The Top Four AI Trends & Predictions Of Summer 2025

Author: Jack Houghton
Published: Thu 07 Aug 2025
Episode Link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anna-kocsis1/episodes/The-Top-Four-AI-Trends--Predictions-Of-Summer-2025-e36igi5

This summer, the world of AI has taken a sharp and fascinating turn. In this episode of In The Loop, I break down four powerful trends that are quietly—and not-so-quietly—reshaping the future of our digital economy. From AI companies being forced to pay for content, to Wall Street trading computing power like it's oil, things are shifting fast. And these aren't just random changes—together, they signal a much bigger story.

Let’s explore the rise of ambient agents, the monetization of web data, the financialization of compute power, and a surprising new twist in how products are being built not for humans but for AI agents. This is one of those episodes that connects the dots between what’s happening now and where we're all headed next. You don’t want to miss it.

⏭️ Episode Highlights

(00:55) - Trend #1: What are ambient AI agents?

(08:30) - Trend #2: Pay-per-crawl: How AI is disrupting the web’s free content model

(12:30) - Trend #4: Computing power as a commodity: Wall Street’s new gold rush into GPU futures

(15:20) - Trend #5: AX (Agent Experience) is here: Why websites are now being designed for AI, not humans

(16:30) - What these trends say about the bigger AI transformation ahead

🔗 Links & Resources

Episode transcript with more resources on the Mindset AI blog

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