🏈 AI dominates Super Bowl ads

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• 🏈 AI dominates Super Bowl ads

• ⏳ reCAPTCHA wastes 819M hours, benefits Google

• 🏆 DeepMind AI beats math Olympiad champs

• 📉 Trump’s meme coin tanks, $2B lost

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🏈 AI dominates Super Bowl ads ↗️LINK

• What: The 2025 Super Bowl saw a surge in AI-focused ads from major tech players. OpenAI debuted a $14M ad highlighting ChatGPT, Google promoted its Gemini chatbot, and Meta showcased its Ray-Ban smart glasses. Other brands, like Salesforce and GoDaddy, also integrated AI into their marketing.

• Why: With AI becoming a mainstream technology, companies aimed to position their products as essential and accessible. The competition is heating up, with OpenAI, Google, and Meta vying for dominance.

• Impact: The Super Bowl solidified AI’s role in public consciousness. However, Google's ad blunder highlighted the risks of AI hallucinations, and some brands, like Cirkul, humorously critiqued overreliance on AI.

⏳ reCAPTCHA wastes 819M hours, benefits Google ↗️LINK

• What: Originally designed to stop bots and digitize text, Google’s reCAPTCHA now primarily tracks users while offering little real security. Studies show it collects extensive user data, including browsing history and mouse movements.

• Why: reCAPTCHA generates billions for Google through tracking-based ad revenue. Meanwhile, users have collectively lost an estimated 819 million hours solving CAPTCHAs, valued at $6.1 billion in wages.

• Impact: While bots easily bypass reCAPTCHA, users have no choice but to comply, reinforcing Google’s dominance in online tracking and data collection. The system raises concerns over privacy and wasted human effort.

📉 Trump’s meme coin tanks, $2B lost ↗️LINK

• What: Trump’s meme cryptocurrency, $Trump, launched at 18 cents and briefly surged to $75 before crashing to $17, wiping out $2 billion in investor funds. Early buyers made massive profits, but over 810,000 crypto wallets now hold losses.

• Why: Trump promoted the coin aggressively, while his family earned over $100 million in trading fees. Critics argue he is rolling back crypto regulations to benefit himself and allies.

• Impact: The crash highlights the volatility of meme coins and raises concerns over political figures profiting from speculative assets while influencing financial regulations.

🏆 DeepMind AI beats math Olympiad champs ↗️LINK

• What: Google DeepMind’s AlphaGeometry2 solved 84% of past International Mathematical Olympiad geometry problems, surpassing the average gold medalist’s performance. It combined a Gemini model with a symbolic engine to achieve rigorous proofs.

• Why: Math has long been a challenge for AI, but DeepMind’s breakthrough shows rapid progress in problem-solving and deductive reasoning. The model trained on 300M synthetic theorems and proofs.

• Impact: This advancement could revolutionize math-heavy fields like physics and engineering, pushing AI closer to tackling advanced scientific and theoretical problems.

🎮 No more "watch ads to play" on Steam ↗️LINK

• What: Steam has reinforced its ban on in-game ads that gate access to gameplay or offer rewards for ad views. While this policy isn’t new, a recently added page makes it more explicit. Product placements and external paid ads leading to store pages remain allowed.

• Why: While ad-based monetization is common in mobile gaming, Valve wants to keep Steam free from disruptive ad-driven business models. This aligns with its past bans on NFTs and AI-generated content disclosure requirements.

• Impact: The move ensures a cleaner gaming experience on Steam, setting a clear standard for developers and preventing mobile-style ad tactics from creeping into PC gaming.

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