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Musk's new political party | End of AI's free lunch | Google Deepminds ambitious plans for diseases

Musk's new political party | End of AI's free lunch | Google Deepminds ambitious plans for diseases

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July 07, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes

7th July 2025

The era of freely accessible web data for AI training is coming to an end as more publishers block bots or demand compensation.
Companies like OpenAI, Meta, and Google are being forced into licensing deals or scraping limits to comply with copyright and privacy concerns.
This shift could reshape how AI models are trained, with growing emphasis on proprietary data and legally vetted datasets.

Truly effective AI agents today are solving narrow, well-defined tasks—like customer support or warehouse automation—not general-purpose open-world challenges.
The hype around autonomous superagents overshadows the practical value of specialized agents deployed in constrained environments.
AI progress will likely accelerate through domain-specific innovation rather than universal intelligence breakthroughs.

Isomorphic Labs, a DeepMind spin-off, has started its first human trials aiming to use AI for drug discovery and development.
The company is targeting a universal approach to disease treatment, leveraging AlphaFold’s protein modeling to accelerate cures.
If successful, this marks a major step in AI’s real-world application to revolutionize medicine and healthcare.

Elon Musk has officially launched the “America Party,” promoting a fiscally conservative, pro-birth agenda with plans to modernize the military using AI and reduce government debt.
The move has drawn criticism from political and business leaders, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Donald Trump, who labeled Musk a “train wreck.”
Despite facing major legal and logistical hurdles for ballot access, Musk claims strong public support based on polls and aims to disrupt the two-party system by targeting key House and Senate races.

Till next time.