- Scott Aaronson: The QMA Singularity (Sep 27, 2025)
“I had tried similar problems a year ago, with the then-new GPT reasoning models, but I didn’t get results that were nearly as good. Now, in September 2025, I’m here to tell you that AI has finally come for what my experience tells me is the most quintessentially human of all human intellectual activities: namely, proving oracle separations between quantum complexity classes.” - WSJ: Walmart CEO Issues Wake-Up Call: ‘AI Is Going to Change Literally Every Job’ (Sep 26, 2025)
“It’s very clear that AI is going to change literally every job.” Doug McMillon, Walmart CEO - WSJ: Why Meta Thinks It Can Challenge Apple in Consumer AI Devices (Sep 26, 2025)
“But Meta is playing a long game with a very ambitious target. The company apparently believes that Apple’s dominance of consumer devices is vulnerable in the AI age.” - Simon Willison’s Weblog: ForcedLeak: AI Agent risks exposed in Salesforce AgentForce (Sep 26, 2025)
Security researchers at Noma Security discovered a vulnerability in Salesforce AgentForce that allowed for the exfiltration of lead data. The vulnerability was made possible due to an expired domain still being whitelisted in Salesforce’s Content Security Policy (CSP). Salesforce has since plugged the exploit. - NY Times: Apple’s New AirPods Offer Impressive Language Translation (Sep 18, 2025)
The new AirPods Pro 3 feature real-time language translation using AI, allowing users to understand conversations in different languages, offering a seamless and practical way to improve communication for travelers and immigrants. - AP News: Judge approves $1.5 billion copyright settlement between AI company Anthropic and authors (Sep 25, 2025)
A federal judge has preliminarily approved a $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and authors who accused the AI company of illegally using nearly half a million pirated books to train its chatbots, with authors and publishers potentially receiving about $3,000 per book. - Semafor: Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use (Sep 17, 2025)
“Anthropic recently declined requests by contractors working with federal law enforcement agencies because the company refuses to make an exception allowing its AI tools to be used for some tasks, including surveillance of US citizens.” - WSJ: Spending on AI Is at Epic Levels. Will It Ever Pay Off? (Sep 25, 2025)
“The artificial-intelligence boom has ushered in one of the costliest building sprees in world history.” Historically, this feels akin to the massive railroad boom in the 19th century (and perhaps the massive bust that followed). - NY Times: A.I. Could Make the Smartphone Passé. What Comes Next? (Sep 8, 2025)
Some predict that AI assistants will become the central operating system of personal computing. - NY Times: How ‘Clanker’ Became an Anti-A.I. Rallying Cry (Aug 31, 2025)
Clanker, a term from Star Wars, has grown more popular in online discussions as a derogatory slur against AI and robots, fueled by frustrations over AI-generated content, job automation, and the increasingly human-like qualities of AI.