weekend ai reads for 2025-09-12

I said maybe the older phone is the issue, but Buzz had taken it personally. I asked what the problem was, and it said, “Your microphone. Maybe your attitude. The possibilities are endless.”

For example, its analysis found that Gemini could still share “inappropriate and unsafe” material with children, which they may not be ready for, including information related to sex, drugs, alcohol, and other unsafe mental health advice.

Computers have ruined the world

Suppose there was an alien invasion you could see with a telescope that would arrive in 10 years, would you be saying “How do we stay positive?” No, you’d be saying, “How on earth are we going to deal with this?” If staying positive means pretending it’s not going to happen, then people shouldn’t stay positive.

Buyers tell us that token-metered pricing is difficult to budget, and expectations around costs for these tools are already set. CFOs want to anchor budgets and avoid month-to-month swings tied to release cycles, while usage-based pricing is the exact opposite.

This generally means that if about 20 people listen to that episode, the company made a profit on that episode, without factoring in overhead.

As another example, suppose a language model is asked for someone’s birthday but doesn’t know. If it guesses “September 10,” it has a 1-in-365 chance of being right. Saying “I don’t know” guarantees zero points. Over thousands of test questions, the guessing model ends up looking better on scoreboards than a careful model that admits uncertainty.

When a breakthrough happened in large language models, it didn’t mean Palantir could simply throw out the software it had spent a couple of decades building. It meant it had a new tool that could, under the right circumstances, expand the capabilities of existing products.

A trend noted by Apollo’s chief economist, Torsten Sløk, shows that as of the second and third week of August, AI adoption in businesses with more than 250 employees had dropped to 9% from a 15% peak in the first two weeks of June.

The company has flagged its unique pay structure, lagging AI reputation, and rigid return-to-office rules as major hurdles. Now, the tech giant is being pushed to rethink its recruiting strategy as it scrambles to compete for top talent.

Oboe makes it easy for you to create fun, lightweight, flexible courses so you can learn whatever you’d like, with a simple prompt.

The No Significant Difference database was first established in 2004 as a companion piece to Thomas L. Russell’s book, “The No Significant Difference Phenomenon” (2001, IDECC, fifth edition), a fully indexed, comprehensive research bibliography of 355 research reports, summaries and papers that document no significant differences (NSD) in student outcomes between alternate modes of education delivery.

The heavy lifting of “knowing the data” is handled by the semantic layer, and not left to the LLM. By making the business logic explicit and shareable, we ensure that both AI and humans are always speaking the same language – and that language is formally defined. The outcome is answers and code that are not just plausible, but correct, maintainable, and aligned with the business’s reality.

Defensible advantage in data-driven businesses does not come from having data in isolation, but from the data-informed architecture a company builds.

What matters is the architecture that emerges when data is embedded in the system itself. Netflix’s queue created an entirely new operating model. Competitors could mimic features and even acquire similar datasets, but they could not easily rip out and rebuild their architecture without unraveling their existing model.

I recently spoke with the CTO of a popular AI note-taking app who told me something surprising: they spend twice as much on vector search as they do on OpenAI API calls. Think about that for a second. Running the retrieval layer costs them more than paying for the LLM itself. That flips the usual assumption on its head.

3. Establish AI Agent “Office Hours”

Yes, you read that right. We put our AI agents on schedules. Critical systems run 24/7, but non-urgent agents operate during business hours.

Showrunner, a technology platform that dubs itself the “Netflix of AI,” plans to use artificial intelligence to reconstruct 43 minutes of excised footage from Orson Welles’ “The Magnificent Ambersons,” a sweeping family drama that was famously butchered by studio executives.

I described the game design to ChatGPT very broadly at first. I said it should work kinda like Galaga turned upside-down. But I explained that unlike Galaga, the player moves forward and backward rather than side to side, and that the monster’s position should remain relative to the floor. That and a few more details got me surprisingly far as a first step.

Boredom isn’t a bug—it’s a feature. Harvard professor Arthur C. Brooks explains why boredom unlocks creativity, activates a powerful brain network, and might even protect you from depression. Learn how the mind wanders—and why that’s a very good thing.