This Week in AI

🎧 Google Turns Headphones into Interpreters, 📉 Junior Roles Under Threat, 🌏 China’s Grey Nvidia Supply Chain

Plus: Inside Apple’s tiny 3B on-device model, TIME crowns Jensen Huang “most powerful man alive,” and GPT-5.2 turns into a true deliverables engine.

22 hrs ago • Rico

🛑 Zuck’s $14B Panic, ☣️ The God Machine, 👻 Claude Gets a Soul

Plus: OpenAI’s digital truth serum, the death of open source, and the ad wars begin.

Dec 11 • Rico

The Moat is Gone: DeepSeek just matched Gemini & GPT-5

Plus: OpenAI declares "Code Red," Anthropic’s $50B industrial pivot, and the 42-cent model challenging US dominance.

Dec 4 • Rico

November 2025

🇺🇸 Trump’s Manhattan AI Project, 🛠️ Claude Leads on Code, 🛍️ ChatGPT Becomes a Retail Gatekeeper

National labs get a shared AI supergrid, Claude 4.5 tops coding benchmarks, and ChatGPT starts diverting shoppers from Google and Amazon.

Nov 27 • Rico

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🧠 Gemini Overtakes GPT, 🛠️ Claude Becomes a Weapon, 💣 AI Bubble Talk from Google

Google’s CEO drops the B-word, Claude writes exploits, and Gemini 3 beats GPT-5 on hard reasoning tests.

Nov 20 • Rico

📉 AI Bubble Trouble?, 🕵️ Spy Agency Raises Alarm, 👁️ Teaching AI to See Like Us

Slowing chip revenue, foreign influence campaigns, and vision models that finally get the concept.

Nov 13 • Rico

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October 2025

🧠 Musk’s Grokipedia Launches, 🧾 AI Fakes Expense Reports, 🏗️ OpenAI Rewires

xAI challenges Wikipedia with self-fact-checked pages, AI receipts top $1m in fraud, and OpenAI formalises its PBC shift.

Oct 30 • Rico

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🧠 Half the Web Is AI Slop, 🧬 Quantum Breakthrough, 📉 Wikipedia Traffic Falls

AI now writes half the public web, Wikipedia traffic drops 8%, and Google claims a 13,000× quantum speedup.

Oct 23 • Rico

🧬 AI Spots Hidden Tumours, Simulates Cancer Triggers

Google’s 27B-parameter model makes “cold” tumours visible in lab tests + Much more

Oct 16 • Rico

🧨 AI Bubble Watch: $100B Loops, 🤖 China’s Cheap Bots Surge, 🍏 Apple Rethinks Wearables

AI chip money recycles through Nvidia, humanoid robot prices drop 60%, and Apple ditches headsets for wearables

Oct 9 • Rico

🎬 Sora 2 Takes On TikTok, 🧹 AI Workslop Exposed, 📚 Grokipedia Rewrites Truth

40% of workers have to fix bad AI output, 75M fake tracks pulled from Spotify, and OpenAI’s video feed stars… you.

Oct 2 • Rico

September 2025

🧬 AI Designs a Killer Virus, 👑 GPT-5 Beats Every Human, 🎤 Who Owns a Suno Hit?

This week: AI builds viruses, wins where humans can’t, and lands a record deal. Science fiction is becoming the weekly newsletter.

Sep 25 • Rico