Most companies haven’t figured out AI. As we reported in “Get To Work, AI!” (7 Oct 2025), an MIT study found that half of the companies that have experimented with it have dropped and only 5 percent have seen a positive bottom-line impact.
Category: 14 October 2025
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IF YOU’RE TALKING, META’S LISTENING
Meta, desperate for cash to fund its hundreds of billions of dollars of AI commitments, has found a new way to make targeted ads even more valuable to businesses.
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OPENAI SIGNS MORE CONTRACTS FOR FUTURE EXPENSES
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has signed contracts with South Korean memory chip makers Samsung and SK Hynix to provide chips for the Stargate project’s data centers planned for the Asian nation.
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BILLIONAIRE NVIDIA INVESTOR: THIS FEELS LIKE THE DOT-COM BUST
James Anderson was an early investor in Amazon, Nvidia, and Tesla. Now the billionaire British venture funder sees Nvidia’s $100-billion investment in OpenAI as reminiscent of the dot-com bust at the beginning of this century.
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AI PLAYS LARGER ROLE IN U.S ECONOMY AS CONSUMER SPENDING WEAKENS
Some economists have argued that the tech sector—specifically the boom in AI spending—has been the single most important component in U.S. economic growth this year.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: ALTEREGO ‘MIND-VASION’, AND NEW OPENAI COPYRIGHT PROBLEMS
A new “non-invasive” interface developed by MIT researchers can reportedly augment human minds with Artificial Intelligence and the World Wide Web.
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U.S. HAS BEEN HELPING UKRAINE STRIKE RUSSIAN ENERGY FACILITIES TO FORCE PUTIN TO THE TABLE: FT
The Trump administration has been providing the Ukrainian military with intelligence to help it carry out massive strikes on Russian energy infrastructure with the hopes of forcing Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table, the Financial Times reported on Saturday.
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VENEZUELA OFFERED TRUMP ACCESS TO ITS NATURAL RESOURCES
Venezuela offered the Trump administration access to its oil and other natural resources in hopes of ending tensions between countries that have been simmering for years but amplified in recent months as Washington repositioned naval assets in the Caribbean to begin a war on alleged drug boats.
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CHINA STEPS UP CRACKDOWN ON U.S.-MADE COMPUTER CHIPS
After pressuring Chinese tech companies to use only domestically made computer chips, Beijing in mid-September ordered a halt to all purchases of chips made in the U.S.
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GERMAN CARMAKERS’ RESULTS SLIP ON WEAKNESS IN CHINA
A 5-percent gain in North American sales was not enough to offset a sharp 26-percent drop in purchases in China, resulting in Porsche posting a 6-percent decline in sales worldwide this year through September.