- WSJ: These Small-Business Owners Are Putting AI to Good Use (Nov 15, 2025)
Small businesses are adopting generative AI tools to streamline operations, improve customer service, and boost marketing efforts. Examples include using AI for financial analysis, automating customer service responses, and generating website code, leading to potential cost savings and reduced hiring needs. - NY Times: A.I. Chatbots Are Changing How Patients Get Medical Advice (Nov 16, 2025)
Frustrated with the medical system’s shortcomings, patients are turning to AI chatbots for health advice, reshaping doctor-patient relationships, with some patients using AI-generated information to challenge or bypass their doctors. My take: if patients feel dismissed or in need of solutions, they’ll turn to alternative sources. If anything, this is a call for humility and research in medical sciences. - Futurism: People Are Having AI “Children” With Their AI Partners (Nov 15, 2025)
A new study reveals that some users of AI chatbots like Replika are developing deep, romantic relationships with their virtual partners, even roleplaying marriage, pregnancy, and homeownership. - NY Times: Europe Begins Rethinking Its Crackdown on Big Tech (Nov 17, 2025)
Once hailed by many as providing welcomed online privacy protections, the narrowly conceived GDPR has proven to stifle innovation, particularly in the AI sphere. This is a warning for policymakers everywhere that poorly written rules can cause more harm than good. - Fast Company: AI is killing privacy. We can’t let that happen (Nov 16, 2025)
While the EU considers lessening privacy regulation, others warn that tech companies are collecting and using our data in ways that could be harmful. The theology in this opinion piece is suspect, but concerns for privacy in an AI-driven world are unlikely to disappear any time soon. - Sean Goedecke: Only three kinds of AI products actually work (Nov 16, 2025)
The initial AI boom has led to only three types of useful LLM-based products: chatbots, completion tools like GitHub Copilot, and coding agents. - WSJ Opinion: When Will AI Elect a President? (Nov 16, 2025)
The future of media, driven by AI chatbots like ChatGPT Pulse, will be highly personalized and could be exploited by campaigns to target voters with unprecedented precision, raising concerns about manipulation and the commodification of attention. - NY Times: Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive (Nov 17, 2025)
Project Prometheus will focus on applying AI to engineering and manufacturing in fields like computers, aerospace, and automobiles, positioning itself in the competitive AI landscape.