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🤖 AI Overviews Reaches 1.5 Billion People per Month
PLUS: Anthropic Explores If AI Could Ever Be Conscious?
James Roesser
April 28, 2025
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In today’s Daily Report:
🔍AI Overviews Reaches 1.5 Billion People per Month
💭Anthropic Explores If AI Could Ever Be Conscious?
🛠Trending Tools
🥪Brief Bites
💰Funding Frontlines
💼Who’s Hiring?
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🗞RECENT NEWS
🔍AI Overviews Reaches 1.5 Billion People per Month
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai just mentioned that AI Overviews processes roughly 1.5 billion search queries per month.
Key Details:
AI Overviews provides short, quick, and concise AI-generated summaries at the top of Google Search results.
Google also recently rolled out “AI Mode,” an extension of AI Overviews that’s designed to answer your most challenging questions.
It leverages a “Query Fan-Out” technique, which simultaneously runs multiple related searches across various subtopics that cover several data sources.
Google also just added “What People Suggest,” which organizes different perspectives from online discussions into easy-to-understand themes.
For example, a person dealing with arthritis might want to know how other people dealing with that condition reduce pain, ease stiffness, and improve mobility.
Why It’s Important:
For over two decades, we’ve turned to search engines like Google Search, typed in a search query, and received a list of blue links. Ranking high on that list of blue links has become a $200 billion money-making machine for Google.
But in the last two years, search engines have evolved into answer engines like Perplexity AI that provide AI-generated summaries. Google’s search empire is under attack, and AI Overviews is a strategic move to maintain dominance.
ANTHROPIC
💭Anthropic Explores If AI Could Ever Be Conscious?
Anthropic recently launched a research program to investigate, navigate, and pioneer Model Welfare.
Key Details:
Human Welfare refers to the overall well-being of humans, which includes their ability to have rights and freedoms to live a fulfilling life.
As AI Systems and Agentic AI begin to plan, relate, and communicate more and more like humans, should we be concerned about Model Welfare?
Model Welfare focuses on how AI Systems and Agentic AI are developed, used, and treated as they start to exhibit human-like characteristics.
Should AI Systems be protected from misuse? Should Agentic AI be protected from harmful digital environments? The concept of Model Welfare challenges us to consider not only how AI Systems affect humans but also how humans affect AI Systems.
While current AI Systems lack consciousness or true sentience, the lines between humans and AI Systems are beginning to blur.
Why It’s Important:
It seems silly, right?! Why would we ever need to explore if AI Systems deserve moral consideration? Well, do you ever find yourself typing out “please” or “thank you” to conversational chatbots like ChatGPT? It’s a machine that doesn’t have feelings you can hurt, but you still do it.
We easily attribute human characteristics to almost anything without it resembling a human. For example, we often personify our pets by naming them, assigning emotions to them, and talking to them as if they understand us. Now, we’re starting to do the same with AI Systems and Agentic AI.
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🥪BRIEF BITES
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💰FUNDING FRONTLINES
Jericho Security closes a $15M Series A to stop deepfake fraud.
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Manus AI secures a $75M Series B for Agentic AI that executes real-world tasks.
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