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When Knowledge Is Free, What Are Professors For?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/shannonmck ... ssors-for/

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Amazon Allegedly Replaced 40% of AWS DevOps Workers With AI Days Before Crash

Should we not rely on one service to support everything?

21 October 2025

So you've likely heard about Amazon Web Services (AWS) going offline a couple of days ago, crashing thousands of platforms from all kinds of industries, including Snapchat, the McDonald's app, Roblox, and Fortnite, because of an "operational issue."

The servers are back up, but it was discovered that an interesting report had been published right before the outage, alleging that the company had laid off 40% of its DevOps team to replace them with AI. The author says that there was "an email memo, which was briefly posted on the internal wiki before being taken down, blamed the cuts on strategic automation initiatives."

It reports that the AI detects and fixes IAM permission errors instantly, rebuilds broken VPC or subnet configs, and rolls back failed Lambda deployments without human input.

Now, there is a lot of skepticism around this article, and you should take it with a huge grain of salt, but the timing is curious, although we do not claim it is true or is somehow connected to the systems' crash.

https://80.lv/articles/amazon-allegedly ... fore-crash

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AI can help the environment, even though it uses tremendous energy. Here are 5 ways how

https://apnews.com/article/climate-arti ... 3f900cdf3c

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Groundbreaking BBC research shows issues with over half the answers from Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistants

https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2025/bb ... assistants

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The AI Circular Economy

Big tech companies and wealthy investors are driving an AI bubble - but they won't be the ones feeling the pain when it bursts.

Grace Blakeley
Oct 21, 2025

Anyone keeping up with the news will be familiar with the idea that we’re living through an AI bubble. Labs like OpenAI have seen their valuations skyrocket, often without a commensurate increase in profits. There’s been a massive rollout of AI infrastructure, akin to overenthusiastic investments in fibre optic cables during the dot-com boom. And pretty boring companies that slap ‘AI’ on the end of their logo seem to be attracting vast amounts of investment.

Now, there’s even more evidence that we’re in bubble territory. The AI labs (creators of LLMs like ChatGPT, such as OpenAI), infrastructure providers (which provide hardware used to build and train these models), and big tech companies (which are buying from these companies, while trying to develop their own models and invest in their own infrastructure), have become enmeshed in a web of ‘circular financing’ that looks suspiciously similar to the dot-com era.

Three companies have become particularly embedded in these financing loops: Nvidia, Oracle, and OpenAI. Nvidia makes the chips that power AI models. Oracle provides the cloud infrastructure. And OpenAI builds the models. On paper, each company plays a distinct role in the AI value chain. In reality, the lines between them are blurring.

Nvidia has announced plans to invest as much as $100 billion in OpenAI over the next few years, in a deal that I wrote about a few weeks ago. And the cash Nvidia is investing is going to flow straight back into its own coffers. OpenAI will use Nvidia’s investment to buy Nvidia’s own chips to power its new ‘AI factories’: data centres designed to train and deploy its models at scale.

Oracle is part of the same loop. OpenAI has agreed to spend $300bn to purchase data centre capacity from Oracle, which is now rushing to build new data centres packed with (you guessed it) Nvidia chips. So, Nvidia invests in OpenAI, OpenAI rents compute from Oracle, Oracle buys Nvidia’s hardware, and Nvidia records huge sales. Everyone in the circle reports rising revenue, rising valuations, and surging share prices, but the cash is largely moving in circles.

Read more: https://graceblakeley.substack.com/p/th ... ar-economy

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'Just holding a Doritos bag': Student handcuffed after AI system mistook bag of chips for weapon

https://www.wbaltv.com/article/student- ... n/69114601

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Chinese Robotics Startup Unveils Humanoid Robot That Costs a Fraction of Tesla's Optimus
The child-sized Bumi can walk, dance, and assist with educational tasks for merely $1,400.
By Devesh Beri October 27, 2025

Noetix Robotics, a Beijing-based startup, has revealed a new consumer-oriented humanoid robot called Bumi. Priced lower than some of the latest smartphones at ¥10,000 (about $1,400), Bumi brings humanoid robots closer to a mainstream audience—and at 3 feet tall and 26 pounds, its childlike, non-threatening stature can't hurt.

Early demonstrations prove the robot capable of walking, dancing, and interacting with humans. Noetix says Bumi will have a programming interface that allows it to take on educational and creative tasks, though we don't yet have any details about what that might mean. Still, this could enable young people interested in robotics to work directly with a beginner-friendly humanoid.

https://www.extremetech.com/electronics ... raction-of

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AI produces shallower knowledge than web search, study finds

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-ai- ... e-web.html

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Also Minimax M2 was released

https://venturebeat.com/ai/minimax-m2-i ... entic-tool

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AI produces shallower knowledge than web search, study finds

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-ai- ... e-web.html

Because a.i doesn't have human level of critical thinking skills yet. So produces inferior results. It does make life easier as it allows for us not to use our superior skills.

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MLive- DTE inks deal to serve big data center that will demand 25% more power from grid

https://archive.ph/ihu8J

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South Korean president calls for aggressive AI spending in budget speech

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/so ... r-AA1PKxsH