Mo Gawdat's AI Thesis: Dystopia Under Human Rule, Utopia Under AI Rule

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Is AI really trying to escape human control and blackmail people? - Ars Technica

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman predicts new high-paying space jobs for future graduates and is reportedly launching a company to compete with Elon Musk's Neuralink. Following user backlash, the company has also committed to providing advance warning before removing older ChatGPT models. In other AI news, Google's Gemini will become more personalized by automatically remembering user details, and Anthropic has made its latest move in the competitive AI coding market. Amdocs employees have also reportedly been impacted by AI. In corporate developments, GitHub is becoming less independent from Microsoft after its CEO resigned, and the Israeli company Findings has been sold to an American firm for about $305 million. Separately, Starbucks in South Korea is asking customers to stop bringing desktop computers and printers into its cafes.

https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition
https://fortune.com/2025/08/11/starbucks-south-korea-policy-desktop-computer-printer-ban-cagongjok
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/757998/anthropic-just-made-its-latest-move-in-the-ai-coding-wars
https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/openai-ceo-sam-altman-says-151944949.html
https://www.calcalist.co.il/calcalistech/article/sj6pgcf00xg
https://www.theverge.com/openai/758537/chatgpt-4o-gpt-5-model-backlash-replacement
https://www.calcalist.co.il/calcalistech/article/syztlhdueg
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https://www.theverge.com/news/758624/google-gemini-ai-automatic-memory-privacy-update

Why it’s a mistake to ask chatbots about their mistakes - Ars Technicahttps://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/why-its-a-mistake-to-ask-chatbots-about-their-mistakes

Chatbots aren’t telling you their secrets | The Verge

What happened to the promise of a "powerful digital brain"? The launch of GPT-5 disappointed users | Calcalist

https://www.calcalist.co.il/calcalistech/article/ryenn5p00eg

GPT-3: An Open-Source Alternative

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/psmg0l9xolv6rsqsc136p/gpt-oss-arch.txt?rlkey=y9kh0t058jl0nfnf5o7uwo892&e=1&dl=0

The Future of Commerce is Run by AI Agents

https://jordanodinsky.substack.com/p/how-were-thinking-about-agentic-commerce?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

GitHub is being absorbed into Microsoft as its CEO steps down. In a significant agreement, Nvidia and AMD will pay the U.S. Treasury 15% of their revenues from China. Reddit intends to block the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. The AI sector continues to see rapid developments, with models like Grok, Gemini, and ChatGPT being compared in tasks like chess, and the overall "AI rush" is reportedly creating new billionaires at a record pace amid debates over models like GPT-5. In other business news, the founders of Medigate have raised $20 million to launch a new cybersecurity company. Broader industry trends suggest a difficult job market for junior high-tech professionals, while there is speculation that a Trump administration could offer exemptions to major tech companies in exchange for investments.

https://nerds.xyz/2025/08/gpt5-backlash-missing-the-point

https://www.calcalist.co.il/calcalistech/article/r14lsjg00xl

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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/github-will-be-folded-into-microsoft-proper-as-ceo-steps-down

https://www.calcalist.co.il/calcalistech/article/bjovpfvule

https://www.theverge.com/news/757538/reddit-internet-archive-wayback-machine-block-limit

Warp Drive: Scientists Say a Physical Warp Drive Is Now Possible

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a65653811/scientists-say-physical-warp-drive-is-now-possible