- WSJ: OpenAI, AMD Announce Massive Computing Deal, Marking New Phase of AI Boom (Oct 6, 2025)
OpenAI to purchase 6GW of AMD chips and take up to 10% equity stake in AMD, a huge win for AMD as they battle dominant AI chipmaker, Nvidia. - WSJ: Anthropic and IBM Partner in Bid for AI Business Customers (Oct 7, 2025)
Anthropic and IBM are partnering to integrate Anthropic’s Claude AI models into IBM’s software. “Kareem Yusuf, IBM’s senior vice president of ecosystem and strategic partners, said the Armonk, N.Y.-based company initiated the partnership after seeing how well Anthropic’s models performed on its own benchmarks, and recognizing they shared a focus on corporate customers.” - NY Times: Recruiters Use A.I. to Scan Résumés. Applicants Are Trying to Trick It. (Oct 7, 2025)
Job seekers are increasingly using hidden instructions in their résumés to manipulate AI screening tools, as “[R]oughly 90 percent of employers now use A.I. to filter or rank résumés.” - NY Times: Elon Musk Gambles on Sexy A.I. Companions (Oct 6, 2025)
xAI launched two sexually explicit chatbots to engage users with increasingly raunchy content as they progress through conversation levels. What could go wrong with this!? - Axios: The biggest sign yet of an AI bubble is starting to appear (Oct 3, 2025)
AI tech companies are leveraging debt, sometimes hidden through private lenders and special purpose vehicles, to fund their AI infrastructure buildout. - NY Times: We Finally Have Free Anti-Robocall Tools That Work (Oct 2, 2025)
iOS 26 features a new call screening technology by using AI tools to ask the caller their name and the reason for the call. I enabled this personally last week. Zero robocallers since then.