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The Download: AI agents hype, and Google’s electricity plans

MIT Technology Review - AI
Jul 3, 2025 12:10
Rhiannon Williams
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The article cautions against overhyping AI agents, emphasizing that current capabilities may not match public expectations, as noted by Stanford professor Yoav Shoham. It also highlights Google's upcoming plans, likely to be announced at I/O 2025, which could have significant implications for the future of AI and its energy requirements.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Don’t let hype about AI agents get ahead of reality —Yoav Shoham is a professor emeritus at Stanford University and cofounder of AI21 Labs. At Google’s I/O 2025 event in May, the company…
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