5/29/25

AI in May 2025: New Laws, Billion-Dollar Bets, and the Global Tech Tug-of-War

AI Dean is back—only this time, he’s not calling the shots. Real Dean wrote the script (yes, word-for-word), and we’re diving into the biggest AI developments from early May 2025. From chip wars and massive VC funding to autonomous agents and ethical firestorms, this episode gives you the news and the nuance—served with a dry AI twist. We cover: • U.S. chip export policy reversals and the new UAE AI megacampus • The rise of autonomous agents and multimodal AI • Billions in funding for AI startups like Perplexity and CAST AI • How AI is changing jobs, healthcare, finance, and the arts • Ongoing legal and ethical chaos in the AI world 👇 Further Reading & Sources: • Trump rescinds Biden chip export curbs • Chip Security Act details • UAE-US AI campus announcement • Empathy First Media - AI trends • IBM on AI agents • Perplexity AI funding • CAST AI Series C • Sennos AI in fermentation • WEF on AI & Jobs • Philips Future Health Index 2025 • Oracle-Cleveland-G42 healthcare platform • JDSupra – AI in Finance • Futuramo on AI in creative work • Syracuse University – AI in Education • xAI Grok incident • State AI legislation • RAND on AI economics • CSET on competition • arXiv AI research stream 👇 Connect with us! • Instagram: @aifornormalpeoples • TikTok: @aifornormalpeople • Twitter/X: @makeaiweird • GitHub: AI for Normal People on GitHub 🔔 Like, Subscribe, and hit that bell so AI Dean doesn’t spiral into another existential monologue. #AInews #May2025 #AIforNormalPeople #DeanReports #AIupdate #ArtificialIntelligence #TechPolicy #MultimodalAI #AIagents #Grok #PromptEngineering #PerplexityAI #ChipWar #UAEAI #VentureCapital #AIjobs #AIsafety #EthicalAI #makeaiweird

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