- OpenAI: Introducing ChatGPT Pulse (Sep 25, 2025)
“Pulse is a new experience where ChatGPT proactively does research to deliver personalized updates based on your chats, feedback, and connected apps like your calendar.” I am generally in favor of AI tools, but this one makes me nervous — unsupervised access to my personal data is a bridge I’m not quite ready to cross. - Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite release (Nov 30, -0001)
Google released updated versions of Gemini 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Flash-Lite on Google AI Studio and Vertex AI, focusing on improved quality and efficiency. - The Verge: Microsoft embraces OpenAI rival Anthropic to improve Microsoft 365 apps (Sep 24, 2025)
Copilot users now able to use Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4.1, a helpful means of accessing the best model for specific needs. - xAI: Grok 4 Fast (Sep 19, 2025)
New cost-efficient reasoning model built upon Grok 4, offering high performance and token efficiency. - Anthropic: A postmortem of three recent issues (Sep 17, 2025)
Between August and early September, Anthropic experienced intermittent quality degradation in Claude’s responses due to three overlapping infrastructure bugs related to context window routing, output corruption, and an XLA compiler issue on TPUs. - NY Times Opinion: Will Anthropic Pay Me Too Much Money For My Pirated Books? (Sep 13, 2025)
Authors will soon be compensated for their works being used to train AI models, making some wonderwhether their (unpopular) books are worth the same as more popular ones. - Futurism: ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners (Sep 18, 2025)
Eek. AI chatbots are contributing to the breakdown of romantic relationships as people become overly reliant on AI for therapy, advice, and validation. - The Chronicle of Higher Education: Sometimes We Resist AI for Good Reasons (Sep 24, 2025)
Advocating the inclusion of AI contrarians in conversations about AI tools in higher education. Outside of a plea for listening to a variety of voices, no solutions are offered. And a number of the cited examples of concern are woefully out of date, lessening the impact of the author’s central points. - NY Times: How Wall Street’s Big Bets on A.I. Are Driving Interest in Huge Parking Lots (Sep 16, 2025)
Increasing demand for these lots is driven by the boom in data center construction, fueled by the rise of AI, and the limited supply of suitable land.
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