What Countries Are Leading In Investment In AI? The 2025 Index Report Reveals!

Countries all around the world have been heavily investing in artificial intelligence for some years now, as per the 2025 AI Index Report. Due to AI’s potential to work faster and solve complex problems, billions of dollars have been spent by developed countries to unlock its potential and become the leaders in AI. Not surprisingly, the richest countries having the capacity to invest billions are the top investors. But why is there so much investment in AI?

According to the 2025 AI Index Report, the USA tops the list of countries that invested heavily in AI since 2013, with private investment of $471 billion dollars. China is in second place with private investment of $119 billion dollars. It is not surprising to see these two topping the list. The USA and China are the two biggest economies in the world having both money and talented people to invest in AI. Both are already the leaders in innovation and technology.

At number 3, 4, 5 are the UK, Canada and Israel, with private investment during the period of $28, $15 and $15 billion dollars respectively. Again, the UK and Canada are well developed countries. Israel in recent years has become one of the countries investing in technology and innovation. Its technology sector is responsible for one-fifth of its GDP.

Geographic area	Investment ($Billion, 2013-2024)
U.S.	471
China	119
UK	28
Canada	15
Israel	15
Germany	13
India	11
France	11
South Korea	9
Singapore	7
Sweden	7
Japan	6
Australia	4
Switzerland	4
UAE	4
Hong Kong	4
Netherlands	3
Spain	3
Austria	2
Brazil	2
Ireland	2
Argentina	2
Rest of World	18

What is interesting in this list is that the investment in the USA is more than the combined investment of all other countries. This shows the potential and edge the USA has over the rest of the world.

The report also reveals other aspects of the investment in AI. There have been 6,956 new AI companies in the USA since 2013. This figure is again way bigger than the number of AI companies stated in all other countries. China comes next, with 1,605 new AI companies during this period. The UK, Israel and Canada are next in the list, with 885, 492 and 481 new AI companies since 2013, respectively. These countries invested the most, so definitely they lead the list of new AI companies in the last decade also.

AI has a huge potential, and its application is potentially in many fields. But in what sectors are these countries investing the most? The report has also provided details of in which sectors these countries are investing.

As per the report, $37.3 billion dollars have been spent on AI research and infrastructure. Definitely, much research still remains in AI, so countries are competing in AI search to unlock all of its potential. As a result of which, better and more AI infrastructures are being built. $16.6 billion dollars have been spent on data processing and management. Governments around the world want to use AI to store, collect and use data security for social and as well as military purposes. So data management has to be at number 2.

Medical and healthcare received $10.8 billion dollars. Because breakthroughs in medical science using AI will allow humans to treat diseases more conveniently and efficiently, this aspect of AI has made governments and private investors to help scientists create AI models designed for medical purposes. Also, AI will be helpful in creating better medicine.

Automobile industry received $9.4 billion dollars. There has been a rise in electric and automated vehicles in the last decade. Tesla has become the leader in electric and automated vehicles. Its rise shows that people are interested in such vehicles that utilize AI. Not only Tesla, but Chinese companies have also entered the automated vehicles market.

Financial technology also received a lot of investment, $6.9 billion dollars. The improvement of financial technology to make transactions secure has always been a top priority of private companies as well as governments. The investment shows that they want secure financial technology as much as possible using AI. Hacking and scams in financial transactions have also made such investment necessary.

The developed countries have many reasons for investing in AI. AI can cause many breakthroughs in medical, programming and other fields. But also the leadership of the world economy in the future will be associated with the innovations in AI. Just like the USA ruled the world due to being the leader in technology and innovation. Therefore, all developed countries know the value of investment in artificial intelligence.

The sectors mentioned above indicate why private investors are investing such a large amount of money on AI and how these sectors will be reshaped by it in the future. The report is telling the world that the investments in AI will exceed investments in any other sectors in the near future. So we will soon witness a world dominated by AI.

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Carnegie Mellon Builds Kirigami to Remove Human Speech from Audio and Block AI Reconstruction

As devices grow smarter, the sounds around us begin to tell quiet stories about our actions, but it also raises privacy concerns because the microphones in our tech devices can also pick up private information. To solve this issue, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University created a device that filters sound on devices. They call it Kirigami. It detects any kind of human speech and removes it from the audio recordings before anyone can recognize activities being done in the recordings.

There are many methods used to protect privacy in audio recordings, like sensing the sounds by removing certain frequencies or training the systems to ignore human speech. These kinds of methods made it hard for people to understand conversations, but they are less effective because of AI now. AI tools like Whisper can piece together fragments of conversation from the parts of audio that are altered to make them safe. But not anymore, because these AI models have too much data, and tiny amounts of speech in the audio can still be used to reveal complete speech. Kirigami will be used to filter those fragments of conversations, and AI models won't be able to access them.

Privacy is one of the biggest issues in today's world, and devices like smart speakers often prioritise convenience over privacy, which means that they end up listening to everything around them. Even though avoiding using microphones is the best option, we cannot stop using them. Kirigami acts as a simple yes or no tool, which means that if there is any speech in an audio, it simply removes it. Developers are also allowed to adjust how much speech it can filter. The higher setting removes any kind of speech but can also cut out useful speech, while lower settings only remove noises but can overlook sensitive bits of speech. Kirigami can also be used with older methods for extra privacy.

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New Studies Show that Google’s AI Overviews Negatively Impact Click-Through Rates

Studies by Amsive and Ahrefs show Google’s AI Overviews are taking away clicks from regular search results, especially for non-branded and information-based questions. Even though Google claims that citations on AI Overviews improve the click-through rate of websites, these studies show that since AI Overviews have started citations, the click-through rates and organic visibility of websites have declined significantly. The top-ranking pages of general searches are seeing the biggest drop, which shows that users are looking at AI-generated summaries more than original sites and blogs.

According to Ahrefs, there was a 34.5% drop in click-through rates for position 1 results when AI Overviews were shown. According to Amsive, there was a drop of 15.49% in click-through rates among 700,000 keywords. It was also found that there was a 33.04% decline in CTR when AI Overviews appeared with featured snippets, while the most impacted by this was non-branded keywords (-19.98%).

Amsive also found that when a website is not among the top three, it gets more affected by AI Overviews, and a drop of 27.04% is seen in its click-through rates. Branded queries were found to be less impacted, and sometimes even benefit because they rarely trigger AI Overviews, but when AI Overviews appear, branded queries see a rise of 18.68% in their CTRs. Mostly, this is because of brand familiarity, as users click on the websites even when AI summaries are shown. These studies challenge Google’s claim that AI Overviews increase click-through rates because the situation seems otherwise right now.

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These Are the Countries Offering the Best Opportunities for Immigrants in Terms of Career Growth

What are the best countries to migrate to? Henley Opportunity has published a study on this topic, giving a detailed answer. The study has listed 46 top countries for immigration based on six parameters – earning potential, career advancement, employment prospects, education, economic mobility and livability. Each parameter is given points out of 100 and aggregate decides the position of the countries on the list.

Switzerland tops the list with an aggregate score of 84 percent. The country has a high earning potential and a high probability of career advancement. It is also home to seven of the best universities in the world. Switzerland is followed by Singapore with an aggregate score of 79. The country has one of the top economies and education systems in the world, making it an attractive choice for immigration.

The USA, the world's largest economy, secures third place, with a total score of 78%. Along with being the global economy driver, the country is also the leader in technology and home to the giant tech companies. Its universities, like Harvard and MIT, consistently make it to the top five universities of the world. Moreover, its EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program helps provide permanent residency to immigrants. Just recently, the US president announced gold visas for $5 million investment in exchange for residency.

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Australia ranks fourth on the list with an aggregate score of 76. Being a large continent with low population, Australia welcomes immigrants and has vibrant education and health systems to fulfill the needs of its population. In fifth place is Canada with an aggregate score of 73, another country with a large land mass, but low population. Canada is one of the favorite destinations for immigrants globally due to its economic stability, employment prospects and education.

The UK is placed on the sixth spot with an aggregate score of 70. The UK is one of the great economies of Europe with high employment prospects. The country is home to some of the well-known universities, like Cambridge university and Oxford university, where students from around the world come every year for studying. The UK is followed by the UAE with an aggregate score of 67. The country is a tourist attraction with a high employment rate and earning potential due to it being a favorite place for investors from around the world.

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New Zealand, Austria and Italy follow with the aggregate scores of 65, 65 and 64 respectively. New Zealand due to its low population and remoteness has high economic mobility and livability rates. Austria, again a country with low population and being a part of the continental Europe, has high economic mobility, livability and employment prospects rates. Italy is one of the top four economies of Europe with high economic mobility and employment prospects rates.

Country	Earning potential	Career Advancement	Employment Prospects	Premium Education	Economic Mobility	High Livability	Total Opportunity Score (%)
Switzerland	100	81	85	73	92	75	84%
Singapore	100	61	99	58	92	64	79%
USA	89	75	85	77	75	66	78%
Australia	69	66	77	80	92	74	76%
Canada	66	74	80	73	75	73	73%
UK	62	58	71	89	76	65	70%
UAE	78	51	84	65	66	56	67%
New Zealand	61	54	60	55	92	67	65%
Austria	58	56	69	50	92	68	65%
Italy	53	61	65	52	93	59	64%
Hong Kong	85	52	81	52	50	47	61%
Latvia	73	59	48	38	90	53	60%
Malta	44	62	58	40	92	56	59%
Hungary	71	43	49	43	91	52	58%
Greece	48	44	59	43	92	53	56%
Portugal	41	50	52	44	92	59	56%

Overall, out of top 16 countries, 9 countries are European, which is not a surprise at all, for Europe is the most developed and peaceful continent. Only 3 Asian countries are included in the list: the UAE, Hong Kong and Singapore. Hong Kong and Singapore are too small countries to compare them to the Europeans. The countries, like New Zealand, Australia and Canada, which are far away from the political and regional issues faced by Asia and are economically stable, then become the favourite destinations for immigrants.

The Threat of Climate Change

The threat of climate change must remain in mind while choosing the country of your choice, which was not considered in Henley Opportunity Index. As predicted by scientists, some countries will be badly affected by climate change, making them less habitable and causing migration. Due to the rising sea levels and increasing temperature, some current popular destinations will not remain the same.

Although Australia is in the top ten, the rising temperature will make the continent too hot in the coming decades. Similarly, some areas in the USA will also feel the impact of climate change along with most of the countries in the global South. So the countries with cold climates in the global North, like Canada, Sweden, Denmark and Finland, will be more suitable for living.

These countries are economically stable, have a high livability rate and will become the destination of most migrants in near future, which makes them the best options to choose from.

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Meta Platforms Says It’s Testing New AI That Identifies Instagram Users Below the Age Limit

Tech giant Meta is busy working on new AI tech that can assist the company in identifying those users who are below the required age limit. Once that’s done, the company plans to automatically enroll them into their respective Teen Accounts.

The feature of Teen Accounts was shared in September last year and was working well to switch teens into protective accounts. This was limited to teens who signed up for accounts through their actual ages.

For now, the organization says the latest AI tech would proactively look for accounts that they suspect belong to teens, even if the accounts list another adult's birthday. The feature is rolling out in beta right now for those in the US.

Meta thanks AI that assists them in determining the right age ranges for a while now, but also gives rise to new changes. In cases where there is a mistake, it gives people the chance to alter settings to ensure greater protection and predictions.

All Teens on the Meta Platforms are getting grouped into 13 to 17 year old individuals, where adults are listed as anyone who’s 18 and above. The company does realize that not everyone is honest all the time about their ages, and that’s a major problem in the country, as it misrepresents the user base.

A report shared in February spoke about how 80% of all kids under the age of 13 tend to bypass any age restriction policies on these apps, such as TikTok, Snap, and YouTube. Today, it hopes to expand further on this front so that it can keep teens safe at all times.

The latest push is involving parents, where it enrolled nearly 54M teenagers in these protective accounts around the globe. The majority fell in the 13 to 15 year age bracket and hence were protected with the right safeguards.

Also beginning Monday, the company says it will start rolling out alerts to parents through the app so they can better control ownership and keep tabs on what the kids are doing. This is why finding the right age for signing up to Meta’s platforms is important, it added.

Furthermore, Meta wants parents to keep a check and confirm ages on not only one app but all of them. They want kids to have the best online experience that’s age-appropriate. Remember, it’s not easy to determine the age of people online in such a large industry. But the best way appears to be getting approval from parents and age verification through the App Store.

Today, Teen Accounts have in-built security that restricts the time kids are spending online and the kinds of content they’re exposed to. They can also restrict who they contact via DMs. Any explicit content found inside Direct Messages wouldn’t go unnoticed. Moreover, if there’s nudity, then censorship would come into play. Moreover, teen accounts also get banned from going live.

Meta says the majority of parents in a survey approved Teen Account protections and said they’re useful. Such accounts were rolled out for apps like Facebook and Messenger across nations like Canada, the US, the United Kingdom, and Australia last week. It hopes to add more countries to the list very soon.

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From Vice to Vox: YouTube News Channels See Surge in Growth, Views, and Global Influence

According to an analysis by Press Gazette, there are 115 English-language publisher accounts on YouTube with at least a million followers. The most popular UK newspaper on YouTube is The Sun with six million subscribers. Press Gazette found that there was a 20% increase in subscribers of news publishers on YouTube in the past 15 years, while the video views have risen 25%. Many news publishers are focusing on YouTube because it makes about 10% of TV viewing in the US.

Overall, the most subscribed news publisher on YouTube is Vice with 18.7 million subscribers, followed by ABC News (US) with 18 million subscribers. CNN has 17.4 million subscribers on Youtube while BBC news has 17.2 million subscribers. Other news channels which have more than ten million subscribers on YouTube are Al Jazeera English (15.1 million), NDTV (14.3 million), Inside Edition (13.5 million), Fox News (12.6 million), Vox (12.4 million) and NBC News (10.8 million). The crown for most all-time video views at nearly 25 billion goes to Inside Edition, followed by Fox and CNN while The Sun is the most watched newspaper channel.

Some of the biggest news publishers on Youtube are Vice, ABC News (US), CNN and BBC news. Some other big news publishers on Youtube included in the top ten are Al Jazeera English, NDTV, Inside Edition, Fox News, Vox and NBC News. There are also a lot of news influencer accounts on Youtube apart from traditional news companies which have been ranked by Press Gazette. The Joe Rogan Experience Youtube channel tops the list with 19 million subscribers, followed by Ben Shapiro and The Philip DeFranco Show with 7.2 million and 6.6 million subscribers respectively. Piers Morgan Uncensored and Tucker Carlson have 3.6 million subscribers each.

The news publishers with the highest average views are Vox (2 million), Insider Science (1 million) and Vice (1 million). All other news publishers have less than a million average views on Youtube. There are also some news personality YouTube accounts with one million or more views per video. These Youtube accounts include The Joe Rogan Experience (2 million), Legal Eagle (1 million), The Philip DeFranco Show (1 million).

The YouTube channels which saw the most increase in subscribers between October 2023 and January 2025 were TRT World (4 million), ANI News (3.8 million) and Al Jazeera English (3.4 million). Some small news channels like Piers Morgan Uncensored also added 1.8 million subscribers in the past 15 months and E! News added one million subscribers. Because of this increase in subscribers, the fastest growing Youtube news channels were ANI News (107%), TRT World (103%) and Piers Morgan Uncensored (95%). The most watched Youtube news publishers between October 2023 and January 2025 were MSNBC with 3.7 billion video views, Fox News with 3.4 billion video views and ANI News with 2.6 billion video views.

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AI-Prescribed Diets Outperform Traditional Plans in Improving Gut Health and Preventing Chronic Diseases

AI's role even in the medical field is proving to be positive. AI prescribed personalized dietary plans have shown better results than traditional dietary plans that were based on one-diet-for-all formula. As per a recent study, these AI prescribed personalized plans have proven to have a positive effect on gut microbiome in humans.

Because traditional dietary plans were based on one-diet-for-all farmula, they were less effective in stopping dietary-related diseases like diabetes, obesity, cancer and heart diseases. The negative result of traditional dietary plans made researchers prefer personalized nutrition plans because of each human's individual response to foods. The emergence of AI made this personalized nutrition plan easier due to AI's ability to successfully prescribe each individual a personalized dietary plan.

To take advantage of AI's ability, food scientists have developed AI chatbots designed specifically to prescribe personalized dietary plans for diabetes and weight loss. These AI models can also help existing health gadgets used to monitor heart rate and pulse rate.

The study, comprising 29 healthy individuals from the Centre for Research and Technology, Greece, was conducted as a part of the PROTEIN project. The participants were asked to use the PROTEIN mobile app and follow dietary plans provided by AI through the app for six weeks to observe changes in macronutrient levels, anthropometric and biochemical traits. The app provided dietary plans to individuals based on their health condition, physical characteristics and food preferences. Then pre-PROTEIN and post-PROTEIN differences were evaluated.

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After studying the samples taken from the participants, results showed the presence of higher microbiota diversity and abundance in the post-PROTEIN levels. There was a significant decrease in the intake of energy, carbohydrates and protein as well as in the intake of sweets and fast food. The decrease in sweet intake positively correlated with body weight and hemoglobin measurements. Also, positive correlation between urea and Lachnospiraceae and negative correlation between cholesterol levels and Oscillibacter were observed.

The changes in gut microbial ecosystem due to AI prescribed dietary plans resulted in less constipation and bowel movement among the participants. Moreover, the dietary plans also supported the immune system positively.

These findings show that AI prescribed dietary plans are more effective due to being specific and limited to individuals. No doubt, more research is required to establish the positive correlation between AI prescribed dietary plans and positive outcomes. But it is now almost certain that AI will have a huge role in the medical field as well in future.

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