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<span class="preheader" style="color: transparent; display: none; height: 0; max-height: 0; max-width: 0; opacity: 0; overflow: hidden; mso-hide: all; visibility: hidden; width: 0;">The numbers are all mostly going up. The worries are, too </span>
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By Casey Newton • <span class="post-meta-date" style="white-space: nowrap;">7 Oct 2025 </span>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><em>This is a column about AI. My boyfriend works at Anthropic. See </em><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/4c19de5f?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><em><u>my full ethics disclosure here</u></em></a><em>.</em></p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">On Monday, for the <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/b45a4bee?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">second time</a> in recent months, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told reporters that the rise of artificial intelligence has created a growing economic bubble. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">"There are many parts of AI that I think are kind of bubbly right now," Altman told reporters during a Q&A session I attended after OpenAI Developer Day in San Francisco. "I think this is just how new tech revolutions go. People will over-invest in some places. People will pay a crazy price for a silly company.”</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">The company's chief operating officer, Brad Lightcap, summed up the feeling. “Everyone is going a little crazy,” he said. And no executive in the room, or reporter in attendance, challenged his assertion.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">On one hand, AI bubble talk isn't new — I wrote a column on the subject <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/2e86905a?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">in August 2024</a>, after tech stocks <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/3d7f04a6?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">lost a collective $800 billion</a> in value on fears that the forecasted demand for AI services would fail to materialize. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">That turned out to be a short-term blip: most big tech stocks are up for the year. Does that reflect genuine demand — or an even riskier bubble? Today, let's look at four reasons why bubble fears are growing. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">The amount of corporate debt tied to AI now exceeds $1.2 trillion.</strong> Yes, that's trillion with a "T." That makes it the single largest segment of corporate debt, <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/423a1cf6?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">according to Bloomberg</a> — even more than banks. Depending on how the bubble bursts, that could mean significant trouble for the 75 public companies that JPMorgan analysts found to be closely tied to AI. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">On the other hand: analysts said that most of these companies have so much cash on hand that they're not worried about broader risks. "From a fundamental perspective, these fears are not justified," they wrote.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">OpenAI alone has signed $1 trillion in deals this year to buy computing power for its services.</strong> On Monday, as part of this crusade OpenAI made a deal to acquire up to 10 percent of AMD — joining related deals that it has made with Nvidia, Oracle and CoreWeave. If every deal comes through, OpenAI will have access to 20 gigawatts of computing capacity, <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/24453bc4?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">the <em>Financial Times</em> reports</a> — roughly the output of 20 nuclear reactors.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">But some of these deals <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/2da70a7a?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">are circular in nature</a> — Nvidia giving OpenAI to purchase systems from Nvidia — raising eyebrows among some analysts. (Just as I was finishing today's newsletter, Bloomberg reported that Nvidia just signed <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/3f6b49da?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">a similar such deal with xAI</a>.) Certain details related to how OpenAI intends to finance these deals are scarce. In the AMD case, OpenAI may recoup the money on its investment simply by selling the AMD stock, which added $78 billion in value after OpenAI announced the deal. (Matt Levine is <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/4887eded?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">characteristically wonderful</a> on that one.)</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">On Monday, Altman and his fellow executives told reporters that all this is nothing to worry about. "We wouldn’t be in these deals if we didn’t have that conviction that the revenue opportunity is there at this kind of scale," he said. "We can still monetize every GPU we get our hands on super well, and that will keep going for a long time." Greg Brockman, the company's president, added: "One thing that’s hard to see from the outside is the amount of things we have not shipped due to lack of computing power."</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">We have entered the "weird financial tricks" phase of the bubble. </strong>A reliable indicator of bubbles is that companies concoct bizarre financial instruments and accounting measures to paper over their problems. In <em>Fortune</em>, Allie Garfinkel reports that venture capitalists are irked at <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/a402b4c9?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">some of the creative accounting</a> going on in their portfolios. Some startups are reporting one-time sales as "recurring revenue." Others technically show "recurring revenue" for what are essentially trials. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">And that's on the tame side. For crazy, you can look to Robinhood's suggestion that <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/88641c57?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">it might offer "tokenized" equity</a> in OpenAI. By "tokenized," <em>Business Insider </em>reports, Robinhood means "blockchain-enabled representations of securities like stocks." In reality, they have no connection to OpenAI equity whatsoever. But that doesn't mean that consumers shouldn't be able to gamble on the mirage! </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Even Altman is suggesting he may require as-yet uninvented instruments to achieve his ambitions. "Like in other financial markets, I expect that as things mature, the right paradigm will emerge," he told reporters yesterday in response to questions on how OpenAI would fund its Stargate data center project. "Maybe new financial instruments will emerge, maybe a standard way of doing these kinds of deals will emerge. ... You should expect us to try lots of different structures.”</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">One idea that Bloomberg floated recently: <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/f1836974?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">a futures market for compute</a>. Sure, why not. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">You can kind of tell whatever story you want to about AI adoption</strong>. Want to show that AI is taking over society? OpenAI said yesterday that ChatGPT has 800 million users a week. Want to suggest the reverse? Here's new research from Yale University and the Brookings Institution stating that <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/842d3600?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">AI is failing to change workplaces faster than previous technologies</a>, including the internet. Jobs are not being lost to AI in massive numbers — nor has AI turbocharged GDP by massively augmenting the majority of workers.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">It's clear that there's real value in AI. So far, though, reality has not caught up with the tech industry's most optimistic visions. Given that this is the most expensive buildout in the history of the industry, that naturally raises concern.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">All of the above is still roughly consistent with the story that the optimists tell, which goes like this: we are currently witnessing a winner-take-all, or winner-take-most, race to build artificial general intelligence. The companies that don't finish first, second, or third in that race may indeed lose tens of billions of dollars. But the winners will create trillions of dollar in value and ensure continued economic growth.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">That story hand-waves its way past countless questions. But it's a narrative that has Silicon Valley firmly in its grip. It's easily the biggest dream that the tech industry has ever had. And before it's all over, it may produce the biggest bubble the industry has ever seen. </p><div class="kg-card kg-image-card" style="margin: 0 0 1.5em; padding: 0;"><img src="https://www.platformer.news/content/images/2024/05/floating_linebreak_600px-1.png" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy" width="600" height="157" style="border: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic; max-width: 100%; display: block; margin: 0 auto; height: auto; width: auto;"></div><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Talk about this edition with us in Discord: </strong><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/8683ad57?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">This link</a> will get you in for the next week.</p><table class="kg-card kg-hr-card" role="presentation" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: separate; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: top; color: #15212A; margin: 0; padding-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 3em; font-size: 17px;" valign="top"><!--[if !mso]><!-- --><hr style="position: relative; width: 100%; margin: 3em 0; padding: 0; height: 1px; background-color: transparent; border: 0; border-top: 1px solid #e0e7eb; display: none;"><!--<![endif]--><table class="kg-hr" role="presentation" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: separate; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; width: 100%;" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: top; color: #15212A; padding-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 3em; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-top: 1px solid #e0e7eb; font-size: 0; line-height: 0;" valign="top"> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><h2 id="following" style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.11em; font-weight: 700; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin: 1.5em 0 0.5em 0; font-size: 32px; margin-top: 0; color: #15212A;">Following<br></h2><h3 id="does-jony-ive-actually-have-an-ai-hardware-plan" style="margin-top: 0; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.11em; font-weight: 700; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin: 1.5em 0 0.5em 0; font-size: 26px; color: #15212A;">Does Jony Ive actually have an AI hardware plan?</h3><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">What happened:</strong> <strong style="font-weight: 700;">OpenAI</strong> Developer Day ended with a chummy fireside between CEO <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Sam Altman</strong> and his hardware guru, <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Jony Ive</strong>. Presumably both men had agreed beforehand not to share any real details about their forthcoming AI hardware device. But the conversation was notable for the fact that it contained almost no content whatsover.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">In between deflecting Altman's softballs, Ive said his team is still juggling up to 20 “really compelling” product ideas to figure out what kind of hardware the company should focus on — exactly what I would say if I hadn't really gotten started yet. Reporting suggests we will eventually see a screenless, palm-sized device that can take audio and visual cues. But it reportedly already been <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/4cea6b8c?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>pushed back</u></a> till next year, with critical issues still yet to be solved. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Why we’re following: </strong>One of the reasons that the <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Humane</strong> Ai Pin flopped as hard as it did is that its founders had spent the months before its launch relentlessly hyping it up — all but ensuring that consumers would be disappointed by the buggy finished product. We're curious whether <strong style="font-weight: 700;">OpenAI </strong>is setting itself up for the same backlash — regularly trotting out Mr. iPhone to vaguely promise that he can save us from screentime, while leaving unanswered every relevant question about how he plans to do it. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">What people are saying: </strong>A source briefed on the project <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/415e6c15?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>told the <em>Financial Times</em></u></a> that one of the devices would be a “friend who’s your computer who isn’t your weird AI girlfriend”—which reads like a dig at <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Elon Musk</strong>’s raunchy chatbot <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Ani</strong>. The aim, the source said, is for the gadget to work “like <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Siri</strong> but better.” A low bar.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">An anonymous source at OpenAI <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/816983fe?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>suggested</u></a> the delays are happening in part because the model’s personality is “a hard thing to balance.” “It can’t be too sycophantic,” they said, but also “not too direct.” The model also has to remain “helpful,” but avoid “talking in a feedback loop.” How is this any different from the challenges in ChatGPT? </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Onlookers have been finding Ive and Altman’s announcements confusing. Reading several of the proposed features for the devices on <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Mastodon</strong>, <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Marco Arment</strong> <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/e3dbe3f2?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>responded</u></a> “So… like… a phone?” On <strong style="font-weight: 700;">X</strong>, DevDay attendee <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Ibrahim Ahmed</strong>, speaking for all of us, <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/70c95344?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>said</u></a>: “Man I have no idea what Jony Ive is talking about…”.</p><table class="kg-card kg-hr-card" role="presentation" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: separate; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: top; color: #15212A; margin: 0; padding-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 3em; font-size: 17px;" valign="top"><!--[if !mso]><!-- --><hr style="position: relative; width: 100%; margin: 3em 0; padding: 0; height: 1px; background-color: transparent; border: 0; border-top: 1px solid #e0e7eb; display: none;"><!--<![endif]--><table class="kg-hr" role="presentation" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: separate; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; width: 100%;" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: top; color: #15212A; padding-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 3em; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-top: 1px solid #e0e7eb; font-size: 0; line-height: 0;" valign="top"> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><h3 id="the-slop-backlash" style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.11em; font-weight: 700; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin: 1.5em 0 0.5em 0; font-size: 26px; margin-top: 0; color: #15212A;">The slop backlash</h3><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">What happened: YouTube</strong>’s most popular creator has joined the chorus of people worried about the rise of AI-generated video. In an <strong style="font-weight: 700;">X</strong> post, Jimmy Donaldson — known to his 444 million YouTube followers as <strong style="font-weight: 700;">MrBeast</strong> — signaled his concern about what tools like <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Sora</strong> (and <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Google’s Veo 3</strong>) mean for his profession. “When AI videos are just as good as normal videos, I wonder what that will do to YouTube and how it will impact the millions of creators currently making content for a living, he wrote. “Scary times.”</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Why we’re following: </strong>OpenAI’s <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/8c0d9528?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>surprise hit Sora app</u></a> has sparked a reckoning among both creators and consumers of social media. Even if Sora flames out, AI-generated video is here to stay. How will creators adapt? How will platforms?</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">What people are saying: </strong><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/f1469cfa?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>In <em>TechCrunch</em></u></a>, <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Sarah Perez</strong> notes that Donaldson himself has embraced AI tools. In June, he released an AI-powered YouTube thumbnail generator — only to <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/6efdec05?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>pull the plug</u></a> after his fans complained. (His philanthropy also backed <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/1b4191c9?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>an AI healthcare company</u></a>, but people seem less upset about that one.)</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/c7f7fb8b?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>At <em>Gizmodo</em></u></a>, <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Lucas Ropek</strong> reminds us that despite being valued at $5 billion, Donaldson’s company has <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/499a929f?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>lost money for the last three years</u></a>. YouTube economics can be brutal even for its top creator; the slop era threatens to make it even harder to make a profit there.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">See also</strong>: <em>The Oatmeal</em> offers a fairly nuanced <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/dc7bc6f6?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">cartoon editorial</a> on the subject. And 24.6 million-subscriber explainer channel <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Kurzgesagt</strong> has a new video out called <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/af38b23a?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">AI Slop is Killing Our Channel</a>.</p><div class="kg-card kg-image-card" style="margin: 0 0 1.5em; padding: 0;"><img src="https://www.platformer.news/content/images/2024/05/floating_linebreak_600px-1.png" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy" width="600" height="157" style="border: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic; max-width: 100%; display: block; margin: 0 auto; height: auto; width: auto;"></div><h3 id="side-quests" style="margin-top: 0; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.11em; font-weight: 700; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin: 1.5em 0 0.5em 0; font-size: 26px; color: #15212A;">Side Quests</h3><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Sen. Ted Cruz </strong><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/96a06469?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>accuses</u></a> <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Wikipedia</strong> of “left-wing bias” — with suspiciously thin evidence. <strong style="font-weight: 700;">California</strong> <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/97714e04?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>bans</u></a> excessively loud ads on streaming platforms. <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Kentucky</strong> sues <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Roblox</strong> over <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/72209622?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>child safety concerns</u></a>. (Found on the platform: <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Charlie Kirk</strong> assassination simulators.) </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Denmark</strong> <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/1ba8a98c?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>wants to ban</u></a> social media for those under 15. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Anthropic</strong> <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/19a4adb4?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>partners</u></a> with <strong style="font-weight: 700;">IBM </strong>to integrate its AI into IBM’s software. It's exploring <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/0b740db5?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>opening</u></a> an <strong style="font-weight: 700;">India </strong>office in partnership with billionaire <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Mukesh Ambani</strong>. And it has a new open-source agent called <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/462b184e?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Petri</a> that automates aspects of model safety testing.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">A current and former <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Googler</strong> are among the three scientists <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/6232b30a?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>awarded</u></a> the <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Nobel Prize</strong> in physics for advancing quantum computing and sensors. <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Google</strong> adds <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/1e41fe88?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">a new computer use</a> model to its API. (It's still slow enough that the demo video runs at 3x speed.)</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Facebook Reels</strong>’ algorithm update prioritizes <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/10cadea2?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>same-day content</u></a> over <strong style="font-weight: 700;">TikTok</strong> retreads. <strong style="font-weight: 700;">X</strong> has <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/f0424f34?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">a new CFO</a> — while former spokesman <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Dave Heinzinger</strong> does some reputation-laundering by <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/36aeecfe?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; 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