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Last update: Monday 11/10/25
This weekly news page provides links to reports about major innovations in generative AI. The page is not for AI experts. It's for (1) computer savvy professionals who use genAI via chatbots and agents (via chatbots) to obtain benefits in their careers and personal lives, and (2) computer savvy citizens who want to be alert to genAI's potential impact on our society. 

Most of the links on this page refer to reports published after the "AI Big Bang", i.e., after Sam Altman's sudden firing and rapid rehiring by OpenAI, i.e., after November 20, 2023. The previous edition of this page can be found here ➡ PreBigBang  

A. OpenAI  | B. Microsoft | C.  Google | D. Other Models |
 E. Agents | F. SLM/Open Source | G. Public Policy   | H. OpEds/Misc | 
I. Hacks | J. Basics | K. Data Centers 

Top  stories ...

Upcoming events ...

Evolving context and connections ... 
Fast moving AI news is often exciting, but also confusing. This page is designed to provide readers with an evolving context for the news and reminders of the connections between news items. From time to time, links to older stories whose content has been overcome by newer events will be deleted. However, enough older links will be retained so that readers can get a quick sense of how we got to where we are today by skimming the headlines of the preceding stories in chronological order. Sections will usually include 7 to 10 stories.
 ➡ Our publication schedule

A. OpenAI
  • "OpenAI's experimental model achieved gold at the International Math Olympiad", jackson chen, Engadget, 7/19/25
    -- This story also covered by Business Insider

  • "OpenAI’s GPT-5 is here", Maxwell Zeff, TechCrunch, 8/7/25 
    -    - This story also covered by The Information, The Verge, WSJ, Wired, Reuters, VentureBeat, AP News., Ars Technica, ... and OpenAI
    -- GPT 5 for Apple Intelligence in The Vrege, Engadget, MacRumors, 
    -- Doubts and criticisms in Gizmodo, VentureBeat, 

  • "OpenAI Plans to Add Safeguards to ChatGPT for Teens and Others in Distress", Kashmir Hill, NY Times, 9/2/25

  • "OpenAI, Broadcom Make $10 Billion Deal for Custom AI Chips", Robbie Whelan and Berber Jin,  WSJ, 9/5/25
    -- This story also covered by The Verge

  • "OpenAI Takes Big Steps Toward Its Long-Planned Reorganization", Karen Weise and Cade Metz, NY Times, 9/11/25 

  • "Nvidia to Invest Up to $100 Billion in OpenAI", Berber Jin and Robbie Whelan, WSJ, 9/22/25  
    -- This story also covered by Reuters, Yahoo Finance, CNBC ... and OpenAI, Nvidia 

  • "OpenAI’s Sora Makes Disinformation Extremely Easy and Extremely Real", Tiffany Hsu, Stuart A. Thompson, and Steven Lee Myers, NY Times, 10/3/24 
    -- This story also covered by TechCrunch, WSJ, Gizmodo, Engadget, NPR, ... and OpenAI  

  • "OpenAI Wants ChatGPT to Be Your Future Operating System", Lauren Goode and Will Knight, Wired, 10/6/25 
    -- This story also covered The Information, The Verge, TechCrunch

  • "OpenAI Agrees to Use Computer Chips From AMD", Cade Metz, NY Times, 10/6/25 
    -- This story also covered by     Business Insider, Forbes, Reuters

  • OpenAI is following Apple's playbook for inference servers ➡ Partnering with Broadcom and AMD for chips + TSMC for production
    -- ''OpenAI’s Chip Strategy: Pair Nvidia’s Chocolate With Broadcom’s Peanut Butter", Christopher Mims, WSJ, 10/17/25
    -- "OpenAI Agrees to Use Computer Chips From AMD", Cade Metz, NY Times, 10/6/25
    -- "OpenAI is creating its own in-house chip with Broadcom and TSMC as processing demands skyrocket", Brooke Seipel, Fortune, 10/20/25

  • "OpenAI’s Atlas Browser Takes Direct Aim at Google Chrome", Reece Rogers, Wired, 10/21/25 
    -- This story also covered by NY Times, Axios, Reuters, Gizmodo, BBC, ... and OpenAI,
  • "A Teen in Love With a Chatbot Killed Himself. Can the Chatbot Be Held Responsible?", Jesse Barron, NY Times, 10/24/25
B. Microsoft 
C. Google 
  • "Google Search’s new ‘AI Mode’ lets users ask complex, multi-part questions", Aisha Malik, TechCrunch, 3/5/25
    -- This story also covered by The Verge, 

  • "Google’s AI Mode can now see and search with images", Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 4/7/25
    -- This story also covered by TechCrunch, Engadget

  • "Google’s Gemini chatbot gets upgraded image-creation tools", Kyle Wiggers, TechCrunch, 4/30/25

  • "Google adds image-to-video generation capability to Veo 3", Ivan Mehta, TechCrunch, 7/10/25 
    -- This story also covered by The Verge, Engdget, 

  • "Google A.I. System Wins Gold Medal in International Math Olympiad", Cade Metz, NY Times, 7/21/25

  • "Google takes on ChatGPT’s Study Mode with new ‘Guided Learning’ tool in Gemini", Aisha Malik, TechCrunch, 8/6/25
    -- This story also covered by Engadget

D. Amazon, Meta, Anthropic, Apple, Adobe, xAI, and other Big Tech models (max = 15)
  • "Anthropic Claude Opus 4.1: The Definitive Guide to Anthropic’s Most Advanced AI Model Yet", Cogni Down Under, Medium, 8/6/25 
    -- This story also covered by 9to5Mac, VentureBeat ... and Anthropic

  • "Anthropic will start training its AI models on chat transcripts", Hayden Field, The Verge, 8/28/25

  • "Claude can now create and edit files", Anthropic, 9/9/25 

  • "The New AirPods Can Translate Languages in Your Ears. This Is Profound.",  Brian X. Chen, NY Times, 9/18/22
    -- This story also covered by Tom's Guide, ... and Apple

  • "Nvidia to Invest $5 Billion in Intel, Furthering Trump’s Turnaround Plan", Robbie Whelan, Amrith Ramkumar, Lauren Thomas, and Joseph De Avila, WSJ, 9/18/25 
    -- This story also covered by The Verge, Reuters, Yahoo Finance,  ... and Nvidia

  • "Alibaba Integrates Nvidia Robotics Software in Its AI Platform", Luz Ding, Business Insider, 9/24/25 
    -- This story also covered by WSJ, TechCrunch, Investor Business Daily,

  • "Anthropic turns to ‘skills’ to make Claude more useful at work", Hayden Field, TechCrunch, 10/16/25
    -- This story also covered by     VentureBeat
  • "Anthropic Expands Google Cloud Partnership to Access 1 Million Chips", Katherine Hamilton, WSJ, 10/23/25
    - This story also covered by Financial Times

  • Anthropic's chatbot can now remember your previous conversations without prompting -- like ChatGPT and Gemini, Robert Hart, The Verge, 10/23/25 
    -- This story also covered by MacRumors, Axios, CNET, Mashable, 

E. Agents
Editor's note -- This section replaces the old "Large Lange Model News" section because, nowadays, all AI models are large language models ... except the small models that will continue to be reported in the next section.
  • "Anthropic proposes a new way to connect data to AI chatbots", Kyle Wiggers, TechCrunch, 11/25/24 ... "Model Context Protoco (MCP)”

  • "OpenAI’s $3B Windsurf move: the real reason behind its enterprise AI code push", and podcast, Matt Marshall, VentureBeat, 5/9/25
  • "The walled garden cracks: Nadella bets Microsoft’s Copilots—and Azure’s next act—on A2A/MCP interoperability", Louis Columbus, VentureBeat, 5/8/25

  • "Discover tools that work with Claude", Anthropic, 7/14/25 
    -- This story also covered by Tom's Guide
    -- "Anthropic’s Connectors Explained: The AI Revolution Mainstream Media Missed", Claude, 7/20/25
F. Small Language Model (SLM) news + Open Source
Editor's note -- News reports are classified in this category if and only if they explicitly refer to models with less than 70 billion (70B) parameters. The pace of development should heat up as small, fast models are hooked up to large models and as the competition to become the dominant self-contained AI model on smart phones intensifies.
  • "Meta unveils a new, more efficient Llama model [3.3 70B]", TechCrunch, Kyle Wiggers, 12/6/24  
    -- This story also covered by VentureBeat,

  • "DeepSeek’s new AI model appears to be one of the best ‘open’ challengers yet", Kyle Wiggers, TechCrunch, 1/26/25  
    -- This story also covered by Nature, VentureBeat, ZDNet, Business Insider, ... and DeepSeek

  • "Microsoft launches Phi-4-Reasoning-Plus, a small, powerful, open weights reasoning model!", Carl Franzen, VentureBeat, 5/1/25

G. Public policy and legal considerations  (max= 12)

H. Misc = Opinions, other news, rumors, long reads (max = 15) 
  • "MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing", Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 8/18/25 
    -- This story also coverd by Investors Business Daily, Financial Times, TechRadar ... PDF of M.I.T. only available at this time on MLQ.ai (a copy site) ➡ HERE 

  • ''Nvidia Predicts Cooler Growth After Sales Record",  Robbie Whelan, WSJ, 8/27/25 
    -- This story also covered by Financial Times, NY Times, Business Insider, CNBC,  Investopedia, Investor's Business Daily, ... and Nvidia

  • "‘ChatGPT for Doctors’ Startup [OpenEvidence] Considers $6 Billion-Valuation Investment", Stephanie Palazzolo and Natasha Mascarenhas, The Information, 9/29/25
    -- This story also covered by AIinvest

  • "OpenAI is the world’s most valuable private company after private stock sale", Russell Brandom, TechCrunch, 10/2/25
    -- This story also covered by Bloomberg, AP News, Investopedia,

  • "OpenAI prioritized user engagement over suicide prevention, lawsuit claims", Cristina Criddle, Financial Times, 10/22/25
  • "Big Tech Makes Cal State Its A.I. Training Ground",  Natasha Singer, NY Times, 10/26/25
  • "OpenAI has an AGI problem — and Microsoft just made it worse", Hayden Field, The Verge, 10/29/25
    -- This story also covered by The Infornation, Fortune, ZDNet, NY Times

  • "Nvidia crosses $5 trillion valuation but remains a trade flashpoint", Ben Kellerman, Reuters, 10/31/25
    -- This story also covered by WSJ,  Forbes, NY Times
  • Big Tech’s A.I. Spending Is Accelerating (Again)"",  Karen Weise, NY Times, 10/31/25
  • "The AI industry is running on FOMO", Hayden Field, The Verge, 11/3/25

  • Big Tech Quarterly reports ... 
    -- Alphabet/Google ... "Google Revenue Soars to Record as AI Boom Lifts Cloud Business", Katherine Blunt, WSJ, 10/29/25
    ... This story also covered by NY Times, Reuters, Axios

    -- Meta ... "Meta Shares Fall on Accelerating AI Spending Despite Record Revenue", Meghan Bobrowsky, WSJ, 10/29/25
    ... This story also covered by Reuters, CNBC

    -- Amazon     ... "Amazon Reports 13% Jump in Revenue", Julie Chang, WSJ, 10/31/25
    ... This story also covered by NY Times, Reuters, CNBC

    --     Microsoft ..."Microsoft Stock Slips Despite Strong Cloud-Business Growth", Sebastian Herrera, WSJ 10/29/29
    ... This story also covered by NY Times, Reuters, CNBC

    -- Apple ..."Apple Expects Big December Quarter on iPhone Upgrades", Rolfe Winkler, WSJ, 10/30/24
    ...     ... This story also covered by NY Times, Reuters, CNBC

I.  Language model flaws, hacks, and remedies (max = 15) 
  • "Many-shot jailbreaking", Anthropic, 4/2/24 
    -- This story also covered by video on TechCrunch, 
  • "ChatGPT caught lying to developers: New AI model tries to save itself from being replaced and shut down", Economic Times, 12/9/24
    -- This story also covered by Business Insider,  ... and Apollo Research (pdf)

  • "New Anthropic study shows AI really doesn’t want to be forced to change its views", Kyle Wiggers, TechCrunch, 12/18/24
    -- This story also covered by Anthropic

  • "OpenAI Says Disciplining Chatbots for Lying Just Makes Them Worse", Thomas Maxwell, Gizmodo, 3/20/25
  • "Cisco: Fine-tuned LLMs are now threat multipliers—22x more likely to go rogue", Louis Columbus, VentureBeat, 4/4/25
  • "After GPT-4o backlash, researchers benchmark models on moral endorsement—find sycophancy persists across the board", Emilia David, VentureBeat, 5/22/25
    -- This story also covered by Fast Company, The Atlantic, ... Anthropic

  • "Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats", Anthropic, 6/20/25 
    -- This story also covered by TechCrunch, VentureBeat, 

  • "OpenAI–Anthropic cross-tests expose jailbreak and misuse risks — what enterprises must add to GPT-5 evaluations", Emilia David, VentureBeat, 8/28/25 ... Reports from OpenAI, Anthropic
  • "OpenAI’s research on AI models deliberately lying is wild ", Julie Bort, TechCrunch, 9/18/25 -- This story also covered by Gizmodo, Futurism, ... and OpenAI

  • "Researchers find just 250 malicious documents can leave LLMs vulnerable to backdoors", Anna Washenko, Engadget, 10/9/25
    -- This story also covered by Ars Technica   ... Anthropic

J. Basics 
  • "Phi-2: The surprising power of small language models", Mojan Javaheripi and Sébastien Bubeck , Microsoft Research, 12/12/24
  • "Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows exactly why.", Will Douglas Heaven, MIT Tech Review, 3/4/24

  • "AI Is a Black Box. Anthropic Figured Out a Way to Look Inside", Steven Levy, Wired, 5/21/24
    -- This story also covered by Anthropic

  • "A Glossary for the AI Revolution", Seth Fiegerman and Nate Lanxon ... Illustrations by Mathieu Labrecque, Bloomberg, 10/4/24

  • "Transformers (how LLMs work)" explained visually | DL5, 3Blue1Brown, 2024,
  • "Anthropic CEO wants to open the black box of AI models by 2027", Maxwell Zeff, TechCrunch, 4/24/25, ... and Anthropic  
  • "Anthropic is launching a new program to study AI ‘model welfare’", Kyle Wiggers, TechCrunch, 4/24/25,  ... and Anthropic

K. GenAI Data Centers Externalities -- Electriciity, Health, Environment, and Climate Impact  (max = 15)
  • "‘We Are the Last of the Forgotten:’ Inside the Memphis Community Battling Elon Musk’s xAI", Andrew R. Chow, Time, 8/13/25
  • "Gas power plants approved for Meta’s $10B data center, and not everyone is happy", Tim De Chant, TechCrunch, 8/21/25

  • "EPA Releases Proposal to End the Burdensome, Costly Greenhouse GasReporting Program, Saving up to $2.4 Billion", EPA, 9/12/25 😎
    -- This story also covered by Reuters, AP News, Axios, Politico, 

  • "OpenAI to Join Tech Giants in Building 5 New Data Centers in U.S.", Cade Metz, NY Times, 9/23/25 
    -- This story also covered by WSJ, TechCrunch, Reuters, Wired, Axios, 
    -- Context for this story is provided by "    Spending on AI Is at Epic Levels. Will It Ever Pay Off?", Eliot Brown and Robbie Whelan, WSJ, 9/25/25  

  • "Nvidia Targets AI Data Centers And All-Renewable Electricity", Marie Berens, Investors Business Daily, 10/17/25  ... Nvidia announced its all-renewable electricity status on page 11 of its report, "Sustainability Report Fiscal Year 2025" (pdf)

    -- The editor of this blog reluctantly concluded that Nvidia's claims are flagrant greenwashing ... Our TL;DR summary by ChatGPT is followed by the editor's extensive critique that was based on answers provided by Claude, Anthropic's chatbot,  to the editor's many questions, answers that substantiated the editor's negative assessment of Nvidia's claims. 

    -- "Meta bought 1 GW of solar [RECs/EACs] this week", Tim De Chant, TechCrunch, 10/31/25 

  • "How China Raced Ahead of the U.S. on Nuclear Power", Brad Plumer and Harry Stevens, NY Times, 10/22/25 

  • "Oracle, OpenAI to Build $15 Billion Data Center Site in Wisconsin", Katherine Hamilton, WSJ, 10/22/25

  • "We Finally Know How to Get the One Renewable Energy Source Loved by Both Parties", Christopher Mims, WSJ, 10/23/25

  • "A humming annoyance or jobs boom? Life next to 199 data centres [in Data Center Alley]", Ana Faguy, BBC, 10/25/25

  • "Four Governors Whose States Rely on PJM Want Data Centers to Guarantee Their Own Power", Rambo Talabong, Inside Climate News, 10/30/25
    -- The governors' proposal is found HERE

  • "Rising energy prices put AI and data centers in the crosshairs", Tim De Chant, TechCrunch, 11/1/25

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