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October 19, 2025
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Silicon Valley’s having one of those weeks — AI safety groups are under fire, and meanwhile Wikipedia is quietly losing its audience to AI tools and short videos. You cannot miss the updates.
In today’s issue:
🤯 Silicon Valley’s AI Feud: Safety vs. Speed
📈 Wikipedia’s Traffic Drops as AI Eats the Web
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📰 What Else Happened in AI
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What Happened:
Tech leaders like David Sacks (White House AI & Crypto Czar) and Jason Kwon (OpenAI’s Chief Strategy Officer) have criticized AI safety groups, calling them “billionaire-funded gatekeepers.” Their remarks have sparked backlash from researchers who say they now feel pressured to stay quiet.
What You Need to Know:
Sacks accused Anthropic of using “AI safety” to slow rivals through regulation.
OpenAI subpoenaed nonprofits like Encode Justice to hand over communications with competitors.
AI safety groups rely heavily on donor funding — over $200 million globally — which may now be at risk.
The fight comes as Google DeepMind and Meta push open-source AI, while Anthropic and OpenAI keep their models closed.
A Pew Research survey found 52 % of Americans are more worried than excited about AI, citing jobs and misinformation.
Why It Matters:
The rift exposes how the balance of power in AI governance is shifting toward corporate control. If safety NGOs lose influence or funding, oversight will default to private labs like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. That could speed innovation but weaken accountability — shaping how the next $300 billion AI industry gets regulated worldwide.
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What Happened
AI summaries and social video are changing how people learn online. Wikipedia loses 8% of human traffic as generative ai and social media platforms change user habits.
What You Need to Know:
Traffic measurement revisions revealed significant bot-traffic reclassification; once cleaned, human page-views decreased.
Wikipedia says many search queries now show answer boxes or summaries instead of links to articles — users get information without visiting the site.
Younger users increasingly access information through social video platforms rather than the open web.
The Foundation warns fewer visits may lead to fewer volunteer editors and less donor support — the ecosystem that Wikipedia relies on may erode.
Search companies dispute that AI summaries reduce clicks, though publishers claim the shift is already widespread.
Why It Matters:
AI-generated summaries are reshaping information distribution economics. When models like Google’s Gemini, Perplexity, and ChatGPT surface full answers, origin sites lose clicks, data, and revenue. This trend threatens the open-knowledge ecosystem that powers Wikipedia — and, by extension, the transparent web itself.
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WHAT ELSE HAPPENED IN AI 📰
🪖 Anduril’s EagleEye
AI and mission command now fits directly into the warfighter’s helmet.
𝕏 Grok Update
Grok-powered algorithm update with open weights set to release this week.
🛠 AI Breakthroughs
Anthropic’s Jack Clark compares sudden AI leaps to hammers becoming self-aware.
💾 Oracle AI Upgrade
AI added to core database; new lakehouse platform launched.
🤖 Nanochat
Andrej Karpathy launches a minimalist all-in-one LLM framework.
💳 Visa Secures AI Shopping
New protocol protects merchants amid AI-driven shopping boom.
🦊 Firefox + Perplexity
Mozilla adds Perplexity’s AI answer engine as a search option.
Funding 💰️
Nuxera AI Closes $2.5M in Funding to Advance Arabic-First AI for Healthcare in Saudi Arabia
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