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Zoom is back (this time with AI)
Hunter Kallay
May 16, 2025
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Today’s Menu
Appetizer: Salty Stories of the Week 🧂
Entrée: This Week’s Diamond in the Rough 💎
Dessert: FRY-nancial Tool of the Week 🔧
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SALTY STORIES OF THE WEEK 🧂
Want some seasoning? Here are the saltiest AI stories in FRY-nance from this week:
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Saudi Arabia’s new AI company, HUMAIN, are investing over $5 billion together to create a cutting-edge “AI Zone” in the Kingdom. This zone will feature advanced AWS infrastructure, powerful computing networks, and services like Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Q to support businesses in building next-generation AI tools. The partnership will also train 100,000 citizens in AI skills, and develop Arabic-language AI models. This is a major step toward transforming the region’s economy with AI-driven innovation across healthcare, education, energy, and more. (Read More)
Google has launched the AI Futures Fund, a new initiative to support startups using cutting-edge AI tools from its DeepMind lab. The fund offers selected companies access to Google’s AI models, expert guidance, cloud credits, and, in some cases, direct investment—without a fixed deadline or set funding amount. It aims to back startups at all stages, helping them grow with flexible support. Startups can apply now. (Read More)
Perplexity AI, a fast-growing startup that builds AI-powered search tools, is reportedly in advanced talks to raise $500 million in funding—led by major investors Accel and Nvidia. This could potentially value the company at $14 billion. (Read More)
THIS WEEK’S DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH 💎
Zoom meetings: 10% meeting, 90% “technical issues.” 🙃
How is Zoom using AI? Zoom, well, zoomed onto the public scene during the pandemic as schools and businesses went virtual. Since then, the company has lost some traction. However, its technology has improved significantly. Zoom has quietly been transforming into an AI-first platform focused on improving how people connect and collaborate. Its AI Companion tool (above), once a simple meeting assistant, now acts more like an intelligent agent—helping users with tasks like meeting summaries and virtual agents.
Why is Zoom valuable? As more businesses adopt AI-driven workflows and global demand rises for AI-integrated collaboration tools, Zoom’s expanding product line and AI features give it a competitive edge. The company has exceeded EPS and revenue expectations in all four quarters of the past fiscal year, and the stock price is up almost 16% in the past month.
HOW ARE THE BIG AI PLAYERS DOING?
FRY-NANCIAL TOOL OF THE WEEK 🔧
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Q: Why was the investor electrocuted?
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FRY-AI FANATIC OF THE WEEK 🍟
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YESTERDAY’S POLL RESULTS 📊
Featured comments:
“The concept of hallucination may not be taken into consideration by young people.” (It should be monitored 👁️)
“It’s better than the internet because of the restrictions put on by many companies, and it’s also a good way for kids to ask questions and practice conversational skills.” (Yes 🤖)
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