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Pew: Americans, Italians are the most concerned about AI, while Israelis are the most excited

A new Pew Research Center survey found widespread concern about the use of AI in daily life.

A new Pew Research Center survey looked at attitudes towards AI in 25 countries. The results show a widespread concern about AI, with more respondents worried about the technology’s use in daily life than excited about the prospect of AI.

50% of both American and Italian survey respondents responded that they were “more concerned than excited” about the increased use of AI in daily life, while only 16% of South Koreans felt that way, for the lowest surveyed.

Israel — known for its robust tech industry — had the highest percentage of people who were “more excited than concerned,” while Canadians had the lowest at 9%.

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Meta announces new Texas data center, partnership with Arm

Meta announced today it’s breaking ground on a new “AI-optimized” data center in El Paso, Texas that will scale to 1GW. That’s not to be confused with the city-sized AI data center it’s building in Louisiana that’s expected to scale to 5GW.

In other Meta AI data center news, Reuters reports that Meta is also partnering with chip tech provider Arm Holdings for “data center platforms to power its AI ranking and recommendation systems, which are key to discovery and personalization across its apps.” The partnership also likely represents an effort to diversify away from Nvidia chips.

Meta is expected to spend up to $72 billion in capex this year, as it amps up AI-related infrastructure projects.

Breaking Ground on Our New AI-Optimized Data Center in El Paso

Meta is expected to spend up to $72 billion in capex this year, as it amps up AI-related infrastructure projects.

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Report: OpenAI scrambles to find new revenue in its 5-year business plan

After a flurry of enormous (and confusing) deals, OpenAI has committed to spending more than $1 trillion with various partners in the AI ecosystem. Now it has to figure out how to pay for it all.

The Financial Times has some details of OpenAI’s five-year business plan and how it’s exploring “creative” ideas to secure more capital.

Among the elements of the plan:

Online advertising
Revenue from shopping tools
Jony Ive-designed AI gadget sales
Selling access to Stargate cloud computing
Bespoke products for governments and businesses
New sales from Sora and ChatGPT
New fundraising rounds

OpenAI is currently pulling in $13 billion in annual recurring revenue, with 70% of that coming from consumer ChatGPT subscriptions, according to the report. But it also plans on burning $115 billion through 2029.

OpenAI makes five-year business plan to meet $1tn spending pledges

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Among the elements of the plan:

Online advertising
Revenue from shopping tools
Jony Ive-designed AI gadget sales
Selling access to Stargate cloud computing
Bespoke products for governments and businesses
New sales from Sora and ChatGPT
New fundraising rounds

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Reading an article online? It’s now a coin flip whether it was authored by a human or AI

Not this one, though.

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Google’s Waymo plans to launch autonomous rides in London next year

This marks the company’s second international expansion after Tokyo.

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$100M

Jon Keegan10/14/25

Salesforce is using AI to to handle customer service, and it’s saving the company $100 million per year, CEO Marc Benioff said at the company’s Dreamforce conference, per Bloomberg reporting. Benioff also announced that 12,000 customers are using its “Agentforce” AI-driven customer service platform.

$100 million seems impressive, but to put that number in perspective, last quarter, the company reported over $10 billion in revenue.

Benioff has enthusiastically embraced the use of AI and has slashed thousands of positions as the company automates roles.