On this week’s Tech Bytes: Week in Review, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is calling for a heap of new spending on artificial intelligence research. We’ll look at where the proposed $32 billion annually is likely to go.

And some of the biggest players in AI tried to outdo one another this week. OpenAI said it’s giving ChatGPT an upgrade and a personality while Google is trying to remake search with its AI model, Gemini.

Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Anita Ramaswamy, financial analysis columnist at The Information, for her take on these stories.

More on everything we talked about

“It’s the end of Google search as we know it” from Wired  

“Google’s AI answers could come back to bite it” from The Washington Post  

“Google’s Gemini video search makes factual error in demo” from The Verge 

“Big Tech keeps spending billions on AI. There’s no end in sight.” from The Washington Post

“Bipartisan group of senators unveil long-awaited guidance on AI bills” from Politico  

“Senators propose $32 billion in annual AI spending but defer regulation” from The New York Times  

“TikTok broke the tech law logjam. Can that success be repeated?” from The New York Times  

“Introducing GPT-4o” from OpenAI  

“I am once again asking our tech overlords to watch the whole movie” from Wired  

“Sam Altman gracefully thanked his OpenAI cofounder who quit. Then another exec quit hours later.” from Business Insider