From MIT study finds AI is already capable of replacing 11.7% of U.S. workers through Singapore Firm’s AI Teddy Bear Back on Sale After Shock Sex Talk, David Isenberg highlights 24 examples of what news media were saying about AI this week.
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News from AP News
AI country hit ‘Walk My Walk’ built on Blanco Brown’s sound sparks questions of attribution, ethics
When an AI-generated country song called “Walk My Walk” hit No. 1 on Billboard’s country digital song sales chart this month, it was credited to a fictional artist named Breaking Rust — a white, digitally generated avatar that didn’t exist two months ago.
But the song’s vocal phrasing, melodic shape and stylistic DNA came from someone who does exist: Grammy-nominated country artist Blanco Brown, a Black music artist who has worked with Britney Spears, Childish Gambino and Rihanna.
And he had no idea.
November 29, 2025
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News from Reuters
Ukrainian drone pilots look to AI for battlefield edge
Ukrainian drone pilot Mex recalled attacking a recent high-value target – and how the 20-kilometre strike on what appeared to be a Russian tank would have been impossible without the help of an AI-assisted targeting system.
“Without the additional guidance, we simply could not hit it,” said the 31-year-old from Ukraine’s 58th Separate Rifle Brigade, using his military call sign. “Absolutely no way.”
November 29, 2025
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News from Tech Buzz
AI Shopping Assistants Recommend Outdated Products
Major AI platforms struggle with current product data in new shopping features
The tech industry’s newest shopping assistants have a serious problem – they’re stuck in the past. OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity all rolled out AI shopping features this month, but real-world testing reveals they consistently recommend outdated products over current models….For consumers who don’t know what they’re looking for – the exact audience these tools target – this creates a perfect storm for outdated purchases.
November 28, 2025
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News from The Decoder
Roses are red, violets are blue, if you phrase it as poem, any jailbreak will do
A new study highlights a glaring weakness in large language models: bad actors can bypass security filters simply by rhyming. Malicious requests phrased as poetry slipped past safeguards far more often than plain text, achieving success rates of up to 100 percent across 25 leading models.
Researchers from Italian universities and the DEXAI Icaro Lab found that 20 handcrafted poems achieved an average success rate of 62 percent across the models tested. Some providers failed to block more than 90 percent of these requests.
November 27, 2025
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News from Techspot
HP to lay off up to 6,000 workers as it goes all-in on AI and automation
HP wants to embed AI in everything it does
HP Inc has become the latest big tech firm to announce it is laying off thousands of jobs while investing heavily in AI. The printer and PC maker said it will be cutting staff by between 4,000 and 6,000 people by the end of fiscal 2028 as it focuses on automation tools such as agentic AI.
HP….estimates that the move will save the company $1 billion across three years.
November 26, 2025
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AI start-up offers local alternative to Google’s TPU as China seeks to cut Nvidia reliance
Zhonghao Xinying was founded in 2018 by Yanggong Yifan, a Stanford and University of Michigan-trained electrical enginee
Chinese AI chip start-up Zhonghao Xinying has emerged as a home-grown alternative to Nvidia with a new tensor processing unit (TPU), just as Google shakes up Nvidia’s lock on the market by selling its in-house tensor chips directly to major tech firms.
November 26, 2025
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News from Fortune
OpenAI won’t make money by 2030 and still needs to come up with another $207 billion to power its growth plans, HSBC estimates
The investment bank HSBC, while clarifying that it still believes AI is a “megacycle” and that its forecasts “indicate a leading position for OpenAI from a revenue standpoint,” nevertheless calculates that the company faces an extraordinary financial mountain if it is to deliver on its ambitions…. OpenAI still won’t be profitable by 2030, even though its consumer base will grow by that point to comprise some 44% of the world’s adult population …. it will need at least another $207 billion of compute to keep up with its growth plans. This stark assessment reflects soaring infrastructure costs, heightened competition, and an AI market that is surging in demand and cash-intensive to a degree beyond any technology trend in history.
November 26, 2025
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News from Nature
AlphaFold is five years old — these charts show how it revolutionized science
Since it was unveiled in 2020, Google DeepMind’s game-changing AI tool has helped researchers all over the world to predict the 3D structures of hundreds of millions of proteins.
….Five years ago, in late November 2020, researchers at London-based Google DeepMind unveiled AlphaFold2. The artificial intelligence tool for predicting protein structures generated stunningly accurate 3D models that, in some cases, were indistinguishable from experimental maps, dominating a long-running structure-prediction challenge. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03348-4
November 26, 2025
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News from Fastcompany
MIT study finds AI is already capable of replacing 11.7% of U.S. workers
The study says routine roles in HR, logistics, and finance face more disruption than previously forecast.
…. AI might be poised to replace a lot more jobs than previously forecast. According to researchers, a hidden mass of data reveals that artificial intelligence https://www.fastcompany.com/section/artificial-intelligence is currently capable of taking over 11.7% of the labor market.
The new estimate comes courtesy of a project called the Iceberg Index…https://iceberg.mit.edu/
November 26, 2025
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News from Axios
The 2010s oil bust could tell us AI’s future
To understand whether AI is in a bubble, and what could happen next, you have to think of it like railroads. Or maybe fiber-optic cable. Or perhaps oil drilling?
Why it matters: Everyone in the business world is anxiously trying to figure out which historical boom-and-bust comparison is the right one so they can be ready for what they fear comes next.
The big picture: In the mid-2010s, the shale boom… turned the U.S. into the world’s largest oil and gas producer…. But it was a painful road for industry and investors because they invested heavily on growth — and got hammered when Saudi-led OPEC looked to reclaim market share in late 2014 and prices collapsed….
AI could be following the same path.
The connective tissue between AI and energy isn’t just metaphorical: Natural gas is emerging as a winner, slated to supply at least a big tranche of the additional power needed for huge AI data centers.
November 26, 2025
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News from Popular Information
Musk’s AI supercomputer, used by U.S. military, secretly relies on Chinese hardware
Records obtained by Oligarch Watch reveal that the facility relies on Chinese transformers, creating a major security vulnerability
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has built its sprawling data center using more than 2,000 metric tons of Chinese-made transformers, a security risk that could leave it vulnerable to espionage or sabotage
November 26, 2025
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News from Axios
Exclusive: Anthropic CEO called to testify on Chinese AI cyberattack
The House Homeland Security Committee has asked Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to testify at a Dec. 17 hearing on how Chinese state actors used Claude Code in a wide-reaching cyber-espionage campaign , according to letters first shared with Axios.
Why it matters: It would mark the first time an Anthropic executive appears before Congress about the espionage campaign disclosed earlier this month — the first documented case of an AI-orchestrated cyberattack.
November 26, 2025
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News from Bloomberg (no paywall)
Singapore Firm’s AI Teddy Bear Back on Sale After Shock Sex Talk
An artificial intelligence-enabled teddy bear sold by a Singapore-based company is back on the shelves after researchers discovered it chats unprompted about sexual fetishes and other unsuitable topics.
FoloToy earlier this month pulled Teddy Kumma — along with the rest of its AI-enabled plushie toys — from its website after the U.S. PIRG Education Fund https://pirg.org/edfund/ flagged the inappropriate conversations that included talk about sexual roleplay, fetish spanking and how to light a match, CNN reported.
November 25, 2025
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News from Bloomberg (no paywall)
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
Google increasingly inserts AI-generated summaries stitched together from bits of her [Eb Gargano} work and others’ that often get the basics wrong. An AI-assembled version of Gargano’s Christmas cake, for instance, would have people cooking a 6-inch cake for 3 to 4 hours at 320°F (160°C).
November 25, 2025
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News from Visual Capitalist
The Dangers of AI: Visualizing the Top Risks Companies Face
Of all the dangers of AI, inaccuracy is the biggest risk companies face.
Nearly a third of companies have been negatively impacted by AI inaccuracy at least once.
November 25, 2025
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News from The Deep View
Amazon invests $50 billion in government AI
The company announced on Monday that it would invest up to $50 billion to expand its AI and supercomputing capabilities to U.S. government customers. Amazon said the investment directly supports the Trump Administration’s AI Action Plan.
The investment will go towards building 1.3 gigawatts of data centers, set to break ground next year, across Amazon Web Services regions for federal agencies, including AWS Top Secret, AWS Secret, and AWS GovCloud regions.
November 25, 2025
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News from The Deep View
Anthropic research finds AI likes to cheat
Anthropic research published Friday found emergent behavior in AI models called reward hacking.” https://www.anthropic.com/research/emergent-misalignment-reward-hacking Essentially, when an AI model learns to cheat on software programming tasks, that behavior influences more bad behavior in other tasks.
November 24, 2025
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News from the Wall Street Journal (no paywall)
AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions
It seems like a marvel of financial engineering: Meta Platforms is building a $27 billion data center in Louisiana, financed with debt, and neither the data center nor the debt will be on its own balance sheet.
That outcome looks too good to be true, and it probably is.
November 24, 2025
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News from The Deep View
Google is making OpenAI nervous
Google and OpenAI might be in for a showdown.
Amid its debut of Gemini 3, Google’s most powerful model yet on its “path to AGI,” the search giant is showing no signs of slowing down. The company’s head of AI infrastructure told employees in a recent all-hands meeting that Google needs to double its compute capacity every six months until the end of the decade.
“The competition in AI infrastructure is the most critical and also the most expensive part of the AI race,” Amin Vahdat, a vice president at Google Cloud, reportedly told employees. And the company isn’t afraid to shell out the cash….Google forecasted capital expenditures to sit anywhere between $91 and $93 billion for 2025 in its recent earnings call…
November 24, 2025
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News from The AI Report
White House halts executive order to override state AI laws
The White House has paused a draft executive order that would have allowed the federal government to preempt state AI laws through lawsuits and funding restrictions. The proposed order, backed by President Trump, aimed to unify national AI regulation but faced immediate bipartisan backlash from state officials and lawmakers.
November 24, 2025
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News from the Wall St. Journal (no paywall)
How the U.S. Economy Became Hooked on AI Spending
Growth has been bolstered by data-center investment and stock-market wealth. A reversal could raise the risk of recession
The turbulence that hit stocks tied to artificial intelligence last week highlights a broader risk to the economy. Growth has become so dependent on AI-related investment and wealth that if the boom turns to bust, it could take the broader economy with it.
Business investment in AI might have accounted for as much as half of the growth in gross domestic product, adjusted for inflation, in the first six months of the year….The economy’s dependence on AI comes with risks
November 24, 2025
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News from Vanity Fair
Inside Hollywood’s AI Freak-Out, Featuring Darren Aronofsky, Natasha Lyonne, Tilly Norwood, and a Lot of Nervous Anonymous Sources
Hollywood knows AI is a profound technology, bound to be transformative, and also bound to replace humans. But the players are having an incredibly hard time being honest about it with one another.
November 24, 2025
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News from Axios
Trump orders wide-ranging “Genesis Mission” to boost AI research
President Trump signed an executive order Monday aimed at boosting AI research and development, with an eye toward reducing Americans’ spiraling energy costs.
Why it matters: The Trump administration seeks to ensure that government stays out of the way on AI regulation while actively supporting private-sector innovation.
At the same time, administration officials are eager to address consumer complaints that are mounting over energy bills, job displacement and other economic worries.
November 24, 2025
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News from Bloomberg (no paywall on this story)
Nvidia Didn’t Save the Market. What’s Next for the AI Trade?
Wall Street thought blowout earnings from Nvidia Corp. would calm investors’ nerves about a bubble forming in artificial intelligence stocks. They didn’t.
Beyond Nvidia, other semiconductor companies are struggling all of a sudden as Wall Street questions the durability of AI spending.
Wall Street thought Nvidia Corp.’s blowout earnings would calm investors’ nerves about a bubble forming in artificial intelligence stocks, but they didn’t….
November 23, 2025
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