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August 11, 2025

🏦 Trump gets 15% of China chip sales

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Monday’s AI Report

• 1. 🏦 Trump gets 15% of China chip sales
• 2. 🔏 Protect your online information with Incogni
• 3. 🌍 How Siemens reduced operational costs with AI
• 4. ⚙️ Trending AI tools
• 5. 😬 Altman admits GPT-5 is “dumber”
• 6. 📌 Pinterest swerves agentic AI shopping
• 7. 📑 Recommended resources

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Trump gets 15% of China chip sales

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An unnamed US official has revealed that US chipmakers, NVIDIA and AMD, have agreed to give the US government 15% of the revenue they make from selling their AI chips to China in return for export licences to China.

🔓 Key Points

The revenue share applies to NVIDIA’s H20 chips (which NVIDIA modified specifically for the Chinese market, under Bidens’ previous export rules) and AMD’s advanced MI308 chips.
This comes after the US previously banned the export of AI chips to China after security experts warned it could be "a potent accelerator" of China's AI capabilities, but last month, President Trump reversed this ban.
This is the first time a US company has agreed to share revenue to secure export licences, but President Trump has previously encouraged US firms to “buy down” the tariff rates he imposes.

🔐 Relevance

Although securing export licences for China is good news for NVIDIA and AMD (NVIDIA generated $17B from China sales last year, representing 13% of total sales, and AMD made $6.2B, accounting for 24% of total revenue), China appears to be growing increasingly concerned about the security of NVIDIA chips, forcing NVIDIA to confirm that their chips had no “backdoor” security risks (which would allow remote access) and demanding it produce “convincing security proofs” to eliminate Chinese users’ worries and regain market trust.

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Googling a name can reveal more than expected

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How Siemens reduced operational costs with AI

Siemens, a technology systems manufacturer, was struggling with high energy consumption and inefficient equipment maintenance.
This was increasing operational costs, so they introduced a multi-faceted AI approach across its manufacturing operations.
AI algorithms analyzed machine data to forecast equipment failures and AI visual inspection systems detected product defects early.
As a result, they lowered operational costs, experienced fewer disruptions, improved their system outcomes, and reduced re-work.

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Following the release of GPT-5 last week, OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, was forced to confront a barrage of disgruntled users who were all begging him to bring back GPT-5’s predecessor, GPT-4o.
One of GPT-5’s new features decides which model to use to answer prompts, but users complained it wasn’t as good as o4, and Altman admitted it was “dumber” because it wasn’t working when it launched.
He also addressed the “chart crime,” which saw GPT-5 create a bar chart displaying a higher bar for a lower score (during the live demo), calling it a “mega screwup” and promising to “continue to work to get things stable.”

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Pinterest CEO, Bill Ready, has declared that although agentic AI shopping agents are here, full agentic shopping—where AI agents complete purchases for users, autonomously— is still years away.
He feels that “most users are not ready to relinquish shopping control, except for utilitarian purchases” and wants Pinterest to focus on using AI to meet consumer preferences, rather than complete purchases.
He wants Pinterest to be a shopping assistant that “just gets” users, “because the app will make recommendations on things that align with [users’] taste and style, the way that a personal shopping assistant would.”

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