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Billionaire SpaceX, Tesla and X owner Elon Musk says he plans to sue Apple for not featuring X and its Grok artificial intelligence chatbot app in its top recommended apps in its App Store.
Musk posted the comments on X late Monday, saying, “Hey @Apple App Store, why do you refuse to put either X or Grok in your ‘Must Have’ section when X is the #1 news app in the world and Grok is #5 among all apps? Are you playing politics? What gives? Inquiring minds want to know.”
Grok is owned by Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI.
Musk went on to say that “Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation. xAI will take immediate legal action.”
He gave no further details.
There was no immediate comment from Apple, which has faced various allegations of antitrust violations in recent years.
A federal judge recently found that Apple violated a court injunction in an antitrust case filed by Fortnite maker Epic Games.
Regulators of the 27-nation European Union fined Apple 500 million euros in April for breaking competition rules by preventing app makers from pointing users to cheaper options outside its App Store.
Last year, the EU fined the U.S. tech giant nearly $2 billion for unfairly favoring its own music streaming service by forbidding rivals like Spotify from telling users how they could pay for cheaper subscriptions outside of iPhone apps.
As of early Tuesday, the top app in Apple’s App Store was TikTok, followed by Tinder, Duolingo, YouTube and Bumble. Open AI’s ChatGPT was ranked seventh.
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A chatbot is a computer program that uses artificial intelligence to simulate human conversation. For the lonely, a chatbot can be a companion, as Meg Oliver reports in tonight’s “Eye on America.”
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Reno, Nevada — In a field outside of Reno, Nevada, sit rows and rows of solar panels soaking up sunshine.
Beside them are used electric vehicle batteries under white plastic, whose job is to keep two data centers for Crusoe, an artificial intelligence cloud platform, running day and night.
“The whole AI industry is struggling with how to access more reliable power on a fast time scale,” Cully Cavness, co-founder, president and chief operating officer of Crusoe, told CBS News.
That struggle is real. As the use of AI grows, a 2024 Department of Energy study found that U.S. data centers could swallow up to 12% of all U.S. electricity use by 2028, approximately triple today’s share.
In Texas alone, developers have filed plans for more than 100 new gas-fired plants, mostly for servers.
“Gas power is a great solution that data centers are turning to for speed, for speed to megawatts. This is an alternative way to accomplish that speed, but with a renewable power source,” said Cavness on why he believes that recycled EV batteries offer a solution that gas power does not.
The recycled batteries powering Crusoe’s two data centers come from Nevada-based Redwood Materials. The company said it recovered more than 20 gigawatt hours of lithium-ion batteries in 2024, enough to power 250,000 new electric vehicles.
On Wednesday, General Motors announced a partnership to provide EV batteries to Redwood Materials.
Engineer Colin Campbell, chief technology officer for Redwood Materials, hates to toss anything that can still work.
“There’s really very little wrong with them,” Campbell said of the used batteries. “Like, maybe they have lost 20% of their capacity. Maybe your electric vehicle’s a little bit slower. And so that’s appropriate that you don’t want it in your car anymore. But it still works great. So we just looked at that and we were like, ‘Hey, why don’t we use it to store energy for the grid?'”
The Redwood Materials engineers kept the system simple: no pipes and no pumps.
“That’s been a fun engineering effort for the engineering team to make something that is robust, that is incredibly useful, but also very cheap and quick to put in the field,” Campbell said.
The company is confident that if it works here in rural Nevada, it can clone the setup 100-fold.
JB Straubel, a former chief technology officer for Tesla who founded Redwood Materials in 2017, said the raw material is already rolling off America’s roads.
“There’s no practical limit that we see on how we can scale this,” Straubel told CBS News. “It’s one thing that makes us so excited. This is very modular.”
Straubel argued that it also sidesteps the dirtiest part of the AI boom.
“This is a different way to power the AI revolution,” Straubel said. “We’re showing, you know, that AI doesn’t have to be in conflict with the existing grid.”
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Sydney — Humans beat generative AI models made by Google and OpenAI at a top international mathematics competition, but the programs reached gold-level scores for the first time, and the rate at which they are improving may be cause for some human introspection.
Neither of the AI models scored full marks — unlike five young people at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), a prestigious annual competition where participants must be under 20 years old.
Google said Monday that an advanced version of its Gemini chatbot had solved five out of the six math problems set at the IMO, held in Australia’s Queensland this month.
“We can confirm that Google DeepMind has reached the much-desired milestone, earning 35 out of a possible 42 points – a gold medal score,” the U.S. tech giant cited IMO president Gregor Dolinar as saying. “Their solutions were astonishing in many respects. IMO graders found them to be clear, precise and most of them easy to follow.”
Around 10% of human contestants won gold-level medals, and five received perfect scores of 42 points.
U.S. ChatGPT maker OpenAI said its experimental reasoning model had also scored a gold-level 35 points on the test.
The result “achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI” at “the world’s most prestigious math competition,” OpenAI researcher Alexander Wei said in a social media post.
“We evaluated our models on the 2025 IMO problems under the same rules as human contestants,” he said. “For each problem, three former IMO medalists independently graded the model’s submitted proof.”
Google achieved a silver-medal score at last year’s IMO in the city of Bath, in southwest England, solving four of the six problems.
That took two to three days of computation — far longer than this year, when its Gemini model solved the problems within the 4.5-hour time limit, it said.
The IMO said tech companies had “privately tested closed-source AI models on this year’s problems,” the same ones faced by 641 competing students from 112 countries.
“It is very exciting to see progress in the mathematical capabilities of AI models,” said IMO president Dolinar.
Contest organizers could not verify how much computing power had been used by the AI models or whether there had been human involvement, he noted.
In an interview with CBS’ 60 Minutes earlier this year, one of Google’s leading AI researchers predicted that within just five to 10 years, computers would be made that have human-level cognitive abilities — a landmark known as “artificial general intelligence.”
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis predicted that AI technology was on track to understand the world in nuanced ways, and to not only solve important problems, but even to develop a sense of imagination, within a decade, thanks to an increase in investment.
“It’s moving incredibly fast,” Hassabis said. “I think we are on some kind of exponential curve of improvement. Of course, the success of the field in the last few years has attracted even more attention, more resources, more talent. So that’s adding to the, to this exponential progress.”
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The Trump administration on Wednesday unveiled an AI Action Plan aimed at maintaining U.S. dominance in the rapidly emerging artificial intelligence field. The initiative is part of an ongoing effort the White House began earlier this year with an executive order removing AI guardrails imposed by the Biden administration.
Mr. Trump spoke about the new plan during a keynote address at an AI summit in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, after which he signed executive orders to help fast-track AI development.
“Around the globe, everyone is talking about artificial intelligence,” Mr. Trump said Wednesday. “I find that too, ‘artificial’ — I can’t stand it. I don’t even like the name. I don’t like anything that’s artificial, so could we straighten that out, please? We should change the name. I actually mean that. I don’t like the name artificial anything. Because it’s not artificial, it’s genius. It’s pure genius.”
Mr. Trump said AI has the potential to “transform every type of endeavor and domain of human knowledge, from medicine to manufacturing to warfare and national defense.”
“Whether we like it or not, we’re suddenly engaged in a fast-paced competition to build and define this groundbreaking technology that will determine so much about the future of civilization itself,” he said.
The Trump administration’s plan, which includes more than 90 federal policy actions, broadly will:
- Support the buildout of data centers, semiconductor fabrication plants and the nation’s electric grid;
- Create rules for government contractors in an attempt to eliminate “ideological bias” in chatbots;
- Withhold funding from states that have “burdensome” AI regulations;
- Compel federal agencies to review their rules and repeal any that obstruct AI development;
- Establish a program to deliver AI export packages — including hardware, large language models, software, applications and standards — to U.S. allies.
Mr. Trump said “a lot of very brilliant people” tell him AI will dominate virtually every industry, although he said he doesn’t know if that’s true. The president said AI brings the possibility of peril, as well as progress.
“The daunting power of AI is really, it’s not going to be a reason for retreat from this new frontier,” Mr. Trump said. “On the contrary, it is the more reason we must ensure it is pioneered first and best.”
AI is like a “beautiful baby that’s born,” he said of the technology’s current state.
“We have to grow that baby and let that baby thrive,” the president said. That means allowing some regulation, but also cutting red tape, he said.
The president thanked companies present at the summit for investing in data centers and other projects, saying they’ll create thousands of jobs.
The Wednesday announcement is co-hosted by the bipartisan Hill and Valley Forum and the All-In Podcast, a business and technology show hosted by four technology investors and entrepreneurs who include Mr. Trump’s AI and crypto czar David Sacks.
“The goal here is for the United States to win the AI race,” Sacks said during a press call with reporters Wednesday morning.
The plan is backed by the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and will be carried out over the next six months to a year, according to Michael Kratsios, policy director of the OSTP.
“This is a watershed day for Trump to lay out the AI vision and make sure the U.S. stays ahead of China despite all the trade deal turmoil,” Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives said in an email to CBS MoneyWatch.
What is the AI Action Plan?
The AI Action Plan focuses on accelerating AI innovation and building out AI infrastructure to ensure the U.S. leads in international “AI diplomacy,” according to Sacks, who laid out the plan’s major pillars during Wednesday’s call.
That includes expediting the construction of large-scale data centers, which house servers, networking gear and other technology used to power artificial intelligence.
Thousands of data centers are scattered around the U.S. Most are connected to the nation’s power grid and rely on massive amounts of electricity to operate. The proliferation of AI data centers has been cited as one of the drivers of burgeoning energy costs.
The number of data centers is only expected to grow as technology companies — including Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and xAI — ramp up construction to meet the nation’s growing energy demand stemming from the emergence of AI.
In addition to investments in data centers, the new White House plan also focuses on “expediting and modernizing programs” for semiconductor fabrication plants, or fabs, and updating the nation’s electric grid to support the enormous energy demands of AI supercomputing, Kratsios said.
Another focus will be on reining in what White House officials have called an “ideological bias” in chatbots. This is something Sacks, a former PayPal executive, has highlighted after a 2024 incident in which Google’s AI image generator created pictures of Black, Asian and Native American men when asked to show one of the countries Founding Fathers.
“We believe that AI systems should be free of ideological bias and not be designed to pursue socially engineered agendas,” Sacks said on Wednesday. “And so we have a number of proposals there on how to make sure that AI remains truth-seeking and trustworthy.”
To that end, Kratsios said the plan will update federal procurement guidelines to ensure the government only contracts with AI developers whose systems “allow free speech expression to flourish.”
The plan also seeks to maintain the U.S.’ edge in the global race for AI dominance as it competes with countries like China, which has moved quickly to expand its AI capabilities. A senior White House official said the report supports export controls to make sure “that our most advanced technology doesn’t get into the hands of [other] countries.”
As part of its efforts, the White House also seeks to remove what it refers to as “onerous regulation” that the Trump administration says is hindering AI innovation. The official added that the plan calls for the removal of diversity, equity and inclusion and climate funding requirements from the Biden administration’s CHIPS Act.
DEI regulations within the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America Act “burden the industry” and “slow down the delivery of critical projects,” they said.
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AI gets a lot of attention for eliminating human jobs, but more and more it is also creating them.
The number of job postings that mention artificial intelligence has climbed in recent years as employers seek workers versed in AI, a recent report from the Brookings Institution shows, In the last year alone, AI-themed job postings increased by over 100%, the Washington, D.C.-based think tank found.
AI-related job postings have grown at an average annual rate of nearly 29% over the last 15 years — that outstrips the 11% rate of postings in the general economy, said Brookings, which based its findings on data from labor market analytics firm Lightcast.
Demand for AI expertise is growing as more companies start to integrate AI into their workflows. The share of companies using AI in the manufacturing sector has more than doubled from 4% in early 2023 to roughly 9% as of mid-2025, according to Brookings, citing data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Business Trends and Outlook Survey (BTOS).
Yet while AI job growth has accelerated in recent years, it makes up only a small fraction of the labor market overall. Investment bank Goldman Sachs estimates the peak pace of adoption will hit in the early 2030s.
“AI is definitely visible in the micro labor market data, but it doesn’t look like it’s driving the overall labor market dynamic,” said Joseph Briggs, a senior global economist at Goldman Sachs.
What kind of AI jobs?
The burgeoning AI job market involves a mix of skill sets ranging from advanced AI-specific roles, such as AI engineers, to more general AI-related positions such as software developers, according to Elena Magrini, global head of research at Lightcast.
In 2025, more than 80,000 job postings mentioned generative AI skills, up from 3,780 in 2010, according to Brookings.
Cory Stahle, an economist at the Indeed Hiring Lab, said in an email to CBS MoneyWatch that the accelerating adoption of AI by businesses is spurring demand for consultants who can help companies integrate AI. Job listings relating to so-called responsible AI jobs, which focus on the ethical use of AI tools in business and society, are also on the rise, according to Indeed.
“In other words, the definition of what it means to be an ‘AI job’ is changing every day as businesses find new and creative ways to incorporate the technology responsibly,” Stahle said.
AI positions may prove an especially appealing sector of the U.S. labor market given that they tend to be associated with higher salaries. Job postings that mention AI skills pay an average of $18,000, or 28%, more per year than for similar roles that don’t require AI skills, according to a separate report from Lightcast.
Where are AI jobs to be found?
Unsurprisingly, AI job growth tends to be concentrated in tech hubs like Silicon Valley, which accounts for 13% of all AI-related job postings. Seattle accounts for 7% according to data from Lightcast.
But AI jobs are starting to surface in other parts of the country including the Sunbelt and along the East Coast between Boston and Washington, D.C. said Mark Muro, a senior fellow at Brookings Metro. Universities have also been a catalyst for AI job growth, he noted.
Magrini noted that AI skills are increasingly required in other non-tech fields like marketing, human resources and finance. Over half of job postings requesting AI skills in 2024 were outside IT and computer science, according to Lightcast data.
While uptake is uneven across geographic areas, Muro said he expects AI adoption by employers to increase more rapidly in the coming years as they figure out its benefits and limitations.
“There does seem to be good consensus that this is very important for productivity and that it does really energize regional leaders and business people,” he said.
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What should these protocols say about security?
Researchers and developers still don’t really understand how AI models work, and new vulnerabilities are being discovered all the time. For chatbot-style AI applications, malicious attacks can cause models to do all sorts of bad things, including regurgitating training data and spouting slurs. But for AI agents, which interact with the world on someone’s behalf, the possibilities are far riskier.
For example, one AI agent, made to read and send emails for someone, has already been shown to be vulnerable to what’s known as an indirect prompt injection attack. Essentially, an email could be written in a way that hijacks the AI model and causes it to malfunction. Then, if that agent has access to the user’s files, it could be instructed to send private documents to the attacker.
Some researchers believe that protocols like MCP should prevent agents from carrying out harmful actions like this. However, it does not at the moment. “Basically, it does not have any security design,” says Zhaorun Chen, a University of Chicago PhD student who works on AI agent security and uses MCP servers.
Bruce Schneier, a security researcher and activist, is skeptical that protocols like MCP will be able to do much to reduce the inherent risks that come with AI and is concerned that giving such technology more power will just give it more ability to cause harm in the real, physical world. “We just don’t have good answers on how to secure this stuff,” says Schneier. “It’s going to be a security cesspool really fast.”
Others are more hopeful. Security design could be added to MCP and A2A similar to the way it is for internet protocols like HTTPS (though the nature of attacks on AI systems is very different). And Chen and Anthropic believe that standardizing protocols like MCP and A2A can help make it easier to catch and resolve security issues even as is. Chen uses MCP in his research to test the roles different programs can play in attacks to better understand vulnerabilities. Chu at Anthropic believes that these tools could let cybersecurity companies more easily deal with attacks against agents, because it will be easier to unpack who sent what.
How open should these protocols be?
Although MCP and A2A are two of the most popular agent protocols available today, there are plenty of others in the works. Large companies like Cisco and IBM are working on their own protocols, and other groups have put forth different designs like Agora, designed by researchers at the University of Oxford, which upgrades an agent-service communication from human language to structured data in real time.
Many developers hope there could eventually be a registry of safe, trusted systems to navigate the proliferation of agents and tools. Others, including Chen, want users to be able to rate different services in something like a Yelp for AI agent tools. Some more niche protocols have even built blockchains on top of MCP and A2A so that servers can show they are not just spam.
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YouTube announced on Tuesday it is planning to roll out a new age-estimation technology that will identify users under the age of 18. The new feature is intended to protect young teens from harmful content, the company says.
Powered by artificial intelligence, the tool will be able to assess a person’s age based on the types of videos they’ve watched, the categories of the videos, and how long the person has had their account — regardless of the birthday associated with it, James Beser, director of product management at YouTube, said in a statement on the platform’s blog.
If the technology identifies a person as under 18, it will take extra steps to regulate their content by disabling personalized advertising and limiting repetitive views of certain kinds of content, among other things. If YouTube incorrectly determines someone’s age, the user can upload a form of identification to fix the error.
“We will only allow users who have been inferred or verified as over 18 to view age-restricted content that may be inappropriate for younger users,” YouTube said in the blog post.
Google, which is the parent company of YouTube, did not immediately respond to CBS MoneyWatch’s request for comment.
According to a recent Pew survey, YouTube is the most popular social media app among teens. Ninety percent of teens ages 13 to 17 said they used YouTube last year, compared with 63% who said they used TikTok.
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan initially announced the age-detection technology in February. The new tool builds on other safety features like supervised accounts which allow parents to monitor their children’s YouTube activity more closely.
YouTube has also leveraged AI to identify and remove content it considers harmful, although since President Trump took office in January for his second term, the social media platform has shifted its policy to emphasize “freedom of expression” over safety, The New York Times reported.
YouTube says it will be testing the age-detection tool in the coming weeks among a small set of U.S. users, before rolling out the technology to a wider audience. The tool is already being used in other markets with success, the company states on its blog, but does not specify where.
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