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Ep 617: Gemini in Google Chrome: What’s new and 6 easy use cases

OpenAI announces five new U.S. datacenters, Alibaba’s $50 billion-plus investment in AI, the AI funding gap and more.

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September 24, 2025

Sup y’all! 👋

We got a BANGER show tomorrow that I’m excited for.

Long story short: LLMs feed off the internet by scraping the open web. Buuuuuuut, recent studies show that many large websites are getting up to 70% fewer clicks because of LLMs and AI search.

So what happens?

Do the millions of websites that AI labs train on go out of business and LLMs become dumb due to lack of high quality training data?

I’ve said for YEARS on this show that online publishers have three choices: sue, partner or die.

Tomorrow, we talk to the former CEO of ask.com who’s doing something about it. Make sure to join us.

What’s your take?

What happens between AI companies and the website publishers they scrape?

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See ya tomorrow.

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Jordan

Outsmart The Future

Today in Everyday AI
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🎙 Daily Podcast Episode: The world’s most popular browser, Chrome, is rolling out AI features. Here’s what to expect. Give it a watch/read/listen.

🕵️‍♂️ Fresh Finds: The Pope says not to an AI pope, AI passes the CFA exam with ease, a new bill regulating AI and more. Read on for Fresh Finds.

🗞 Byte Sized Daily AI News: OpenAI announces five new U.S. datacenters, Alibaba’s $50 billion-plus investment in AI, the AI funding gap and more. Read on for Byte Sized News.

🧠 AI News That Matters: So how will AI (and agentic features) in Chrome change how we work? We give you the lowdown. Keep reading for that!

↩️ Don’t miss out: Did you miss our last newsletter? We talked about Microsoft 'haunted' by AI, OpenAI and NVIDIA’s $100 billion pact, Facebook adds AI dating bot, Meta launches AI Super Pac to influence politics and more! Check it here!

Gemini in Google Chrome: What’s new and 6 easy use cases

AI is coming for the world's most popular browser. 🤖

Google recently announced Gemini in Chrome, bringing AI (and eventually) agentic features to the browser used by more than 3 billion people.

We've been using Gemini in Chrome for a few months, so we're recapping some of our favorite features, tips and 6 easy use cases that you can take advantage of.

Let's put AI to Work on Wednesdays!

Also on the pod today:

• Multimodal: Understands images too 🖼️
• Recap YouTube videos automatically ▶️ 
• Workspace rollout: What to expect 🏢

It’ll be worth your 34 minutes:

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Here’s our favorite AI finds from across the web:

New AI Tool Spotlight – Memories.ai is an AI research tool for video marketing, Conduit is a unified inbox for conversational AI agents, Mixboard is a new Google product for an infinite visual AI canvas.

AI Benchmarks — The CFA exam? AI can pass in minutes a new study says.

AI in Society — An AI Pope? No thanks, says the Pope.

Regulating AI — California’s SB 53 could become one of the first laws forcing big AI labs to publish safety reports. Will it pass?

ChatGPT Updates — ChatGPT is testing out a new design, including starter prompts on its home page.

AI Ethics — Cloudflare has proposed a way to fix the whole AI scraping the internet thing.

Global Expansion — SAP, OpenAI, and Microsoft team up on sovereign AI for Germany

AI and the Environment — NVIDIA says AI inference energy efficiency is up 100,000x in 10 years. Could we use much less power for AI in the future?

1.OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank unveil five new U.S. AI data center sites under Stargate 🏗️

OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank are adding five new U.S. data center sites under Stargate, pushing planned capacity to nearly 7 gigawatts and investment to over $400 billion within three years, with a goal of hitting $500 billion and 10 gigawatts by the end of 2025.

Oracle’s builds span Shackelford County and near Abilene in Texas, Doña Ana County in New Mexico, and a Midwest site to be named soon, while SoftBank is developing Lordstown, Ohio and Milam County, Texas with fast-build designs. NVIDIA GB200 racks are already in place at the Abilene flagship on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, supporting early training and inference for next-generation models.

2.Alibaba boosts AI spending plan after shares hit 4-year high 📈

Alibaba’s stock jumped up to 9.7% in Hong Kong after CEO Eddie Wu said the company will expand beyond its previously announced a $50 billion-plus AI budget and forecast global AI investment hitting $4 trillion in five years.

Alibaba will roll out more Qwen models, deepen “full-stack” AI and chip efforts, and open new cloud data centers in Brazil, France and the Netherlands, signaling a push to match the scale of US leaders. The rally lifted Chinese chipmakers and drew fresh backing from Cathie Wood’s Ark, which reopened positions, suggesting investors still see heavy AI infrastructure spending as a winning bet despite bubble chatter.

3. Medicare to pilot AI prior authorization in six states starting Jan. 1 👨‍⚕️

According to reports, the Trump administration announced a long-running WISeR pilot that will deploy AI to help decide prior authorizations in traditional Medicare across Arizona, Ohio, Oklahoma, New Jersey, Texas, and Washington from Jan. 1 through 2031, a move that arrived just days after the administration pressed private insurers to curb similar practices.

The program targets “low-value” services such as skin and tissue substitutes, nerve stimulator implants, and knee arthroscopy, with CMS insisting humans will review denials while skeptics warn shared savings could still incentivize blocking care. Bipartisan lawmakers have already moved to stall funding and demand details, underscoring the speed and controversy of federal AI adoption in coverage decisions.

4. Bain warns of $800B AI funding gap by 2030 ⚠️

A new report from Bain & Company says the world needs about $2 trillion in annual revenue to fund the data centers required for AI by 2030, yet even with AI-driven savings there is still an $800 billion shortfall.

According to Bain, agentic AI is moving fast from pilots to profit but most companies are still tinkering, which means leaders building end-to-end agent workflows now are likely to widen the gap in efficiency and earnings. The study also flags mounting fragmentation from sovereign AI efforts and supply chain decoupling, urging multinational firms to localize tech stacks and pricing models while SaaS vendors rethink monetization around outcomes.

5. Distyl AI lands $175M at $1.8B valuation 🤑

Distyl AI raised $175 million from Lightspeed, Khosla Ventures and others to scale its platform that threads company context across departments so AI agents can coordinate workflows, make decisions, and resolve issues in production. The company’s pitch is an “AI-native” operating model that replaces siloed processes with orchestration, evidenced by claims of 80% faster root cause resolution at a Fortune 50 manufacturer and tens of millions in savings in healthcare.

The news is timely as enterprises shift from pilots to measurable outcomes in quarters, and Distyl positions itself as the integration layer that turns existing systems into AI-driven operations.

🦾How You Can Leverage:

Three billion Chrome users are about to get legit superpowers.

Google started rolling out Gemini in Chrome, AI features that turn your browser into an intelligent assistant where you actually work. 

(In the browser.) 

We’re talking a baked-in comparison that reads emails, analyzes competitor websites, and extracts YouTube insights without opening new tabs. 

Free and paid Google users in the U.S. users will be getting access over the next weekish, with billions of other Chrome users worldwide getting Gemini in Chrome after. 

Lez be real. This will be HUGE. 

And although we don’t expect the first version of Gemini in Chrome to do your research, next month’s KPIs AND do your laundry, you’ve gotta pay attention. 

This is the start of a seismic shift in how we work. 

Your entire job happens in a browser.

Email, documents, research, calls, project management - everything. Which means Google is about to make your primary workspace artificially intelligent while your competitors are still manually tab-switching.

So, what’s new in Gemini in Chrome? What’s next? What can it do? 

Glad you (rhetorically) asked. Lolz. Make sure to check out today’s show, and I’ve in below for the Big 3 takeaways. 👇

1 – Context switching is finally dead 🧠

Your team wastes legit hours daily jumping between Gmail, Drive, and research tabs.

Not anymore.

Gemini in Chrome sees your entire workspace simultaneously and responds to voice commands. Need email summaries while reviewing docs? Ask. Want calendar availability during competitor research? Ask. Looking for presentations buried in Drive? Ask.

(All without opening new tabs like some kind of productivity peasant.)

The productivity math is simple. Knowledge workers who spend hours hunting information across tools just got that time back. Your ten-person team effectively becomes fourteen people without additional payroll costs.

Voice activation works with Command+G. Multi-tab understanding happens automatically. Gmail, Calendar, and Drive integrate without you doing anything extra.

Try This

Open your three most-used work tabs right now. Ask Gemini in Chrome one question requiring info from all three sources instead of manually switching between them like it's 2015. Time the difference. Multiply that across your team's daily workflow and calculate what you just saved.

2 –  Visual competitive intelligence gets scary good 🎯

Your competitors' websites just became completely transparent.

Wild.

Gemini in Chrome's visual AI can analyze layouts, pricing psychology, and UX choices like a human designer with perfect recall. Point it at competitor pages and get tactical insights about their conversion strategies, positioning weaknesses, or market approach.

(While they have no idea you're doing this.)

Technical diagrams become plain English. Complex competitor strategies become actionable intelligence. Visual content analysis happens through natural conversation instead of manual screenshot-taking and note-writing.

This transforms competitive research from hours of manual work into seconds of AI-powered analysis across unlimited competitor sites.

Try This

Navigate to your biggest competitor's homepage and ask Gemini in Chrome to analyze their pricing presentation and conversion strategy. Then test it on industry technical content your team typically struggles to decode. Watch complex competitor intelligence become clear strategic advantages.

3 – Google Ecosystem Becomes Your Personal Intel Network 🚀

YouTube content extraction delivers competitive insights without watching full videos.

(Bless up)

We extracted key use cases from a 28-minute Google NotebookLM podcast in seconds. Gmail searches access historical communications from specific timeframes. Maps combines location data, reviews, and business info through single queries.

Calendar meetings, Drive documents, email threads - all become interconnected intelligence operations instead of separate manual tasks.

Your competitors research across disconnected platforms while you automate everything through unified Google services. (Where your business data already lives anyway.)

Try This

Extract competitive intelligence from industry videos through targeted business queries instead of watching everything.

Automate geographic competitive analysis by combining Maps data with review sentiment through conversational queries.

Establish cross-platform intelligence workflows across Gmail, Drive, and Calendar that surface project context without manual file searching.

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