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• 1. 🏭 Softbank’s $1 trillion AI plan
• 2. 🔒 Protect your online info with Incogni
• 3. 🌍 How Taco Bell used AI to boost sales by 8%
• 4. ⚙️ Trending AI tools
• 5. 🕵️♂️ Musk faces another EU probe
• 6. 📵 Big tech calls for AI regulation ban
• 7. 📑 Recommended resources
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Softbank’s $1 trillion AI plan
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Softbank CEO, Masayoshi Son, is planning to partner with Taiwanese AI chip maker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), and the Trump administration to build a $1T industrial AI complex in Arizona.
🔓 Key Points
Called “Project Crystal Land,” Son’s plans include building a manufacturing hub and AI complex that will rival China’s colossal AI manufacturing hub, Shenzhen, and bring high-end tech manufacturing to the US.
It’s unclear if TSMC is interested in the venture (it's already investing $165B in building AI chip factories across the US), but Son has also reached out to Samsung and other Softbank portfolio companies.
Son has also reportedly spoken to US government officials to see if those involved in the project—whether it’s those building the complex or those investing in it—could get possible tax breaks.
🔐 Relevance
Bringing high-tech manufacturing back into the US is a key Trump administration goal. It’s already backed the $500B Project Stargate, which seeks to build out data center capacity across the US, with funding from SoftBank itself, OpenAI, and Oracle. This objective also aligns with SoftBank's own goal of investing aggressively in AI after recently leading a $40B funding round in OpenAI and acquiring AI chip manufacturer Ampere for $6.5B.
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🌮 How Taco Bell used AI to boost sales by 8%
Food outlet, Taco Bell, needed to improve shift scheduling and inventory management without reducing staff or compromising customer service.
It launched an AI-powered coach to help managers with staff scheduling, optimizing store hours, and flagging inventory requirements.
It also integrated AI voice tech into 500 drive-thru lanes to streamline order-taking and support staff.
As a result, sales increased by 8% and managers were able to respond better to variable factors like employee absence or local competitor hours.
The EU Commission, which enforces legislation that holds tech companies accountable for online user safety, transparency, and content moderation, is investigating Musk’s acquisition of his social media platform, X.
Regulators are following “changes in the corporate structure of X” over concerns about its transparency, platform governance, and overlaps between Musk’s other ventures, including Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI.
This comes after Musk faced scrutiny by the EU Commission last year, over deceptive design, after he converted the blue checkmark into a paid verification, therefore attributing false credibility to users.
Big US tech companies—including Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft—are pushing for a 10-year ban that would stop any US state from enforcing AI regulations that could slow the pace of innovation.
If successful, the proposal would, for a decade, ban states from enforcing laws that could limit, restrict, or regulate AI models or systems in a bid to stop China from taking the AI lead, safeguarding America’s position.
Critics, including some from Silicon Valley, have argued that this will undo progress made to protect user privacy and will make managing AI societal risks harder in the long term.
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The Most Overlooked Business Model on the Internet
In this episode of The AI Report, Liam Lawson talks to Frey Chu—creator, directory builder, and SEO educator—to break down how directories are making a comeback in the age of AI.
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