Even though AI can’t predict the future just yet, two of our technology editors are already looking ahead to the big things they think will happen in 2025.

As 2022 draws to a close, the outlook for the cryptocurrency business is bleak.

FTX is one of the most well-known companies, $8bn (£6.3bn) bankrupt The whereabouts of client funds are unknown.

In March 2024, company co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 years in prison Deceiving customers and investors.

The scandal has shaken confidence across the industry.

Cryptocurrency appears to remain a niche product with an enthusiastic but relatively limited following.

But just a few months later, the industry is once again filled with optimism. Behind the enthusiasm is Donald Trump’s success in the November 5 presidential election.

The feeling is that he will be more beneficial to the cryptocurrency industry, and so far, that seems to be the case.

Early December, Trump says he will nominate Former Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) commissioner Paul Atkins takes on the role of top chairman of the Wall Street regulator.

Atkins is believed to be more pro-cryptocurrency than outgoing president Gary Gensler.

The announcement helped the value of Bitcoin, the largest of many cryptocurrencies, surge to $100,000.

“With Trump winning, you can imagine that by 2025 you’re going to have proactive regulation. You’re going to remove some of the negative regulation, allowing banks and other institutions to come into the space.” Standard Chartered Bank.

Mr. Kendrick singled out a piece of guidance issued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Called SAB 121. Effective in 2022, banks and other financial companies will have difficulty providing cryptocurrency services.

The move could help Trump fulfill his promise in July to make the United States a world power. Cryptocurrency capital of the world.

If he follows through on that promise, it would be a notable shift for Trump in 2021. Describing Bitcoin as a “scam”.

As AI tools make their way into our phones—Apple, Google, and Samsung have all launched services that can edit photos, translate languages, and conduct web searches—we’re in an era where AI becomes an intrinsic part of our digital lives. It started to help more and more on a personal level.

That’s if we allow it, because it does require a bit of a leap of faith.

Let’s take diary management as an example. If you allow an AI tool to access it, it can effectively manage your diary for you. But how far should this go?

To be truly useful, does that mean it also needs to know who you’d rather avoid seeing, or whose relationship you’d like to keep secret?

Would you like it to give you a summary of a counseling session or medical appointment?

This is very personal information, and if something went wrong that caused it to be shared, it could be very embarrassing, but also very valuable. Do you trust big tech companies with this kind of data?

Microsoft is pushing hard to open the door. The company got into hot water in 2024 for demoing a tool called Recall, which took snapshots of laptop desktops every few seconds to help users find content they’d seen but couldn’t remember where.

The company has now made some changes to the product (it never launched), but is sticking with it.

“I think we’re entering a whole new era where you’re going to have ever-present, persistent, very capable co-pilot companions in your daily life,” said Mustafa Sulay, the company’s head of artificial intelligence. Mustafa Suleyman told me recently.

Despite the challenges, Ben Wood, principal analyst at technology research firm CCS Insight, expects more personalized AI services to emerge in 2025.

“The output will be continuously updated by leveraging changing data sources such as emails, messages, documents and social media interactions.

“This will enable AI services to be tailored specifically to a person’s communication style, needs and preferences,” he said.

But Mr Wood acknowledged that letting AI unlock your personal information would be a big step forward.

“Trust is critical,” Mr. Wood said.

The more money invested in AI, the more data centers will need to be built.

Training and running artificial intelligence requires a lot of computing power and is best used with the latest computer chips and servers.

The largest data users including Google, Microsoft and Meta may invest as much as $1 trillion in data centers over the next five years. According to CCS Insight.

In Europe alone, data center capacity is expected to grow by an average of 9% per year between 2024 and 2028, according to property services company Savills.

But these new facilities are unlikely to be built in current data center hubs such as London, Frankfurt and Amsterdam.

House prices are high in these cities – Savills says land prices in London could rise Up to £17 million per acre – This coupled with tight power supplies means developers will look elsewhere.

In the UK, cities such as Cambridge, Manchester and Birmingham are likely to be home to the next wave of data center construction.

Elsewhere, Prague, Genoa, Munich, Dusseldorf and Milan could be considered for Europe.

At the heart of some of the new data centers will be the latest computer chips from Nvidia, which dominates the market for artificial intelligence chips.

Unveiling in March 2024Blackwell chips are expected to begin shipping in large quantities in 2025.

Vivek Arya, senior semiconductor analyst at BofA Securities, said the new chip will allow technology companies to train artificial intelligence four times faster than existing computer chips, and artificial intelligence can run 30 times faster than existing computer chips.

Nvidia’s biggest customers Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Coreweave will likely get the technology first, It is reported.

But Arya said it may be difficult for other customers to get their hands on the superchip due to “limited supply through 2025.”