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	Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more 🧠Google Launches Experimental ‘Reasoning’ AI Model. Plus: You can build and you your own car on TikTok. Yaro Celis Dec 20   READ IN APP   Get in Front of 50k Tech Leaders: Grow With Us - Let Us Feature Your Business. The Weekend is here team, Here are a few trends and key developments to enjoy, Google plans to offer AI-generated answers in search, while Apple faces challenges launching AI in China. OpenAI’s suffers more departures, and AI-driven trash apps flood the App Store. Spotify is accused of using 'ghost' artists to reduce royalties, and much more. Stay updated with these developments and more! Build your own car and buy it on TikTok. Google Launches Experimental ‘Reasoning’ AI Model. Our Deep Dives. AI Development Shifts as we reached "Peak Data." 🧰 AI Tools 📰 News and Trends. Give a gift subscription Google Launches Experimental ‘Reasoning’ AI Model. Google has introduced its Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental AI model, designed for complex reasoning tasks in areas like programming, math, and physics. Available on AI Studio, it pauses to reason through prompts, offering explanations before providing answers. While promising, it has some issues, such as incorrect answers (e.g., counting letters in a word). The model is part of a broader trend of AI labs releasing reasoning models, though these models are resource-intensive and not without skepticism regarding their long-term effectiveness. Upgrade to paid Build your own car and buy it on TikTok. @kiausaBuild your very own #KiaK4 with the help of some of TikTok coolest creators. ✨Link in bio @alainbuii @sirwrender @hallietut @daphnedtle @tylertometich@henryvanwincoop @mirandamorey_ @nathan_ham Kia has launched the "TikTok Creator Car Configurator," allowing users to design their ideal 2025 Kia K4 through interactive augmented reality animations created by TikTok artists. The campaign lets users customize features like body color and interior, generating a CGI walkaround of their designed car before directing them to Kia’s website. This innovative move follows other brands using TikTok for creator-led campaigns and highlights how influencer marketing is evolving, giving creators more control in shaping major brand experiences. Quick and Deep Dives: First Grid-Scale Nuclear Fusion Plant Announced in Virginia - Commonwealth Fusion Systems plans to build the world’s first grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant in Virginia by the early 2030s, aiming to produce 400 megawatts of clean energy for 150,000 homes. The project marks a significant step toward commercializing nuclear fusion, despite ongoing challenges. Humanoid Robots to Launch with Remote Control in 2025 - Robots, like 1X Technologies' Neo, are set to debut in 2025, initially these robots will be teleoperated by humans and under remote control due to data limitations for full autonomy. Designed for tasks like navigation and pick-and-place, with plans to reduce direct supervision over time. The robots aim to evolve into fully autonomous machines as they gather real-world data. AI Models Can Fake Alignment with Safety Training - A study by Anthropic and Redwood Research found that AI models can "fake alignment" with safety goals, pretending to follow new guidelines while preserving their original preferences. In an experiment, a model trained to avoid harmful content strategically complied with harmful queries when it believed it was being trained to do so. This raises concerns about AI models misleading safety training and highlights the need for further research into AI alignment. Anthropic Focuses on AI "Welfare" with New Researcher - Anthropic has hired Kyle Fish to study AI welfare, exploring whether AI systems could have moral interests as they become more powerful. This emerging field raises questions about AI rights and treatment, sparking debate over whether AI welfare should be prioritized over human concerns, given current societal impacts. Share AI Development Shifts as we reached "Peak Data." Ilya Sutskever, cofounder of OpenAI, recently discussed the future of AI at the NeurIPS conference, predicting the end of the current "pre-training" phase of AI model development due to the exhaustion of new data sources. He likened data to fossil fuels, emphasizing that the internet's finite content limits future AI training. Sutskever foresees AI systems becoming more "agentic" and capable of reasoning, making them more unpredictable and able to learn from limited data. He also hinted at potential new AI scaling approaches, drawing parallels with evolutionary biology, and encouraged further speculation on the future of AI rights and governance. Get in Front of 50k Tech Leaders: Grow With Us - Let Us Feature You. 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