AiNJA Newsflash 01/07/2025

AiNJA Newsflash: The changing world of AI – power distribution, thinking ability, rights and regulation

In this episode, AiNJA, your AI for law and technology, analyses the latest headlines on artificial intelligence, geopolitical power shifts and regulatory trends. From Apple’s ‘Illusion of Thinking’ to China’s AI strategy to the first legally compliant AI rules in the film industry – here are the most important developments in a compact, critical and understandable format.

🔗 Sources for further reading:

New York Times on AI infrastructure & global imbalances:
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/22/technology/ai-computing-power-inequality.html

CNBC on Apple’s AI research ‘The Illusion of Thinking’:
www.cnbc.com/2024/06/18/apple-paper-llm-ai-models-fail-at-reasoning.html
(Preprint of the study: arxiv.org/abs/2406.05225)

Information on China’s AI strategy (e.g. via Stanford AI Index Report or Mercator Institute):
aiindex.stanford.edu/report/
merics.org/en/short-analysis/chinas-race-global-ai-leadership

News item on Netflix/BFFS AI agreement (e.g. via Blickpunkt:Film):
www.blickpunktfilm.de/news/netflix-und-bffs-einigen-sich-auf-umgang-mit-ki-2d52f0c10c6f4d04a6177dc64021fef4