- WSJ: Microsoft Lays Out Ambitious AI Vision, Free From OpenAI (Nov 6, 2025)
Microsoft is reorganizing its AI efforts to focus on developing “superintelligence,” or AI with capabilities exceeding human performance. This includes forming a new MAI Superintelligence Team. - Simon Willison’s Weblog: Code research projects with async coding agents like Claude Code and Codex (Nov 6, 2025)
“It turns out coding agents like Claude Code and Codex are a fantastic fit for this kind of work as well. Give them the right goal and a useful environment and they’ll churn through a basic research project without any further supervision.” - OpenAI Help Center: Publishers and Developers – FAQ | OpenAI Help Center (Oct 21, 2025)
To have your website appear in ChatGPT search results, ensure you aren’t blocking the OAI-SearchBot in your robots.txt file and use the noindex meta tag if you don’t want your page title and link surfaced. Developers can improve website performance with ChatGPT Agent in Atlas by using ARIA tags to improve accessibility. - Inside Higher Ed: Student Success Leaders Worry About Affordability, AI, DEI (Nov 6, 2025)
“Just 2 percent of student success leaders say their institution is very effective in helping students understand how, when, and whether to use generative artificial intelligence in academic settings.” - The Chronicle of Higher Education: AI on Campus: Emerging Governance Models (Oct 29, 2025)
University leaders are exploring questions of AI governance, strategy, education, and accountability. A tension between creativity/innovation and risk/governance exists, but universities will have to navigate this (quickly) as the AI rollout continues unabated. - Electrek: Australia has so much solar that it’s offering everyone free electricity (Nov 4, 2025)
The Australian government is proposing a “Solar Sharer” program that would provide free electricity to all ratepayers for at least three hours a day, leveraging the abundance of midday solar power and negative wholesale electricity rates. - Fortune: CEO of $8 billion AI company says it’s ‘mind-boggling’ that people think you can work 38 hours a week, have work-life balance, and be successful | Fortune (Oct 13, 2025)
Prominent business leaders, including the CEO of Cerebras, Andrew Feldman, are dispelling the idea of work-life balance as a requirement for achieving extraordinary success. My take: there’s more to success than power or money, and you ought to invest much of your life into people who simply can’t replace you after you die. - WSJ: Why AI Will Widen the Gap Between Superstars and Everybody Else (Oct 12, 2025)
AI will amplify the advantages of top-performing employees (“superstars”) rather than leveling the playing field, as these individuals are better equipped to leverage AI due to their expertise, work habits, and preferential treatment. - Jack Clark: Import AI 431: Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear (Oct 13, 2025)
AI systems should be acknowledged as real and complex entities, not dismissed as simple tools. Understanding and mastering our fears about them is crucial for peaceful coexistence and harnessing their potential. - Torrentfreak: Cloudflare Tells U.S. Govt That Foreign Site Blocking Efforts Are Digital Trade Barriers (Nov 6, 2025)
Cloudflare is reporting foreign site-blocking measures, intended to combat piracy, as significant trade barriers for US technology companies. This is a shift from previous years where copyright holders were advocating for more site-blocking.