Issue #115 - Algorithmic Wars

October 19, 2025
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In This Issue

  • What Caught My Attention This Week
    • Blackstone: AI has the potential to make entire industries obsolete.
  • A Chart to Look Smart
    • Wikipedia page views declines due to AI bots
  • The Tools of the Trade
    • V recites Steve Jobs voiced by Scarlett Johansson.
    • Why you see mediocre AI tools promoted on social media.
    • Andrej Karpathy: AI agents are not there yet.
    • Anthropic makes Claude 4.5 Haiku free.
  • The Way We Work Now
    • Top US Army Commander in South Korea uses ChatGPT for non-combat decisions.
    • Kids in private AI school only spend 2h / week on traditional subjects.
  • How Do You Feel?
    • Only 2% of UK students don’t use AI for schoolwork.

What Caught My Attention This Week

Blackstone: AI has the potential to make entire industries obsolete

Antoine Gara and Arash Massoudi, reporting for Financial Times:

Wall Street investors are underestimating artificial intelligence’s potential to make entire industries obsolete, Blackstone’s president has said, adding that the impact of the technology was now “top of our list” when evaluating deals.

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