Google’s AI crackdown on fraud

👀 OpenAI eyes Windsurf deal

Thursday’s AI Report

• 1. 🤖 Google’s AI crackdown on fraud
• 2. 💪 In partnership with Delve
• 3. 👀 OpenAI eyes Windsurf deal
• 4.🦿 U.S. Robot Race Shutters
• 5. 💼 In partnership with Ryse
• 6. ⚙️ Trending AI Tools
• 7. 🏗️ Practical AI Applications
• 8. 📑 Recommended Resources

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Google’s AI Crackdown on Ad Fraud

🚨 Our Report

Google revealed that it used AI to suspend more than 39M advertiser accounts in 2024 for violating ad policies, a major spike in enforcement aimed at combating fraud, scams, and misinformation across its platforms.

🔓 Key Points

  • In total, Google blocked or removed over 5.5B ads and restricted over 6.9B more in 2024, showing a broader effort to clean up its ad ecosystem.

  • The company says AI played a central role in detecting and acting on coordinated scams and policy violations at scale, including in high-risk areas like healthcare services.

  • Google also introduced a “Limited Ads Serving” policy to slow the reach of potentially deceptive advertisers while it evaluates trust signals, such as prior account history.

🔐 Relevance

This signals Google’s increasing reliance on AI not just to power products but to police its ecosystem and possibly set the tone for industry-wide standards in digital advertising. It also raises important questions about how platforms balance automation, accuracy, and fairness in large-scale enforcement.

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🚨 Our Report

OpenAI is in talks to acquire Windsurf (an AI coding startup formerly known as Codeium) for around $3B. This would be OpenAI’s biggest acquisition yet and a clear signal that it's doubling down on tools for developers and enterprise users.

🔓 Key Points

  • Windsurf, rebranded from Codeium, was previously valued at $1.25B after raising $150M in 2023 and was exploring a round at a $3B valuation.

  • The startup specializes in AI-powered code generation and developer tools, with wide adoption among engineers and enterprise clients.

  • This would follow OpenAI’s acquisition of Rockset and further its expansion into high-value infrastructure products beyond ChatGPT.

🔐 Relevance

This potential acquisition underscores OpenAI’s ambitions to own more of the software development stack, competing with GitHub Copilot and embedding itself deeper into enterprise workflows. It also reflects growing consolidation in the AI tooling market as major players race to lock in expert talent and tech for generative code.

  • The U.S. government is pushing to develop humanoid robots to compete with China’s increasing dominance in the space, particularly as Chinese companies like Fourier Intelligence and Unitree gain momentum.

  • However, the initiative is being undercut by ongoing U.S.-China trade tensions, including tariffs and restrictions on key components needed to build advanced robots.

  • President Trump’s aggressive trade stance has disrupted entry to essential Chinese-made parts, potentially slowing down U.S. robotics development despite federal funding and strategic interest.

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Overview: DeepSeek‑R1 was released in January and is best known for its advanced chain-of-thought reasoning abilities, output quality, and low-cost approach to AI training.

Use case: Customer service: R1's can understand over 30 languages, enabling it to handle multilingual customer interactions effectively. By training it with your own company knowledge base, R1 can provide consistent and accurate customer support, 24/7.

Pro: Excels at completing complex tasks at a lower value, compared to larger-scale commercial models, like ChatGPT.

Con: As it’s a breakthrough model, R1 is still undergoing iterative improvements in safety and alignment.

STARTUPS

Name: Copyleaks
Value: Unrevealed
Funding raised: $7.3M

Copyleaks is a plagiarism detection platform that uses machine learning and natural language processing to scan text against a vast database of web content, documents, and prior submissions. The company has also introduced an AI content detector to address growing concerns around generative AI.

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