- Roon: Too Bearish on AI (Dec 26, 2025)
The author admits they were too bearish mid-year, expecting improvements beyond reinforcement learning to be required. After trying Codex, they realized AI progress is clearly in a rapid takeoff. - WSJ: These Teenagers Are Already Running Their Own AI Companies (Dec 21, 2025)
Teenagers are launching AI-powered startups—like 15-year-old Nick Dobroshinsky’s BeyondSPX—using generative models to build products quickly and attract users. Investors note AI lowers technical barriers and accelerates entrepreneurship. - WSJ Opinion: AI Means the End of Entry-Level Jobs (Dec 22, 2025)
AI is eroding entry-level roles that traditionally launch careers, causing younger workers to worry and raising unemployment among 22–25-year-olds in affected sectors. Companies should create new pathways—AI-native roles, mentor-intensive programs, project-based progression, and competency-based advancement—integrating AI and business training to build future talent. - Importai Substack: Import AI 438: Silent sirens, flashing for us all (Nov 30, -0001)
Powerful AI capabilities are often hidden from everyday users — tools like Claude Code can rapidly build complex software, and by 2026 an “AI economy” will accelerate and diverge from everyday experience, benefiting those who can access and elicit frontier systems. - Johannes Schmitt: AI model (GPT-5) autonomously solved an open math problem (Dec 17, 2025)
GPT-5 autonomously solved an open enumerative-geometry problem, giving a complete, correct proof for ψ-class intersection numbers on moduli spaces of curves. - NY Times Opinion: College Students Need Tech-Free Spaces (Dec 19, 2025)
Colleen Kinder had Yale students surrender their phones for a four‑week, Wi‑Fi‑free writing course in Auvillar, France, and reports improved sleep, focus, reading speed, and creativity, with far greater writing output. She argues colleges should create internet‑free tracts, dorms, or “cloisters” to protect learning from constant distraction. - NOAA: NOAA deploys new generation of AI-driven global weather models (Dec 17, 2025)
NOAA launched AI-driven global models—AIGFS, AIGEFS, and hybrid HGEFS—that provide faster, more accurate forecasts using far fewer computing resources (AIGFS ~0.3%, AIGEFS ~9%). HGEFS’s combined AI‑physics ensemble outperforms each system; NOAA reports better tropical cyclone tracks but will refine intensity forecasts. - WSJ: Millions of Kids Are on ADHD Pills. For Many, It’s the Start of a Drug Cascade. (Nov 19, 2025)
The WSJ reports that many children put on ADHD drugs—often after school pressure and lacking behavioral therapy—receive additional psychotropic medications to manage side effects or perceived disorders. Medicaid data show that those started on ADHD meds in 2019 were over five times likelier to be on psychiatric drugs four years later.