Uber's AI Spending, the Pope on AI, TikTok and Universal's AI Music Deal

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Welcome to the podcast. Today on the show, the president of Uber says that AI spending is getting harder to justify. I wanna break down some of the numbers of how much they're actually spending, and the ROI people are expecting, and what they're actually getting. At the same time, we have Pope Leo, who released this entire AI document, and it's kind of targeting tech power concentration. I'm gonna talk about some of the things that are mentioned in there, some things that people like and don't like. About 85% of enterprises, according to a new report, want agentic AI, but 76% of them lack the infrastructure to actually deploy it. Sundar Pichai says that Google is currently reshaping search and web with their new AI agents. I wanna get into some of these trends because Google has the biggest distribution of any software company in the world, and as they've reached a billion monthly active users on Google Search and Gemini, specifically, I believe Google AI Search, they have a massive impact on the entire AI market. Universal Music Group and TikTok are renewing a license deal that is going to help fight against unauthorized AI music. There's actually a ton of AI music news going on with Spotify. They released that they have a deal with Spotify or for-- with Universal for licensing so that people can do covers, AI-generated covers and remixes. There's a ton going on. We're gonna get into all of it. If you wanna get a daily breakdown of all of these stories and more as a daily newsletter, go check out my website aichatdaily.com. You can hit the Subscribe tab in the button, and I think we'll even have a little link in the description of this show. But