🗞 Trump's AI Education Order, OpenAI's Revenue Surge, and Perplexity's Siri Challenge

🔎 The Latest on the AI Frontier:

• Trump Signs Executive Order: AI Education Initiative for K-12 Schools

• OpenAI Projects Revenue Surge: $125 Billion Target by 2029

• Perplexity Challenges Siri: New Voice Assistant Debuts on iOS

• Google's Samsung Deal: Premium Payment for Gemini AI Priority

• Dropbox Dash Upgrade: AI Search Now Handles Multiple Content Types

• Adobe Firefly Expansion: Multiple Image Generation Models Added

• Other news you might find interesting

🏫 President Trump signs executive order aimed at integrating AI into K-12 education

• The directive instructs the Education and Labor Departments to create opportunities for high school students to take AI courses and certification programs, prioritizes applications of AI in teacher training grant programs, directs the National Science Foundation to focus on AI education research, and expands AI-related apprenticeships.

• Trump also established a White House Task Force on AI Education, chaired by Michael Kratsios (director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy) and including Education Secretary Linda McMahon and Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, which will develop a "Presidential AI Challenge" to encourage AI use in classrooms.

• The order addresses bipartisan concerns about American students potentially falling behind other nations, particularly China, in AI education and workforce preparation, with Trump stating: "We have literally trillions of dollars being invested in AI. Somebody today, a very smart person, said that AI is the way to the future."

📈 OpenAI projects massive revenue growth to $125 billion by 2029, driven by new AI products

• According to information OpenAI shared with potential and current investors, the company expects its revenue to reach $125 billion in 2029 and $174 billion in 2030, with AI agents and other new offerings generating more sales than its ChatGPT chatbot, following strong 2024 performance when revenue hit $3.7 billion (nearly four times the prior year).

• While specific new products weren't detailed, executives have considered revenue streams like selling ads or charging affiliate fees for sales initiated through ChatGPT or its AI agents, as the company anticipates spending $46 billion in cash over the next four years before turning cash flow positive in 2029 with approximately $2 billion.

• OpenAI's aggressive growth strategy aligns with recent product launches including its "smartest" o3 and o4-mini reasoning models that represent a "step change" in ChatGPT capabilities, as CEO Sam Altman noted the company now reaches "something like 10% of the world" with 800 million people using its systems.

🗣️ Perplexity AI launches voice assistant on iOS, challenging Siri with expanded capabilities

• The new voice assistant feature on Perplexity's iOS app allows users to accomplish tasks through voice commands, including booking restaurant reservations, sending emails and calendar invites, and playing media from different apps by accessing web browsers and performing multi-app actions.

• While Perplexity's assistant offers strong performance in task completion, it does have limitations compared to Siri - notably, it cannot access the iPhone camera live or identify objects in real-time (though users can still upload photos for analysis).

• This launch positions Perplexity among several AI companies developing agentic AI features in 2025, following similar efforts from OpenAI with ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude 3.5 with Computer Use technology, and upcoming implementations from Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot.

💲 Google paid Samsung "an enormous sum" to make Gemini the dominant AI assistant on its phones

• According to testimony from Google's platform and device partnership VP Peter Fitzgerald in an ongoing antitrust case, Google is paying Samsung to preload Gemini AI on its devices and deeply integrate it into the One UI Android skin, with Samsung receiving payment for every device featuring Gemini and a cut of advertising revenue generated from Gemini searches and actions.

• The contract between the tech giants is set to last for at least two years, though specific financial details weren't disclosed in the testimony - this arrangement mirrors Google's established practice of paying Apple billions annually to maintain Google Search as the default on iPhones and other Apple devices.

• As Google continues to push Gemini across its ecosystem (Search, Docs, YouTube), users have expressed frustration with the AI assistant's increasing presence and questionable utility, particularly as it replaces long-standing Google features like Google Assistant for smart device management.

🔍 Dropbox enhances AI-powered search tool Dash with new features and integrations

• Dash now includes AI "understanding" of various content types, allowing users to search across audio, video, and images in addition to text, plus a new people search feature to find collaborators or subject matter experts.

• New writing tools leverage summaries from different data sources (email, meeting notes, existing documents) to create project plans, memos or briefs without switching between applications.

• Fresh integrations with communication platforms (Slack, Zoom, Microsoft Teams) and creative tools (Figma, Canva, Jira) enable cross-platform information search, while enterprise improvements include options for IT admins to exclude sensitive documents from results.

🎨 Adobe Firefly expands with multiple new image-generating models, including both in-house and competitor offerings

• New Adobe models include Firefly Image Model 4 (featuring faster, more controllable, and realistic image generation with up to 2K resolution), Firefly Image Model 4 Ultra (excelling at complex scenes with small structures), plus general availability of the Firefly Video Model and Vector Model – all designed to be commercially safe and IP-friendly.

• Adobe is integrating competitor models directly into the Firefly platform, including OpenAI's GPT-4o image model, Google's Imagen 3 and Veo 2, and Flux 1.1 Pro, with plans to add more from partners like fal.ai, Ideogram, Luma, Pika, and Runway in coming months.

• Adobe introduced Firefly Boards, a new AI-first collaboration platform for creating mood boards and storyboards with a Figma-like interface and embedded Firefly capabilities, now available in public beta alongside the web version of Firefly (with mobile apps for iOS and Android coming soon).

More news you might find interesting:  

• OpenAI adds ChatGPT's image generation capabilities to its API, enabling businesses to integrate the technology directly into their platforms.

• Hugging Face engineer creates tool to measure electricity consumption of AI chatbot interactions.

• Amazon Web Services introduces SWE-PolyBench, a comprehensive multi-language benchmark for evaluating AI coding assistants in real-world scenarios.

• Apple bets on eucalyptus tree farms in Brazil to meet carbon-neutral goals, drawing both support and criticism.

• EPFL researchers develop TopoLM, an AI language model that mimics both neural function and spatial arrangement in the brain.

• SK Hynix reports spectacular Q1 with 158% profit jump to $5.2 billion, driven by AI chip demand.

• South Korea's data protection authority confirms DeepSeek transferred user data to China without consent.

• WhatsApp faces criticism for "optional" Meta AI feature that users can't remove from the app.

• Google appears to be nearing public launch of native image generation capabilities in Gemini.

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