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Stanford’s 2025 AI Index highlights China’s DeepSeek R1 rivaling U.S. LLMs, thanks to surging patents and papers. Open-source models (Meta Llama, DeepSeek) are gaining traction, and AI hardware efficiency has improved 40%—dramatically expanding access wired.com+1en.wikipedia.org+1.
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MIT & IEEE underscore growth in specialized foundation models for science, weather forecasting, materials, drug discovery, and quantum computing spectrum.ieee.org.
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Edge AI rises: On-device models are advancing, emphasizing privacy, real-time performance, and edge optimization through compression and hardware acceleration arxiv.org.
⚙️ Tech & Research Breakthroughs
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Photonic Quantum ML: Quantum photonic circuits are boosting ML performance, signaling early practical integration of quantum computing with AI aaai.org+11sciencedaily.com+11tomsguide.com+11.
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FDA’s INTACT: First-ever agency-wide AI deployment—analyzing risk, speeding up regulatory workflows – showcasing how governments are operationalizing AI crescendo.ai.
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Multi-Agent Architecture: Research bodies (e.g., AAAI) are focusing on modular, transparent multi-agent systems to address adaptability and ethics aaai.org.
🌐 Policy, Ethics & Environment
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Global Regulation Shifts:
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At Paris’s AI Action Summit (Feb 2025), over €200B in EU investment and pledges of €110B in France aim to boost public good tools. But experts warn true safety measures were still lacking en.wikipedia.org+1time.com+1en.wikipedia.org.
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The U.S. legal landscape sees evolving bipartisan efforts: deepfake bans, AI Action Plan, while also moving toward deregulation en.wikipedia.org.
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AI’s Environmental Footprint: Training models is energy-intensive (doubling compute every 3.4 months), impacting grids and data centers and raising calls for moratoria and sustainable deployment en.wikipedia.org.
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Ethical Impact on Youth: Pope Leo XIV cautioned against AI interfering in child development, stressing that tech should support—not hinder—their growth vaticannews.va.
