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While tech giants race to build more powerful AI, world leaders clash over who gets to write the rules.

The AI Action Summit just wrapped up in Paris, exposing some deep new fractures between allies — with billions in funding and global dominance at stake.

In today’s AI news:

• Global tensions rise at Paris AI summit

• Perplexity drops blazing new Sonar model

• YouTube supercharges creators with AI expansion

• Top Tools & Quick News

Global tensions rise at Paris AI summit

The News: The AI Action Summit in Paris wrapped up on Tuesday, intensifying global divisions as the U.S. and UK opted out of a multinational declaration, while European leaders outlined aggressive investment strategies to rival American AI leadership.

The details:

• U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance cautioned against excessive AI regulation, asserting that the U.S. would lead in AI by maintaining control over chips, software, and policy frameworks.

• The UK and the U.S. refused to endorse a declaration promoting open and ethical AI, citing national security risks and governance disputes.

• Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei criticized the summit as a "missed opportunity," pointing to unresolved concerns over AI acceleration and security vulnerabilities.

• EC President von der Leyen unveiled a €200B AI investment initiative, framing Europe as an open-source alternative to U.S.-led AI development.

Why it matters: The summit underscored deepening fault lines in AI governance. With the U.S. and traditionally risk-averse UK declining to commit to the summit’s framework—while China joined the group of signatories—AI is fast becoming a global policy battleground that could reshape geopolitical alliances and influence power structures worldwide.

Perplexity drops blazing new Sonar model

The News: Perplexity has unveiled an upgraded version of its in-house AI model, Sonar, powered by Llama 3.3 70B. The model delivers responses at an impressive 1,200 tokens per second while maintaining or surpassing leading AI models in accuracy—all at a significantly lower cost.

The details:

• Sonar processes responses 10x faster than competitors like Gemini 2.0 Flash, leveraging Cerebras inference infrastructure for near-instant answers.

• Performance evaluations show Sonar outpacing GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet across key metrics, including user satisfaction, factual accuracy, and world knowledge.

• Perplexity Pro subscribers now have default access to Sonar, with API availability expected soon using the same architecture.

• CEO Aravind Srinivas hinted at an upcoming Voice Mode, claiming it will be "the only product" to provide real-time voice responses and information for free.

Why it matters: Perplexity is rapidly iterating, rolling out this high-speed model just three weeks after Sonar’s initial launch. With industry-leading response speeds and accuracy that challenges top AI models, Perplexity is aggressively positioning itself to claim a larger stake in the AI market.

YouTube supercharges creators with AI expansion

The News: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan just announced a wave of AI-driven upgrades, including automated dubbing, enhanced creator tools, and a new AI-based age detection system—marking the platform’s biggest leap yet into AI-powered content creation and moderation.

The details:

• YouTube is expanding its AI detection pilot, equipping top creators and artists with tools to identify and manage AI-generated content that mimics their voice or likeness.

• Auto-dubbing is now available to all monetized creators, with YouTube reporting that 40% of watch time for translated videos comes from dubbed versions.

• A new AI age estimation system will use machine learning to determine viewer age ranges and adjust content recommendations and safety features accordingly.

• Dream Screen and Dream Track, YouTube’s AI-powered tools for Shorts, will soon integrate Google’s Veo 2, enhancing background and music generation.

Why it matters: YouTube is embedding AI into nearly every aspect of its platform, benefiting both creators and audiences. With auto-dubbing and AI-powered creation tools expanding, content production is becoming more seamless—allowing videos to reach a broader global audience faster than ever.

Today's Top Tools

• Zonos-v0.1 - Open-source, real-time TTS models with voice cloning

• Luma Ray2 - New image-to-video with enhanced realism and motion

• Cursor - Coding agent with new custom tool integration and upgraded semantic search

• Readdy - Generate professional designs in seconds with ready-to-use code

Quick News

UC Berkeley researchers unveiled DeepScaleR, a new open-source model that surpasses OpenAI's o1-Preview in mathematical reasoning despite its tiny 1.5B parameter size.

Sam Altman commented on Elon Musk’s offer at the AI Action Summit, calling Musk ‘insecure’ and ‘unhappy’ and saying the antics are to ‘slow us down.’

Apple is reportedly partnering with Alibaba to bring Apple Intelligence to China after previously exploring deals with DeepSeek, Baidu, and ByteDance.

A new study from the Center for AI Safety revealed that LLMs develop internal value systems as they scale, with implications like valuing certain human lives differently and showing resistance to value changes.

Alphabet, OpenAI, Roblox, and Discord launched ROOST, a $27M initiative to develop free, open-source AI tools to combat online child exploitation and promote digital safety.

New BBC research found that major AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini produced significant inaccuracies in over half of the news summaries tested.

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