AI Weekly News Update: 03/31/2025

AI Strategist News: Navigating the transformative world of AI for your business

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Layla Hecker
March 31, 2025

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This Week’s News

Elon Musk says xAI has acquired X in deal that values social media site at $33 billion

In a social media post on Friday, Elon Musk said his startup xAI has acquired his social media company X.

www.cnbc.com/2025/03/28/elon-musk-says-xai-has-acquired-x-in-deal-that-values-social-media-site-at-33-billion.html

Everything Is Ghibli: What You Need to Know About the Hottest AI Image Trend - Decrypt

OpenAI's latest model is filling social media streams with Studio Ghibli anime-inspired images—and sparking debate. Here's how it all works.

decrypt.co/312017/everything-studio-ghibli-ai-anime-image-trend

Business Use Cases

Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro is the smartest model you’re not using – and 4 reasons it matters for enterprise AI

Gemini 2.5 Pro marks a significant leap forward for Google in the foundational model race – not just in benchmarks, but in usability. Based on early experiments, benchmark data, and hands-on developer reactions, it’s a model worth serious attention from enterprise technical decision-makers, particularly those who’ve historically defaulted to OpenAI or Claude for production-grade reasoning. Here are four major takeaways for enterprise teams evaluating Gemini 2.5 Pro, led by its transparent, structured reasoning — a new bar for chain-of-thought clarity.

venturebeat.com/ai/googles-gemini-2-5-pro-is-the-smartest-model-youre-not-using-and-4-reasons-it-matters-for-enterprise-ai

McKinsey: Most businesses now use generative AI in some way

Some are seeing modest financial gains, but there’s no gold mine yet.

www.emergingtechbrew.com/stories/2025/03/24/mckinsey-businesses-generative-ai

The hottest AI models, what they do, and how to use them | TechCrunch

Confused about which AI model to use? Check out this comprehensive list of the most advanced models out there.

techcrunch.com/2025/03/30/the-hottest-ai-models-what-they-do-and-how-to-use-them

Hiring with AI doesn't have to be so inhumane. Here's how

Approximately 88% of companies already use some form of AI to filter job applications, but human oversight remains important in the recruitment process.

www.weforum.org/stories/2025/03/ai-hiring-human-touch-recruitment

Fashion giant H&M plans to use AI clones of its models. Not everyone is happy | CNN

Fashion giant H&M plans to create artifical intelligence (AI) clones of its models this year, raising yet more questions for an industry grappling with both the technology’s potential and its impact on workers.

www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/style/h-and-m-ai-models-intl-scli/index.html

Tools I’ve Found

FLORA ©

Create Organically: All of the top text, image, and video AI models in one infinite canvas.

www.florafauna.ai

Abstractify Chrome Extension – Boost Your Workflow with AI-Powered Insights

Enhance your productivity with the Abstractify Chrome Extension. Get AI-powered insights and summaries for articles, research papers, and more to save time and boost efficiency. Generate AI deep research reports that scan the web intelligently.

www.abstractify.pro

Breakthroughs

Anthropic researchers make progress unpacking AI's 'black box'

Anthropic has pioneered a new method for revealing how Claude and other LLMs 'think,' hinting at why the models hallucinate and can be jailbroken.

fortune.com/2025/03/27/anthropic-ai-breakthrough-claude-llm-black-box

Miscellaneous

An AI Image Generator’s Exposed Database Reveals What People Really Used It For

An unsecured database used by a generative AI app revealed prompts and tens of thousands of explicit images—some of which are likely illegal. The company deleted its websites after WIRED reached out.

www.wired.com/story/genomis-ai-image-database-exposed

Teachers warn AI is impacting students' critical thinking

AI use among school-aged children has increased dramatically as the bots appear in everything from Google searches to Spotify playlists.

www.axios.com/2025/03/30/teachers-ai-students-critical-thinking

What’s Next