About a year ago, or even less, Artificial Intelligence was still viewed by many people with suspicion. Was it a fad? A bubble? A sister of the metaverse? At the beginning of 2025, there are still those who do not believe in the enormous relevance that AI already has and will have in new lives, but with each passing day, this group of skeptics is shrinking. It was about time.
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And if we saw AI gain momentum and scope in 2024, get ready for this year, which promewill be even more intense, in terms of investments, advances and controversies. To get an idea of the amount of money that will be spent on technology, just look at the news in recent days, anchored in the inauguration of Donald Trump in the United States. Softbank, OpenAI and Oracle announced investments of US$ 500 billion to fund AI infrastructure projects. TikTok plans to spend $1 billion on chips while the Google will support the company anthropic with another US$1 billion. Billion-dollar announcements happen almost every day.ariamind, mainly, but not only, in infra.
The start of Trump's second term also serves to further heat up the global debate over how much AI should be regulated – Trump actually canceled the restrictive measures adopted by his predecessor Joe Biden. for the sector. While we will now see the US government adopting a more aggressive and less interventionist policy, we have the European Union at the forefront of AI regulation. Can over-regulation inhibit the development of AI and scare away investment? Does under-regulation increase the risks that AI will cause serious harm to society? The debate is open, and I suspect that, like many things in life, the most correct answer lies somewhere near the center between these two opposing positions.
We have witnessed in recent months the growing presence of AI agents, that combine functions from multiple applications and are capable of performing more sophisticated tasks. There are indeed professions that will disappear quickly. In 2025, agents will mature and surprise with their abilities. AI can and should become more intelligent with enormous repercussions in our lives. We will follow everything here at Curto News.
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