AI in general: October 2025

SoftBank advances $22.5 billion OpenAI investment pending reorganization (LINK) 26 October 2025

AI-powered heists have fueled North Korea's $2.8 billion crypto thefts since 2024 (LINK) 24 October 2025

Britain's Channel 4 airs entire show hosted by AI presenter in UK television first (LINK) 20 October 2025

Over 50% of new online articles are being cranked out by AI (LINK) 17 October 2025

— The news was broken when Graphite published a study showing that AI-written articles surpassed human-written articles by a small margin in November 2024. "The proportion of AI-generated articles has remained relatively stable over the last 12 months. We hypothesize that this is because practitioners found that AI-generated articles do not perform well in search..."

AI browsers are everywhere right now, but this is the only one worth using: Brave with Leo (LINK) 1 October 2025

I tried 10 AI browsers: sorry Google, Microsoft and Apple, only Comet offers our best look at the future with AI (LINK)

AI company Anthropic will pay authors $1.5 billion in damages after using their copyrighted works to train its models: academics set for payouts of $3000 for each book that was illegally downloaded (LINK) 21 October 2025

Google to invest $15 billion to build AI data center hub in India; largest outside of the U.S. (LINK) 14 October 2025

2025 Nobel economist Peter Howitt of Canada warns of AI dangers: offers "amazing possibilities" but should be regulated because of its job-destroying potential (LINK) 12 October 2025

— California Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a first-of-its-kind law regulating interactions with AI chatbots, defying a push from the White House to leave the technology unchecked.

How to teach critical thinking when AI does the thinking: "When Deloitte consultants outsourced thinking to ChatGPT, they produced a $291,000 disaster [it had to repay to the Australian government]. Students will fail the same way unless we teach dialogic engagement with AI." (LINK) 8 October 2025

— The AI-based report contained nonexistent references, fabricated citations, and invented court cases. "Consistent LLM users exhibit the weakest brain connectivity patterns. According to a recent MIT study, users couldn't accurately quote their own work and self-reported the lowest sense of ownership over what they'd created. Students who've learned dialogic engagement with AI behave completely differently. "

About 1 in 5 U.S. workers now use AI in their job, up since last year (LINK) 6 October 2025

ChatGPT eerily reveals the 10 jobs in the UK and US 'it will replace' by 2030 (LINK) 8 October 2025

— Telemarketers / call centre agents / customer support representatives; Data entry / clerical / transcription roles; ookkeepers / payroll clerks / basic accounting roles; Travel agents / reservation clerks; Warehouse operatives / pickers / packers; Proofreaders, copy editors (basic levels); Paralegals / legal assistants (for routine tasks); Insurance underwriters / claims processors; Retail cashiers / point-of-sale roles; Routine manufacturing / assembly line operators.

AI-generated actor Tilly Norwood sparks outrage in Hollywood as Dutch creator seeks representation (LINK) 1 October 2025

Using AI

Britain's Channel 4 airs entire show hosted by AI presenter in UK television first (LINK) 20 October 2025

Impact

People who lost their jobs to AI open up about their experiences: "They automated my job for less than $1,000 a year. Now, I bartend and drive school buses to make ends meet." (LINK) 18 October 2025

Assessments

AI assistants make widespread errors about the news, 45% of the time, regardless of language or territory, new research shows (LINK) — ground.news: 42 media reports (LINK) 22 October 2025

— One out of every five answers contained major accuracy issues, such as hallucinated details and outdated information. The report highlighted that Gemini had significant issues in 76% of its responses, largely due to poor sourcing.

Controls

OpenAI forms advisory council on wellbeing and AI (LINK) 14 October 2025

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