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What tariffs could mean for the AI race

1 week ago | emergingtechbrew.com | Patrick Kulp

For the tech giants building out the next generation of AI, 2025 was already going to be an expensive year. President Trump’s tariffs might balloon those price tags further—but how much remains unclear. Microsoft, Google, Meta, and other big AI companies have pledged to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on AI infrastructure projects this year.
AI companies take aim at scientific discovery

1 week ago | emergingtechbrew.com | Patrick Kulp

Systems like ChatGPT have now been trained on the near-sum of all human knowledge. Yet they spend much of their time whipping up emails or regurgitating facts. What would it take for generative AI to spawn new ideas? That’s a question that tech companies and research labs seem to be increasingly asking as they explore how GenAI might aid in the process of scientific discovery. New AI systems aim to give scientists tools to supercharge the hypothesis and experimentation flow.
AI researchers are split on how AI will impact society

1 week ago | emergingtechbrew.com | Patrick Kulp

Almost everybody has an opinion about the future of AI these days. But what do experts who spend day in and day out studying this technology think about its impact? That’s what a recently published poll of more than 4,200 AI researchers from University College London aims to pin down. The authors claim the preprint paper is the largest social science survey of such technologists to date.
Tariffs could push farmers to seek savings in ag tech, but can they justify the investment?

1 week ago | emergingtechbrew.com | Tricia Crimmins

President Trump’s tariff bonanza will undoubtedly affect farmers, who are already preparing for the worst: lower incomes, higher production costs, and the potential shuttering of smaller farms. But some sustainable ag tech companies could take advantage of a moment when farmers may want to “stretch their dollar” by downsizing fields and using smaller, more precise equipment than tractors, Hylio CEO Arthur Erickson told Tech Brew.
With Solar for All funds unfrozen, tribal awardees are cautiously (and quickly) getting to work

1 week ago | emergingtechbrew.com | Tricia Crimmins

Just a year ago, the Biden administration’s Solar for All program selected 60 states, nonprofits, municipalities, and tribal consortiums to receive a total of $7 billion in grant funding to set up solar infrastructure in low income areas. In February, those grants were placed in purgatory after President Trump froze Environmental Protection Agency funding. “It feels like everything’s up in the air,” Joseph Eagleman, CEO of the Chippewa Cree Energy Corporation, told Tech Brew.
OpenAI is rethinking its open-weights strategy

1 week ago | emergingtechbrew.com | Patrick Kulp

OpenAI plans to once again live up to the adjective in its name. The company announced that, “in the coming months,” it will release its first open-weights language model since GPT-2 in 2019. The move comes as the splash caused by DeepSeek’s open models enlivened the open side of an ongoing split among AI developers. Meta’s release of its latest Llama 4 models this month, despite some controversy around benchmarking, has also amped up competition in the space.
Biotech company says its cruelty-free red pigment could replace a hue made with bugs

1 week ago | emergingtechbrew.com | Tricia Crimmins

A red pigment used in cosmetics, food, and beverages, usually created by crushing up beetles, can now be made vegan by using sugar. Biotech company Debut announced it can make carmine, a red dye derived from the Cochineal beetle, by creating a microbe that can “turn sugar into carmine.” Previously, the only way to achieve the pigment was by smashing beetles, which caused allergic reactions in some consumers and backlash toward companies that used it.
Senators call for reforms to EPA Superfund system

2 weeks ago | emergingtechbrew.com | Tricia Crimmins

While newly minted state Superfund laws face a multi-state lawsuit, senators declared the law they’re based on “broken.”Senators on the Environment and Public Works Committee lamented the state of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), also known as the “Superfund” law, during a Wednesday hearing.
Microsoft stakes out an AI future at 50th anniversary event

2 weeks ago | emergingtechbrew.com | Patrick Kulp

Under an uncharacteristically sunny Pacific Northwest sky last week, hundreds of Microsoft employees filed into a hangar-like structure on the company’s sprawling Redmond, Washington, campus to celebrate a half-century of software dominance. Emceed by actor Brenda Song, the 50th anniversary event gathered Microsoft’s three CEOs—Bill Gates (1975–2000), Steve Ballmer (2000–2014), and current chief Satya Nadella—in a rare joint appearance to reminisce about the last five decades.
Waabi CEO Raquel Urtasun on how AI advances enable more accurate simulations in AV testing

2 weeks ago | emergingtechbrew.com | Jordyn Grzelewski

It’s becoming something of a truism that AI is only as good as the data behind it. AI algorithms, after all, are products of the reams of data on which they’re trained. This makes for a high-stakes situation in the world of autonomous vehicles, where it’s common for simulations based on data to play a crucial role in the testing process.