's infrastructure spending is getting stupiddd - IBM literally bought a fire hose to feed its AI. The bubble's not popping, it's INFLATING. (source) 6 Nerds Just Beat Google at Their Own Game Startup Poetiq scored 54% on ARC-AGI-2 (Google only hit 45%) using Gemini 3... which Google made... within HOURS of release... for cheaper... I- You don't need OpenAI's budget to push AI...