2025

• The state of AI in 2025 mckinsey.com
• Apple intensifies succession planning for CEO Tim Cook ft.com
• Meta will assess employee performance by AI-driven impact starting in 2026 businessinsider.com
• “…Zitron reported this week that in 2024, Microsoft received $493.8 million in revenue share payments from OpenAI. In the first three quarters of 2025, that number jumped to $865.8 million, according to documents he viewed…” techcrunch.com
• Google-Backed Apptronik in Talks to Raise Funding at $5 Billion Valuation theinformation.com
• Monzo’s Real-Time Fraud Detection Architecture with BigQuery and Microservices infoq.com
• Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket deploys Mars satellites, sticks booster landing reuters.com
• Apple’s new App Review Guidelines clamp down on apps sharing personal data with ‘third-party AI’ techcrunch.com
• Google to Invest $40 Billion in New Data Centers in Texas bloomberg.com
• When AI Hype Meets AI Reality: A Reckoning in 6 Charts wsj.com
• Berkshire reveals new $4.3 billion Alphabet stake, sells more Apple reuters.com
• Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign anthropic.com
• SAIF Risk Map saif.google
• How We Hijacked a Claude Skill with an Invisible Sentence securetrajectories.substack.com
• New threats in AI axios.com

The moment you've ACTUALLY been waiting for… Introducing Deep Research!

Rolling out now, Deep Research browses hundreds of sites to craft an organized report AND gives you an annotated list of sources for deeper exploration, all of which you can add directly to your notebook. pic.twitter.com/RK5RCXcOlk

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• Mercury, valued at $3.5 billion fortune.com
• ‘Vibe coding’ named word of the year by Collins Dictionary bbc.com
• Amazon launches a low-price standalone shopping app, Amazon Bazaar, in over a dozen markets techcrunch.com
• Startups find Amazon’s AI chips ‘less competitive’ than Nvidia GPUs, internal document shows businessinsider.com
• “…Cursor’s secret to recruiting is to treat the atomic unit of the hiring process as a person, not a job spec…” joincolossus.com
• What a Google-powered Apple Siri might deliver axios.com
• Metropolis, a tech-enabled parking lot network, has raised $500 million in Series D axios.com
• How Uber Standardized Mobile Analytics for Cross-Platform Insights uber.com
• Amazon is testing an AI tool that automatically translates books into other languages engadget.com
• The AI Dossier: 80+ AI use cases deloitte.com

• WSJ: The ‘Hands Problem’ Holding Back the Humanoid Revolution wsj.com
• Amazon raises spending forecast to $125 billion as third-quarter results top estimates…Amazon cloud records 20% sales growth cnbc.com
• Alphabet tops $100 billion quarterly revenue for first time, cloud grows 34% cnbc.com
• OpenAI lays groundwork for juggernaut IPO at up to $1 trillion valuation reuters.com
• The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices quantamagazine.org
• Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear jack-clark.net
• Nvidia to Invest Up to $1 Billion in AI Startup Poolside bloomberg.com
• Nvidia takes $1 billion stake in Nokia, sending the 5G equipment maker’s shares up 22% cnbc.com
• OpenAI unveils ‘Aardvark,’ a GPT-5-powered agent for autonomous cybersecurity research zdnet.com
• How OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals nytimes.com
• Is AI a bubble? exponentialview.co

• Meet Mico, Microsoft’s AI version of Clippy theverge.com
• Netflix, Amazon, and Apple are reportedly interested in buying Warner Bros theverge.com
• OpenAI acquires Software Applications Incorporated, maker of Sky openai.com
• Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins bloomberg.com
• Amazon’s revamped Luna streaming service is available now engadget.com
• VW production continuing for now but chip uncertainty high, source says reuters.com
• Claude can now compartmentalize as part of a major memory upgrade engadget.com
• AI Workers Are Putting In 100-Hour Workweeks to Win the New Tech Arms Race wsj.com
• DeepSeek AI Unveils DeepSeek-OCR: Vision-Based Context Compression Redefines Long-Text Processing infoq.com
• Anthropic’s latest Claude model can work for 30 hours on its own axios.com
• Google porting all internal workloads to Arm, with help from GenAI theregister.com
• ChatGPT Atlas chatgpt.com
• Japanese convenience stores are hiring robots run by workers in the Philippines restofworld.org
• Lloyds Banking Group claims Microsoft Copilot saves staff 46 minutes a day theregister.com
• Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system tomshardware.com
• SpaceX lofts 10,000th Starlink satellite to orbit space.com

• State of AI Report 2025 stateof.ai
• Pixnapping: Side-Channel Vulnerability Allows Android Apps to Capture Sensitive Screen Data infoq.com
• Europe Is Losing the Chips Race foreignaffairs.com
• Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 404media.co
• OpenAI Wants City-Sized AI Supercomputers. First It Needs Custom Chips. (WSJ) wsj.com
• Anthropic connects Claude to Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and OneDrive theverge.com
• Introducing Agent Skills…repo link…and more anthropic.com
• Steam just broke its concurrent user record with 41.6 million gamers tweaktown.com
• The American Job Quality Study gallup.com
• Teachers get an F on AI-generated lesson plans…AI-generated lesson plans fall short on inspiring students and promoting critical thinking. arstechnica.com
• AI-powered textbooks fail to make the grade in South Korea restofworld.org
• “…By co-developing hardware with Broadcom, OpenAI expects to spend 20% to 30% less on these chips than it does with Nvidia…” bloomberg.com
• Microsoft will test a Copilot AI feature that performs work on local files in Windows 11 cnbc.com
• This Wall Street bank has over 100 “digital employees“ axios.com
• AI’s promise is sky-high — and so is the pressure to deliver axios.com
• Energy startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) said Thursday it’s working with Google’s DeepMind division to fine tune techcrunch.com
• Infusing AI into Your Java Applications dzone.com
• Sal Khan will become the public face of the TED conference axios.com
• Apple Readies Its First Ever Touch-Screen MacBook bloomberg.com
• Attention Is the New Big-O alexchesser.medium.com
• “…Between 2014 and 2024, the number of industrial robots deployed in the country (China) rocketed from 189,000 to more than two million…The overall number of robots added in China last year was 295,000, compared to 27,000 in Germany, 34,000 in the US and just 2,500 in the UK.” telegraph.co.uk
• Exclusive: Anthropic aims to nearly triple annualized revenue in 2026 reuters.com

7 LLM generation parameters, explained visually: pic.twitter.com/NkPkwCmnMS

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Good Morning America ran a feature yesterday on the rising costs of electricity to homes thanks to AI data centers. What if people turn on AI because of how much it increases their power bill? pic.twitter.com/9kEKb9UPNQ

— Ben Bajarin (@BenBajarin) October 17, 2025

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• Apple Announces $2 Million Bug Bounty Reward wired.com
• NBA games will be streamed live in Apple Immersive techradar.com
• South Korea raises cyber threat level after huge data centre fire theguardian.com
• AMD and OpenAI announce strategic partnership to deploy 6 gigawatts of AMD GPUs. Previously, OpenAI and NVIDIA announced strategic partnership to deploy 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems in September amd and openai announce strategic partnership to deploy 6 gigawatts of amd gpus
• AI models can acquire backdoors from surprisingly few malicious documents arstechnica.com
• Major banks explore issuing stablecoin pegged to G7 currencies reuters.com
• Reliable Robotics is among startups hoping to revolutionize air travel by doing away with the need for human pilots on cargo, military and even passenger aircraft wsj.com
• Amazon Pharmacy to launch electronic kiosks for prescriptions at One Medical locations, reuters.com
• Anthropic and IBM announce strategic partnership techcrunch.com
• Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino qualcomm.com
• “…U.S. GDP growth in the first half of 2025 was almost entirely driven by investment in data centers and information processing technology, according to Harvard economist Jason Furman. Excluding these technology-related categories, Furman calculated in a Sept. 27 post on X.com GDP growth would have been just 0.1% on an annualized basis…” fortune.com
• DoorDash Uses Service Mesh and Cell-Based Architecture to Significantly Reduce Data Transfer Costs infoq.com
• The 5 levels of AI agent autonomy ainativedev.io

To further @Benioff's point. Companies will increasingly look to their application vendor to integrate AI into the application vendors service/workflow (domain specific) which they already pay.

Stat below via MS 3Q25 CIO Survey. https://t.co/Qfn0dPhZLm pic.twitter.com/cyZuv9vPNh

— Ben Bajarin (@BenBajarin) October 10, 2025

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